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Mich. state rep. Agema not to appear at controversial Terry Jones rally as announced

By | 09.06.11 | 5:00 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

State Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) was announced as a speaker at a Lansing rally Wednesday organized by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who made headlines when he threatened to burn a Koran on his church property earlier this year, but his office denies the accuracy of that announcement.
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Gov. Snyder backs Hoekstra in U.S. Senate race

By | 08.29.11 | 2:00 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

Gov. Rick Snyder has endorsed former rival Pete Hoekstra for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate.

Federal court decides Hutaree militia members won’t go to trial until 2012

By | 08.12.11 | 4:31 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

Members of the Hutaree Militia won’t be going to trial until February.

California neo-Nazi leader murdered

By | 05.03.11 | 11:04 am | More from The Michigan Messenger

The California organizer for the National Socialist Movement white nationalist organization has been shot to death.

The Press Enterprise from California says 32-year-old Jeff Hall was found shot in his home in Riverside home. Emergency medical responders were unable to revive Hall from the gun shot wound, and he More…

Bible Nation Society: Obama is the Antichrist

By | 04.28.11 | 9:14 am | More from The Michigan Messenger

A Michigan-based group called the Bible Nation Society, which has been urging Congress to pass a resolution commemorating the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible, also says that President Obama may be the Antichrist.

Religion Dispatches reports:

The Bible Nation Society, affiliated with

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Caswell backpedals on secondhand clothing issue

By | 04.26.11 | 12:52 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

Image by: Matt MahurinA proposal by Hillsdale County Republican Sen. Bruce Caswell to allow foster children to purchase clothing only at secondhand stores has been amended.

Jesse Jackson: ‘We will take this to the Department of Justice’

By | 04.21.11 | 12:14 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

The Reverend Jesse Jackson says the move by Benton Harbor Emergency Financial Manager Joseph Harris is illegal.

In an interview with Fox 2 News, Jackson says he will work with residents to take the issue to the U.S. Department of Justice and if necessary the U.S. Supreme More…

Citing cost concerns, U.S. Marshals to cease Project Safe Surrender for fugitives

The U.S. Marshals have ended a program credited with rounding up 34,000 fugitives in the past five years because the program is not affordable.

The Associated Press reports that Project Safe Surrender was started in Ohio in 2005 after a law enforcement officer was shot in the More…

HIV-specific criminal law legislation has materialized in three states

In opposition to President Barack Obama’s Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), HIV-specific criminal law legislation has popped up in three states in the last two months.

Michigan Messenger reported on the NHAS in July.

Would-be mosque bomber in Michigan had long history of violence

Roger Stockham, the California man arrested in Dearborn this weekend for an alleged plot to blow up the Islamic Center of America mosque, has a long history of extremism, violence and mental problems.

According to the Reno Gazette Journal, in 1985, Stockham was arrested and later convicted

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