GOVERNOR, SECRETARY OF STATE OR ATTORNEY GENERAL: WHO IS MOST VULNERABLE NEXT YEAR? Headed into next year’s elections, for the first time since 1990 Michigan’s top three state officials seeking to continue in office are all Democrats. In 1990, it was Gov. James Blanchard, Secretary of State Richard Austin and Attorney General Frank Kelley. In […]
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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MICHIGAN ‘YOOPER’
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a World Apart The Trenary Outhouse Classic in Trenary, Mich., features two-person teams pushing outhouses mounted on skis down the town’s main drag. (Camilla Mingay/Mining Journal/AP) By Rebecca Powers The Washington Post September 24, 2021 Where: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Why to go: The U.P., as it’s called, seems a world apart. It’s […]
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO HAS A PROBLEM WITH FREE SPEECH
NPR Trashes Free Speech. A Brief Response In an irony only public radio could miss, “On the Media” hosts an hour on the perils of “free speech absolutism” without interviewing a defender of free speech. by Matt Taibbi Real Clear Politics Sept. 23, 2021 John Stuart Mill, who was apparently not available for a recent […]
FOUR THINGS WE LEARNED THIS WEEK IN MICHIGAN POLITICS
1) Question: Last Tuesday, 14 months prior to the 2022 election, former Detroit police chief James CRAIG announced that he’s running for the Republican nomination for governor. The event, held on Detroit’s Belle Isle, was overwhelmed by antifa/Black Lives Matter protesters who stormed the podium and forced Crag and his supporters to retreat to another […]
AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: HAS FREE SPEECH BEEN CANCELLED?
Princeton Indoctrination Begins Before Classes Even Start By Edward Yingling & Stuart Taylor Jr. Real Clear Politics/Commentary September 13, 2021 (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) Like alumni of universities across the country, many Princeton graduates have become deeply concerned about the attacks on free speech and academic freedom at our alma mater. It is not […]
NETFLIX’S UPCOMING ‘MAID’ SPARKED BY LATEST SPEAKER IN FLINT’s AWARD-WINNING LECTURE SERIES
Stephanie Land’s best-selling debut memoir MAID: HARD WORK, LOW PAY, AND A MOTHER’S WILL TO SURVIVE was the latest offering in the Ballenger Eminent Person Lecture Series, for seven decades Michigan’s longest continuously-running #1 speaker series. Last week (Aug. 31) at Mott Community College’s new Lenore Croudy Family Life Center, Land […]
WHAT DOES ORWELL’S ‘ANIMAL FARM’ REALLY TELL US?
‘Animal Farm’ Turns 75 Revisiting Orwell’s work on the anniversary of the barnyard classic. by John Rodden The American Conservative Aug. 26, 2021 Seventy-five years ago today, “a little squib” contributed decisively to changing American attitudes toward the Soviet Union—our ally during the Second World War—and so to launching the Cold War. That sharp-edged […]
MSM DOING ALL IT CAN TO PROP BIDEN UP
MSM Re-Writing of Biden’s Afghanistan Tragedy Already in High Gear By Stephen Kruiser PJ Media Sept. 1, 2021 Jason Minto/U.S. Air Force via AP We have been watching the hacks in the American mainstream media (MSM) prop up Joe Biden for a very, very long time now. Throughout his unremarkable decades in the […]
EVEN BEFORE AFGHANISTAN DEBACLE, DEMOCRATS LOSING FAVOR
by Harry Enten CNN/Analysis Aug. 29, 2021 Republicans gained a seat in the Connecticut state Senate last week. They won a special election in a district that President Joe Biden won by more than 20 points in 2020. Any individual special election such as this one comes with its caveats, but the trend in special […]
DOES K-12 SCHOOL CHOICE REALLY EXIST?
Why Private Schools Have Gone Woke by Aaron Sibarium WASHINGON FREE BEACON July 28, 2021 Meet the National Association of Independent Schools, which enforces diversity, equity, and inclusion standards as a requirement for accreditation … The Dalton School hosts an annual conference for New York City private schools on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This May, […]