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Netflix show revisits one of the deadliest twisters in U.S.

The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film, released nearly 14 years after the twister struck Missouri with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, destroying neighborhoods and killing around 160. “You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing,” Kerry Sachetta, then the Joplin High School principal, told The Associated Press on the evening of May 22, 2011, after the school was destroyed. “That’s really what it looked like,” Sachetta said. As he spoke on that dreadful night, fires from gas leaks burned ...

AOC points to party’s sad future

Even Will Rogers might be hard-pressed to come up with an appropriately harsh jibe about the current state of the Democrats. “I am not a member of any organized political party,” the 20th century humorist famously said. “I am a Democrat.” Now, the problem isn’t a lack of organization per se, but the hangover of their dogged, dishonest support for a comprehensively failed presidency, joined to an irrational commitment to outlandish positions on cultural issues. The Democrats shouldn’t be shocked that after insisting that Joe Biden was hale and hearty and fit to serve ...

The canary in the coal mine

Tens of thousands of pages related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy were released last week. Not to spoil it, but he dies in the end. In the process of reviewing the documents, it is apparent that the government kept a lot private because the names of CIA agents in the field, their sources and methods of collecting data, etc. were all in the documents. An unredacted release when those agents were alive could have jeopardized them. Perhaps not surprisingly, some commentators were convinced the documents were a coverup protecting supposed Jewish assassins. Last ...

Senate showdown goes wrong way

Republicans in Congress are ceding their constitutional power to the president, so says the “politerati.” Yes, but there’s the rub: 10 Senate Democrats joined Republicans, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. He changed his mind the day before. The Senate 10 sacrificed the minority’s sole power to check the president. Senate Republicans needed eight more votes to reach the required 60 to pass a lethal resolution to keep the government open at midnight. After waxing and waning, the Schumer surrender dealt a gut punch to 37 Senate Democrats who fiercely opposed the ugly ...

After breaking fast, volunteers use Ramadan season as an opportunity to give in Detroit

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — After a nightly iftar meal with family members breaking fast together during Ramadan, Nadine Daoud noticed full pots and trays of untouched leftover food lining the shelves of her grandmother’s refrigerator. Too often, she felt the food was quickly forgotten and then wasted. The observations inspired her 2017 creation of The Helping Handzzz Foundation that brings volunteers together each year during the Islamic holy month. They round up spare food from families in Dearborn — where nearly half the 110,000 residents are of Arab descent — and bring it to ...

Book gathers historic accounts of Michigan cougar encounters

LANSING — In 1892, a woman left her young child asleep in a wagon while she picked blackberries close by in small-town Fergus, Saginaw County. She returned a short time later to a horrific scene: Her child was gone and a pool of blood lay in its place. That story, first reported by the Crawford Avalanche, contains statements from eyewitnesses claiming to have seen a panther-like animal in the area. That story and others like it make up the heart of a new book, “Silent Springs the Panther: Historic Accounts of Michigan Big Cat Attacks” (Mission Point Press, $17.95), by ...