Michigan Political Blogwire

updated at 09:35

• Gary Hoey: Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree

  —motorcitytimes.com

  Number of comments: 1
  It’s time to break out the Christmas music! Technorati Tags: Christmas music, Gray Hoey [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:39am EST
  by steve

• Too Afraid To Use The Word Christmas: The 2009 Novi Holiday Shopping Bazaar

  —motorcitytimes.com

  A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. Sir Winston Churchill How PC Can you get. Via Hometown Life.com: The idea was to create a festive holiday shopping experience, and with 60-plus vendors, free appetizers, holiday music, cash bar, complimentary chair massages [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:27am EST
  by steve

• Video: Ed Begley Jr. Has A Meltdown Over ClimateGate

  —theblogprof

  Denial is not just a river running through Egypt. It can be an ugly thing. Ed Begley Jr. simply cannot comprehend what has happened to the entire global warming premise. He starts the interview insisting that we trust the peer-review process - the same process that the alarmists have hijacked, [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:00am EST
  by The blogprof

• Debbie Stabenow Believes Socialized Medicine Is A Right, Not A Privilege

  —motorcitytimes.com

  This is what we are up against. Our brilliant Senator from Michigan, Debbie Stabenow, who believes by the way that she can feel the effects of Global warming when she is flying, sent an e-mail response to my request that she vote against socialized medicine. In part, she responded (emphasis added): I [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:28am EST
  by steve

• Saturday Morning Links: The Jet Lag Edition

  —motorcitytimes.com

  Number of comments: 1
  Returned home from my long trip overseas, woke up super early in the morning and have a lot of reading to catch up on. Detroit’s Coon Man from A Conservative Teacher The CL takes moderate Republicans to task The Observer discusses the “revised” (ahhem…lower) GDP numbers that Obama and company were crowing about [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:32am EST
  by steve

• Zhu Zhu Hamsters...Lord Almighty.

  —detnews.com | Politics Blog

  High-definition TVs, laptops, Zhu Zhu Pets robotic hamsters and winter coats were among the most popular items, according to the federation, a Washington-based trade group.Wake Up, America. Mako out. [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:53am EST
  

• Putting our soldiers in the crosshairs of international opinion?

  —Michigan Taxes Too Much

  Hell No.

  Prosecuting American ‘War Crimes’ – The International Criminal Court claims jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in the Wall Street Journal
  

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “great regret” in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This [...]

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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:41am EST
  by jgillman

• Linkaround 11-27-2009

  —theblogprof

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  ClimateGate:
  Nice Deb: Good News And Bad News On Cap And Trade – Mostly Bad News
  Gateway Pundit: Obama’s Radical Socialist Climate Czar– And Board Member of Major Carbon Offset Company– Rejects Climategate. Natch.
  
  Incompetence in charge:
  Doug Ross: Obama Calls for Probe of White [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:00pm EST
  by The blogprof

• Literally Turning On a Dime.

  —detnews.com | Politics Blog

  As retail begins their final push to the end of the year, I'm curious if we've learned our lessons from a year ago.What do you spend your money on this season? After all, with the brewing discontent among normal people about deficits and other debates, we will see the real [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:59pm EST
  

• R.I.P. - Conservative Michigan Blogger David Hinz Killed In Auto Accident Today

  —theblogprof

  Number of comments: 1
  I'm sad to report that conservative blogger and friend David Hinz was killed in an automobile accident today. I hear the news from his blogging partner Steve Foley over at The Minority Report: Rest In Peace David Hinz
  It’s with the heaviest of hearts that I inform you that' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:08pm EST
  by The blogprof

• Audio: Frank Beckmann Interviews Climate Depot's Marc Morano Regarding ClimateGate Scandal

  —theblogprof

  Number of comments: 0
  The now infamous leaked emails from the CRU are breathtaking in exposing scientific corruption in the global warming alarmist camp. These scientists have colluded to destroy skeptics in totality, ruin their careers, destroy scientific journals that publish scientific pieces skeptical of man-made global warming, they lie, set up narratives without [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  by The blogprof

• Mark Oglesby's senior government class raised the bar for civic education

  —Conservative Media

  
  Howell High School students from teacher Mark Oglesby's senior government class again won the "We the People" 8th Congressional District Competition over Mason High School to again advance to the state competition in January held in Lansing.
  
  We the People is a nationwide [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:28pm EST
  

• Single-Payer Hell: 70 Patients Dead Due To Neglect, Filth, Blood-Splattered Equipment

  —theblogprof

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  No government-run system embodies all that is wrong with the concept more than Britain's National Health Service (NHS). In Britain, under the barbaric NHS, liver cancer patients are denied life-saving drugs to save cost, babies born prematurely are left to die if they come out before a certain date, terminally [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  by The blogprof

• Essay: Holiday Shopping - 11.27.09

  —Jack Lessenberry Essays and Interviews

  Many people set their alarm clocks for the wee hours of the morning today in order to take advantage of all of those shopping deals. Michigan Radio’s Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry thinks he knows why people do it… and it’s not necessarily for the sales…

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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:33pm EST
  by toddmundt

• BBC had CRU emails in October proving global warming is a fraud, spiked the story

  —theblogprof

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  The BBC has been perhaps the biggest global warming alarmist cheerleader in the MSM. Just a few months ago the BBC was caught writing a global warming article before they had any facts to confirm the content (Surprise! BBC writes global warming article before having the information needed to [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by The blogprof

• Liberal priorities: Macomb County erases deficit with public safety cuts while union bennies remain untouched

  —theblogprof

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  Oakland County which neighbors Macomb County, just adopted the country's first triennial budget. There are no pending layoffs. No tax increases. No dinosaur pensions that swallow up huge swaths of taxpayer money. Macomb County? They have pending layoffs, are in deficit already after passing the first property tax hike in [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by The blogprof