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Should kids be held back if they can't read in third grade?

http://www.wxyz.com/news/should-kids-be-held-back-if-they-cant-read-in-third-grade

Teachers Union Spends Little of Its Funds on Bargaining-MEA spends only 10 percent of funds on 'representational activities'

http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/22245

World Watch: Michigan companies doing business in China

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160313/NEWS/160309884/world-watch-michigan-companies-doing-business-in-china

Hell, MI is for sale

http://www.metrotimes.com/Blogs/archives/2016/03/11/hell-mi-is-for-sale

Michigan loses more citizens to overdoses than to car accidents

http://www.metrotimes.com/Blogs/archives/2016/03/09/michigan-loses-more-citizens-to-overdoses-than-to-car-accidents

More airports calling out TSA for long lines

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2016/03/09/more-airports-calling-out-tsa-long-lines/81532494/

How we die: 8 trends in Michigan deaths

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/how_we_die_10_top_causes_of_de.html#incart_river_home

Look up top causes of death in your Michigan county

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/look_up_top_causes_of_death_in.html#incart_river_home

Too Bad Flint Wasn’t Run Like a Business

http://www.economics21.org/commentary/flint-water-crisis-business-logan-billman-03-14-2016

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Islamic State Is Giving Birth Control to Female Captives to Keep Them Fit as Sex Slaves — NYT | TheBlaze.com

Islamic State Is Giving Birth Control to Female Captives to Keep Them Fit as Sex Slaves — NYT | TheBlaze.com:

"Islamic State fighters have forced the women and girls they have kidnapped as sex slaves to take contraceptives in order to ensure they are fit for continued sexual abuse, the New York Times reported Saturday. The claim was based on interviews with more than three dozen former Yazidi captives.

In one case, an Islamic State jihadist tried to force the already pregnant woman he had bought to undergo an abortion."

Hell, MI is for sale

Hell, MI is for sale | Blogs | Detroit Metro Times
"...Colone, the unofficial mayor of Hell, Michigan, originally listed the five acre property for $1.3 million, then dropped it to a devilish asking price of $999,666.
But after more than a year without a buyer, he’s lowered the gimmicky price to a nice, round $900,000.
The property comes with the small businesses Colone has started to capitalize on the town’s notable name, including the Hell Wedding Chapel and Scream’s Ice Cream Shop, as well as the rights to Hell-themed merchandise and slogans.
Colone appeared in the Livingston Daily holding a shirt with the slogan “Beer in Hell is Safer than Water in Flint.” 
Other shirts available in his gift shop boast “Hell: It’s Safer Than Detroit.”... 

Michigan loses more citizens to overdoses than to car accidents

Michigan loses more citizens to overdoses than to car accidents | Blogs | Detroit Metro Times:
"In 2014 more people in Michigan died from drug related overdoses than car accidents — and the state is not alone with this sobering stat.
Thirty five other states and Washington DC have seen drug overdoses surpass automobile-related deaths. 
In 2014, the last year the data was available, 1,745 Michiganders died from drug overdoses. 
That same year 876 people died from car crashes in the state."

Obama: ‘I certainly have not contributed to’ divisive political climate

Obama: ‘I certainly have not contributed to’ divisive political climate | The American Mirror
"President Obama provided an interesting perspective on the widening rift in American politics Thursday during a presidential news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The lame-duck Obama said he personally has “not contributed to” the increasingly partisan climate in Washington and America in general during his tenure, but rather it’s those swarmy Republicans and conservative media outlets that are really to blame.
...The president apparently came to the realization that maybe he hasn’t done all he can to bring people together, but he’s definitely not at all to blame for dividing the country.
“I do all kinds of soul searching in terms of, are there things that I can do better to make sure that we are unifying the country,” Obama said, “but I also have to say … objectively it’s fair to say that the Republican political elites and many information outlets, social media and news stations, talk radio, television stations have been feeding the Republican base for the last seven years a notion that everything I do is to be opposed, that cooperation or compromise somehow is a betrayal, that maximalist, absolutist positions on issues are politically advantageous, that there’s a ‘them’ out there and an ‘us’ and ‘them’ are the folks who are causing whatever the problems you’re experiencing and the tone of that politics, which I certainly have not contributed to.”...

AM Michigan Hotlinks

Removing lead pipes may not solve Flint's water crisis

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2016/03/removing_lead_pipes_wont_solve.html#incart_special-report

Redactions in Gov. Rick Snyder email release go beyond FOIA exemptions

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/redaction_in_gov_rick_snyder_e.html#incart_special-report

Lawsuits filed so far in Flint water crisis seek more than $40 million damages

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160313/NEWS/303139982/lawsuits-filed-so-far-in-flint-water-crisis-seek-more-than-40

 Armed Michigan woman stops burglars amid rash of home invasions

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2016/03/armed_resident_stops_burglars.html#incart_most-readnews

It's Pi Day! Celebrate with Pi Day pie photos, links and recipes

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/03/its_pi_day_celebrate_with_some.html#incart_river_index

High Five Pedal Tours launches in downtown Ann Arbor

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/03/high_five_pedal_tours_launches.html#incart_river_index

Flint water e-mails written to stay secret

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/03/13/flint-water-e-mails-written-stay-secret/81446450/

Michigan lawmakers exempt from public records requests

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/03/13/michigan-lawmakers-exempt-public-records-requests/81725886/

Muskegon Heights, Shelby to meet in regional semifinal

Shelby canceled regular-season game vs. Muskegon Heights after shooting

http://woodtv.com/2016/03/13/muskegon-heights-shelby-to-meet-in-regional-matchup/

Laketown Township will vote on high speed Internet project in May

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/article/20160313/NEWS/160319582

Cruz: Trump and ‘Demagogue’ Obama Are ‘Very Much the Same’ | TheBlaze.com

Cruz: Trump and ‘Demagogue’ Obama Are ‘Very Much the Same’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz likened fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to President Barack Obama, calling both men “demagogues” during a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host Chuck Todd.

Calling Obama a “world class demagogue,” Cruz responded to an audio clip of the president at a recent fundraiser where he told attendees that today’s political hysteria “is not an accident” and was cultivated for years as American citizens were “told we should be angry about America and that the economy’s a disaster — and that we’re weak,” according to NBC."

Government at war with its citizens-----More airports calling out TSA for long lines

More airports calling out TSA for long lines
"...Already, Atlanta’s airport – the busiest in the world – publicly called out the agency last month for persistently long lines that it blamed primarily on staffing levels.
Now, some of the nation’s other top airports are joining the fray.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport became one of the latest.
The airport warned fliers on Wednesday via Twitter they should “expect longer wait times” because TSA “staffing (is) not keeping pace (with) passenger volumes.”
...Jeffrey Hamiel, CEO of the agency that operates MSP, fired off a letter to TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger decrying the TSA’s staffing.
In his letter, Hamiel said passenger volume at MSP has jumped more than 10% since 2011 while the number of TSA screeners nationwide had dropped about 15% over that period.
...However, AP notes the TSA may have its hands tied when it comes to addressing staffing levels.
The news agency writes “Congress has capped the number of uniformed screeners for budgetary reasons: About 42,800 screeners nationwide now, compared with a peak of about 50,000 a few years ago, (Dankers) said.”
Against that backdrop, the TSA has began conducting more thorough inspections “of people and carry-on luggage since last summer's revelation of startling security gaps at U.S. airports,” AP writes.

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History for March 14

History for March 14 - On-This-Day.com
Albert Einstein 1879, Frank Borman II 1928 - Astronaut, Quincy Jones 1933


Michael Caine 1933 - Actor ("Batman Beyond"), Eugene Cernan 1934, Billy Crystal 1948 - Actor, comedian


1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.


1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty that guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a canal at Panama. The Columbian Senate rejected the treaty. A deal was signed on November 6, 1903 with the newly independent Panama.


1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.


1932 - George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, committed suicide.


1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.


1945 - In Germany, a 22,000 pound "Grand Slam" bomb was dropped by the Royal Air Force Dumbuster Squad on the Beilefeld railway viaduct. It was the heaviest bomb used during World War II.


1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.


2003 - Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail. Blake had been jailed for the murder of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley.

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Hmmm-----First on CNN: U.S. says North Korean submarine missing

First on CNN: U.S. says North Korean submarine missing - CNNPolitics.com:
"Washington (CNN)The North Korean regime lost contact with one of its submarines earlier this week, three U.S. officials familiar with the latest information told CNN.
The U.S. military had been observing the submarine operate off North Korea's east coast when the vessel stopped, and U.S. spy satellites, aircraft and ships have been secretly watching for days as the North Korean navy searched for the missing sub.
The U.S. is unsure if the missing vessel is adrift under the sea or whether it has sunk, the officials said, but believes it suffered some type of failure during an exercise.
Tensions have heightened on the Korean peninsula following a fourth North Korean nuclear test and joint U.S.-South Korean military drills..."

Obama's government against McDonalds!-----McDonald's secrets spill out in trial over pay

McDonald's secrets spill out in trial over pay | Ap | nwitimes.com:
"A pivotal trial against McDonald's that began this week is providing a peek into the inner workings of the maker of the Big Mac.
The trial centers over whether McDonald's exerts control over hiring and pay decisions for employees at restaurants run by its U.S. franchises.
The National Labor Relations Board contends the company does, and should be considered a "joint employer" along with franchisees.
Such a finding would be historic because it would make McDonald's liable for the labor practices at its more than 14,000 domestic restaurants — 90 percent of which are franchised. 
And it could open a path to unionization for workers by giving labor groups a centralized target in McDonald's Corp., rather than a patchwork of more than 3,000 franchisees..."

Here Are The Radical Leftist Anti-Tump Groups Behind The Chicago Protest

Here Are The Radical Leftist Anti-Tump Groups Behind The Chicago Protest | The Daily Caller
The usual suspects of local radical leftists were instrumental in organizing the anti-Trump rally protest in Chicago on Friday.

• ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Chicago is the Chicago franchise of an international network started in the wake of 9/11 and among the first to protest against a response in Afghanistan; since then the group is involved in most of the radical left’s favorite causes: anti-capitalist, pro-union, open borders, anti-war, anti-police causes...
• Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Rights Reform This radical leftist group, specializing in immigration, is a more extreme version of the far left version of National Council on La Raza in Illinois.
• La Raza Chicago-The Chicago branch of the notoriously radical pro-illegal immigration group had people on site and detailing the events in a post on its site.

Lunch video-----Bernard Fisher, Medal of Honor, Vietnam War

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Stacey Dash Has This BOLD Message For Hollywood Megastar DiCaprio After Climate Change Rant

Stacey Dash Has This BOLD Message For Hollywood Megastar DiCaprio After Climate Change Rant:

"Stacey Dash, the outspoken actress and co-host on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” might have gotten her big break starring in the movie “Clueless,” but she’s accusing Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio of being the clueless one when it comes to the liberal fetish of global warming.

In a post on the spirituality website Patheos.com, Dash went after “The Revenant” star for using his Oscar acceptance speech to spread the propaganda of climate change."

Bad news. Big time bad.-----Are You Kidding Me? Chinese Exports Plunge 25.4 Percent Compared To Last Year

Are You Kidding Me? Chinese Exports Plunge 25.4 Percent Compared To Last Year:
We just got more evidence that global trade is absolutely imploding.  
Chinese exports dropped 25.4 percent during the month of February compared to a year ago, and Chinese imports fell 13.8 percent compared to a year ago.  
For Chinese exports, that was the worst decline that we have seen since 2009, and Chinese imports have now fallen for 16 months in a row on a year over year basis.  
The last time we saw numbers like this, we were in the depths of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  
China accounts for more global trade than any other nation (including the United States), and so this is a major red flag. 
 Anyone that is saying that the global economy is in “good shape” is clearly not paying attention.
If someone would have told me a year ago that Chinese exports would be 25 percent lower next February, I would not have believed it. 
 This is not just a slowdown – this is a historic implosion.  The following comes from Zero Hedge…

Things are not getting better in China as Exports crashed 25.4% YoY (the 3rd largest drop in history), almost double the 14.5% expectation and Imports tumbled 13.8%, the 16th month of YoY decline – the longest ever.Altogether this sent the trade surplus down to $32.6bn (missing expectations of $51bn) to 11-month lows.

So much for that whole “devalue yourself to export growth” idea…

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The end of free sppech?-----VIDEO=> Vile Far Left Fascists Curse at Trump Supporters Entering St. Louis Trump Rally

VIDEO=> Vile Far Left Fascists Curse at Trump Supporters Entering St. Louis Trump Rally - The Gateway Pundit:
Yesterday THOUSANDS of peaceful Trump supporters stood in line to see Donald Trump at the 3,100 seat Peabody Concert Hall in downtown St. Louis.
The line was literally blocks long — close to one mile…
Meanwhile, violent St. Louis leftists planned to disrupt and shut down the Trump rally.
They planned their anti-Trump events on Facebook.
They disrupted Trump’s speech about a dozen times.
Outside the Peabody they harassed and abused Trump supporters.

Here’s video of the leftists harassing and abusing Trump supporters at the Peabody.
Vile protesters at trump rally. 

You would walk by them to go in the building. 

They would cuss you up and down for no reason.
Hat Tip TheJames

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Why We Change Clocks To Spring Forward

Why We Change Clocks To Spring Forward
"...This reverses when the country returns to standard time Nov. 6.
In America, many people credit Benjamin Franklin with the idea for changing the clocks at different seasons.
He wrote an essay in 1784 called “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light,” which noted that people used more candles to see in the evening while sleeping past dawn.
He joked that changing the clocks for several months could conserve candle usage, but he did not act on his plan.
Instead, the first places to use daylight saving time were some cities and regions of Canada in the early 1900s and then Germany in World War I, according to Time and Date.
In Germany, citizens turned clocks ahead one hour to save fuel during the first world war, and this was around the same time the U.S. first implemented the plan.
The idea also caught on in Britain and France, but many countries abandoned the practice until World War II caused similar concerns.
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, making daylight saving time official, in 1966.
But there are still some states and territories that don’t participate.
Hawaii, most of Arizona, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands do not change their clocks, according to USA Today..."

Former Soviet Chess Champ Who’s Now an Advocate for Capitalism Has Some Pointed Words for Sanders and His ‘Socialist Policies’ | TheBlaze.com

Former Soviet Chess Champ Who’s Now an Advocate for Capitalism Has Some Pointed Words for Sanders and His ‘Socialist Policies’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Garry Kasparov published a piece in the Daily Beast on Thursday in which he offered a follow-up to his Facebook status criticizing the socialism supported by Democratic presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that went viral last week.

Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, garnered widespread social media attention after he published a Facebook post March 1 in which he stated that he was “enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means!”

Move GOP convention to Salt Lake City, Virginia Beach, home of SEALs

Call: Move GOP convention to Salt Lake City, Virginia Beach, home of SEALs | Washington Examiner:
With concerns growing in GOP circles that Cleveland is too friendly to protest mobs that will try to disrupt the Republican National Convention in July should Donald Trump be the nominee, calls are starting to be made to move the event to a safer city such as Salt Lake City, Utah, or Virginia Beach, Va.
A prominent former Reagan advisor and businessman, for example, has sent a plea to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus warning that riots could spoil the confab and ruin the nominee's election chances just like the 1968 riots by Vietnam War protesters at the Democratic National Convention helped to doom Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.

A History.com video.

"Riots in Chicago yesterday that shut down a Donald Trump rally confirm our worst fears. 

Cleveland will be the opportunity for community organizers to combine all their knowledge in an attack on the Republican Party's national nominating convention," said Richard J. Bishirjian in a letter to supporters.
"Reince Priebus and the GOP establishment chose Cleveland, Ohio in order to exert control over the convention in Ohio and assure that an establishment candidate is the GOP presidential nominee. 

Those of us old enough to remember the riots in Chicago in 1968 that destroyed the candidacy of Hubert Humphrey, believe that prudence requires that the Cleveland convention should be moved," added the former Reagan advisor.
"How about Salt Lake City or Virginia Beach, cities where organized groups can be contained, but not Cleveland that is very well suited for organized riots," added Bishirjian, currently the president of Colorado-based EDUCourses, which provides online courses.
T...rump's rallies have been plagued with protests, some of which appear planned to disrupt the candidate and draw in TV cameras.
Cleveland faced its own riots last May after a police officer was acquitted of murder. Other cities have been with similar and related protests from groups like "Black Lives Matter."
When the Cleveland clashes occurred, there were call for the GOP to consider moving the convention, among them one from Bishirjian.
Another key Republican advisor said that there are recent calls made to the RNC to move the convention, though that is highly unlikely because it takes over a year to organize one and secure hotels and venues.
"Let the movement grow to move to a safer place," he told Secrets.
Below is the full letter from Bishirjian:

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History for March 13

History for March 13 - On-This-Day.com:
Joseph Priestley 1733, Lorenzo Delmonico 1813, L. Ron Hubbard 1911


Neil Sedaka 1939 - Singer, songwriter, William H. Macy 1950 - Actor, Dana Delany 1956 - Actress ("China Beach")


1781 - Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.


1852 - The New York "Lantern" newspaper published the first "Uncle Sam cartoon". It was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew.


1877 - Chester Greenwood patented the earmuff.


1930 - It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.


1941 - Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an invasion of the U.S.S.R.






1957 - Jimmy Hoffa was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges.


1974 - The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty.



1991 - Exxon paid $1 billion in fines and for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill.

Beck Slams Carson for Endorsing Trump: ‘The Guy Called You a Pedophile’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Beck Slams Carson for Endorsing Trump: ‘The Guy Called You a Pedophile’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Glenn Beck slammed former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson Friday for his endorsement of one-time GOP rival Donald Trump, describing the move as “really remarkable.”

“The guy called you a pedophile,” Beck said on The Glenn Beck Radio Program. ”I mean, I can’t imagine somebody saying and inferring that I’m a pedophile and then going, ‘You know what, you know, a lot of things were said’ — no, not that, not that.”