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motorcitytimes.com: Awesome Christmas Music: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Springsteen Version)

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:15:52 -0500

This one is for my Brother, a big Springsteen fan! Taken from the “20th September 1978 – Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ”-show. Technorati Tags: Christmas music, Springsteen, video [...]

Warrendale (Detroit) Blog: Michigan Bans Smoking

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:17:00 -0500

Michigan became the 38th state in the union to ban smoking in most workplaces, which includes bars and restaurants. This ban goes into effect on May 1, 2010. There are a handful of exemptions, such as the gaming floors in Detroit's three casinos. There are several such bars and restaurants in [...]

motorcitytimes.com: Conservatives Of America

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:31:50 -0500

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I happened to run across this site today, Conservatives Of America, a conservative grass roots organization that’s part of the Tea Party movement. From the web site: Conservatives of America embraces our 40th president’s platform. By fostering a strong, vibrant, and active online community, Conservatives of America seeks: to give a formidable voice [...]

theblogprof: Linkaround 12-11-2009

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0500

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ClimateGate:
American Thinker: Emails, schmeemails, look at the polar ice caps
Don Surber: It’s A Climategate Christmas
Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama: Climate Change Is a National Security Issue
Big Government: UN Security Stops Journalist’s Questions About ClimateGate

ObamaCare:
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Warrendale (Detroit) Blog: Interesting Emails

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:21:00 -0500

I had an interesting email conversation with two retired police officers about the current state of the Detroit Police Department. With their respective permissions, I'd like to share excerpts from those conversations with you today. David L. Malhalab, a retired sergeant from the Detroit Police Department, commented in an email that: DPD' [...]

Warrendale (Detroit) Blog: Registration Extended for Detroit College Promise

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:34:00 -0500

The deadline for seniors to apply for the Detroit College Promise scholarships to January 15, 2010. There are currently over 475 Detroit Public School students registered online for this scholarship. Registration takes only a few minutes. For detailed instructions on how to register, click here. The Detroit College Promise is providing an unlimited [...]

RightMichigan.com: [News] Why is it always the WRONG 5%?

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:25:27 -0500

The concept of private property is something the founders of this country believed in deeply. The most basic ownership being your person, yourself, your physical being. To serve that self you have ownership of other things; the clothes you wear, the tools you use, the property on which you stand. [...]

theblogprof: Video: Mary Landrieu doesn't know: say 'let "constitutional lawyers" to explain where Congress gets the constitutional power' for ObamaCare

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0500

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Liberals cannot point to the U.S. Constitution to justify the takeover of the healthcare industry. Some Democrats have given answers to such a challenge in answers that can only be labeled as 'stupid.' Some, like Sen. Merkley claim that two words - General Welfare - let them do whatever [...]

motorcitytimes.com: Chris Cillizza’s Take On The Michigan Gubernatorial Race

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:27:32 -0500

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According the Chris Cillizza, it becoming more likely that Michigan will have a Republican Governor. I hope he’s right, because I’m still shocked Jenny was re-elected back in 2006. Via The WaPo: 6. Michigan (D): The dismal state of the economy and the dismal state of the Democratic field makes the Wolverine [...]

Michigan Messenger: Smoking ban goes to Granholm

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:55:40 -0500

The Michigan House of Representatives approved the Senate’s version of the smoking ban, sending the legislation to the desk of Gov. Jennifer Granholm for her signature. And since the governor called the ban a “terrific gift to Michigan,” her signature is inevitable. The ban will go into effect on [...]

theblogprof: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md): ‘It’s Morally Wrong to Vote Against' ObamaCare

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0500

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The liberals that want to nationalize the healthcare system in this country talk plenty, but fail to mention one inconvenient truth - the nightmare of nationalized healthcare in other countries. Canada and the U.K. come to mind. As a matter of fact, the survival rate for [...]

detnews.com | Politics Blog: Smoking Gambit.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:59:56 -0500

In a stellar attempt to force more people to go to casinos to smoke, the State of Michigan successfully lobbied for more gambling revenue, by exempting casinos from a health ban apparently so important, it's more important than 15% unemployment. How's that for the health of the state? Mako out. [...]

Conservative Media: Michigan Notable Books of 2010 has something for every one

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:17:00 -0500

The 2010 list of Michigan Notable Books includes a famous author, a biography on Michigan’s most well-known rocker and the story if perhaps the most famous Michigan sporting event that changed how we watch college basketball in March.

Every year, the Library of [...]

Conservative Media: Newspaper misses the point on workplace smoking ban

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:47:00 -0500

As the smoke clears following the passage of the historic workplace smoking ban yesterday that includes bars and restaurants, it has been interesting to read all the congratulatory messages and the news report.

Not surprisingly, Livingston County’s Legislative delegation all voted against protecting the public [...]

Michigan Taxes Too Much: Pathetic.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:04:07 -0500

And I am not talking about the Democrats on the “YES” list.. I am talking about Republicans.. So Called Republicans.. RINO. The Dems don’t get a pass, its just they probably could care less what this conservative Republican thinks. Its enough for me to note the lack of a sense [...]

theblogprof: NJ woman admits rape lie that sent man to prison for 20 years

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:00:00 -0500

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When the Duke lacrosse players were accused of gang-raping a stripper, the media frenzy was akin to sharks in a sea of bleeding fish. But then the story was proven to be an utter lie. The accused still had their lives damaged for good. But the [...]

Blogging For Michigan: More Trickle Down Taxes: Wyoming Latest City to Ask for Public Safety Millage

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:45:19 -0500

While Mike Bishop continues to prance around and brag about how he stood "firm" on taxes, local leaders across the state are struggling to find funding to provide police and firefighters to Michigan citizens - and now we can add Wyoming to the growing list of cities that will be [...]

MichiganLiberal: John Cherry's 10 cents a bottle fee

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:42:25 -0500

That idea from a couple of years back has returned ... charging water bottlers a fee for each bottle of groundwater bottlers sell. At the time, the idea was mildly controversial among environmentalists who were afraid that charging bottlers a fee for each bottle of someone else's property they [...]

Jack Lessenberry Essays and Interviews: Essay: Making a Difference - 12.11.09

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:30:00 -0500

The legislature passed a workplace smoking ban yesterday. Governor Granholm is expected to sign it into law. Michigan Radio’s Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry thinks what went on behind the scenes in Lansing holds some important lessons…

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Yesterday, after years of struggle, [...]

dewey from detroit: Accepting Reality In Oslo

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:05:00 -0500

Did I hear this correctly? Did President Obama actually say this in his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech?

"Evil does exist in the world." A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force is sometimes [...]

theblogprof: Video of actor Will Smith: 'Barack Obama as an Idea Marks an EVOLUTIONARY FLASH POINT for Humanity'

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0500

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It's almost a waste of blog bandwidth to mention moonbattery in Hollywood as that is simply a daily norm. These are people that have literally traded the truth for a lie, and worship Obama as a deity in place of the one true God. This of course has happened many [...]

Michigan Messenger: Lt. Gov. Cherry proposes funding education with a tax on bottled water

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:56:58 -0500

Businesses that make a profit selling Michigan water should pay a ten cent per bottle tax, and this revenue should be used to fund the recently cut Promise Scholarship for Michigan college students, Lt. Gov. John Cherry said at a University of Michigan forum yesterday.

The Detroit Free Press reports:
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Michigan Messenger: Coroner rules East Grand Rapids man did not die as a result of taser

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:19:36 -0500

The death of Matthew Bolick last month was not the result of multiple blasts from the East Grand Rapids police tasers, a forensic pathologist has ruled.

The Grand Rapids Press reports that Dr. David Start has ruled Bolick’s death the result of excited delirium syndrome.

The psychotic disorder, punctuated by [...]

Michigan Messenger: Byrnes to run for state Senate

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:16:57 -0500

In an announcement that is surely no surprise to political observers in Michigan, State Rep. Pam Byrnes, the speaker pro-tem of the House, will announce on Sunday Dec. 13 she will seek a seat in the state Senate.

According to AnnArbor.com, Byrnes has this to say in a [...]

detnews.com | Politics Blog: Climategate Hoax - Part Two

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:00:02 -0500

Building on my earlier post, I repeat that the only hoax in the "Climategate" kerfluffle is on the side of those who cherrypick out of context quotes from stolen emails and try to spin a conspiracy out of it. At Swashzone, the owner of the blog who made documentaries about [...]

MichiganLiberal: Putting off a day of reckoning

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:43:41 -0500

I think it's a safe bet that the school funding cut reprieve will be poorly interpreted in certain corners. In fact, say it will be so and it will be so.

Ever since she announced a projected $292 per pupil cut months ago, the republicans have criticized her [...]

detnews.com | Politics Blog: Classic Toys Are Best

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:28:03 -0500

Between moving, family holiday stuff and battling this miserable head cold I didn't get around to posting a link to this excellent photo gallery. How many of these Hall of Fame toys have you owned? In my lifetime I've owned all but 4 out of the 44 pictured. Most of [...]

RightMichigan.com: [News] In the MACKINAC CENTER Sphere Today

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:24:01 -0500

The latest posts from the MC, the Mackinac Center blog.

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Museum for Mules, Lobster for Dogs — Michigan's congressional delegation votes in favor of absurd pork spending.

School District Consolidation Talk in Lansing — Mackinac Center studies and articles explain what will and will [...]

RightMichigan.com: [News] John Cherry: "You don't need a PhD in mathematics to know this is a terrible equation."

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:24:00 -0500

Perhaps not John, but a PhD in economics might help straighten out that whole "We are losing one resource -- our talented workforce and the energy of our young people -- and we are giving away another resource, our water, for free," thing.

You see, John, the reason we [...]

theblogprof: Pics: MI Taxpeyers Alliance Banquet with Robert Bobb and Frank Beckmann

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0500

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The Michigan Taxpayers Alliance had its first of what I would presume is going to be an annual awards banquet last night. Three awards were handed out. The honorees were Wendy Day, Robert Bobb and Frank Beckmann, together in this pic that I took:

For [...]

nancynall.com: Cold, cold, colder.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:58:23 -0500

This is what the precipitation map looked like all day yesterday:

I’m sorry this isn’t the animated version, so you could see the way those cotton-ball areas of snow park themselves over certain coastal stretches and stay and stay and stay. Some of you non-Midwesterners may not [...]

Blogging For Michigan: Michigan is finally smoke free

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:36:55 -0500

LANSING -- Michigan bars and restaurants will be smoke free on May 1 after the Michigan House and Senate passed House Bill 4377 with a bipartisan vote on Thursday.

The compromise exempts Detroit's three casinos and so-called cigar bars, but gaining approval of the same version of the bill from both [...]

theblogprof: Video: Planned Parenthood Caught Lying To Women - "A fetus is what's in the uterus right now. That is not a baby"

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0500

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No surprise here. Nothing terrifies a Planned Parenthood "health care professional" more than a woman actually being informed about what is happening invisibly in her womb. In every state where there is an informed consent law requiring the showing of an ultrasound to a woman prior to abortion, Planned Parenthood [...]

Michigan Messenger: Report: Foreclosure help programs failing

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:51:03 -0500

Though Michigan leads the nation in the number of mortgages being renegotiated under a federal program to prevent foreclosures, the number of homeowners being helped through the program is still vanishingly small. The Detroit Free Press reports on the remarks of a Treasury Department official:

Less than 1% of [...]

Michigan Messenger: Granholm delays school aid reduction

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:21:13 -0500

Gov. Jennifer Granholm decided to delay a $127 per pupil cut to K-12 funding that she ordered in addition to the $165 per pupil cut that was passed by the state legislature in October. She ordered the additional cuts because there was a $100 million unfunded mandate in the [...]

Michigan Messenger: New legislation would fix state’s public defender system

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:11:27 -0500

A new bill, HB 5676, has been introduced in the Michigan legislature to address the many problems with the state’s indigent defense system. The bill was submitted by Rep. Bob Constan (D-Dearborn Heights) and cosponsored by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Kentwood).

The legislation, dubbed the Michigan Public Defense Act, would create [...]

Western Right: Nanny Statists Win

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:28:00 -0500

The state legislature has voted to ban smoking in restaurants and bars. Rep. Tonya Schuitmaker sent out bragging about voting for the bill.

"This legislation will allow Michigan businesses to join with many other states across the nation who have made the sensible steps necessary to preserve a healthy" [...]

Western Right: When the Apes Run the Asylum

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:58:00 -0500

What's the Arcus foundation been up to?

K-College grant to build social-justice leaders

Kalamazoo College has received a $2.1 million grant that will launch and fund the first two years of the new Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the college was to announce today.

The [...]

MichiganLiberal: Detroit's Race to the Bottom

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:29:35 -0500

Detroit isn't a typical badly run, desperately poor major city; it's actually uniquely screwed up. I can't articulate a specific cause, but Detroit stands out from its urban peers (Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, D.C...) in at least a dozen independent dimensions.

You might think one city would have the worst murder [...]

detnews.com | Politics Blog: And China FTW....

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:54:36 -0500

And China is dubbed the obvious keystone for global warming...To be honest, the announcement is so blatantly obvious, with their burgeoning economy DESPITE the global recession, that production and industry remains the key for growth. And in that, why are we so concerned with carbon taxes when the [...]

Western Right: Financial Reports Filed

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:35:00 -0500

Candidates and committees filed campaign finance reports on the 2009 election.

Victorious newcomer Patricia Randall top spender in Portage
Mayor Hopewell leads Kalamazoo spending
Anti-discrimination ordinance battle cost $458,000: Opposing sides broke spending record

The top spender in Portage was Patricia Randall, which helps to [...]