Your Brain on Hyper-Partisanship By Carl M. Cannon REAL CLEAR POLITICS December 2, 2020 When Joe Biden is inaugurated, he will immediately be confronted with an unprecedented challenge — and I don’t mean the pandemic.… I mean, instead, that he’ll be the first modern U.S. president trying to govern in the face of an opposition […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #130 — Impeachment + Interviews with state Rep. Thomas Albert (R-Lowell), Rep.-elect Andrew Fink (R-Hillsdale) & Rob Ritchie, CEO of Fair Vote
WOULD IMPEACHING GRETCHEN WHITMER REALLY ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING?
Impeachment: Is It Truly Michigan’s Thermonuclear Option? Almost certainly not, because impeachment in and of itself doesn’t really matter if conviction does not follow. No U.S. president or governor of Michigan has ever been removed from office involuntarily. But that hasn’t deterred state Rep. Beau LaFave (R-Iron Mountain) from introducing House Resolution 324, which calls […]
NATIONAL JOURNAL NAMES TOP POLITICAL TURKEYS OF 2020
AGAINST THE GRAIN The biggest political turkeys of 2020 The most infamous political flops of the year—from not-ready-for-prime-time candidates to campaign tactics that didn’t stand the test of time. Amy McGrath/AP Photo/James Crisp by Josh Kraushaar National Journal Nov. 22, 2020 It’s hard to believe we’ve already arrived at Thanksgiving week in this crazy and […]
REAL CLEAR POLITICS: Are We Really Interested in Facts and Proof?
Propaganda, Election Fraud and the Death of Journalism By Frank Miele Real Clear Politics/Commentary November 23, 2020 Easy question: Is it illegal to steal an election or not? You would have to assume that it is no big deal based on the response to claims of widespread fraud in the contest between President Trump and […]
REPUBLICANS FLIP SWITCH IN CALIFORNIA ON BALLOT HARVESTING
Why California Republicans Stopped Complaining about Ballot Harvesting and Embraced the Process By Tobias Hoonhout NR Daily Nov. 23, 2020 Following a bloodbath for Republicans in the 2018 midterms, then-House speaker Paul Ryan couldn’t believe what he had seen out in California. “We were only down 26 seats the night of the election and three […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #129 — Trump Turbulence + Interviews with state Reps. Matt Maddock (R-Milford) & Mary Whiteford (R-Casco Twp) + Holt HS Teacher Anne J. Russo
WHAT IF COVID-19 WIPES OUT MICHIGAN’S TOP GOVERNMENT LEADERS? WHO WOULD SUCCEED THEM?
WHO IS ON THE “ DOOMSDAY LIST” TO BECOME ACTING GOVERNOR IN THE EVENT OF A DISASTER OF CATASTROPHIC PROPORTIONS? Think about it — what if the coronavirus proves as deadly as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer contends? What if the governor herself and all the rest of the top elected officials in state government succumbed to […]
WHAT IS BILL SCHUETTE DOING THESE DAYS? HERE IS ONE LEGACY …
Feeding the Hungry: Three Decades of Harvest Gathering November 19, 2020 by tbreport Leave a Comment (Edit) “Let us not grow weary while doing good.” — Attorney General Bill Schuette, quoting from Galatians, Section VI, Verse 9, before hundreds of virtual gatherers at the state’s 30th Annual “Harvest Gathering” connected by ZOOM early this week […]
WALL STREET JOURNAL TELLS HOW DEMOCRATS HARVESTED 2020 ELECTION
Harvesting the 2020 Election: Pelosi’s top priority was remaking the electoral system. The virus gave her a boost. By Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal/Opinion Nov. 14, 2020 WSJ Opinion: A Democratic Strategy for Election Chaos Potomac Watch: Since Nancy Pelosi retook the speaker’s gavel in 2019, her top priority has been remaking the […]