Facing down the potential multi-billion dollar bailout of the Big Three, it seems this is the perfect time to have the discussion of making Michigan a Right to Work State.  

Making Michigan a Right to Work State would not only help the Big Three, it would help our schools and the Union members, like me, who are forced to join a Union and pay dues for services I don't want or need.
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According to teases on the Fox News Channel, Bill O'Reilly will be discussing the Mount Hope attack story we brought you here, first, one week ago today.  That's right... RightMichigan is going to be on The Factor.

How will he handle the story?  I have no idea.  Will something bump the story?  Could happen.  Has it been teased?  Yep.

With that in mind, I wanted to offer a quick hello to the literally thousands of first-time readers we've had stopping by today and expect to have stopping by this evening.

If you're looking for our original reporting and blogging on the Mount Hope attack, you'll find the direct links to our stories below.  But don't limit yourself to those links.  I hope you'll take a few minutes and have a look around.

Right Michigan is a Michigan focused blogging community for anyone to the right of center.  If that's you, pull up a seat and make yourself at home.  Take fifteen seconds and sign up for a free account and jump right in to any of our ongoing discussions.

If that's not you, well, we're glad you stopped by anyways.  

Either way, I hope you'll feel welcome and will stop by to visit us regularly!

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Michigan Liberals Attack Lansing Congregation in the Middle of Sunday Worship

Bash Back Report (Another take from someone on the scene)

Reporter Defends Observer Role in Michigan Liberal's Violent, Anti-Christian Church Attack

A Quick Thought Re: Reaction at Mount Hope

When it comes to rebuilding the Republican Party, Michigan's longest-serving governor says he wants to be involved.

"I hope very much, as a result of this election just concluded, that the party will not take a further turn to the right -- it went too far to the right during the course of this campaign," Governor William Milliken said in a TV interview Sunday. "I hope now the Republican Party will rebuild itself ... that will include many factions and many elements and many philosophies within our party."

Milliken, who was governor from 1969-1983, stresses that he's hopeful for the future of the GOP, which may include him returning to play a role.

"I am going to do everything I can to help the party come back because it is in a state of flux at the moment - if not a state of near disaster," he said.

Hall of Record: Cheap at Any Price

The RougBlog: Not Ron Gettelfinger

Michigan SFE Blog: Business Leaders Agree: Profits Help Business

The Western Right: Kalamazoo to Persecute Christians

Now if I could only put my finger on the why... but I digress... back to tickets.  The Detroit News managed to get some law enforcement folks on the record admitting what we've known for approximately forever... those speed traps and big dollar tickets for petty infractions aren't about safe streets, they're about making bank.  

"When I first started in this job 30 years ago, police work was never about revenue enhancement," Utica Police Chief Michael Reaves said. "But if you're a chief now, you have to look at whether your department produces revenues. That's just the reality nowadays."

A Detroit News analysis of court and police records from 2002-07 shows many Metro Detroit police departments have drastically increased the number of moving violations issued in what some people say is an effort to offset budget shortfalls caused by the sluggish economy.

Complain all you'd like, but rules are rules and these fees are, technically, avoidable.  Admittedly, it gets difficult when you get a big dollar "5 mph over" citation because your cruise control wasn't precise enough and you were clocked doing 71 in a 70.  And it's even tougher when a Lansing officer cites you for speeding because when she passed you driving the other way she noticed your brake lights flashed for a second.  Oh, and then there's the "failure to stop" when you're the 7th car in a 9 car pile-up and your dream car has already been reduced to a pile of smoking rubble.   ...Rassa-frassa-stupid-frassa... I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

Oh, right, saving the economy through creative law enforcement.

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Core Principles: Change or Change Back?

Five Ws: More Journalism Cuts in Michigan

GR Pundit: Pigs Feeding at the Trough of Government Largesse

Live Dangerously: Fire in the Belly

"If you have friends or loved ones in Michigan (which I do, since it's my home state), please forward them this post. They need to know that there's a conspiracy afoot to turn their state into the political pawn of radical millionaires and billionaires. Looking to Colorado, which has moved from red to blue in the 6 short years I've lived here, will confirm how effective such efforts can be. Michigan already is reliably blue, it's true, so the conspirators have less work to do than they did in relatively conservative Colorado. But the surreptitious nature of both efforts ought to alarm folks."

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That's $67.50 per employee in the state of Michigan.

In other words, job makers questioning whether or not to keep an extra employee or two through the holiday season now have a half-a-billion reasons to lay off their workers.  And kiss job creation in January goodbye.  That's the month the tax hike will hit... why add a new job if you're going to get penalized for doing it?

$472.8 MILLION in new taxes specifically targetting job creation.  Today.  They are LITERALLY raising taxes on new jobs.  Create a job, pay more.  

And the next time you see me I will be bald from pulling out my own hair.