Note:  Labor Day weekend is here once again, and let's enjoy it while we can.  I have a feeling, if things keep going this way, anythi...

Sadly, Elmore Leonard, has died.  He was Detroit's foremost novelist and cheerleader.  I wrote about him at Constant Commoner today in a...

So George Will, highly renowned municipal analyst and wicked good judge of character , has once again set his sights on Detroit. Somehow--do...

There is a part of the American feminist movement that drives me nuts.  It's the part where all women who call themselves feminists have...

Safe to say that ever since the news broke that the entire city of Detroit was filing for bankruptcy hundreds of thousands of us Detroit...

The Good Ol' Boys in Texas have decreed that they're in charge of women's reproductive decisions, and the little ladies just go...

(Note:  In case you missed it, this is a repeat of a post I wrote in August, 2011.  Yesterday, the House passed a farm bill without a provi...

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to...

In a daring raid in 1948, Robert Mitchum got caught smoking marijuana in Hollywood: Sept. 1, 1948 : Actor Robert Mitchum and starle...

There is nothing wrong with being young. Nothing wrong with not having a high school diploma. Nothing wrong with being idealistic.  Nothing...