Last week, several polls came out assessing U.S. public opinion on intervention in Syria.

After 9/11, my high school cafeteria split in half: Arab-Americans on one side, everybody else on the other. I don't know why, but I felt like I had to choose a side. I chose to sit with nobody. 

The U.S. public was always carefully protected by its media from full knowledge of what the U.S. government did to Iraq. The networks had a rule, of never showing blood. They almost never showed wounded Iraqis with bloody bandages. Of course, they never showed dismemberment (bodies blown up, unlike in Hollywood movies, don’t just pile up whole). Since Arabic satellite TV showed such images every day, the Arab world and the U.S. saw two different wars on their screens. U.S. media almost never interviewed Iraqi politicians (magazine shows like 60 Minutes very occasionally took up that task).

Metro Detroit — It’s that time of year again —  local residents and business owners are receiving their property tax “notice of assessment.” After five years of a battered real estate market, many suspect that they are being overtaxed on inflated values or properties. 

DETROIT — As lenders continue to see rising default rates and a backlog of foreclosures and bad debt piling up, short sales have been extremely attractive to sellers, banks, buyers and realtors.

Ten years ago, on October 10, 2002, the United States House of Representatives made one of the most calamitous mistakes of a generation. Congress, with willful blindness, voted to attack, invade and occupy a sovereign, oil-rich nation in the Middle East that did not attack us and did not pose a threat to the American people.