Showing posts with label Michigan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michigan. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

In Michigan: Female genital mutilation is now a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison

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Friday, December 9, 2016

Trump Thank You Rally in Michigan | FULL SPEECH



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Sunday, December 4, 2016

Michigan AG: Inexcusable for Jill Stein to put voters at risk of paying millions & lose voice in Electoral College

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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

CBS News Fabricates Story That Michigan Bill Would Allow Doctors/EMTs to Deny Treatment to Gay Patients

◼ CBS News published a story on December 11 under the headline: "Bill would let Michigan doctors, EMTs refuse to treat gay patients." CBS News reports:  - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard
Can doctors and emergency medical technicians legally refuse to give life saving assistance to a gay person, because of their religious beliefs? That question is being debated in the Michigan legislature.

The Republican-led House has approved the Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which essentially states that people do not have to perform an act that would violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.

"For example, a Christian doctor who does not believe in a gay lifestyle would not have to treat a gay patient," CBS Detroit legal analyst Charlie Langton said [emphasis added].
According to Michael W. McConnell, a professor at Stanford University Law School and former federal appeals court judge, the CBS story is false. "The exact same law has been on the books at the federal level and in many states for almost twenty years, and no such claim has ever been made. And if it were made, it would lose in court, probably unanimously," McConnell tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD in an email.
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Friday, December 12, 2014

In the last week-and-a-half, seven more states have signed on, bringing the total to 24, suing to STOP Obama's amnesty

◼ Oh, Mr. President? That lawsuit isn't going away..... - Herman Cain

The President's legal troubles are getting worse....

Earlier this month we talked about a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General and Governor-elect Greg Abbott. The suit seeks to stop Obama's amnesty actions before they're implemented. At the time, 17 states had joined the suit, as the Chicago Tribune reported:
A coalition of 17 U.S. states sued the Obama administration on Wednesday saying it acted illegally by issuing an executive order to ease the threat of deportation for millions of immigrants who are in the country without the proper documents.

The case being led by Texas and filed at the Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas said the executive order announced by Obama last month violated constitutional limits on presidential powers. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican and the Texas governor-elect, said the lawsuit is not asking for monetary damages but is seeking to have the order declared illegal.
The new states are:
Arizona
Arkansas
Florida
Michigan
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Want more good news? A judge has been assigned to the case, and he's not what you'd call "friendly" toward Obama's goals. He's U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen and, as Townhall reports, he's been highly critical of the Administration’s immigration plans before.... KEEP READING
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

‘The fix was in’: Activist judge puts disqualified Rep. John Conyers on primary ballot



◼ Damn it feels good to be a Democrat. - Twitchy, Who Said What on Twitter

Michigan Rep. John Conyers failed to collect enough signatures to get a spot on the primary ballot, why should that stand in his way? After Conyers appealed to secretary of state and lost, a judge brazenly overruled the secretary’s decision:









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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

After Being Dead For Six Years, Woman Found Mummified in Her Home Voted in 2010 Elections

◼ In what is one of the most bizarre cases I’ve heard in weeks, a Michigan woman was found mummified in her garage – six years after she actually died. - IJ Review

Because she lived by herself, traveled a lot, paid her bills automatically and picked up her mail at the post office, neighbors just assumed she was out of town and took care of her yard for her.

In the most recent development, however, it seems that this woman, whom officials are certain died in winter of 2008, “voted” in Michigan’s 2010 gubernatorial election:
Voting records in Oakland County show Farrenkopf, who has not been positively identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office, is shown as voting in the November 2010 gubernatorial election.
Of course, such problems could be solved by a voted ID system. But wouldn’t that be discriminating against the dead?
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

The right-to-work dilemma

◼ For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan this week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously unionized state, birthplace of the United Auto Workers, royalty of the American working class, became right-to-work. - Charles Krauthammer/NATIONAL POST

...There’s a reason Detroit went bankrupt while the southern auto transplants did not. This is not to exonerate incompetent overpaid management that contributed to the fall. But clearly the wage, benefit and work-rule gap between the unionized North and the right-to-work South was a major factor.

President Obama railed against the Michigan legislation, calling right-to-work “giving you the right to work for less money.” Well, there is a principle at stake here: A free country should allow its workers to choose whether or not to join a union. Moreover, it is more than slightly ironic that Democrats, the fiercely pro-choice party, reserve free choice for aborting a fetus, while denying it for such matters as choosing your child’s school or joining a union.

Principle and hypocrisy aside, however, the president’s statement has some validity. Let’s be honest: Right-to-work laws do weaken unions. And de-unionization can lead to lower wages.

But there is another factor at play: having a job in the first place. In right-to-work states, the average wage is about 10 percent lower. But in right-to-work states, unemployment also is about 10 percent lower.

Higher wages or lower unemployment? It is a wrenching choice. Although, you would think that liberals would be more inclined to spread the wealth — i.e., the jobs — around, preferring somewhat lower pay in order to leave fewer fellow workers mired in unemployment.

...rigidity and nostalgia have a price. The industrial Midwest is littered with the resulting wreckage. Michigan most notably, where its formerly great metropolis of Detroit is reduced to boarded-up bankruptcy by its inability and unwillingness to adapt to global change.

It’s easy to understand why a state such as Michigan would seek to recover its competitiveness by emulating the success of neighboring Indiana. One can sympathize with those who pine for the union glory days, while at the same time welcoming the new realism that promises not an impossible restoration, but desperately needed — and doable — recalibration and recovery.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Union Violence In Michigan Is No Tea Party

◼ The assault on a Fox News contributor protecting women and seniors in a tent is but the latest example of the civil discourse and respect for democracy the president's union supporters really have. - IBD Editorial

Imagine the outrage and the mainstream media feeding frenzy had it been a Tea Party member punching an MSNBC contributor covering a protest over ObamaCare.

Or if Tea Party members had descended on a tent full of Occupy Wall Street supporters, flattening and tearing it apart with total disregard for the people inside....
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Obama´s Big Michigan Right-To-Work Lie: Lower Wages

◼ Probably the most breathtaking public lie to date. - Discussion at Lucianne

◼ The president says right-to-work laws mean "the right to work for less money." So how does he explain the fact that incomes are up in RTW states while forced unionism is a proven job killer? - IBD Editorial

Campaigning Monday in Michigan as it stood poised to become the nation's 24th right-to-work state, President Obama spoke the exact opposite of the truth to union workers at a Daimler Detroit Diesel plant in the birthplace of organized labor.

"What we shouldn't be doing," he told the small crowd, "is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages. We don't want a race to the bottom. We want a race to the top."

Yet looking at the hard numbers, becoming a right-to-work state is a direct line to the top....

Michigan law will now bar requiring workers to pay money to a third party, namely unions, as a condition of employment. This has given rise to the big lie that workers who refuse to join a union and pay dues will get a "free ride" enjoying the benefits of union representation without contributing to that representation....

(I)n its most recent federal filings, the Michigan Education Association said "representational activities" (money spent on bargaining contracts for members) made up only 11% of total spending for the union.

Most of the rest went under the category "general overhead," which included union administration and, of course, the union political activities that include lobbying for more government spending. It's the unions that are getting a "free ride...."
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Union Thugs Shouted Racial Slurs At Hot Dog Vendor While Trashing His Business

◼ Yesterday a hot dog vendor named Clint Tarver was serving hot dogs at the AFP tent that was torn down by an angry mob of union members. He wasn’t there to be political, he was there to do his job and make a living. The union goons didn’t care, they destroyed his hot dog cart while shouting racial slurs at him as he tried to gather his belongings. - The Lonely Conservative
Early today[December 11, 2012], Clint Tarver, known as “The Hot Dog Guy” here in Lansing had his business attacked and destroyed by out of line and out of control protesters near the Capitol.

Everyone who has passed the hot dog cart knows what a kind and caring individual Clint is. He never fails to bestow a smile or friendly greeting. In no way [did] he provoke this attack, nor any of the behavior displayed toward him.
◼ AFL-CIO OMG WTF? - The Other McCain
Clint is a beloved local figure, his hot dog stand across from the Michigan state capitol being a sort of institution, a landmark. “This is not a guy who’s about politics,” Lee explained. “He’s about hot dogs.”

Americans for Prosperity hired Clint to serve hot dogs at their tent on the capitol grounds, where AFP officials were presenting the pro-freedom side of the right-to-work argument. And when the union goons decided to assault the AFP tent, Clint became a target.
UPDATE: ◼ Those racist right-wing teabaggers have already raised more than $17,000 to help Clint Tarver.

◼ Heckuva job: Michigan union thugs destroyed hot dog vendor’s cart - Michelle Malkin

◼ Update on ‘the hot dog guy’ - Doug Powers/Michelle Malkin

...Tarver also says he was called racial epithets by other union attackers, including the “N” word and “Uncle Tom.” Tarver says he’s never been called such things in his 17 years as a hot dog vendor. His wife expressed her digust that union workers stood around with their hands in their pockets while Tarver attempted to pick up his catering equipment and other items....

A fund started to help Tarver replace his equipment that had an original goal of $2,000 is now up to over $25,000.
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Most chilling Michigan video — “There are people under there, oh my God”

◼ The numerous videos of the union mob action in Michigan today show an assault on Steven Crowder, but it actually was potentially much worse as the mob collapsed the tent even as bystanders screamed that there were people inside. - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion



...As the union members attacked the Americans For Prosperity tent, a woman cried out “there are people under there, oh my God” (at 1:20). At 1:40, as union members start walking on top of the collapsed tent, a man shouted “hey, there are people in there” but again the crowd didn’t stop, and the union members continued walking on the collapsed tent defiantly as the crowd shouted obscenities and cheered....
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Fighting for the freedom to work without coercion; Update: Dem threatens “There will be blood”


◼ MANY great links here: Right to Work laws protect the right of employees to choose for themselves whether or not to join or financially support a union. - Michelle Malkin

Today in Michigan, legislators are expected to ◼ approve a historic right to work bill.

If it is passed and signed into law, Michigan would become the 24th right-to-work state, banning requirements that nonunion employees pay unions for negotiating contracts and other services.

Democratic lawmakers and union backers acknowledge that they have little chance of stopping the tide, given the Republican-dominated Legislature and GOP Gov. Rick Snyder, who has pledged to sign the measure into law.

In an interview Tuesday with WWJ-AM, Mr. Snyder said he expected the bills to be on his desk later this week, calling them “good legislation.” He said the intention is to give workers a choice, not to target unions.

“This is about being pro-worker,” Mr. Snyder said.

◼ Teacher ‘sick out’ for right-to-work protest closes some Michigan schools - Michelle Malkin
As an email directed to retired Michigan Education Association members said: “Take a lesson from Wisconsin, brothers and sisters, protests alone won’t do it. Cause mayhem!”
◼ Michigan Approves Curbs on Unions - Matthew Dolan and Kris Maher/WSJ

◼ Michigan Democrat legislator Douglas Geiss threatens: “There will be blood.” - Twitchy

Pics, reports: Union goons protest right-to-work vote in Lansing, Mich.; Riot police on scene; Update: ‘There will be blood’; : Mich. Dems proudly tweet quote; Update: Michael Moore thinks it’s awesome teachers failed to do their jobs; Update: Mob rule reigns at the link.

◼ As union violence escalates, Mich. House Dems delete tweet promising ‘there will be blood’ - Twitchy


◼ VIDEO: Violent Mob Attacks AFP Booth In Michigan
Never allow these union thugs to tell you they’re peacefully protesting. This isn’t peaceful — it’s violent, hateful and physically threatening.


◼ Video gallery of union thuggery in Michigan; Updated - Michelle Malkin







◼ BREAKING VIDEO: MI Union Thugs Greet Right-To-Work Law With Thuggery And Cupcakes, But Mostly Thuggery - The Other McCain

◼ Michigan Right to Work Protests and Vote Live (Bills pass House)(Unions turn violent) - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Unions shutdown school over right to work law in Michigan

◼ A teachers union in Michigan has decided that the best way to educate their students is not to show up to work tomorrow. - Conn Carroll/Washington Examiner @conncarroll
The Taylor School District will be closed down Tuesday because of the high number of staff that have called in sick to apparently attend protests in Lansing.

Superintendent Diane Allen told Local 4 there isn’t enough teachers to cover classrooms, so the all schools will be closed for the day. She said she had heard from a principal about where the teachers were going.
The ‘sick’ teachers are heading to Lansing to protest a bill set to be signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Rick Snyder that would make Michigan a right to work state. If the legislation does become law, employees would no longer be forced to join a union if they did not want to....

DRUDGE HEADLINES:
To protest right-to-work bill, Michigan teachers call in sick...
Only 7% of Detroit Public-School 8th Graders Proficient in Reading...
'WE ARE UNION!' Tempers flare at Capitol...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Editorial: Mitt Romney for President

◼ Romney brings credible plan - Detroit News

...The course of a nation

As we said, this is more than a choice between two individuals. America is locked in a struggle over what it will be as a mature nation.

A country built on rugged individualism finds itself increasingly under the thumb of a federal government that is ever expanding its reach into the lives of its citizens.

Obama has proved himself a disciple of the doctrine that for every problem there's a government solution.

Romney, by contrast, embraces individual initiative and entrepreneurship. He would turn back the encroachment of the bureaucracy into the private sector.

Romney would replace the heavy hand of government with the invisible hand of a rational marketplace working to produce broad prosperity.

While both poverty and dependency have increased on Obama's watch, Romney promises to replace government checks with private sector jobs and reverse the decline in middle class incomes. It is heavy lifting, but we favor the candidate who is committed to it.

Romney's goal is to help all Americans live independent and productive lives, free to rise to the extent of their personal capabilities. He would not shield them from risk or the consequences of their decisions, but neither would he deny them their earned rewards.

Our hope is that Mitt Romney would restore faith in the core principles of free men and women, free minds and free markets that made America great, and will keep it so. Read the whole thing.

◼ Detroit News: Thanks for those auto bailouts, but… we pick Mitt - Erika Johnsen/HotAir

Romney has been an effective leader his entire career, both in business and politics. As governor of Massachusetts, he worked with a Democratic legislature to produce difficult health care and education reforms. We are optimistic he can restore the art of compromise to Washington.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Secretary of State: 4K noncitizens on voter rolls

◼ One day after being sued over a controversial ballot box citizenship question, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said Tuesday there are an estimated 4,000 noncitizens on Michigan's voter rolls. - Chad Livengood/Detroit News

The estimate is based on the state's access to citizenship information for one-fifth of the population, Johnson said, adding the federal government won't give her access to more citizenship data.

Johnson said the results of a "very tedious" analysis of 58,000 driver's licenses and state-issued identification cards found 963 noncitizens registered to vote....
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

It’s now clear that Obama will have to campaign hard in Michigan just to play defense, and that will mean shifting resources from states like Ohio and Virginia that Republicans have to win back this year to beat him

◼ New poll shows Romney edging Obama in Michigan - The race in Michigan looks slightly worse for Barack Obama after two recent polls cited by the Detroit News this morning. - Ed Morrissey/HotAir
◼ Polls: Romney gaining in Michigan - Detroit News
◼ Michigan: Romney vs. Obama - RCP Average
◼ Michigan voters think the economy is in rough shape, but President Obama continues to lead Mitt Romney in that state. - Rasmussen
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Michigan and Arizona primary results: Mitt Romney re-established himself as the Republican front-runner Tuesday night with his win in Michigan’s pivotal primary, fending off what would have been a crushing defeat by rival Rick Santorum.



Mitt Romney's Speech on Michigan Primary Win: 'We Won by Enough'

◼ Michigan and Arizona primary results - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

◼ Mitt Romney swept to victory in the Arizona primary and led Rick Santorum in a close, hard-fought contest in Michigan Tuesday night, bidding for a two-state sweep and fresh momentum in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. - AP

Romney's Arizona triumph came in a race that was scarcely contested, and he pocketed all of the 29 Republican National Convention delegates at stake.

◼ Romney-Santorum Locked in Tight Michigan Race – 9% of Voters Are Democrats - Gateway Pundit

◼ Exit polls: 1 in 10 voters was a Democrat in Michigan primary - LA Times

Initial exit polling in the Michigan primary suggests that in a tight battle between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, the votes of Democrats could prove decisive in the key Republican presidential skirmish -- and more of those votes are going to Santorum.

According to CNN, 10% of those who voted in the primary identified themselves as Democrats, representing a larger share of the electorate than in the 2008 vote. Of that group, 50% said they voted for Santorum, 19% for Ron Paul and 15% for Romney, exit polling showed.

That result would suggest that the combined efforts of the Santorum campaign and state Democrats to appeal to the left were successful, though their motivations were different.

◼ Open thread: Michigan and Arizona; Update: Romney projected winner in both states - Michelle Malkin

◼ After tough race, Romney beats Santorum in Michigan primary - The Hill

◼ Romney Wins in Michigan, Arizona - Wall St. Journal

◼ Santorum fails to stop Romney in Michigan - Susan Ferrechio/Washington Examiner
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Obama's Failed Promises in Michigan

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