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Dodging the Bullet

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There’s a saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. In Lansing, they’re not just paving the road—they’re zoning it for mixed use, demanding affordability quotas, and handing out pamphlets on how to organize a tenant union.

Let’s talk about the so-called “Tenant Empowerment Package” and the other housing policy boondoggles our Democrat-led legislature has been salivating over. If they had succeeded in passing the full suite of 2023–2024 proposals, the rental housing market in Michigan would be a scorched field of “For Sale” signs and padlocked doors.

Fortunately, some of these landmines didn’t make it to detonation. We dodged a few bullets—but the gun is still loaded.

The Bill That Almost Was

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The Federal Reserve

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You will hear people say “End the Fed!” or “Audit the Fed!”

It’s probably time.

A Creature of Convenience

The Federal Reserve—affectionately known as “the Fed” by economists and loathed by anyone who’s watched their savings devalue—was born in 1913 under the guise of stability. Market crashes and banking panics were frequent, and Congress, with the help of elite bankers, cooked up a hybrid beast. It would be part-government, part-private, entirely powerful, and almost totally unaccountable.

Why the Fed Exists (The Rationale)

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Michigan

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 BUY AMERICAN 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Pay particular attention to the names mentioned.

If fire departments are smart, and responsible to taxpayers and their money, they’ll be ahead of the game with paying Trump’s retarded tariffs while still paying less for equipment from China, and having readily accessible parts available to keep their equipment in proper working order.

OABTW, Reagan was spot on.

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2026 Election

The Case for Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate in 2026

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Former U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers is running for U.S. Senate for the second consecutive election cycle and is angling hard for another Trump endorsement to clear the field. Rogers has hired Chris LaCivita, a political consultant who was the co-chair of the Trump campaign last year, as his senior adviser.

LaCivita became widely known after reports indicated that his front groups took $22 million from the Trump campaign throughout 2024, allegations that he is currently disputing in the courts. LaCivita also went on the war path during the campaign against the conservatives responsible for the ‘Project 2025’ think-tank that was widely demonized by Democrats.

Following Trump’s election, LaCivita has resumed his consulting work. One of the projects he is working on is booting Rep. Thomas Massie, the Congressman with the strongest pro-liberty constitutional conservative voting record, from office because he refused to vote in favor of a crippling debt hike.

Rogers has brought LaCivita on board to reinvent himself as a MAGA Republican despite Rogers’ history of supporting unconstitutional NSA Spying and the Patriot Act, being a ‘Never Trumper’ until the moment he started running for U.S. Senate in 2024, becoming a swamp lobbyist after cashing in on his Congressional connections, helping cover up Benghazi scandal to protect defense contractors, and supporting the Jan. 6 probe and inferring pro-Trump patriots were “criminals.”

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Teach A Man To Fish

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Big picture, long term.

Imagine you’re running a small fishing business. You’ve got nets, boats, a crew, and years of know-how passed down through generations. Then one day, imported fish starts showing up in your market — dirt cheap. Tastes okay. Looks the same. Your customers love the price. You can’t compete, so you cut costs. Maybe lay off a few folks. Eventually, you hang it up.

Now what?

Let’s zoom out. This isn’t just about fish — it’s about everything we make. Microchips, textiles, tools, technology, even baby formula. When goods from overseas flood the market at prices lower than domestic producers can match, it feels like a win for the consumer… at first.

But over time, we risk forgetting how to fish.

Wait — Isn’t That What Antitrust Law is For?

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Trump Tariffs – More Than Money

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I have always been a free market guy. But..  Sometimes it’s more than that.

In the 1940s, Michigan stood tall as the arsenal of democracy. Factories from Detroit to Lansing didn’t just build cars—they became the beating heart of the world’s greatest war machine. General Motors alone cranked out 206,000 aircraft engines, over 13,000 Navy planes, 38,000 tanks, and more than 850,000 military trucks. This was more than manufacturing—it was an industrial miracle powered by resources we had right here at home, by skilled workers, and yes—by the original Rosie the Riveters who stepped up when America needed them most.

Michigan was ready. Our factories could pivot. Our people were trained. Even years later, one of my brothers, combing through a closed Oldsmobile plant in Lansing during the 1980s, stumbled upon engineering drawings—blueprints—for fighter aircraft tucked away on the factory floor. That legacy wasn’t just steel and grease—it was readiness. Cool stuff.

Fast-forward to today, and the picture is starkly different.

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Granholm Strikes Again – Lies, LNG, and Lousy Leadership

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It’s always the “smartest people in the room” who think you won’t notice when they hide the truth in the bottom drawer.

Turns out Canada’s favorite export, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm during her stint at the DoE, buried a Department of Energy report that completely torpedoed the justification for Biden’s 2024 LNG export pause. The same pause that crippled U.S. energy leverage during a time of global instability and emboldened our enemies.

Why? Because facts weren’t politically useful. Can’t have reality contradicting the climate cult narrative, now can we?

According to HotAir:

“The Energy Department has learned that former Secretary [Jennifer] Granholm and the Biden White House intentionally buried a lot of data and released a skewed study to discredit the benefits of American LNG… the administration intentionally deceived the American public to advance an agenda that harmed American energy security, the environment and American lives.”

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Conservative News, Democrats, Government Incompetence, Michigan, Michigan Politics, Opinion, Part Time Legislature

Slotkin Rebuttal???

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LOL. Fail Bot.

Elissa Slotkin will respond to President Donald J. Trump’s Joint Address to Congress tonight. Senator Slotkin stands opposed to President Trump’s agenda to lower costs, bring back manufacturing, and secure our borders.

Slotkin voted against overturning Biden’s tailpipe emissions rule, a rule that would force automakers to sell more electric vehicles, killing auto manufacturing jobs. President Trump stood up for American consumers and autoworkers and repealed this de facto electric vehicle mandate.

There is more.

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