Joel Thurtell’s Blog
Me and the Austin Road Bur Oak Rescue
A friend asked me to be a passenger while she practiced managing a car for the Michigan driver’s license test. …
Bye-bye, Jennifer!
I liked Jennifer Rubin’s columns. I will miss reading them in the Washington Post. I am sorry that she resigned,…
HISTORY ONCE LIVED HERE
Headline: A GOVERNOR’S PLYMOUTH TWP. HOME IS UP FOR SALE Published with permission of the Detrout Fre Press Byline: BY JOEL THURTELL …
PICKING UP THE JUMBLED PIECES
Reproduced with permission of the Detroit Free Press Headline: EX-GOVERNOR REBUILDS LIFE Sub-Head: Byline: JOEL THURTELL FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER …
A Masterpiece of Deceit
BY LUKE WARM PROFESSOR OF MENDACITY UNIVERSITY OF MUNCHAUSEN Students — I apologize for interrupting the flow of my lecture series…
Memory Hole and Rattlesnakes
A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such…
Henry Ford and the Germans
I was seventeen years old when I delivered the Youth Sunday February 10, 1963 sermon on intolerance at the First Congregational Church in my…
Diggs Standard for Supremes
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.…
A Jewish airman in a Nazi POW Camp
The Detroit Free Press scrapped this story when I wrote it 21 years ago. What do you think? Would you have…
FDA Approval of Alzheimer’s ‘Cure’ a Huge Gift to Drug Maker
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…