Category: Not Just Michigan

Assigning Our Voices.. Our Power

In 2007, my fire was stoked. Michigan was already seeing increasing unemployment, all while the rest of the nation appeared to be in as healthy a state as ever.  Our governor, preferring to ignore the time tested methods of increasing…

Now We Are Extremists?

There is strength in numbers.  At least the left ELITE knows it, and has used it by pulling together groups of varying degrees of extremes.  From those who want cradle to grave government hand holding, to those who have been…

EFCA, Its Perils And A Chamber Letter

A few weeks ago I was alarmed that our local (Traverse City Area) chamber held an event in which they were going to teach small business owners how to “deal with” the changes in law the Employee Free Choice Act…

Ignorant or Insidious?

The following is a column that I should hopefully have printed in Friday’s edition of CM Life, Central Michigan University’s school rag.

Standards & Principles

Fresh Tea – Michigan TEA PARTY Info Available (click image) Core beliefs. Those standards which we guide our lives by. The unchanging rules that make us who we are. A guarantee that we will do no wrong? Hardly. A promise…

Staying bought…

Last week JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon suggested to the president he would like to return the TARP funds received ASAP.  The president would hear nothing of it: The president offered an analogy: “This is like a patient who’s on…

A break in the Tea Party fun with a message from our sponsor…

Me. I took on the task of writing (nearly daily) on this blog to forward my ideals, ideas and objections to the way the government, and those who support government’s uninhibited growth are taking away yours, and my own liberties…

Earth Hour…

Inane, and completely acceptable… [as] an activity for those who think the government should stifle industry through restrictions on energy availability and use.  As developing countries face starvation because of the very ideology which supports the climate change model forward…

"the right of the people peaceably to assemble"

What do these words mean to you?  Should they be so differently interpreted by so small a difference between us as the way we were raised?  The position we hold?  Our political affiliation? “Congress shall make no law respecting an…