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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Feeding the Hungry: Three Decades of Harvest Gathering November 19, 2020 by tbreport Leave a Comment (Edit) “Let us not grow weary while doing good.” — Attorney General Bill Schuette, quoting from Galatians, Section VI, Verse 9, before hundreds of virtual gatherers at the state’s 30th Annual “Harvest Gathering” connected by ZOOM early this week […]

Harvesting the 2020 Election: Pelosi’s top priority was remaking the electoral system. The virus gave her a boost. By Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal/Opinion Nov. 14, 2020     WSJ Opinion: A Democratic Strategy for Election Chaos Potomac Watch: Since Nancy Pelosi retook the speaker’s gavel in 2019, her top priority has been remaking the […]

Bob LaBrant is firing still another shot. Will it be his last? The retired attorney, now in quarantine in rural Perry outside Lansing, was the architect, along with former Gov. John Engler and a few others like the late Ambassador Peter Secchia, of most of the Michigan Republican Party’s electoral success over the past four […]

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – NOVEMBER 06: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addresses the nation at the Chase Center November 6, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. By John Judis Talking Points Memo Nov. 10, 2020 A lot of people, including me, were misled by opinion polls into thinking that Democrats would make out like bandits in this election […]

Opinion We’re still living in a 49% nation by Michael Barone, Senior Political Analyst The Washington Examiner| November 10, 2020 In early 2001, in the wake of the closely contested 2000 presidential election, I wrote an Introduction to The Almanac of American Politics called “The 49 percent nation.” Not only was the popular vote for […]