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Did the Militia Group that Planned to Kidnap the Michigan Governor Commit Treason?

They stand accused of hoping to trigger “a civil war leading to societal collapse”

October 14, 2020 • by Carlton F.W. Larson

On Wednesday, October 7, the Michigan Attorney General filed 19 state felony charges against seven men who are accused of being members, or associates of, an anti-government militia group calling itself the Michigan Wolverine Watchmen (Wolverines is also the name of the University of Michigan football team). The alleged militia members ...

Don’t Give Paranoids Too Much Credit

Some minds can’t trust anything or anyone not on their side

April 17, 2020 • by John Stoehr

The evidence? Here’s the Washington Post, explaining the Michigan rules. “Confused shoppers found they could buy liquor and lottery tickets … but couldn’t visit the vegetable seed aisle … The order required large stores to shut down plant nurseries and rope off sections where carpet, flooring, and paint were sold, provisions ...

Michigan Claims English as Official Language

The Forgotten and Ignored History of U.S. Support for Official Translations

April 26, 2018 • by Rosina Lozano

On February 22 Michigan's house “with no warning” voted in favor of House Bill 4053, which would make English the state’s official language for all public records and public meetings. Republican representative Aaron Miller called it a “great day” and did not see the bill as exclusionary: “We’re not turning ...