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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must be a big fan of Discovery Channel's "Shark Week." Whitmer was recorded referencing the television event while waiting to deliver a speech remotely at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. The video, shared on Twitter by The Recount, showed Whitmer joking with attendees at UAW Local 652 in Lansing, where she delivered her address. "It's not just Shark Week, it's Shark Week mother f******," she said, while simply mouthing the expletives without saying them aloud. The comment got laughs from the people who were in the room at the time of the speech. "I have...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will order all bars and restaurants in the state of Michigan to shut down their dine-in services in response to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. A spokesperson confirmed the information Monday after Whitmer spoke with a TV station about it. Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II tweeted the temporary shut-down would go into effect starting at 3 p.m.

Rush just announced in the final quarter hour of Monday's program. No link as of yet.

Hunter Biden and his Ukrainian gas firm colleagues had multiple contacts with the Obama State Department during the 2016 election cycle, including one just a month before Vice President Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating his son’s company for corruption, newly released memos show. During that February 2016 contact, a U.S. representative for Burisma Holdings sought a meeting with Undersecretary of State Catherine A. Novelli to discuss ending the corruption allegations against the Ukrainian firm where Hunter Biden worked as a board member, according to memos obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

To be impeached, a president must commit a crime (misdemeanor is a species of crime) and the commission of that crime must also constitute an abuse of office. An abuse of office without an underlying crime is a political sin, but not an impeachable offense. This very issue was debated at the Constitutional Convention, where one delegate proposed "maladministration" as the criteria for impeachment and removal of a president. James Madison, the Father of our Constitution, strongly objected on the ground that so vague and open-ended a criterion would have the president serve at the will of Congress and turn...

Less than 48 hours after GOP Rep. Justin Amash declared that President Trump "engaged in impeachable conduct," a fellow Republican has vowed to challenge him in the upcoming primary election. Michigan state Rep. Jim Lower made his intentions known Monday morning, announcing that instead of seeking a third term in the state legislature, he will run against Amash for their party's nomination for the 2020 election. Amash has served as the representative for Michigan's Third District since 2011.

Time does not heal all wounds, and a pair of Vietnam veterans will demonstrate just that Wednesday evening outside the Open Space in Traverse City. Calvin Murphy of Bear Lake and Ron Martin of Ludington will be a part of a protest against outspoken anti-Vietnam War activist and Acedemy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda as Fonda attends the showing of her 1980 movie, “9 to 5,” at dusk as a part of the Traverse City Film Festival.

Regular readers of The Fact Checker know that we do not award Pinocchios if a politician admits error. Everyone makes mistakes — and the point is not to play gotcha. News organizations operate in a competitive arena and mistakes are bound to be made. The key test is whether an error is acknowledged and corrected. President Trump almost never admits error, even as he has made more than 2,000 false or misleading statements. So with that context, here’s an assessment of the “awards”:

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI - Jeffrey Willis chose not to stay in court to hear his murder victim's family share their grief and anger, but he couldn't escape hearing their words that were repeatedly played for him on his trip to prison. Muskegon County Sheriff Michael Poulin said he had a compact disc created from recordings of the victim impact statements delivered by Rebekah Bletsch's family in court Monday. He gave the 25-minute CD to two transport officers who played the disc five times in the cruiser that was used to transport Willis to prison Wednesday, Poulin said. "I don't find...

Chelsea Clinton was soundly criticized for her comments Tuesday regarding Confederate monuments. She tweeted about her childhood, saying that the only Confederate memorial she remembered from her home state of Arkansas was in the cemetery. People immediately pointed out that there was a rather larger memorial on the state Capitol grounds, where she had lived when her father served as the governor of Arkansas. So Clinton changed tactics, and on Thursday, she tweeted a comparison between Confederate monuments and Satan. "The story of Lucifer-who rebelled against God-is part of many Christians' traditions. I've never been in a church with a...

NN ARBOR, MI -- A 21-year-old Ann Arbor woman pleaded guilty as charged to one count of false report of a misdemeanor in 15th District Court on Monday, March 6. Halley Bass admitted in court that she fabricated a story about a strange man scratching her face in downtown Ann Arbor on Nov. 15. "I was suffering from depression at the time," Bass told Judge Elizabeth Pollard Hines. "I made a superficial scratch on my face. It was visible and I was embarrassed about what I'd done. So I made up a story and told a friend that a stranger...

First, the lawsuit could have been dismissed by the district court (or the court of appeals) in whole or in part for lack of jurisdiction. Second, the district court did not give the required legal reasoning in its order to justify the TRO. Third, the court had no business enjoining the executive order nationwide, instead of just in the two states. But fourth, once the district court issued the TRO, the appeals court had no authority to touch any other aspect of this legal challenge until it reaches the next stage of litigation. *snip* The TRO begins with the caption,...

Jill Stein wants recounts after cybersecurity experts recommend them. Statisticians aren't convinced there were irregularities in the presidential election.

UPDATE: A reader writes: I don't know if anyone is going to bother to look it up, but the article Senator Kennedy read yesterday sounded familiar. I seem to remember reading that when I was in college in the mid-80's as a joke article designed to make the ultra-liberals upset. I wonder if it had been printed on April 1st. An intriguing idea: did Ted Kennedy and his fellow leftists fall for an April Fool's joke? If so, it wouldn't be the first time. So, who has back issues of CAP's magazine? We could have a scoop here!

Former Ambassador Joe Wilson to speak on campus (Michigan State University) November 4, 2005 - MSU Hillel and the Greater Lansing Jewish Welfare Federation will present “An Evening with Ambassador Joe Wilson” at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 in the Big Ten Room A at the Kellogg Center. The event is open to the public and free of charge. Called by President George H. W. Bush, “a true American hero,” Ambassador Joe Wilson has been involved in international politics for more than twenty years. As the acting ambassador in Iraq during Operation Desert Shield, Wilson was responsible for freeing 150 American...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Cruel hoax or just plain cruel? A local radio show host's announcement that he planned to drown a dog today -- purportedly to draw attention to this week's drownings of two children -- turned out to be a hoax, but still drew the ire of police and dog lovers. Callers flooded 911 dispatch centers with complaints before the stunt was unveiled as a publicity put-on. WKLQ-FM morning show hosts at 8 a.m. aired sound effects that were supposed to sound like a dog being drowned at a nearby park. Disc jockeys then admitted the effort was a...

Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin acknowledged yesterday that he was the source for a newspaper column that reported earlier this week that Judge John G. Roberts Jr. said he could not rule in a Supreme Court case where U.S. law might conflict with Catholic teaching. But the Illinois Democrat maintains that the column by George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley incorrectly captured the private conversation that the senator had with Judge Roberts in his Capitol office Friday. When the column appeared Monday, Mr. Durbin's office clarified that "Judge Roberts said repeatedly that he would follow the rule of...

Judge John G. Roberts Jr. has been called the stealth nominee for the Supreme Court — a nominee specifically selected because he has few public positions on controversial issues such as abortion. However, in a meeting last week, Roberts briefly lifted the carefully maintained curtain over his personal views. In so doing, he raised a question that could not only undermine the White House strategy for confirmation but could raise a question of his fitness to serve as the 109th Supreme Court justice. The exchange occurred during one of Roberts' informal discussions with senators last week. According to two people...

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<p>For all the sniping over efforts by the Bush and Clinton administrations to thwart terrorism, information from this week's hearings into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks suggests that the two administrations pursued roughly the same policies before the terrorist strikes occurred.</p>