Month: March 2009

An Open Letter to Carl Levin

Earlier today, I received an e-mail from the office of Senator Carl Levin, our esteemed senior Senator from Michigan. In this e-mail, he assured me how much he cared about our tax money. He assured me that he opposed the  “outrageous…

Growing interest in the Tea Parties

Many of you who have websites and blogs already know there are ways to keep track of the real number of visitors to your sites, and also which pages they visit.  Those who didn’t realize this should also know that…

I told you so.

The Mackinac center has the real numbers based on the analysis of spending which resulted in over $48 million that had been given to film makers last year in Michigan.  Out of $125 million in “qualified spending, roughly $65 millions…

Hello.. IS THIS THING ON??!!

Not like I have advocated the judicious pursuit of a solid fiscal policy in this state among other common topics.  I surely haven’t spent any time suggesting the higher taxes are not only counter productive to state coffers and general…

Tea Parties Growing!

Malkin talks of Cleveland.. today. Also from (originally?) Instapundit.. Will the media pick it up? Today thousands in OHIO..  In one month Lansing Michigan.. Details to follow.

Michigan's White Elephants

While many salivate over the impending stimulus money distribution in our state, we should consider the requirements of accepting, as well as the ultimate responsibility of ownership of the funds and projects that we have . Today’s local fish wrap…

I too hope he fails

I’ve been meaning to write on this for a little bit, but alas it took until I saw a copy of Newsweek laying around on the coffee table to do it. Admittedly, at first I wasn’t quite sure what the…

Using a blog to sell..

Having become somewhat comfortable with wordpress, it was easy to make the decision to move one of my business informational sites to a blog platform and away from my 1997 style, cheesy pagemill generated format.  As is usual with setting…