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President Obama’s Double Standard Disgraceful

September 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments

President Barack Obama has been silent about the weekend murder of a pro-life advocate outside a high school in a small town near Flint, Mich.  And he’s said nothing after a white student was beaten by black students on a school bus in Belleville, Ill., a few miles southeast of St. Louis.  It’s as if [...]

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University of Michigan Places Restrictions on Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Due to Flammability

September 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments

If other colleges and universities across the country choose to follow the University of Michigan’s lead, a recent decision by officials at the Ann Arbor school could put a huge dent in the bottom lines of several companies in the $100-million hand sanitizer industry.  It could also make centers of higher education across the country [...]

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Chrysler Dealers Talk About Being Robbed (Updated)

May 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Below are three videos which capture some of the emotions of Chrysler dealers in Georgia, Michigan and New York who’ve been told their dealerships are set to close:

Video #1 (above): Daniel Womack, owner of a Claxton Chrysler in rural Claxton, Ga., warns the loss of his dealership in a town where everyone knows each others’ [...]

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Kuwait Scrubs $17 Billion Joint Venture With Dow

December 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Only one day ago, the headline of an article in the Midland (Mich.) Daily News read as follows:  Dow: K-Dow project will move forward.  Today, a completely different story surfaced in the form of a news release The Dow Chemical Company issued early this afternoon about the $17.4 billion joint venture project with the government [...]

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Michigan CEO Slashes Prices to Attract Customers

December 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The chief executive of a six-year-old Michigan company is employing a business tactic he hopes will be more successful than the ones used by the state’s Big Three Automakers: He issued a news release today to let the world know he’s cutting his company’s prices in half.
“Our economy calls for creative marketing,” said Intellx CEO [...]

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