Nolan Finley

Finley: Is Obama out to torpedo Cherry?

The 2010 gubernatorial election may test whether Kwame Kilpatrick or Jennifer Granholm is the most toxic name in Michigan politics. - 11/22/2009

Laura Berman

Palin wins by quitting while Granholm can't win for trying

As Gov. Jennifer Granholm made her way around the state last week, trying to tap political support for the broken Michigan Promise scholarships and her own education initiative, the state spotlight was shining more brightly on another female governor. - 11/22/2009

Tom Greenwood

Chilly Thanksgiving awaits Michigan travelers

An estimated 1.7 million Michiganians will travel this week for Thanksgiving -- about the same number that AAA of Michigan estimated for last year. - 11/22/2009

Charles Krauthammer

New York gets to replay 9-11 propaganda

For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. - 11/22/2009

Clarence Page

Civilian courts fight terrorists, too

Terrorists by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things. In the run-up to his trial as alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed's success as a terrorist is showing in us. A lot of good patriotic law-'n'-order Americans suddenly sound frightened by our own civilian judicial system. - 11/22/2009

Thomas Sowell

Doubt whether Uncle Sam can cut Medicare costs

What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed to understand, because this legislation is to be rushed through Congress before even the senators and representatives have a chance to read it? - 11/22/2009

George Will

Fighting health reform's coercion clause

Phoenix -- In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The institute, America's most potent advocate of limited government, embraced Eric Novack's idea for protecting Arizonans from health care coercion. In 2008, Arizonans voted on Novack's proposed amendment to the state's constitution: - 11/22/2009

Kathleen Parker

Palin gets lucky star treatment

Columbia, S.C. -- In town to give a talk on civility, I was surrounded by women who wondered what I thought of Sarah Palin's Newsweek cover. - 11/22/2009

Neal Rubin

Jeff Daniels puts on a 'Michigan Guy' kind of show

It helps to be Jeff Daniels the actor when you're trying to be Jeff Daniels the singer, but not for long. - 11/22/2009

Bob Wojnowski

Radical improvement will be demanded of Rodriguez in 2010

Where, exactly, was the improvement from the start of the season to the end? After a 4-0 start that clearly masked some of the Wolverines' ills, they didn't beat anyone other than Delaware State, which is ridiculous. - 11/21/2009

• Buckeyes bury mistake-prone and bowl-less Wolverines
• U-M's biggest concern isn't Rodriguez -- it's the next AD
• Rodriguez believes Tate Forcier, Denard Robinson will return
• 'Can't win like that': Turnovers lead to Michigan's demise

• Box score: Ohio State 21, Michigan 10
• Photos: Ohio State 21, Michigan 10

Terry Foster

It's been a disappointing season for MSU (despite win over U-M)

MSU should have won eight games. It should have stuck its nose in the Big Ten race along with Iowa and Ohio State and Penn State. - 11/21/2009

• Photos: Penn State 42, MSU 14
• Box score: Penn State 42, MSU 14

Lynn Henning

U-M's biggest concern isn't Rodriguez -- it's the next AD

Michigan needs another Don Canham in the sense that intellect must be matched to integrity and to humility. It's the only way to blend factions that have been gnawing at the football program. - 11/21/2009

• Radical improvement will be demanded of Rodriguez in 2010

Lynn Henning: Tigers Insider

Needs of Mariners, Tigers fit

No one should be surprised if there are trade conversations between Dave Dombrowski, the Tigers president and general manager, and Jack Zduriencik, Seattle's GM. - 11/21/2009

Angelique S. Chengelis

Best seat in the Big House -- for one last game

Since 1992, I have had the best seat in the house at Michigan Stadium. All these years, I've been at spot B39 in chair B42 in the second row of the press box. On Saturday, I'll sit there for the last time. - 11/21/2009

• Michigan will need Tate Forcier to be turnover-free

Jerry Green

Will the BCS provide fantasy or nightmare championship game?

The reverie comes in the middle of the night. Tossing, slugging his pillow, the insomniac imagines the dream game of the college football season. The perfect championship game. - 11/21/2009

Mike O'Hara: Week 11 NFL Picks

Lions must beat Browns to salvage any credibility

The Lions have lost big for a decade, but this is a time for them to think big. Big, for the Lions, is the potential to win two straight games and what that would mean to this struggling franchise. - 11/21/2009

Paul W. Smith

Dwell on the positive in a thankful review

Outta my mind on a Saturday moanin' heading into Thanksgiving week: - 11/21/2009

Michael Barone

Obama bows, but the world doesn't bow back

On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia in April and to the emperor of Japan last week, the world refuses to bow back. - 11/21/2009

Jeanne Phillips: Dear Abby

Musical mom mortifies daughter

DEAR ABBY: I am an 11-year-old girl who loves going shopping and doing various stuff with my mom. But when we go to the mall or stop for lunch and she hears a song she likes, she'll start singing to it. And if we're standing up, she even dances to it a little. - 11/21/2009

Dr. Paul Donohue: Your health

Doctor must diagnose leg, ankle swelling

Dear Dr. Donohue: My legs, ankles and feet get really swollen, and I mean really. During the day, if I slip my shoes off, I can't get them back on. What can I do to take down the swelling? - 11/21/2009

Lynn Henning

Mark Dantonio still right coach for Spartans

Three years ago this week I can remember making another hundred or so phone calls in the latest quest to learn who Michigan State would hire as its new head football coach. - 11/20/2009

John Niyo: Lions Insider

Coaches Jim Schwartz, Eric Mangini took similar paths to top job

When Schwartz stops to share a laugh before Sunday's game with his Cleveland counterpart, it'll be easy to say it was worth it. - 11/20/2009

Tom Long: Film Review: 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' -- GRADE: C

Review: 'New Moon' is just what 'Twilight' fans want -- unfortunately

A big bowl of adolescent romantic mush garnished with horror-lite action scenes and a rushed road trip, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is a mess. But to be fair to director Chris Weitz and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, it is the mess "Twilight" fans were expecting and probably demanding. - 11/20/2009

• Review: 'Precious' is power and horror
• Review: Overly weepy 'Blind Side' achieves goals
• West Michigan native's star rising in 'Twilight'
• Review: 'Planet 51' sputters and crashes

• Photos: Tom Long's 10 great vampires
• MichMoms: 4 girls and 'New Moon'
• Official site: 'Twilight'

Daniel Howes

State tax credit to labor union is baffling

Nestled between this week's state tax credits for auto suppliers, a furniture maker and a few high-tech companies is this gem: A $2 million credit to a for-profit affiliate of the Service Employees International Union to build a "Member Action Center." - 11/20/2009

Kate Lawson: Simply the Best

Turkey Day feast is all about the stuffing

My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal isn't the turkey or the pie. For me, it's all about the stuffing. - 11/20/2009