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Before he introduced himself to the state as “One Tough Nerd” during the Super Bowl in February and won the Republican nomination for governor in August, Rick Snyder came to Eastern Michigan University. It was a small gathering of fewer than ten people held last December in the Walton/Putnam Lounge.
You can’t turn around today without someone reminding you how bad the economy is and how devastating the most recent recession has been. Agencies pile on poor recovery statistics and experts talk about horrific long-term effects, suggesting the people born in the 2000s will be worse off than their parents.
On Nov. 2, the primary issue on the minds of voters will be the economy. Most people will be thinking about jobs, taxes and trillion dollar deficits. The majority of citizens will be measuring candidates on their economic literacy and understanding. Dollar signs will define the ballot box.
On March 3, 2006, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder was killed in action in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. A similar line could describe most of the other soldiers who have died in the last 7 1/2 years of combat. But, the similarities end there.
For the third time in four years, the Michigan budget came down to the wire. It appears a shutdown will be avoided. Legislators reached a deal with Gov. Granholm on an early retirement package for state workers a week ahead of Friday’s deadline.
Saturday, an estimated 4 million Afghanis went to the polls to cast their votes in a parliamentary election despite intimidation and violence from the Taliban. At least 21 voters were killed during 294 attacks on election day as insurgents launched rockets, set off bombs and stormed polling stations across the war torn nation.
Last Friday, President Obama held a rare press conference. Among the president’s long answers and defensive responses, NBC’s Chuck Todd asked a simple question focusing on the very foundation of the 2008 campaign that earned President Obama his title. The question was, “How have you changed Washington?”
The man, money and motives behind the Ground Zero mosque are enough to justify moving it elsewhere.
You wouldn’t expect that putting General David Petraeus in charge of anything would be a mistake. He’s quite possibly the greatest military mind in a generation and certainly one of the era’s most brilliant leaders, but President Obama made a mistake on Wednesday by handing the reins in Afghanistan over to the architect of success in Iraq.
Most of us who attend classes or work at Eastern Michigan University certainly understand what it means when someone says they received a “timely warning.” For those on the outside, it means there was some kind of reported criminal activity on or near campus the night before, and most of us also remember the reasons the university established the policy.
Instant replay. Two words you’ve probably heard plenty of times since Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga tossed a perfect game that wasn’t on June 2 at Comerica Park.
Over the last couple weeks, numerous reports have surfaced that the White House offered a number of political contenders jobs within the executive branch if they would step aside in favor of an administration-backed candidate in several Democratic primaries. At this point, it doesn’t appear anything criminal has taken place, but that question will be answered in the coming weeks and months.
Earlier this week, Comedy Central showed a rerun of the South Park episode mocking the global warming hysteria and the Katrina response. In the face of a terrible flood, Stan Marsh asked his father if someone was going to help the people stuck on their roofs after seeing the damage on the nightly news. Randy Marsh, always the stereotype, responded by telling Stan, “[helping the people] doesn’t really matter, son. What matters is whose fault this is.”
There’s a wonderful line in Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” that seems relevant amid the speculation of who is readying to take the reins of the Republican Party. Springsteen sings, “You can …waste your summer praying in vain for a savior to rise from these streets.”
When President Obama spoke at Hampton University on May 9, he took some heavy shots at the modern media environment. He said information could become a distraction, a diversion, and could put pressure on our country and our democracy.
Long before I could tune into every Major League game on my Blackberry for $14.99 a year, I had a boxy gray radio that looked like a small suitcase with two round dials. It was perched next to my bed on most of the summer nights of my youth and was tuned to the smooth voice of Ernie Harwell.
A lot of speculation has been made about the president’s recent announcement regarding the American nuclear strategy. The left was hoping the president would go further and pledge the United States would never use nuclear weapons first. The right thinks his recent decisions are weakening our defenses. May this columnist be the first to say both sides are dead wrong.
When the final seconds tick off the clock May 24, our nation will bid adieu to its greatest hero. Jack Bauer will end his final day and a chapter in the American story will close.
The passage of health care reform last week did not end the debate on the subject, it merely changed it.
Fox News takes a lot of heat. Its “Fair and Balanced” tag is often ridiculed by people of substance and people who lack it on other networks like MSNBC. Much of the criticism goes too far, but a good portion of it is at least somewhat deserved.
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