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An Open Letter to Michigan Republicans

By The Wizard of Laws, Section News
Posted on Sat Mar 03, 2012 at 12:47:55 PM EST
Tags: city, Credentials Committee, debate, Enchanted Mitten, Freedom, GOP, hill, Michigan, Republicans, Romney, Ronald Reagan, Santorum, shining (all tags)

Dear Michigan Republicans:

Stop it. All of it. Just stop.

It is truly amazing how we pay lip service to unity, then immediately turn around and try to tear each other apart. This gives aid and comfort to the enemy, and it stokes the mistrust that so characterizes our current political process.

The negative campaigning, the dirty tricks, the middle-of-the-night meetings that rewrite the rule book - does it matter? In the long run (meaning about six months from now), will any of this matter?

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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

By The Wizard of Laws, Section News
Posted on Thu Jan 21, 2010 at 08:38:31 AM EST
Tags: attorney general, beans, Emerald City, Frank Drebin, Gretchen Whitmer, hill (all tags)

Cross-posted in The Wizard of Laws.

For some time now, your Wizard has been on a hazardous and technically unexplainable journey into the outer stratosphere to confer, converse, and otherwise hobknob with my brother wizards. Having returned now to the sanctuary of the Emerald City, I was pleased to see that my analyses of the Gretchen Whitmer candidacy for Attorney General have done the trick:

State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, considered the favorite to win the Democratic nomination for attorney general, said today she will withdraw from the running to spend more time with her two young daughters.

You can read the Freep's article here.

As for your Wizard's role in this sudden about-face, see the articles here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

I know what you're thinking -- you're thinking that the posts of a solitary blogger don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. To quote the noted philosopher Frank Drebin, however, "This is our hill, and these are our beans."

So long, Gretchen, we hardly knew ye.

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