http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:54:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. More than two years after committing over twenty specific, egregious campaign finance violations, freshman Democratic Congressman Mark Schauer is finally being forced to pay the piper.   Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land announced this week that Schauer has been hit with the largest punishment ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2009/02/25/freshman-congressman-mark-schauer-d-mi-admits-breaking-the-law-22-times-hit-with-record-penalty/ I’m a generous guy. Alas, I’m also chronically cynical. So it takes a concerted effort for me, at times, to give people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it started in college, working at Fulton Heights Foods where it turned out that everyone who instinct said ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2009/02/18/what-price-a-senators-stabenows-in-particular-integrity/ Promoted by Jeff United States Senators are busy people with demanding schedules.  Its understandable if one of the most powerful members of the most powerful legislative body in the nation doesn't know where her husband is and what he is doing twenty-four hours of every day.  Still, you'd think better ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2009/02/16/husband-busted-again-what-did-senator-stabenow-d-michigan-know-and-when/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Today is the big day for the Big 3.  They'll be back in Washington, DC, hat in hand and corporate jets temporarily mothballed in the hanger back in Detroit.  At least one of the CEO's will drive a brand new car to the hearings while ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/12/02/in-a-state-that-often-makes-zero-sense-senat/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. There are a couple of approaches for handling a day like today.  The four day weekend is over and it's back to the grind but the snow continues to fall and it's tempting to turn on the Christmas carols and move gently into the next ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/12/01/do-not-adjust-your-television-sets-you-hav/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. A lot of news has focused these past two weeks on Detroit's "Big 3," Washington, DC and the space between, literally and figuratively, and with good reason.  There is universal agreement that the autos are in one heck of a mess, that it's of their ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/24/on-making-michigan-an-easy-target/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. If this doesn't prompt Capital Hill Democrats to get off their duffs and accept the administration's offer to bail out the Big 3 with a $25 billion taxpayer funded loan I don't know what will.  The patron saint of raunch was in the Motor City ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/19/madonna-experiences-granholm-cherry-economy/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. All of the flashy economic headlines in the state have to do with the will-they / won't-they swirling around Capitol Hill Democrats as they consider whether or not to bail out the Big 3, but with Jennifer Granholm's decision yesterday to take a break from ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/18/ah-the-granholm-cherry-economy-where-even/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. More tickets.  That's the answer to the Big 3's financial problems.  If you missed it late yesterday, Ron Gettelfinger, the man pulling the strings for Big Labor as they attempt to extort another $25 billion from Congress said the problem with Detroit's autos isn't that ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/17/saving-the-economy-and-the-big-3-through-cr/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Well that didn't take long.  The first full week of "lame duck" in the Democrat controlled Michigan House of Representatives and the majority party, emboldened by their big wins on election day, have already approved or set in motion more than a couple of tax ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/14/that-certainly-didnt-take-long/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Talk about the economy and eyes can glaze over.  There are numbers and statistics and projections and data points and bar charts... it's all very academic.  Except that it isn't.  The Ivory Tower connects, this morning, with the human side of the Granholm - Cherry ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/13/record-number-of-michigan-families-forced-to/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Morning.  Are you awake?  Are you sitting down?  Are you ready to have an icy cold glass of water splashed in your face?  Ah, well, yes or no, here it comes... Remember a few years back when there was this really successful business guy running for ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/12/jingle-bells-economy-smells-lansing-laid-an/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Barack Obama has been the President-elect for over six days now.  Heck, he's even got an extra large majority ballooning in the House and the Senate as of last Tuesday's elections.  His transition team is living and breathing and working out of the White House ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/11/this-isnt-an-economic-tsunami/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. This is what we're up against. On Sunday morning, amidst worshiping congregants and following unifying prayers that our President-elect be granted wisdom as he prepares to lead our nation through difficult global, social and economic challenges, the Michigan left declared open war on peaceful church goers. They ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/10/michigan-liberals-attack-lansing-congregation/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. You wanted it, Michigan, you got it.  It took approximately five days for us to learn the amount of the next tax hike Democrats are looking to impose on families already struggling to make ends meet here in the Great Lakes State and it could ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/10/lansing-dems-demand-another-tax-hike-while-gr/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Barack Obama swept in a host of new Democrats in Michigan on Tuesday and here we are, two days later, and not only has no one walked on water, the local economic news just continues to get worse. And the Governor's reaction?  She's heading to the ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/06/michigan-economy-continues-slide-while-gov-b/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Right Michigan readers are all pretty smart.  And you're savvy.  You know how more about this particular campaign cycle than the average bear and the last thing you need to hear this morning is how important these last two days are. That said, particularly here in ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/11/03/election-day-08-summed-up-perfectly-by-80s-sc/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Even the most casual student of history now knows the story of King Leonidas and the battle of Thermopylae, thanks to 300, a pretty brilliant comic book and the film it inspired.  Three-hundred men, standing alone against the Persian horde, battling not just for life ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/10/31/yeah-yeah-the-dems-arrows-will-blot-out-th/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Want to scare your neighbors this Halloween?  Dress your kid up like a pink slip or a foreclosure notice.  OK, sure, that might be in bad taste but it'd certainly be topical. Besides, there's good news, metro Detroiters!  The Associated Press just spoke with Patrick Anderson ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/10/30/halloween-in-michigan-trick-or-treeeaa-um/ Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com. Detroit's top Democrat is in the pokey.  Yesterday, former Mayor and convicted felon Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to serve 120 days in the Wayne County Jail. Sort of puts a whole new spin on what his good friend Barack Obama had to say about him ... http://www.redstate.com/rightmichigancom/2008/10/29/obamas-good-friend-inmate-200834589-now/