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HISTORY ONCE LIVED HERE

Posted on November 20, 2024 by admin

Headline: A GOVERNOR’S PLYMOUTH TWP. HOME IS UP FOR SALE Published with permission of the Detrout Fre Press Byline:  BY JOEL THURTELL Pub-Date: 7/23/2006 Memo:  PLYMOUTH, CANTON, NORTHVILLE Correction:  Text: There’s not much action these days in the shady little … Continue reading →

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PICKING UP THE JUMBLED PIECES

Posted on November 20, 2024 by admin

Reproduced with permission of the Detroit Free Press Headline: EX-GOVERNOR REBUILDS LIFE Sub-Head: Byline:  JOEL THURTELL FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Pub-Date: 3/7/1985 Memo:  ALSO RAN IN WAYNE WEST AND DOWNRIVER ZONES Correction:  Text: Almost a decade ago, state Supreme Court … Continue reading →

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A masterpiece of deceit

Posted on October 21, 2024 by admin

BY LUKE WARM PROFESSOR OF MENDACITY UNIVERSITY OF MUNCHAUSEN Students — I apologize for interrupting the flow of my lecture series on “Merging the Big Lie with the Little Truth.” But just today I was shown a masterpiece of underhanded … Continue reading →

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Memory hole and rattlesnakes

Posted on October 21, 2024 by admin

A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a website or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that … Continue reading →

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Henry Ford and the Germans

Posted on October 21, 2024 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL I was seventeen years old when I delivered the Youth Sunday February 10, 1963 sermon on intolerance at the First Congregational Church in my hometown, Lowell, Michigan. My theme was the evil of racial prejudice, especially racism … Continue reading →

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Diggs Standard for Supremes

Posted on May 1, 2023 by admin

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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A Jewish airman in a Nazi POW Camp

Posted on March 6, 2023 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL The Detroit Free Press scrapped this story when I wrote it 21 years ago. What do you think? Would you have published this story? First, some background: He was retired in 2002, but Detroit TV weather caster … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 8, 2021 by admin

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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Times n-word hypocrisy

Posted on May 9, 2021 by admin

I sent the following letter to letters@nytimes on May 2, 2021. So far, it has not appeared in The Times. To the Editor: Regarding The Times’ May 2 op-ed, “How the N-Word Became Unsayable,” by John McWhorter: Times editors thought … Continue reading →

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SPIKING THE SUPER BOWL POOL

Posted on February 1, 2021 by admin

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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