QUESTION of the Day): Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered that contractors on state projects must pay union rates (higher than they would be otherwise) for state construction projects, in a move that would override part of the Republican-controlled Legislature’s 2018 repeal of Michigan’s “prevailing wage” law. Whitmer said: “By reinstating prevailing wage, we are ensuring […]
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FOUR MORE ANSWERS TO MICHIGAN POLITICAL QUESTIONS
Question 1): A rally calling for a “forensic audit” of the 2020 presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday (Oct. 12) at the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan. From a strictly political viewpoint is there any reason prospective GOP 2022 candidates shouldn’t support this? Doing so would be a no-brainer… right? Answer 1) Yes, I would […]
FOUR MORE MICHIGAN POLITICAL ISSUES TO PONDER
If the ‘National Popular Vote’ Proposal Gets on the 2022 Ballot, Would It Drive Up Democratic Turnout? Could It Win? Former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis has snared ex-Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer in Anuzis’s long-running bid to enact the National Popular Vote Compact (MPVC) in Michigan. Anuzis/Brewer are touting an initiative petition, […]
FOUR THINGS IN MICHIGAN POLITICS TO THINK ABOUT
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 […]
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 […]