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    By KG One, Section News
    Posted on Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 07:19:00 PM EST
    Tags: T.E.A. Party progressive rip off coffee party (all tags)

    They say that imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery.

    Well, imitating pretty much sums up all that they can do.

    coffee

    (2 comments, 232 words in story) Full Story

    Palin coming to Michigan


    By dennislennox, Section News
    Posted on Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 09:02:59 AM EST
    Tags: sarah palin (all tags)

    Americans for Prosperity will be bringing former Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican Party vice presidential nominee in 2008, to Michigan in a few weeks.

    Governor Palin will be in northwestern Oakland County on May 1 for the Americans for Prosperity-sponsored Defending the American Dream Summit.

    This will be a great opportunity to hear -- and meet -- Governor Palin and other leading free-market, center-right activists and leaders from across Michigan.

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    Dems to Stupak: We need to keep abortion funding in ObamaCare because babies are too expensive


    By Theblogprof, Section News
    Posted on Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 08:51:22 AM EST
    Tags: abortion, Stupak, Michigan, healthcare (all tags)

    28Furthermore, since they  did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved  mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with  every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of  envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are  gossips, 30slanderers,  God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they  disobey their parents; 31they  are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know  God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they  not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who  practice them. - Romans 1 (NIV)
    These Democrats have truly given themselves over to a depraved mind. They are in actuality inventing ways of doing evil, trying to force We the People to pay for outright murder of the innocent under the force of the state. How ghoulish, how evil is it to put a price tag on a baby yet to be born and use that tag to promote killing that child? Snuffing out a life for potential fiscal solvency of a system to take over 1/6th of the US economy even though Congress has no constitutional authority to do so. This account by MI US Rep. Bart Stupak (D) is just sickening. Our country is being run by a kakistocracy. Truly. From the Corner at NRO via memeorandum: `They Just Want This Over'
    Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. "They're ignoring me," he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. "That's their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate's health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they've been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don't have the votes, it's been made clear to us that they won't insert our language on the abortion issue."
    Stupak points out that unions are putting pressure on him and his pro-life Democrat colleagues. Unions. What happened to the days when unions were about collective bargaining and bennies? What are they doing pushing abortion? Later in the NRO article though, are these very revealing statement about where Democrats really are in their thinking, such as it is:
    ..."If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That's one of the arguments I've been hearing," Stupak says. "Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue -- come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we're talking about."
    More below the fold...

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    Tea Party Smears Reveal Much About Smearers


    By Jack McHughs Blog, Section News
    Posted on Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 04:01:18 PM EST
    Tags: tea party (all tags)

    Cross posted from Jack McHugh's Blog

    "The Tea Party protesters are being manipulated by the very same conglomerates that are causing their problems . . ." Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.

    This quote from a Detroit News op-ed is just one more in a long train of smears against the Tea Party movement by political leftists in government, media and academia; and by beneficiaries of the big-spending government status quo such as union bosses like Hoffa. Other recent examples include Thomas Frank in the Wall Street Journal this week, and the MSNBC host who melted down while interviewing a guest identified with the movement, accusing it of harboring "people who want to kill blacks and Jews."

    They even do it unconsciously, as when Public Broadcasting person Gwen Ifill used the pejorative "teabagger" to refer to opponents of President Obama, not knowing of the term's sexual origin, the source of it being coined as a Tea Party insult. Ifill's ignorance  - and she's not the only one in media who has displayed this example - reveals that her only information about the movement (if not the world in general) comes from sources on the left.  

    This reflexive smearing of the Tea Party movement is interesting. Left-brained people just can't imagine how those who believe in limited government and economic liberty could possibly be sincere and motivated by good will. One result is that when they look at free-market friendly non-profit organizations like the Mackinac Center they presume that these are cynical agents fronting for the class interests of a corporate plutocracy.

    As for grassroots Tea Party protestors, the smear-jobbers imagine that these people must be motivated by something dark including racism and other forms of bigotry. At best they are ignorant dupes, manipulated by cynical elites and tricked by "false consciousness" into opposing their own best interests.

    One of my colleagues believes that the insults are part of a willful delusion. The long range implications of the alternative to the "corporate puppets" theory is just too awful for them to contemplate. Specifically, that the Tea Parties are indeed a genuine bottom-up, grassroots movement that represents a sea change in the climate of public opinion regarding the big government welfare/regulatory state.

    This frightening prospect causes liberal statists and government spending beneficiaries to become not just discombobulated when disussing Tea Parties and partiers, but unhinged, a' la' Thomas Frank and that MSNBC person.

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    Republican Press Release.. Ouch


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 12:34:25 PM EST
    Tags: MiGOP, Health care, Obama, Jocelyn Benson (all tags)

    I could hardly refrain from laughing..

    The Michigan Republican Party Issued this release today:


    Lansing, MI--The Michigan Republican Party would like to remind Democrat candidate for secretary of state Jocelyn Benson that Michigan has 83 counties, not 82.

    In a recent interview, Benson apparently had a little trouble recalling the number of Michigan counties when she said she had received donations from, "People in 50 of the 82 counties in Michigan..."

     "How can we expect Jocelyn Benson to run proper elections in the state when she doesn't even know how many counties there are in Michigan," asked Jennifer Hoff, MRP Communications Director.  "Apparently all that pandering to Howard Dean, George Soros and other liberal Democrats is distracting her from a basic understanding of the state she calls home.

     "We encourage Jocelyn Benson to visit the Library of Michigan's "Michigan Kids" web page as it lays out basic state facts for school children including the number of counties.  Or, she can visit Michigan.gov where the names of all counties are listed and numbered," Hoff said.

    As I fought off "Milk through the nose" worthy guffaws, I realized there is a remarkable similarity to the common math issues that the Democrats seem to repeatedly reveal..  Obama thinking there are 57 or 58 states..  Spending more on health care saves money.. etc..

    Those kind of things..

    (2 comments) Comments >>

    Pushing a Bad Economy Uphill


    By Rougman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 12:23:10 PM EST
    Tags: MEA, Education, Budget (all tags)

    cross posted at a snickering Rougblog

    "Oh, it doesn't bother me one bit. I love it."

    That is my response to a question asked by MSU labor and industrial relations professor Richard Block.

    "The question of compensation is always a difficult one. What is the right amount?"

    "Levels of compensation are a function of the responsibility of the person, the culture of the organization as well as what other local officials are getting."

    [...]

    "It may not bother the membership, and the membership is paying the bills, so why should it bother us?"

    Like I said, it doesn't bother me. But, it is still worth documenting for the sheer chance of enjoying a delicious future irony.

    You see, Michigan teachers are paid much higher than the national average. (The same could be said of Michigan's legislators.) This despite the fact that Michigan's economy and the state budget on which it is dependent is in a virtual free fall. Education represents a huge portion of the state budget and as it has been pointed out by the Mackinac Center, a mere reduction of teacher's salaries and benefits to near the national average would cut our most gloomy budget deficit projections in half.

    (1 comment, 788 words in story) Full Story

    Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick issued subpoena


    By Crippy, Section News
    Posted on Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 02:21:10 PM EST
    Tags: Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (all tags)

    Kwame Kilpatrick's mother, U.S. Congresswoman, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has been subpoenaed to testify in front of a Detroit Grand Jury.

    The subpoena is in regard to a federal corruption investigation in city government while Kwame Kilpatrick was mayor.

    From Breitbart:

    In Washington, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick told The Associated Press Thursday she "absolutely" would comply.

    Notice of the subpoena was in Wednesday's Congressional Record.

    Kilpatrick's office manager has also been told to appear at the grand jury. The dates of their appearances were not disclosed.

    (2 comments, 112 words in story) Full Story

    To Laugh or Not To Laugh...


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 10:02:36 AM EST
    Tags: Clowns, Democrats, Michigan, Bank, Fannie-Freddie (all tags)

    The idea that another bank could be set up to operate somewhat like the Fannie-Freddie banks that were responsible for the biggest crash in our economy since the depression is a real hoot.  Its especially funny when you have a gubernatorial candidate in Michigan suggesting Michigan taxpayers can foot the bill.

    Virg Bernero says "it would be a lending "backstop" and be used to help ease the current credit crunch. "  Suggesting bonds and state funds be used to create the bank.

    As one of our esteemed writers posited two days ago:

    "What Virg seems to be unable to fathom is that the credit crunch is the result of stupid government busybodies like himself not only enacting regulations that enticed lenders to play Texas Hold 'em with depositor's money, but also pronounced the gamblers too vital to the American economy to fail. Their wise intrusions into what should be a private enterprise have tightened the credit markets so thoroughly that even the Chinese are starting to tire of our panhandling."

    A gamble.  ..and at a table where ALL the players are supposed to win...

    (3 comments, 600 words in story) Full Story

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