Progress Michigan blog posts.
Image via Wikipedia UPDATED: 11:34 a.m. Man, I would just love it if the solution to every problem I tackle in my work were so simple. At the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, all the research reaches the same conclusion: public employees make too much money. …State government will be forced to cut spending soon…
Image via Wikipedia This is something like Dick Cheney winning the Nobel Prize for Peace. A recent study by the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force found that air pollution from CMS Energy’s 57 year old J.R. Whiting coal plant in Monroe causes 40 deaths a year as well as 61 heart attacks, over 600 asthma…
Image via Wikipedia Meet Christine O’Donnell. She’s the Sarah Palin-esque Tea Party candidate who won the GOP Senate primary in Delaware yesterday. She’s generally logically challenged. She thinks it’s wrong to lie to the Nazi at your door about hiding a Jewish family from them, but it’s ok to repeat the lie that your opponent…
A couple of things stood out for me watching Virg Bernero’s gutsy move to invade Rick Snyder’s 59th Town Hall meeting yesterday. First, it was a brilliant decision by Bernero to use Snyder’s ducking debates to grab lots of attention from a media that is bored silly with the frontrunner’s outsized lead in the polls…
Image via CrunchBase The next time you hear a politician, candidate, or other such person say the above, make sure you ask them about Larry Page. Larry Page is an alum of East Lansing High School in lovely East Lansing, a few miles from the state Capitol where said politicians say such things. East Lansing…
Image via Wikipedia If there’s one thing that really, as my sister the decorated Army Sergeant says, “grinds my gears,” it’s appropriating something that doesn’t belong to you. That’s toddler tug-of-war shenanigans, and it’s got no place in reasoned adult life. Except the people doing it aren’t capable of that kind of reason. Case in…
Image via Wikipedia You can’t make this stuff up, folks. First, the so-called leaders of Michigan’s state Legislature, Senate majority Leader Mike Bishop and Speaker of the house Andy Dillon, blow a Sept. 2 deadline to put a permanent ban on drilling for oil in the Great Lakes on the November ballot. Cue up the…
Image via Wikipedia Ok, I just went back through all the emails I get from my right-wing relatives and other careless forwarders of chain letters debunked by snopes.com 10 years ago. Survey says most of the tin-foil coated conspiracy theories permeating my inbox are OUTRAGED about the supposed “Ground Zero mosque” (read: Muslim community center…
Image via Wikipedia Timothy Egan nails it in today’s New York Times blog. Take a look at Tuesday night’s box score in the baseball game between New York and Toronto. The Yankees won, 11-5. Now look at the weather summary, showing a high of 71 for New York. The score and temperature are not subject…
Image via Wikipedia Seeing convention Chair Brooks Patterson called an “asshole” Saturday by angry, shouting tea party delegates at the Republican State Convention reminded me that comparisons to the last big takeover of the GOP–in the 1980s–only go so far. The evangelical Christians who 30 years ago organized themselves into virtual control of the…