An excerpt from Part 2 of “Unreported Truths” – a brief history of lockdowns by Alex Berenson August 4, 2020 (This is a condensed version of part of the second chapter of Berenson’s book LOST IN KANDAHAR, which focuses on the history of lockdowns and how they became government policy). The entire booklet is available […]
RCP: CAN JOHN JAMES WIN U.S. SENATE SEAT IN MICHIGAN?
In 2nd Try, James Sees Different MI Challenge (and Outcome) By Philip Wegmann RealClearPolitics August 4, 2020 (AP Photo/David Eggert) Republicans know they could not draft a better candidate for a worse time. Luckily for them, John James was such a candidate before a pandemic ravaged its way around the globe, a recession cratered the […]
BARONE: ORWELL-SPEAK TAKING OVER JOURNALISM
Intensifying Into Violence By Michael Barone Real Clear Politics July 31, 2020 “Protestors in California,” tweeted ABC News, about an incident in Oakland, “set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified.” If you’d presented your ninth-grade teacher with that sentence in your weekly writing assignment, she […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #113 — Predicting All Top Races in Aug. 4 Primary, Interview with Adrian Hemond of Grassroots Midwest + Milliken Memorial
WHAT ANCIENT GREECE’S GREATEST HISTORIAN PREDICTED ABOUT 2020
What Thucydides Knew About the US Today Everyone who reads Thucydides knows him as the most profound and convincing historian of empire, not only in his own age but also in his explicit and implicit predictions of later ages. by Edward Mendelson The New York Review of Books July 30, 2020 Philipp Foltz: Pericles’s Funeral […]
FEARLESS FORECASTS: Picking Winners in Michigan’s Aug. 4 Primary Election
Predictions on All Key Races in Michigan’s Aug. 4 Primary Election THE BALLENGER REPORT July 29, 2020 Beginning Friday afternoon (July 31), visitors to TheBallengerReport.com website can listen to a one-of-a-kind list of predictions for Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary election, not only for Congress and the state House of Representatives but also important local offices […]
THREE HIGH-QUALITY REPUBLICANS SQUARE OFF IN MICHIGAN’S 10th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT GOP PRIMARY
Three Republicans in running for GOP nomination to replace U.S. Rep. Paul Mitchell by Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press July 25, 2020 Nothing’s ever certain in politics. But it’s exceedingly likely that whoever wins the Republican nomination on Aug. 4 in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District is going to be heading to the nation’s Capitol next January. […]
TLAIB, BRENDA JONES TANGLE AGAIN IN MICHIGAN’S 13th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Sparks fly between Tlaib, Jones in heated Democratic congressional rematch by Melissa Nann Burke and Christine Ferretti, The Detroit News July 23, 2020 A high-stakes rematch is taking shape in Wayne County for the Democratic primary for Congress, where U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is defending her seat against a challenge by Detroit City Council President […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #112 — Interviews with Todd Spangler of The Detroit Free Press & Climate Guru Sankarshan Das
MEIJER POISED TO WIN 3rd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT REPUBLICAN PRIMARY: BALLENGER
In race to replace Amash, Meijer may have edge but he’s got competition by Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press July 23, 2020 For all their business successes, the big family names of west Michigan — the DeVoses, the Strykers, the Van Andels — haven’t themselves won too many elections when their names were on the ballot. That […]