Tag Archives: Dearborn

Can someone in Dearborn let me know what it’s like to live under Sharia law?

With top Nevada Republicans coming forward to endorse her Democratic rival, Harry Reid, Tea Party sweetheart Sharron Angle has had to ratchet things up a bit in her campaign for Senate. Not only is she claiming in a new ad that Reid wants to give Viagra to convicted child molesters (it’s apparently vitally important to […]

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The hubbub in Dearborn

I’m trying my damndest to get worked up over this sweatshirt designed by Arab-American kids in the class of 2011 at Dearborn’s Edsel Ford High School, but I’m just not feeling it. Then again, it didn’t really bother me all that much when Ron Asheton and the Sex Pistols used to dress up like Nazis, […]

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Islamic leader killed by FBI in Dearborn shootout

I’d intended to write about the possibility of John Gosselin and Octomom getting a new reality show together, and how it signaled the coming of an apocalypse far more terrifying than anything in that ridiculous new John Cusack movie, but then I read that a member of a radical black Muslim group in Dearborn was […]

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SEMCOG’s Carmine Palumbo talks trains in Ypsi

I don’t have a lot of time tonight, but I attended this evening’s Ypsilanti Planning Commission meeting, which was largely about the east-west rail line, and I wanted to pass along my notes. So, here are the highlights, as I heard them. Make of them what you will. And feel free to add comments, questions, […]

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When Automans collide

I had this idea that I’d write a Pulitzer-worthy piece on the possibility of an Avian Flu Pandemic this weekend, but instead I sat around and had beers with Brett, talking about how fucking cool it would be if we could coordinate a huge, disruptive “Automan” delegation for the upcoming “Automan Global” conference in Dearborn. […]

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