Category Archives: Bad government

Diggs Standard for Supremes

By Joel Thurtell Staff Writer A former congressman named Charles Diggs spent seven months in prison in 1978 for what reportedly is routine behavior by three justices on the U. S. Supreme Court. According to the April 30, 2023 New … Continue reading

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FDA approval of Alzheimer’s ‘cure’ a huge gift to drug maker

BY JOEL THURTELL It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single disease that afflicts a vast portion of the world’s population must be in want of a cure. According to the FDA, that single disease is Alzheimer’s, and the … Continue reading

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SPIKING THE SUPER BOWL POOL

First posted on February 5, 2012 JT Revised version posted February 1, 2021  By Joel Thurtell I’m no sports writer, so it was neat to think my byline would appear over a Super Bowl story. What a drag that my first-ever Super … Continue reading

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SPIKING THE SUPER BOWL PIZZA

Spiking the Super Bowl Pizza  Breaking news January 20, 2021 – In a parting shot at anyone who believes in rule of law, the now former President, Donald Trump, commuted the prison sentence of disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Current … Continue reading

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CASS COUNTY ‘JUSTICE’

BY JOEL THURTELL Police unions are taking the rap for defending lawbreaking cops. Police chiefs argue that they are powerless to fire bad cops. There was a time when top cops openly made the case for protecting bad police officers. … Continue reading

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THE 1977 POLICE KILLING OF MCELDON TISDEL

BY JOEL THURTELL She might as well have shot him herself.  The cops did the job for her. The victim was 28-year-old McEldon Tisdel, a black man  living with his family in a nearly all-white village in southwestern Michigan. Through … Continue reading

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THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL — underground at the Free Press

BY JOEL THURTELL Thirty years ago, journalists at Detroit’s two daily newspapers were just waking up to the realities of the merger of their operations into one operation aimed at making a fortune for owners Knight-Ridder and Gannett. No, no, … Continue reading

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First Amendment for reporters? Gannett says ‘NOPE!”

BY JOEL THURTELL Screams from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Those authoritarian Chinese booted our journalists! But Trump expelled 60 Chinese journalists from the US. Do foreign journalists have First Amendment rights? Better question: do … Continue reading

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JC III pulled knife on mom; mom pulled pistol on him

John Conyers III is no stranger to police reports of his knife-wielding. Sixteen years before the recent episode in which the elder son of former U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. reportedly injured his girl friend in a fight involving a … Continue reading

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Conyers and Free Press amnesia

By Joel Thurtell On November 22, 2017, the Detroit Free Press demanded that U.S. Rep John Conyers resign because of allegations of sexual misconduct and a possibly illegal payoff to the woman who complained. That date — November 22 — … Continue reading

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