Tag: private property

Business Community Protests Michigan’s Over-reach on Regulations

I have written on this before. Typically there is a brief resistance to oppression, then an eventual surrender.  In this case, one of our State Representatives is holding the line. A group of prominent businessmen announced today the hosting of…

A Little More On Agenda 21

Found a piece today worth reading. I should note that most often, the standard reaction to even mentioning “Agenda 21” in casual company, tends to elicit blank stares, and a bit of a confusion as to why it is such…

If This Was Your Police Force

What would you do?

The officer in this video was WAY off the mark, and isn’t fit for mall cop duty.

More on the Smoking Ban

If this resolution of this particular issue currently makes you happy, you might find another reading source.  Michigan government is out of control. I’m likely going to bore you unless liberty matters. Cheesy platitudes about freedom, our rights, you know…

How often do we have to say it?

“I told you so.” A July 2004 decision by Michigan’s supreme court was quite correct in its assessment of taking of public land for private use.  It is a wrong use of government power and eminent domain.  In the case of…

Unintended Consequences

A few years ago when talk of draining the dam ponds along the Boardman started, I openly wondered about the value of the shoreline properties and discovered that the plan was not to honor any riparian boundaries that were generally…

Missing a hunting blind?

Private property.  Its one of the most basic tenets of our constitution.  The fifth amendment addresses what our rights are, and addresses invasions of our private property.  It uses government as an example, but maintains our rights to demand compensation…