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“Be Warned”… Cindy Gamrat demands that I apologize to her

By Mark | October 19, 2015

I just received an email titled “Be Warned” from someone claiming to be disgraced former State Representative Cindy Gamrat demanding that I make a public apology for having claimed on this site that she A) used tax payer funds to cover up an extramarital affair, and B) shared an office with her lover, State Representative […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics | Also tagged Allegan County, Ayn Rand, Cindy Gamrat, family values, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Lansing, Michigan House of Representatives, scandal, sex, Todd Courser, William Hickman | 15 Comments

Hypocrisy Watch: Family values State Rep Todd Courser caught cheating on wife with fellow Tea Partier

By Mark | August 8, 2015

Yesterday the Detroit News released audio of State Representative Todd Courser, one of the most conservative members of the Michigan legislature, talking with a young aide about a plan he’d concocted to deflect attention away from an affair that he was convinced would soon become public knowledge. Courser, you see, had apparently gotten himself involved […]

Posted in Politics, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged 82nd District, Cindy Gamarat, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Lapeer, Michigan House of Representatives, Plainwell, scandal, Todd Courser | 63 Comments

Donald Trump, who unquestionably would have been a war hero if a bone spur in his foot hadn’t kept him from serving in Vietnam, questions the heroism of former prisoner-of-war John McCain

By Mark | July 18, 2015

Appearing on stage in Ames, Iowa today at something called the Family Leadership Summit, presidential candidate Donald Trump had the above to say about Republican Senator John McCain, with whom he’s recently been at war on the subject of immigration. [Trump, it would seem, has an issue with McCain for not believing, as he does, […]

Posted in Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged chicken hawk, Donald Trump, Hanoi Hilton, immigration, John McCain, memes, Sarah Palin, torture, Unimpressed Trump, Vietnam, Vietnam War | 9 Comments

State Representative Jeff Irwin on the “frightened patriots” of the open carry movement, forest ecologist Ben Connor Barrie on local trees he’d love to kill, and Matt Siegfried on the racism of Rosie the Riveter… on episode 9 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | March 16, 2015

This is Michigan State Rep Jeff Irwin, my first guest on this past weekend’s episode of The Saturday Six Pack. Our interview, which started off with a weighty conversation on corporate money, gerrymandering, and tax policy, and how, together, they’ve nearly destroyed our state, ended on a significantly lighter note when a caller by the […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ALEC, Benjamin Franklin, body cameras, Brigid Mooney, charter schools, Chris Sandon, corporate money, crawlspaces, daylight saving time, dismantling of public education, Earned Income Tax Credit, for-profit charter schools, frightened patriot, gas tax, gerrymandering, guns, guns in schools, HP Jacobs, infrastructure, Jeff Irwin, Jim Cherewick, Jordan Miller, Lansing, Local's American Lager, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan sales tax, Michigan's roads, open carry, parole, Pete Larson, Proposition 1, ribbing, Rick Snyder, rimming, Rosie the Riveter, school funding, sentencing reform, sexual sickness, Shorts Brewing, Steve Irwin, tax policy, term limits, threats to public education, war on drugs, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Wurst Bar | 20 Comments

Reverend Dr. William Barber II on reclaiming the moral high ground and building a majority coalition around issues of social justice

By Mark | September 2, 2014

Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged abortion, affirmative action, assassination, Barack Obama, Brown v. Board of Education, busing, Charles Koch, Charlotte, Christianity, civil disobedience, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Committee on Equal Employment, economic justice, Emmett Till, entitlements, family values, Forward Together Moral Movement, George Wallace, guns, health care, higher ground, homosexuality, JFK, Jim Crow, Kevin Phillips, Koch brothers, labor, LBJ, Lee Atwater, Medgar Evers, Medicaid, Medicare, MLK, moral fusion, Moral Monday, morality, Netroots Nation, North Carolina, Otto Scharmer, Plessy v. Ferguson, political strategy, populism, poverty, prayer in the school, progressive politics, public education, race and poverty, race card, racism, reconstruction, Redemption Movement, religion, religious right, RFK, Richard Nixon, Rosa Parks, snake line, social justice, Southern Coalition Leadership Conference, southern strategy, states rights, voter suppression, voting rights, William Barber | 18 Comments

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“Be Warned”… Cindy Gamrat demands that I apologize to her

Hypocrisy Watch: Family values State Rep Todd Courser caught cheating on wife with fellow Tea Partier

Donald Trump, who unquestionably would have been a war hero if a bone spur in his foot hadn’t kept him from serving in Vietnam, questions the heroism of former prisoner-of-war John McCain

State Representative Jeff Irwin on the “frightened patriots” of the open carry movement, forest ecologist Ben Connor Barrie on local trees he’d love to kill, and Matt Siegfried on the racism of Rosie the Riveter… on episode 9 of The Saturday Six Pack

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