Good news from the FCC for once

It's not the best news possible, that the FCC is eliminating content regulation, but at least they do not plan on censoring political sp...

Fred Thompson hires Spence Abraham as campaign chair

Could be interesting for Michigan. From the AP WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson is replacing his acting campa...

2008 Presidential Selection in Michigan

There's been a lot of controversy over the 2008 primary. Under the old system, the Republicans had an open primary where anyone voted, w...

Update on MMA bill in House (Yea/Nay)

The Voting Record on this has been released. The 14 no votes are as follows. I can always count on uberleftist Steve Bieda being wrong on fl...

Mixed Martial Arts bill passes the house 94-14

Good news from the state house. Mixed martial arts may soon be legalized in this state. It passed the state house 94-14 on a bipartisan vote...

Bad Press we don't need

This story caught me by surprise when I first heard about it a few months back since I knew Mike Flory as an acquaintance from different pol...

Ticket increases jump bigtime in Ann Arbor

I wonder if this is a new budget enhancement technique. That's one hell of an increase. From the Ann Arbor news The Ann Arbor Police Dep...

ID required to vote in Michigan

The State Supreme Court laid down the law on former AG Frank Kelley. That's usually a good thing, and this is no exception. From the Arg...

We have our first Joker award winner

We already have the "No Guts" awards here. The first winners are Barack Obama and The Oaks at Mill Creek down in Jacksonville. We...

Can't go along with this, Mike

I like Mike Rogers, but I can't support this. From the Argus .S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, got six earmark funding projects through ...

Obama hates Civil Rights and the Constitution - Again

I wouldn't expect anything less out of the former board member of the Joyce Foundation. Scratch a Chicago liberal and find a fascist - a...

We need to Recall ALL tax hikers

And that goes for both Republicans and Democrats. The Lansing State Journal had an article on the pressure former state rep and libertarian...

From Freedomworks

I don't usually post forwards and that goes double for "talking points". I am posting this I received from pne of the reps at ...

Free Press makes some pols nervous

Two interesting articles from the FREEP. Irony is that a friend of mine and I discussed this the other day, and didn't expect the papers...

Jim Gilmore drops out

Jim Gilmore was a candidate I was certainly considering. Unfortunately the most qualified to be president aren't always the top candidat...

2008 - Presidential Analysis

I'm actually close to making an endorsement, but I'm not quite ready to do so at this time. If the primary election were today, I wo...

Jurassic Pork - The Ann Arbor to Howell commuter train

I've mentioned many of my thoughts on this mass transit plan here. People mover pt II? My guard was up then and it is more up today as ...

Giuliani's geography strategy

While I'm not a fan of Rudy Giuliani's political stances and some aspects of his record, I am a fan of his campaign strategy. 2007/2...

Dingell proposes 50 cent gas tax increase

This is the latest from The Hill House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) will propose a new carbon tax that woul...

Rocky II?

The second time Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed fought, Rocky won. Rumor is that former state rep Andrew "Rocky" Raczkowski may be r...

Ron Paul - more cash on hand than John McCain

As a bit of a maverick who hates coronations in elections, I love seeing this (although I'd rather see Giuliani get knocked down) Very i...

GOP and Spending

An Interesting washington Times Editorial on the GOP and Spending. I agree with it to an extent, but there's more to mention. Polling d...

July 4, 1776 - Delcaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes n...