Defund Planned Parenthood activities in Traverse city part of a nationwide stand for life.
This was produced from video and photos taken at each of the two #DefundPP events in Traverse City Michigan today.
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(0)How to Identify Legal Plunder – Bastiat The Law
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them,and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law—which may be an isolated case—is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.”
(10)Nuh Uh.(0)Mackinac Center for Public Policy scholar Jarrett Skorup discusses licensing in Michigan.
(7)Nuh Uh.(0)Your legislator made a choice or two December 15, 2016.
The big electric monopolies were very much for additional regulation added on to themselves. How strange is that?
How strange indeed.
Yes. Indeed.
(7)Nuh Uh.(0)A Round up of Michigan blogs and news stories.
A ‘twofer’ from A Voice Crying Out in Suburbia –
Massive Unemployment And Bribes To Rescind Asylum Applications: Is This Compassionate?
Trump-styeria And Immigration
Some interesting analysis from the Western Right – 2016 Election Results in Kalamazoo County
A few from The Shekel –
It’s Not Entrapment If You Jump Right In
Right On Cue, As Soon As A Republican Takes Office….
The Latest In Leftist Virtue Signalling: Sanctuary Restaurants
The Other Club is correct IMO. We’ll see where this goes. – Trump trade
What? A President who gives a crap about our soldiers? It’s been a long eight years for sure! Setting the record Straight – Trump Secretly Meets Family To Honor Fallen Navy Seal
In Reality, only one side of the political debate has abided anyhow, but there is some downright awesome news from Bottom Up Politics – Pastors Preaching Politics?
Sorry to those of you in charge.. Michigan Campaign Finance Network sez – According to The Numbers, It Pays To Work On Health Care Laws In Michigan
Have a great rest of the weekend.
(6)Nuh Uh.(0)Who are we really fighting on this issue?
Dick Manasseri has been chronicling illegal immigration, the refuge crisis, and the effect on Michigan for some time now.
He writes today on the effort made by our president, and then about those who presumably wear the mantel of Republicanism. Manasseri points out the contradictory elements within the GOP and other leadership ranks, and how they affect our fight to keep our country safe and viable.
He Reports:
If you voted for President Trump, you need to take the protest, chaos, and general blowback directed at him personally. The Muslim Brotherhood [MB] protests/chaos triggered by his executive order on refugee resettlement are a direct attack on you and your personal security.
Good Guys
These are the people who understand the refugee threat, speak out and take action like President Trump:
(15)Nuh Uh.(1)The Law - By Bastiat is a key to reaching those who misunderstand the role of government.
If.
If we could persuade our brothers (sisters) to engage in a thought process that exists outside the politically expedient norms. If we could UN-indoctrinate the children of selfishness; those who feel it is their right to plunder through government for their personal comfort.
If, with what little comprehension remains for the respect of our nation’s founding, we could encourage enough of our current generational weak-link to read The Law By Frederic Bastiat, it might be easier to bring our nation back to the glory once given it by our creator.
It begins
The Law
The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose!
The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.
Life Is a Gift from God
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life—physical, intellectual, and moral life.
But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.Life, faculties, production—in other words, individuality, liberty, property—this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
(2)Nuh Uh.(0)The Inauguration as seen a little differently.
Epic.
(5)Nuh Uh.(0)What constitutes an ‘Establishment’ player?
Since the rise of the ‘Tea Party’ movement, certain elements of it have been co-opted by those who were originally threatened by it. The reality that money is the mothers milk of politics cannot be ignored however. The left has their billionaire backers, and we have our own.
Power is an aphrodisiac.
After spending more than a couple million in political expenditures attempting to gain a regents seat on the most liberal university in our state, Ron Weiser finally succeeded in 2016. Riding the coattails of the now-president, a man who was one of the few candidates he did not financially support prior to Trump winning the GOP nomination.
That is how it works however, when an power seeking opportunist with a full wallet wants access to the oval office perhaps? Truth be told, the $120,000 (roughly) given to the Trump Victory PAC may well have played a small part in Trump’s victory in Michigan. Even one stop missed (easily $100K in expense) might have spelled doom for the effort.
(6)Nuh Uh.(0)A great address, and some photos from our Michigan Delegation
That was fun.
With the vanquished foes captured by pomp and tradition, the incoming president made it clear that it would not be business as usual. With Obama directly behind, Donald Trump laid waste to the ideas responsible for the ruinous past 8 years, and possibly more.
What it would have like to be the fly running the show in the 44th president’s skull for that 20 or so minutes.
Wow.
These pictures were taken by Tom Stilling who was at the event.
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