Bill Clinton to attend Detroit fundraiser Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington bureau
DETROIT -- Former President Clinton will attend a fundraiser Thursday at a downtown restaurant for his wife's presidential campaign, Democratic sources confirmed Tuesday.
Tickets for the event will go for $500 and $1,000. A [...]
"The universities have lost their mission to educate Michigan children," Jones said at a press conference this afternoon. "Their new mission is now educating as many people as possible from the People's Republic of China."
In addition to the strategies listed below...candidates for US House should refuse to campaign or be seen with John McCain. House Conservatives to Offer Ideas for G.O.P. Message function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1369022400&en=41fc58b9e5b5cd9b&ei=5124';} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/washington/20cong.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('House Conservatives to Offer Ideas for [...]
5% Tax Revenue Loss Found After Smoking Ban A Columbia, Mo., study found a 5 percent loss of sales tax revenue over a seven-month period after a smoking ban passed last year.
A December 2007 study, released by Michael R. PAKKO, a research office and economist at the Federal [...]
U.N. racism investigator to visit U.S. from Monday
GENEVA (Reuters) - A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is trying to tap a new audience of potential voters by taking his campaign message straight to liberal and nonpolitical issues-based blogs, which reach millions of readers but don't often delve into conservative [...]
Our culture has been besieged by opponents of Western civilization who wish in the depths of their dark hearts to dismantle the greatest civilization that has ever existed on the face of the planet, to deny us of our destiny, and to do away with our [...]
Thursday, May 15, 2008 Smoking ban vote delayed House wants more time to decide if it can go along with stricter Senate plan. Gary Heinlein / Detroit News Lansing Bureau
LANSING -- House Democrats are scrambling to decide how they will handle surprise Senate-passed legislation that [...]
Senator McCain's speech falls flat. He's campaigning as a Democrat! Senator, if we don't have "politics" we don't have democracy. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
Pearl of Wisdom: "What should Republicans running for election do? First, they have to rally their voters. After that, make a [...]
from Michigan Federation for Immigration Reform & Enforcement to mifire@comcast.net date Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:17 PM subject CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW, VOTE NO
Amnesty Amendments May Surface in Senate TODAY Call Your Senators Now!!!
There is no time to waste! Senate staffers have [...]
It's been over three months since Senator John McCain has had the Republican Presidential nomination wrapped up and he's done very little to reach out to the base of the [...]
Mayor Kilpatrick's mother faces two Democratic challengers to her seat in Congress. Gary Heinlein / Detroit News Lansing Bureau LANSING -- Republican State Rep. Jack Hoogendyk turned in more than 30,000 nominating petition signatures Monday, making official his candidacy to be a giant [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (May 13, 2008) -- After abusing the trust of taxpayers and sacrificing the education of students for nearly a year, Democratic congressional candidate Gary Peters is being forced out of his professorship at Central Michigan University.
Mike Norman says the T-shirts he's peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with "Obama in '08" scrolled underneath, are "cute." Just down the street from Marietta's famous Big Chicken, Mulligan's (Norman's tavern) has [...]
BY JOE SWICKARD FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER May 12, 2008
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Do You Pay Taxes to Subsidize Millionaire Farmers and Higher Food Prices?
Dear Joe,
Grocery bills are climbing, yet Congress is poised to pass a five-year, $300 billion agricultural policy plan that will actually make things worse. Known simply as the Farm Bill, it [...]
Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story (by Carol M. Allen, with contributions by William B. Allen and Barbara J. Grutter) will be released in June 2008 by Lexington Books.
Description of book:
In 2006, Michigan voters banned affirmative action preferences in public contracting, education, and employment. The Michigan [...]
Tim Walberg 92% Dave Camp 84% Mike Rogers 83% Pete Hoekstra 80% Joe Knollenberg 67% Thaddeus McCotter 65% Vern Ehlers 45% Candice Miller 43% Fred Upton 41%
This is a terrible shame. When our country and state need conservative leadership most, our own Republican legislators stray. First you've got 4 House Republicans defending the largest tax hike in Michigan history, now a majority of Republican Senators are fighting to ban smoking. To top it off you've got [...]
It is rare for a professor at my university to assign a truly enlightening book for us to read, so I have made a habit of not only reading the books my professors assign, but also, I read as many non-assigned books as I possibly can. The most recent book [...]
OPINION In Defense of RINO Hunting By PAT TOOMEY May 8, 2008; Page A13
The Club for Growth Political Action Committee has long been attacked for intervening in Republican primaries and targeting the party's most economically liberal incumbents. In 2000, Pennsylvania Rep. Jim Greenwood called [...]
A leftist student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is caught on camera ripping crosses out of the ground that were plotted by campus, pro-life activists. This moron defends his alleged "right" to destroy a university-sanctioned display by claiming that it is part of his First Amendment right to do [...]
I could probably be best described as a conservative who was hoping McCain would do some pandering so that I could support him in good conscience. I can see that that is going to be impossible.
McCain to attend convention of 'reconquista' group Republican presidential candidate launches Spanish [...]
218 Signatures are needed in the House to break Nancy Pelosi's obstruction of a vote on the anti illegal immigration SAVE Act. Currently there are 161 signers and only ONE Michigan Republican Congressman has signed on; Tim Walberg.
On the Democrat side, Bart Stupak has even signed on.
PUBLISHED: Sunday, May 4, 2008 Mourning the unborn Funeral Mass held in reaction to discovery of fetal matter in clinc's trash By JACQUELYN GUTC Of The Oakland Press
CMU student ends plans to run for House MOUNT PLEASANT -- A Central Michigan University student who has drawn attention for his clashes with university administrators over the hiring of an assistant professor says hes ended his campaign for the [...]
Charlie Cain and Gary Heinlein / Detroit News Lansing Bureau
LANSING -- Lengthy challenges, court battles, and a campaign that will suck up hundreds of thousands of dollars are expected in the coming months now that recall backers have turned in signatures to oust [...]
I am sad to say it, but it seems that the United States of America, the country that produced the scientist who cured Polio, the army that defeated Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, and the first country to put mankind on the moon is in an [...]
The citizen's of Redford, Dearborn Heights, and Livonia needed to collect 8,720 signatures in order to have a 'recall Andy Dillon' question placed on the August 5th ballot.
Tom Barrett is celebrating his birthday today (April 30) while on active duty in southern Iraq. Be sure to wish him a happy birthday by emailing him here. [...]
A lot of people are fascinated by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's marathon campaign to reclaim and reframe his public persona. But no one is watching with keener interest than Kwame Kilpatrick, whose fondest wish is to do on a local level what Wright [...]
Rush calls for 'Chaos:' Limbaugh leads bid to wreak havoc in Dem race Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle
Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's crucial Pennsylvania primary victory last week came with the help of a patchwork of political support: working-class [...]
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Election panel approves petition to recall Kilpatrick Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
DETROIT -- Wayne County officials approved language for a recall campaign against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, green-lighting the second effort to oust him since the $8.4 million whistle-blower scandal broke this year.
Today, the Detroit Free Press ran an article where the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance and Andy Dillon lackeys are accusing each other of lying and breaking the law.
Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer held a Lansing news conference during which he played audio recordings he said prove that [...]
Plan Targets Anti-Western Lessons Matthew Benson, Arizona Republic (Phoenix), April 17, 2008
Arizona public schools would be barred from any teachings considered counter to democracy or Western civilization under a proposal endorsed Wednesday by a legislative panel.
Additionally, the measure would prohibit students [...]
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How much did Sen. Barack Obama's ill-chosen words about embittered small-town people clinging to anti-trade and anti-immigration sentiments out of frustration with the [...]
As the media focuses on Pennsylania's results and the trifecta of mainstream candidates who will do nothing to further the cause of Liberty, we want to thank you for such strong early support of Bob Barr and update you on [...]
BY BRIAN DICKERSON FREE PRESS COLUMNIST April 23, 2008
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If you're a young voter energized by Barack Obama's historic presidential candidacy, you probably thought the Michigan Democratic Party had run out of ways to make you feel marginalized. [...]
According to a reliable source who has worked with the McCain campaign, McCain's people contemplated pressing criminal charges against members of the Michigan State University chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom (MSU-YAF) for the protest that the conservative campus organization did of Senator McCain when he visited MSU to [...]
The talk among Republicans on Tuesday continued to be speculation that a Detroit News story last week highlighting how the Michigan Republican Party (MRP) started 2008 $250,000 in debt was shopped to the national media by political operative John YOB, a John McCAIN staffer. [...]
Taxpayers to save $394 million under candidate's plan (105th District) TOPINABEE, Mich. Republican State House candidate Dennis Lennox vowed to save taxpayers $394 million a year by cracking down on the 200,000 illegal aliens [...]
UPDATE: I have had a few phone calls and emails from party leaders. One of them Saul Anuzis who asked me to take down the post. I have checked and double checked and I believe the information to be accurate, so I will not be removing the post.
The desire to spread democracy abroad is not exclusive to contemporary neoconservative ideology. During the 5th century BC, a superpower that was plagued with politicians who exhibited hubris that is not dissimilar to the hubris of warmongering neoconservatives caused war to roil the ancient world.
Free-speech advocate Max Karson of the University of Colorado turned 22 today. He is best known for his politically incorrect activities which include being involved with the satirical newspaper The Yeti, being arrested for voicing his opinion in a Women's Studies course, and most recently, [...]
"St. George is actually the most appropriate patron saint this country (England) can have, because he is the patron saint, really, of people who have lost their own countries through mass immigration. He lost his Turkey; now we are losing our England."
5.2 earthquake rocks large area of Midwest; no major damage
WEST SALEM, Ill. (AP) - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but [...]
It seems that American politicians are more concerned with serving the interests of foreign peoples rather than the interests of their constituents. As American jobs are exported overseas and what jobs that remain are taken by people who immigrate to the United States, one can only wonder how soon it [...]
In a poll conducted on this blog which was sent to party leadership across the state 55% of respondents believe that Zatkoff should resign as chairman of the college Republicans. [...]
Decision 2008 Michigan poll buoys GOP With McCain leading Clinton and nearly tied with Obama, analyst sees danger this fall for Democrats. Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau
A new poll shows Sen. John McCain nearly tied with Sen. Barack Obama in a hypothetical Michigan general-election matchup, and significantly [...]
Knollenberg, Peters raise $746,000 for quarter Former state senator heats up congressional race with eight-term incumbent. Deb Price / Detroit News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- The battle over the Oakland County congressional seat held by Republican Rep. Joe Knollenberg drew contributions of nearly $800,000 [...]
VINCE LORRAINE ANNOUNCES STATE HOUSE BID Local Job Provider Begins Candidacy for 51st District
GRAND BLANC, MI Fenton Township resident and local business owner, Vince Lorraine, today announced his intention to seek the nomination for the 51st District of the Michigan House of Representatives. [...]
Western civilization is in a struggle not only with foreign adversaries such as Islamic civilization, but also with domestic subversives who promote the utopian ideology of liberalism. In order to combat the latter menace, Westerners must understand the tactics of the Left. Any person who espouses liberalism, communism, socialism, or [...]
Cheney helped give OK for harsh interrogations Memos show tactics used on suspected terrorists included some labeled as torture. Lara Jakes Jordan and Pamela Hess / Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using [...]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atlanta, GA - In a survey commissioned last week by the Bob Barr 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee, seven percent [...]
It was with a touch of irony we read the recent MEA magazine article on our organization, with the headline on the cover, "Education Action Group exposed." We knew all along a project in the works for several months was launching today.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on the way the presidential candidates have handled the question of whether President Bush should attend the opening Olympic ceremony:
Regarding the propriety of President Bush attending the [...]
As many as 20 students were involved. 13-year-old Melanie Bowers was spit on and assaulted by male Hispanic students. They threatened to rape her, stab her, and kill her. The school staff ordered her to return to class and she not allowed to phone her parents.
We at RedState find ourselves in the nearly unique position of agreeing with Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. Like stopped clocks, we think they can be right twice in a day and their minute has come. President Bush should not go to [...]