Used Car Salesmen Wouldn't Try to Sell Me This
On the editorial page of the Sunday 9/22 Detroit Free Press is a local commentary purporting to show "6 conservative reasons for Common Core" by two conservatives. They are identified as "Chester E....
View ArticleMore of the Same Old Detroit
I'm re-posting this from the New Clarion where I posted it yesterday.Ever since Detroit filed for bankruptcy in July of this year there has been a flood of articles in the media on the suggested causes...
View ArticleSome Citizens Get It.
I normally post on editorials or news stories in the media but today I want to post on an excellent letter to the editor in the Nov 1st Detroit News titled "blame the media" by Walter Konarzevski. It's...
View ArticleIs Debbie Wasserman Schultz Right?
I repost this here for those of my readers who don't go the The New Clarion.Gary North, former staff economist for Ron Paul, has a blog called Tea Party Economist in which he posts links to current...
View ArticleThe Real Zombies Are in Washington
It seems to me that Hollywood's creation of modern Zombies has taken on a new life. Not just for horror movies any longer, they are showing up in TV series like The Walking Dead and even on bumper...
View ArticleIt's the Principles, Dtroit
I'm re-posting this from The New Clarion in case any of my readers don't read the Clarion.The Thursday 12/19 Detroit News carried an editorial by Reynolds Farley who once conducted the Detroit Area...
View ArticleThe Anti-Philosophical Nature of Today's Intellectuals
With a few minor changes I repost this from the New Clarion.In the introduction to Ayn Rand's book "Philosophy: Who Needs It" heir to her intellectual estate Leonard Peikoff wrote "Ayn Rand was not...
View ArticleCongressman Sander Levin's Republican Bashing
My US Congressman Sander Levin of Michigan sent out his Congressional Connector newsletter this week and like usual never misses a chance to bash Republicans. Here is his first paragraph:House Leaders...
View ArticleWhy Republicans Keep Losing to Democrats
It's not often that an article will provide glaringly obvious proof of why conservatives and Republicans have been impotent at stopping or even slowing the liberal's march to dictatorship. Ayn Rand...
View ArticleSander Levin's latest statist efforts
Today (July 21) I received his newsletter from my US Congressman Sander Levin D District 9 Michigan. In it he reports, New study: "Affordable Care Act (ACA) lowers uninsured rate" according to which...
View ArticleWhat I wish the President had really said.
It has been awhile since I posted here and I apologize for that. I promise to post a lot more often.This is some wishful thinking that I sometimes like to do. My president's speech on immigration."Good...
View ArticleWhere are all the reasons?
In the Dec. 14 edition of the Detroit News Editorial Editor Mr. Nolan Finley penned an editorial "Where are all the black people?" He was referring to the opportunities provided by the comeback...
View ArticleSkeptical of global warming? You must have faith.
I was surprised to see the Macomb Daily, a newspaper for the county of Macomb, a suburban county just northeast of Detroit, print an editorial from the liberal Bloomberg editorial board. As a rule, the...
View ArticleJeb Bush is 2016 material, if you can forgive.
My Friday edition of the Detroit News carries an oped by deputy editorial director Ingrid Jacques titled "With Jeb Bush, look beyond Common Core." Sorry, I can't do that. Common Core is such an...
View ArticleHere we go again. The CRA to the rescue.
We can get an idea of how collectivists think from this oped in the Detroit News of 2/27/15. The author, Ms. Kathleen Rogers, is president and CEO Earth Day Network, a left wing environmental group....
View ArticleWe knew this was coming.
Now that Proposition 15-1 went down in flames at the hands of Michigan voters the response from the political and intellectual establishments is oh so predictable. From editorials bemoaning the voters...
View ArticleRepublican bashing at its best.
The Sunday May 17th Detroit Free Press was in full assault mode on the GOP in its editorial page. Editorial editor Stephan Henderson pens an oped titled "How the poor stay that way'" subtitled 'Holding...
View ArticleForeclose on government control of the economy
The Thursday and Friday, 6/25,26 print editions of the Detroit News carried a series titled "Foreclosures fuel Detroit blight, cost city millions" by reporters Christine MacDonald and Joel Kurth. The...
View ArticleEnd prevailing wage laws.
The Sunday 7/26 Detroit Free Press caries an oped by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan titled "Paying fair wage is right way to rebuild Detroit and state." The fair wage he's talking about is the prevailing...
View ArticleBad climate advice for Republicans.
The Sunday 8/16 Detroit Free Press has an oped by Bob Inglis and Mark Reynolds titled "The right way for Republicans to address climate change." The right way of course is to agree with the Democrats...
View ArticlePublic Education in Michigan
The Friday 10/30 edition of the Detroit News carried an oped on Michigan's school system titled "Assessing Michigan's talent future" by Doug Rothwell CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan. Mr Rothwell...
View ArticleClimate Change Self Defense
We have been told for decades now that climate change will bring catastrophe to the planet unless we change our evil ways. Our evil ways of course consist of us Americans providing ourselves with a...
View ArticleCost vs Value: Freedom vs Control
The Sunday 11/15 editorial page has an editorial by Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor, titled "The price we all pay: who gets hurt when lawmakers put cost before value." So this is an attack on...
View ArticleDiscrimination, an attack on judgement.
I'm re-posting this from Sept. 2015. I meant to post it then but just discovered that I did not. Don't know how that happened. Anyway, it's about Dr Ben Carson being attacked in the press for...
View ArticleFlint needs privatization.
Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor of the Sunday 1/31/16 Detroit Free Press writes about "Flint's long misery, at the hands of urban policy." Now the concept 'policy' usually refers to a set of...
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