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Day Care in Wonderland — This video highlights the absurdities of the DHS scheme to shanghai 40,000 day care providers into a union. The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation is suing the DHS on behalf of Sherry Loar, a home-based day care provider from Petoskey.

The Overton Window Opens to Another Audience — Mackinac Center President Joseph Lehman discusses the Overton Window on WDET in Detroit.

What's Hiding Under the MASC? — The state could end up paying the SEIU $2 million as a result of a tax credit to the union, but the MEDC isn't answering our questions.

Capitalism Is Consumer Protection — Politicians vying for the attorney general's position claim to defend consumers, but their regulations merely limit consumers' options.

Graduated Income Taxes Hurt State Growth — Creating a graduated income tax system as gubernatorial candidate Sen. Alma Wheeler Smith, D-Salem Township, has suggested would harm Michigan at a time when this state has already been suffering the nation's highest unemployment and slowest economic growth in the nation.