Commentary

Should Walmart be open on Thanksgiving?  That's the question we asked some shoppers at the Walmart on Belsay Road.  

I wondered how students at the University of Michigan Flint felt about the re-election of President Obama.  So we parked a camera in front of the Pavilion and asked them.

This past Sunday on TV5’s Weekend Talk Back segment, I suggested that Republicans should give the President whatever he wants.  Don’t try to block votes, don’t add controversial amendments, and don’t whip party members to oppose his program.  The President closed the s...

We in the United States consume a lot of energy.  It’s no wonder some of our richest companies are energy producers.  So why do we have to encourage the production of energy through legislation? I ask this with a view to Michigan’s ballot proposal 3 (reproduced below).  The answer is that ...

Scarlett Johansson would like you to believe that Mitt Romney represents a real danger to women.  She, as well as Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria shot a video for MoveOn.org warning women about the threat a Romney Presidency would pose. ...

As journalism blends with entertainment on the one hand, and advocacy on the other, it’s easy to forget what it used to be when it inspired.  If you’d like a reminder of what journalism once aspired to, watch this video.  In Lara Logan,...

Is an enlightened electorate necessary for a healthy functioning democratic republic?  Would it be more cynical to hope not, or go ex pat? Probably because he’s not a woman of child-bearing years, the primary reason the man in this video opposes Romney and supports Obama is not fear over “access” to contraception.  Rather, it is becaus...

Factcheck.org was daunted by the prospect of  Bill Clinton’s 2012 Democratic Convention speech.  Who wouldn’t tremble at the thought of fact checking that labyrinthine epic! Surprisingly, Clinton came out just about clean as a whistle. The problem is, the...

Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, was visibly taken aback at the Democratic Convention today when the vote he called to reinsert “God” and “Jerusalem” back into the Democratic platform met resistance from the convention goers. The proposed amendmen...

The Bay County Department of Water and Sewage can pump 18 million gallons of water per minute.  A nice lady at the department told me that.  Seems they were pumping at that capacity so no one was available to come over to my house where we were having something of a crisis.  Since n...