Rick Snyder needs a reality check

I got most of a robocall from Snyder's people today asking me to call Joe Hune and tell him to support the budget and the pension tax, s...

Census Observations Part II - Wayne County

This is a continuing series on the census numbers. Part I is here. This focuses on Wayne County. Wayne County as a whole lost 240,578 peopl...

Michigan census numbers in. Some observations.

Yesterday was the day was the big day with the official census numbers being released. I'm going to look at this more in depth as more d...

Energy Policy needs to be America first

I agree with 70% of this article in New Geography, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite policy journals. I don't agree with it o...

The economic bright spot. North Dakota

We keep hearing about cool cities and Richard Florida's creative class stuff about the future of the economy. That thinking has been wro...

This ain't good. Sharron Angle wants to make a comeback.

Sharron Angle helped snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Nevada. It's not all her fault with the RINOs backing Reid, but she has o...

Open Carry and preemption court fight in Lansing

I'm going to start out with this. I am a 2nd Amendment absolutist when it comes to firearms laws. I support open carry as well from a RI...

Rick Snyder defends his budget at townhall

I'm not a Snyder Republican, as those who read this blog know, but I'll give him some credit. He crashed today's townhall meetin...

Snyder, Republicans, and the budget

Right now there's a lot of hype and speculation about the state budget. Papers have been talking about "the republican plan." ...

Consolidation push?

I've been hearing talk about consolidation for years. I think there's places for it, although other times it isn't the solution....

2012 - Romney v Palin? I'm picking Choice C.

I'm going to get some heat for this one. I'll start off with this. Of the two supposed "top tier" candidates jockeying, or...