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U.S. Journal The Plan to Make Michigan the Next Space State Residents are up in arms about a proposed spaceport project, the first of its kind in the Midwest, which would involve launching rockets near the shoreline of Lake Superior. By David Rompf The New Yorker April 29, 2022 Jeanne Baumann, who lives on the […]

Question 1): MIRS newsletter reported over the week-end that “The dirt Democrats will shovel on Kristina Karamo (the GOP’s preferred Secretary of State candidate) and Matt DePERNO, the likely GOP Attorney General nominee, is deep and Republicans activists know and are privately worried.” This sort of speculation about the negative effect Karamo/DePerno are likely to have […]

Question 1): How important is the upcoming April 23 State Republican Endorsement Convention? Will it impact what happens in Michigan politics leading up to the August 2 primary election and beyond? Answer 1): It could be a game-changer in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. While former President Donald Trump has endorsed many Republican […]

Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its sidekick, the 1619 Project, will be front and center in Flint on Wednesday, April 13. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, will speak at a jam-packed renovated Capitol Theatre in downtown Flint at 7 pm. […]

Question 1): Despite rampant inflation driving up gas prices, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week vetoed legislation that would suspend for six months Michigan’s 27-cent-per-gallon excise tax on fuel. Earlier, Whitmer had noted that, because the bill’s effective date would be delayed until 2023, “this misguided proposal does nothing for Michiganders facing pain at the pump […]

Down With Primaries! (not an April Fool’s Day Prank) By Kevin Vallier/COMMENTARY Real Clear Politics April 1, 2022 (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) Most democracies don’t have democratic primaries. By and large, party elites choose candidates, and the people then vote for the parties or the candidates. American democracy, by contrast, relies on popular primaries: […]

What If the Fishy ‘Big Blue Shift’ to Democrats Late in Elections Is Legal? By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigations March 28, 2022   To question the legitimacy and fairness of recent U.S. elections is to be attacked as a probable “Russian asset” out to undermine democracy or, at best, a kook. But many voters notice something […]

On appeal, sure they could. It all depends on a panel of judges on the 6th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Last week, this site commented on the sanctions levied by federal Judge Linda Parker in King, et al v Whitmer, et al, the most prominent challenge in Michigan to the 2020 presidential  […]

Who is David Brock? And what is he up to in Michigan? Simply put, David Brock is a smear artist, a literary hit man  Even more odious, Brock has managed to be an “equal opportunity” serial smear artist — first for the left, then for the right, and now for the left again.  The Nation […]

Question 1): A high-powered, seemingly bipartisan group has announced it is mounting a petition drive to amend Michigan’s three-decades-old term-limits requirement embodied in the state Constitution. This will require obtaining at least half a million signatures on petitions to be obtained by July. This proposal would REDUCE the number of years a legislator could serve […]