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James David Dickson

James David Dickson is the managing editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential, a daily news site of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Dickson grew up in Inkster and now hails from Ferndale. After starting his career in 2007-2008 with a one-year fellowship at The American Spectator, Dickson then had stops at The Detroit News and two newspapers in Ann Arbor. He returned to the Detroit News in 2012, and stayed for a decade.
by | Aug 3, 2007

The desks barring the doors indicate that Robert Spencer's lecture was going to be something different. We had been free to go and come as we please for every other portion of the Young America's Foundation's 29th annual National Conservative Student Conference….

by | Aug 2, 2007

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has demanded that Young America's Foundation "cancel the scheduled session, or else take steps to ensure that false and defamatory statements are not issued" during Robert Spencer's scheduled 4 p.m. lecture today on "The Truth…

by | Jul 27, 2007

The frustrations of Senate Democrats have begun to manifest themselves in actions rather than words, as four Senate Democrats have requested a perjury probe of embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Gonzales’s testimony regarding a hospital room confrontation with his predecessor,…

by | Jul 18, 2007

WASHINGTON — “Reporting, reporting, reporting.” If there was but one lesson to take from The American Spectator‘s first ever Young Writers’ Workshop last week, it is the importance of news reporting, its primacy in finding success as a journalist. “Everyone…

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