Back in 2008, candidate Barack Obama said his administration would bankrupt any attempt to build new coal-fueled plants, and now his EPA is taking a strong step toward doing just that. The carbon dioxide standards they’re setting are both environmentally unnecessary and financially impossible. No wonder Michael Brune of the Sierra Club hails it as helping … [Read more...]
Jane Wilson Says Vote ‘No’ on Proposal 2
Letter to the editor — Proposal 2 represents an attempt by government union bosses to destroy the Michigan Constitution, hold employers and legislators hostage, and change and repeal as many as 170 of Michigan’s laws. Michigan’s attorney general is warning that it would eliminate the law requiring safety rules for school bus drivers and could prohibit … [Read more...]
How ‘Religious Defamation’ Laws Would Ban Islam
EDITORIAL - As the Islamic world, in the guise of the 57-member state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), continues to push for the enforcement of "religious defamation" laws in the international arena — theoretically developed to protect all religions from insult, but in reality made for Islam — one great irony is lost, especially on Muslims: if … [Read more...]
Recent Letters – Free Speech, Carjacking, Atrocities in Libya
Free Speech Stifled? Why is your once great community cowtowing to the Islamics (sic) in your area? They seek to stifle free speech and press and yet you all permit it, even side with them by hindering Christians. They are all wrong! It is a false religion built on a false teacher who wrote a crazy and false book they follow. Hell was his home and they need … [Read more...]
Syrian Refugees in Dearborn Fear Safety of Family Members
EDITORIAL - Dearborn area residents who have relatives living in Syria say they cannot sleep at night worrying about the safety of friends and family members. Earlier this week a disturbing video appeared on YouTube (WARNING - graphic images, restricted access), depicting the horrible violence and war crimes happening in Syria. For those who don't … [Read more...]
Libya in the Aftermath
EDITORIAL - The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that led to the death of the American ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, illustrates that despite the poor performance of Islamists in the elections back in July, the country still faces a serious internal terrorist threat from ideological militants who either operate with freedom from central … [Read more...]
Exercise of Free Speech in Dearborn Improving?
Dear Editor, Last month I revisited the annual Dearborn Arab-American Festival after a two-year hiatus. You see, two years ago I vowed to never return to Dearborn [Ed: see July 2010 letter from Joe Carey at bottom of linked article] after an encounter at the festival in 2009 in which I, my wife, and several friends were physically man-handled and … [Read more...]
Protestors Disrupt Arab Festival with Pig’s Head on Pole
DEARBORN, Michigan - A group of anti-Islamic protesters, led by Ruben Israel of the official street preachers used a pig's head on a pole as a "conversation starter" at Dearborn's 17th Annual International Arab Festival on June 15th. Some local Christians and Muslims were offended by the pig's head on display, while many others were incredulous and could … [Read more...]
Golden CD Reveals Republican Religious Fantasies
If I wanted to join the Dearborn Latter-day Saint (Mormon) congregation and presented myself for membership confessing that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God and the Book of Mormon was another testament of Jesus Christ, would I be accepted as a Mormon? The website Mormon.org states, "If you have a desire to follow Christ’s teachings and obey His … [Read more...]
Human Rights Conference at Hyatt Sparks Controversy
DEARBORN, Michigan - The Dearborn area will be hosting two conferences on Sunday, April 29 that deal with the controversial topics of "Honor Killing in Islam" and "Islamophobia". It's been about one year since Jessica Mokdad was murdered. She was just 20 years old. Organizers for the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference (to be held at the Hyatt Sunday … [Read more...]