Mackinac Center for Public Policy scholar Jarrett Skorup discusses licensing in Michigan.


Mackinac Center for Public Policy scholar Jarrett Skorup discusses licensing in Michigan.
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.
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.
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:
It’s been a jubilant year in the wake of Trump’s ascension to the Presidency, but the excitement hasn’t lasted. I regret to report to you that the Trump wave is already being aggressively squandered by the same, old, establishment Republican forces. Activists in the 11th District Republican Party made national news for their efforts to get Trump elected. Instead of embarking upon a new era of unity, the establishment actors decided to kick their deceptions up several notches at last week’s county convention.
The Oakland County GOP convention actually got off to a good start. After a series of grueling conventions, there was a sense that all involved wanted party unity and a smoothly-conducted affair. It ran fine up until the point when delegates were slotted into their district sub-caucuses. From there, establishment forces showed that they were not acting in good faith but instead were leading principled delegates into an unsuspecting ambush. The Trump ‘kum-ba-ya’ moment was not meant to be. The establishment cares more about pride, ego, and control than keeping the peace and crushing Democrats, and their agenda couldn’t be more obvious.
First, Matt Maddock was elected chair by an overwhelming margin. This is what usually happens, but due to Chairwoman Theresa Mungioli’s unilateral slaughter of over 500 precinct delegate posts throughout Oakland County, the result was not as certain as it was in convention’s past. Unfortunately for the establishment, their dirty tricks backfired, and Matt easily claimed the chair. Instead of taking their loss with dignity and self-respect, they rushed headlong into a new series of dirty tricks. This latest disgrace has perhaps obliterated any lasting opportunity for party unity once and for all.
After Maddock was elected to his position, there was a fierce debate over the rules. Discussion was called, and delegates began to speak. In spite of a tense atmosphere and heated animosity between the grassroots and establishment factions, none of the establishment lackey speakers were shouted down. Even as they were spewing deliberate falsehoods and other ignorant nonsense, they were granted their right to speak. On the other hand, Matt’s wife, Meshawn wasn’t treated with the same respect. She was Co-Chair for Trump in Oakland County and led Michigan Women for Trump. She was one of the most influential and hard-working Republicans out there working to turn Michigan Red Again. She went around the state at her own expense on Trump’s behalf to stage events and even invented the flash mobs that went viral and spread to other states as well.
The illusionary right to privacy vs the rights of the unborn - Revisiting Roe v. Wade
This [past] week we have seen demonstrations and heard commentary pertaining to, and from advocates supporting, either a Pro Life or Pro Choice policy agenda. The majority of both have been engaged in strong and emotional, and often non-relevant rhetoric.
There has been little if any discussion on the laws pertaining to abortion as it has evolved (Roe v. Wade and its progeny), and whether the law as determined in 1972, that was based on the state of science and medical information pertaining to embryology as it existed then, would be sustained today.
There is perceptual fear among those that support Pro Choice that if Roe v Wade were to be re-examined based on the medical and scientific knowledge pertaining to embryology known today, that the medical, scientific and legal support for the findings in Roe would either be superseded or limited.
An intelligent discussion pertaining to the basis for either a Pro Choice or Pro Life policy requires an understanding of the Supreme Court’s rationale that established a limited right to an abortion as set forth in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and subsequent and related decisions.
Just in case you’ve missed this, President Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning immigrants from certain nations with ties to islamic terrorism from entering the United States.
As usual, the pundits are working feverishly to spin this, with Team “d” demonstration again why they got their backsides handed to them last November.
Sadly, some Michigan Representative, like Rep. Justin Amash, either have no problems with seeing dead Americans or they require a remedial lesson in recent US History.
In Rep. Amash’s case, I’m hoping that it is the latter.
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The Inauguration as seen a little differently.
Epic.
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.
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.