Sam Brownback to Ave Maria tomorrow

From the AP Brownback to speak at Michigan law school ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, a conservative Republican from Kansas...

Big Government Push to ban smoking in private businesses

Here we go again. While I'm not a big fan of ciggarette smoking, I'm less of a fan of prohibitionists, so I tend to root for the smo...

"Global Warming" chicken little crusade to destroy Michigan

Nolan Finley correctly takes Pelosi (and Bush for that matter) to task. The next steamroller that will flatten Detroit is the relentless ca...

Free Press Editorial for...CONSOLIDATION?!

Ron Dzwonkowski has a good editorial about the massive amount of government in Michigan. With the budget shortfalls in this state, this is ...

18 Mill Tax Increase - February 27 elections

Yes, you read that right. I actually was able to have some time the other day to stop buy the County Clerk's office. Under the fairly ne...

Bush is the best Democrat the Republicans can ask for

Could someone tell me what Bush is smoking? One of the big reasons why Bush's approval rating is so poor is due to his big government do...

2008 - John Kerry drops out

One of the weakest dems drops out. From AP via Forbes John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democrats' losing presidential candidate in 2004,...

Another roundabout

Here we go again. From the Argus. Livingston County has roundabout fever, and it's spreading to Howell. Howell City Manager Shea Charle...

The latest tax push - raise the beer tax

Here we go again. The AP Reports on the latest from Phil Power's "Center for Michigan", the left-wing counterpart to the libe...

2008 - Hillary is in

The epidomy of the limosine leftists everywhere is in for 2008. Hillary Clinton is running for president. - From Bloomberg Jan. 20 (Bloomber...

GOP (and 7 Democrats) stop Leftist attack on 1st Amendment

Good news for the 1st Amendment. Pelosi's goal to shut up the grassroots hit a roadblock in the senate. From the NRA: The U.S. Senate ha...

More Big Government Leftism from Democrats

The democrats in Flint and Oakland County want to stick their nose again where it doesn't belong. From the Free Press The trans fat batt...

Barack Hussein Obama breaks his word and runs for president

Barack Osama, I mean Obama is in for 2008. The media's golden boy said he wasn't going to run - and boom! He's now in. Now can s...

McCain finishes 1st in "unacceptable" rating - in Arizona

Sonora Alliance First Choice: 1 Hunter 96 2 Romney 82 3 Gingrich 53 4 McCain 50 5 Rice 27 6 Tancredo 24 7 Giuliani 22 8 Brownback 14 9 Hucka...

Gas Tax increase? Hell No!

From the Argus A coalition of business, labor, local government and transportation organizations are gearing up for a push to find more mone...

Congress kept away from districts - spending more time in beltway

From the AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The five-day workweek, an idea alien to congressional culture in recent years, is about to make a comeback. ...

2008 - Tom Tancredo is IN

Draft Tancredo blog I saw the blurb on Redstate I just talked to a friend of mine who knows people on Tancredo's campaign for confirmat...

More on Gilmore

Another intersting post on Gilmore from a Virginia Blog - Renaissance Ruminations. Frank Atkinson wrote Virginia in the Vanguard with more t...

2008 - Big News - Ron Paul is IN

The Barry Goldwater of 2008? Ron Paul is in . Ron Paul is a libertarian republican and has an extremely large grassroots following - enough ...

Detroit News rips Granholm's pro-tax panel

It says much of what I've been saying . It's a good read and says it better than I did. Spineless governor buys cover for raising ta...

Granholm creates panel of political hacks - pushes for tax increase

Granholm creates a panel of government hacks for the tax replacement. We have leading the way Bill "RINO" Milliken, the creator of...

President Bush's Iraq Speech

Bush: Good evening. Tonight in Iraq, the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged in a struggle that will determine the direction of th...

Who is Jim Gilmore?

One of the more intriging candidates running this year is former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore. All I really knew about him is that he was a...

Howell Schools has open board seat

From the Argus Things should heat up soon. Ted Parsons is stepping down from the Howell School Board. That means at least one of the two sea...

Give credit where it's due

Nobody except one person (Bob Emerson I believe) wanted to be on the wrong side of this one. Kudos to Scott Hummel for taking the lead, and ...

School Board 07

The Argus posted an article about the school board races. paperwork ready for the county clerk in order to become candidates. Joan Runyan, ...

Pelosi flips, shuts out GOP

I'm shocked at Pelosi's flip-flop here. I'm also shocked that I see deer crossing roads in Livingston County and I'm shocked...

2007 - What's next?

Well, it's now a new year and there's no presidential or gubenatorial elections. That doesn't mean things aren't going to be...

Argus on Constitution Convention

I first posted Here and here on the proposal for a constitutional convention and recommendations of change to the state constitution. Citi...