{"id":1451,"date":"2013-01-15T07:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T12:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2013-01-15T07:13:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T12:13:56","slug":"from-sensible-ville-to-radical-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"From Sensible-ville to Radical-town&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=1446\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1446\" alt=\"From Sensible-ville to Radical-town\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MLMG050.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/01\/MLMG050.jpg&amp;name=From Sensible-ville to Radical-town...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>January 13, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Justin Amash is a congressional representative from West Michigan. He is, from what I can tell anyway, an earnest person who takes his job seriously. But then he also tends to take these ideological stands (such as <a title=\"Sandy Relief Unleashes Hypocrisy\" href=\"http:\/\/thetimes-tribune.com\/opinion\/editorials-columns\/guest-columnists\/sandy-relief-unleashes-flood-of-hypocrisy-1.1428773\" target=\"_blank\">voting no on funding federal flood insurance<\/a>), which seems less what a thoughtful, practical Midwesterner would do and more what a self-involved, purist from the Deep South would do.<\/p>\n<p>Diane Hathaway was until very recently a Supreme Court Justice in Michigan. She resigned before she got kicked off for <a title=\"Diane Hathaway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2013\/01\/judicial_tenure_commission_cal.html\" target=\"_blank\">lying and doing stupid things<\/a>. She\u2019s a Democrat and our Republican governor will likely replace her with a Republican. Some are more upset by the prospect a new Republican justice than an existing Democrat who lies and does stupid things.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan recently passed legislation to create tighter oversight of abortion clinics. Ostensibly, this was done to protect women. Practically, it was done to limit abortions. In any case, I heard more than one quote to the effect of \u201cif just one life is saved, it\u2019s worth it.\u201d Could we not apply this same standard to sensible gun policies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News January 13, 2013 Justin Amash is a congressional representative from West Michigan. He is, from what I can tell anyway, an earnest person who takes his job seriously. But then he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}