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Posted at 8:25am on Jul. 10, 2008 Talk about two ends of the spectrum

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Waiting for the other shoe to drop.  That's the best way to describe the continuing drama with the all-Democrat Detroit City Council.  Several council members remain targets of a federal investigation into a bribe backed multi-million dollar deal with Synagro to handle waste and build an incinerator.  Members and their staffs continue to be questioned and, sometimes, video-taped accepting funny money. And in the best Democrat tradition there isn't a one of them standing up and taking responsibility for his or her actions, although responsibility could be forced upon them somewhere down the road.

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Posted at 8:20am on Jul. 9, 2008 Freedom is so... passe

By RightMichigan.com

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Low rise jeans and term limits.  Beautiful things.  What do the topics have in common?  Nothing but liberty, my friends, nothing but liberty.  

First, our friend, the term limit.  Love them or hate them, it is tough to argue limits aren't affecting the way things happen in Lansing.  Or that they aren't about to affect things in even more profound ways this November.  The Detroit News reports this morning on this fall's state House elections where forty-four members of the chamber are getting the boot not because the voters got sick of them but because, well, just because.

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Posted at 8:50am on Jul. 8, 2008 Michigan MSM isn't in the tank for Obama at aaaaaaaaall...

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

All those weeks ago when Barack Obama visited Grand Rapids you'd have thought the Beatles had just arrived from Liverpool.  That the allies had rolled into Paris.  That a certain foot touched the top of a certain mountain.  You could watch an hour's worth of constant coverage, leave the house, drive downtown, find parking, go to the event, sit through security sweeps and pomp and circumstance and all of the speeches, find your way through the crowd, get back in your car, fight traffic the whole way home, cook a frozen pizza, open an ice cold beverage, kick back in the lay-z-boy and the anchors at WOOD TV 8 still hadn't taken a breath.  Wall-to-wall media coverage for hours without commercial interruption.  When McCain comes to town you get a five minute blip on the eleven o'clock news.

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Posted at 8:20am on Jul. 7, 2008 How many signatures will they submit, and what then?

By RightMichigan.com

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Today is the day.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Monday, the first day back after (what I hope was) an awesome three-day weekend, a return to the grindstone and the day power finally returned for many Grand Rapids residents after a nasty weekend storm.  But that's not what I'm talking about.  Today is the filing deadline.  

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Posted at 7:19am on Jul. 3, 2008 Obsolete embryo killing petition close to ballot in Michigan

By RightMichigan.com

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While we're talking petitions... Most of the petition talk going around the conservative blogosphere to this point has revolved around the shady effort to rewrite the constitution, and with good reason.  There's another petition floating out there though that just announced their intentions to turn in between 500,000 and 550,000 signatures by next week's Monday deadline.

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Posted at 7:45am on Jul. 2, 2008 Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

By RightMichigan.com

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I swear, we could talk about a shocking new detail or a major new scandal out of Detroit every day for a year and we still won't have gotten to the bottom of all of the sludge (har) in the lefty Mecca.  Today it's the Ivory Tower telling us that a member of the mainstream media has been officially caught up in the mix:


According to a report by Fox 2 reporter Scott Lewis, (Fox 2 Reporter Fanchon) Stinger accompanied Detroit developer Rayford Jackson to a meeting with city councilwoman Monica Conyers in October at Southwestern Church of God in Detroit regarding a possible sludge recycling contract with Synagro Technologies Inc.

Lewis said Stinger was not at the meeting to report the story. It's unclear why Stinger attended the meeting.

The FBI is currently investigating the City Council over the deal as one staff member was recently outed on videotape accepting payoffs.  Conyers appears to be at the center of the investigation, her longtime A-Team political consultant Sam Riddle no longer in her employ for unspecified reasons offering up tasty morsels like this, maybe the funniest heartbreaking truism I've read in months...

"The only difference between Detroit and Third World nations in terms of corruption is that there are no goats in the streets in Detroit."

Ouch.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 7:48am on Jul. 1, 2008 When the Democrats get control the voters get Detroit

By RightMichigan.com

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I was born and raised in Grand Rapids.  This is my home.  I love it here.  I've had opportunities to move to Lansing, to head out to Washington, D.C., but none of that excites me.  For years I'd commute 75 minutes each way to work (back when gas was under $2 a gallon, thank heavens) and when it came time to buy my first house I didn't look anywhere else.  

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Posted at 7:54am on Jun. 30, 2008 It Isn't the Fourth Just Yet

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I know more than usual everyone's starting off the week looking forward to Friday and who can blame any of us?  July 4th has always been one of my favorite days of the year.  I have an aunt and uncle (and cousins) who live out on Lake Bella Vista in Rockford and they always host my mom's side of the family on the fourth for swimming, tubing, a bbq, pick-up basketball, hot-tubbing, you name it.  And God bless them, that's not an easy task.  I'm the eldest of ten myself and my mom's number ten of twelve.  Most of her siblings also have more than a handful of kids.

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Posted at 8:09am on Jun. 27, 2008 So much for those spin-off jobs (things get worse in Michigan)

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Shares of General Motors Corp. plunged to their lowest price in more than 33 years, and Ford shares hit another 52-week low Thursday as analysts continued to speculate about just how bad things will get for U.S.-based automakers.

When a news cycle starts off like that (courtesy of the Oakland Press) you know you're in for a rough read over your morning coffee.  And sure enough, the hits just keep on coming.

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Posted at 8:25am on Jun. 23, 2008 It's gas prices, stupid!

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

With the Barackstar insisting that gas prices need to continue their incremental rise, apparently attempting to teach us the "hard way" about energy independence John McCain is making waves this morning with a different solution to the same problem. He's got a new proposal to offer big-time tax incentives to Detroit's Big 3 ($5,000 a vehicle) for every flex-fuel auto they produce and sell along with a bigger prize, a $300,000,000 payday for the man or woman who can develop an automobile battery that'd be powerful enough to send a car screaming down the road and inexpensive enough to mass produce.  

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Posted at 2:11pm on Jun. 18, 2008 Breaking: Obama “profiling” during Detroit campaign stop, denies access to Muslim women

By RightMichigan.com

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Well, so much for racial unity and an end to discrimination. The Associated Press reports this afternoon that two women of ethnic Arab descent were singled out and prohibited from sitting near Barack Obama during his visit to the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit this week.

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Posted at 9:35am on Jun. 18, 2008 A morning of strange admissions from the Michigan Left

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Fewer taxes equals more jobs.  It's not rocket science and even the current crop of Democrats in Lansing, the biggest tax hikers in the state's history regularly admit it these days.  Including today.  They just approved tax breaks and credits for a handful of projects the administration proudly claims will "create" 3,900 jobs. (The list of projects and tax breaks is available HERE.)

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Posted at 8:27am on Jun. 17, 2008 The MSM and Michigan Dems suddenly OK with China? Since when?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Now why couldn't that have been the Ivory Tower's take back during the fall of 2006?  Tom Walsh has a column in the FREEP this morning hot on the heels of yesterday's Michigan appearances by Senator Barack Obama.  He rakes him over the coals pretty good for his unhealthy disconnect on the whole "economy" thing and defends business people who are successfully selling their products overseas.  

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Posted at 8:09am on Jun. 16, 2008 Riding the bike everywhere I could for a month saved me... two lousy gallons?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Happy Monday everybody.  Unless you had to fill up the gas tank this weekend.  I love my car and I still figure I'll be one of the last guys on the open road if the Mad Max dystopia ever turns into a reality but I'm not embarrassed to admit that I've gotten a lot of work on the bicycle over the last month.

Weekly stops to my folks house for dinner or my brothers house for a Monday night free weights session (I'm ripped) only save six miles here, three-quarters of a mile there but between that and my extended ride on Saturday, to and from the Life Walk, Grand Rapids to Hudsonville, I've probably saved a good... no, less than a half-tank.  Wait, is that all?  And here I'd felt like I was making real progress and saving the environment.  Turns out all I've saved is what, thirty bucks?  Over the last month?  Now I've got this sudden, overwhelming compulsion to go cut down a tree or something to get even with Algore for tricking me.  Or to try to dig an oil well in my backyard.

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Posted at 8:12am on Jun. 12, 2008 Child poverty skyrocketing in Dem Controlled Michigan

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

A couple of days back we were talking about the total job loss numbers since the Democrats took control of the State of Michigan.  Over a quarter-of-a-million jobs killed in the years that followed that fateful election in the fall of 2002.  And that number sounds horrible and imposing and dirty and rotten but at some level it still sort of bounces off a lot of folks.  It's a big number, for one, and the bigger they are the tougher they are to relate to.  But more than that, numbers are abstracts.  OK, we lost 250,000+ jobs.  What does that mean?  Where does that sort of regress show up on in every day life?  

Take a look at MLIVE this morning.  They're carrying an AP story about the heartbreaking rise in the state's child poverty rates.


Michigan's rate of children without a parent working full-time and year-round in the home rose about 13 percent between 2000 and 2006, the report says. In all, 35 percent of state children were in such households in 2006, up from 31 percent six years earlier...

The report from The Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Michigan League for Human Services says Michigan ranked 37th in that category, as well as in infant mortality, which dropped by 4 percent between 2000 and 2005. Both were Michigan's worst rankings.

Immediately my mind jumps back to the Governor's proclamation last year that without a massive tax increase children would be out on the street and "people will die."  Check and check.  Even despite the fact she got that tax hike.  The report doesn't gauge what happened in 2007, a year in which we lost just about as many jobs as any other year on record.  Which means that 35% child poverty rate, that didn't exactly go down over the last seventeen months.

It's easy to get wrapped up in the back and forth of campaigns and politics, especially this time of this year.  But the policies that come about through elections... they have consequences.  So when you go to the polls this year remember... it's all about the children.

Sorry, always wanted to say that. But it's true!  The failed policies of Jennifer Granholm, John Cherry, Mark Schauer and the House Democrats aren't exactly lowering the poverty rate, you know?  Then again, it isn't any secret that most liberal electeds across the state owe their jobs to Big Labor.  And with an example like the one their benefactors are setting in metro Detroit this week...

The Detroit News opines that what the Teamsters are doing to the hundreds of non-union employees at Performance Transportation Services, actively, openly and admittedly killing their jobs, isn't fair.  Sort of like what the Democrats at the Capitol are doing to struggling families?  Manny Lopez continues:


Don't take that as anti-union; take it as a reminder of Michigan's economic reality. Solidarity isn't as strong these days, as evidenced by the fact that other non-union car haulers and reportedly, even some union operations, have picked up PTS' business.

But it's symptomatic of the problem that persists here: Do it our way or we'll bring down the house.

Wait, scratch that Manny.  I think you meant "Do it our way AND we'll bring down the house."  Easy mistake to make.

Take current gas prices... we've got a federal government that lambastes the oil companies for making excessive profit (4% to 9% depending on how you do the math) then turns around actually pulls in 15% via their gas tax.  Anybody struggling to fill up the tank these days?  

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