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Michigan Dem Backs Off Plan to Give Free Federal Land to Christian School

From The Michigan Messenger:
Rep. Bart Stupak [D-Mich.] has reconsidered earlier legislation that would have given several acres of Coast Guard property in Cheboygan [Mich.] to a Christian school free of charge after constitutional law scholars pointed out that the land transfer would violate the First Amendment separation between church and state.


A Christian School, the Coast Guard, a Congressman and the Constitution

The Michigan Messenger’s Ed Brayton reports a convoluted tale involving all of the above. Long story short, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) — whose name you may know because he lives at the GOP sex scandal-connected “C Street” house — has introduced a bill to transfer a piece of U.S. Coast Guard-owned property in Cheboygan, Mich.,  [...]


Reining in Military Contracts

PART 1: A Coast Guard upgrade project, “Deepwater,” reveals a troubled military contracting system.