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Walking the secret passageways of Harry Bennett’s heavily-fortified Ypsilanti castle

By Mark | February 21, 2012

I just received a note from Nathan Ayers, the guy who won the first $1,000 grant from A2Awesome. He wanted to let me know that, back in 1984, the television program PM Magazine ran a feature on Harry Bennett’s fortress on the banks of the Huron River, in Ypsilanti. Bennett, for those of you don’t […]

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Glenn Beck, at it again

By Mark | August 30, 2009

To Glenn Beck’s credit, he isn’t dialing down the crazy in response to the extremely successful boycott of his FOX News show… Check this out: That’s right, he’s suggesting that Obama is spending half a “trillion” dollars on the creation of a private army to do his bidding. Only problem is, it’s just a little […]