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 […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]