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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 [...]

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World News Captured in Photo Roundup

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Captions combine with photos from around the world to tell the stories of competition over some pricey materials — oil, freedom and gold medals.  See the photos below for details.

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New Political Action Committee Could Help McCain

July 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

The launch of a new political action committee, known as Matthew 25 Network, might be more helpful to Republican John McCain than to Democrat Barack Obama, the candidate the group boldly endorses on its web site. Despite being skeptical of any group that markets itself on a faith angle while supporting candidates that favor abortion, [...]

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Activists Demand New Michigan Caucuses

May 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Grassroots activists in Michigan laid out charges of election-year electioneering and demand new caucuses be held this month to choose 156 Democratic delegates (including 28 Super Delegates) and 60 Republican delegates to their National Presidential Conventions this summer in full compliance with rules mandated from headquarters in Washington D.C. Below are excerpts of the news [...]

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Clinic Slapped on Wrist for Tossing Babies in Trash

March 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The state of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality yesterday ordered abortionist Alberto Hodari to retrain his clinic’s employees as to the proper disposal of human waste (their politically-correct term for “aborted children”), prompting outrage from American Life League President Judie Brown. “Mere fines for this outrage would have been a grave injustice!” Brown said in [...]

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Is ‘Aliens in America’ on Verge of Deportation?

March 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In a post five months ago, I asked the question, Is ‘Aliens in America’ Launch Bad Timing, Worse? Today, thanks to a tip from Debbie Schlussel, I learned the answer to my question appears to be “worse” — for CW, that is. Not familiar with Aliens in America? It’s a sitcom that made its prime-time [...]

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