by Melissa Nann Burke and Daniel Howes The Detroit News Dec. 16, 2020 Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Energy, according to a source familiar with his plans. Granholm, 61, pushed clean energy initiatives in her two terms as governor and endeavored to diversify the state’s […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #132 — COVID-19 Vaccine + Interviews with state Reps. Mark Huizenga (R-Walker) & Brad Paquette (R-Niles) and Rep.-elect John Roth (R-Traverse City)
NOBEL PRIZEWINNER GEORGE AKERLOF: DOES HE SPELL TROUBLE FOR HIS WIFE, JANET YELLEN?
By John Tamny Real Clear Markets December 8, 2020 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) In the world of economics, George Akerlof achieved fame before his wife, Janet Yellen, but today all the attention is on her. So, who is George Akerlof? According to Wikipedia, Akerlof was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Rosalie Clara […]
WHY WAS RUDY GIULIANI IN LANSING? BECAUSE OF AN HISTORIC MICHIGAN CASE
By now, everyone should know that President Donald Trump’s strategy in contesting the result of the Nov. 3 general election has been to get “rogue” state legislatures in four “swing” states to convene and award their states’ Electoral College votes to a presidential candidate who had not won a majority or plurality of their states’ […]
POST-TRUMP, PARTY REALIGNMENT WILL CONTINUE
Opinion There’s No Stopping America’s Political Realignment | Opinion Josh Hammer , Newsweek opinion editor On 12/4/20 With a month in the rearview mirror since November’s presidential election, we now have sufficient perspective to offer some broad conclusions about the state and nature of our politics. This election confirmed and crystallized many already-ascendant political trends. […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #131 — Mandatory Vaccine? + Interviews with NMU President Fritz Erickson, state Rep.-elect Steve Carra (R-Three Rivers) & GOP Political Consultant Jamie Roe
WHO IS JOE BIDEN? WHAT WILL HE DO?
Biden, the ‘Not’ Candidate, Does Not Have a Mandate By J. Peder Zane Real Clear Politics/Commentary December 3, 2020 Kudos to Joe Biden for already fulfilling his one and only campaign promise: He’s not Donald Trump. Problem is, a four-year term awaits with no mandate for change. That’s the price for conducting one of the […]
HYPER-PARTISANSHIP HAS RUN AMOK
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 […]