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"I am sick and tired of the defamation of Donald Trump by the media and the Clinton campaign. This is a good man." One of the highlights here is when Rudy says he’s breaking a promise to Trump to reveal how Trump helped New York police officers in need and insisted on doing so anonymously. I should say, that’s one of the substantive highlights. I suppose the overall highlight is the rousing nature of the speech and the way it was received on the floor. I never understood why his own campaign in 2008 failed to take off. I’m sure...

Last year Michigan lawmakers wisely did away with what was once the most generous film incentive program in the nation. Mackinac Center research showed that despite giving film producers half a billion dollars from 2007 to 2013, there were no signs that the film industry in Michigan was actually growing. Essentially, the program amounted to a taxpayer handout to a select few movie production studios. And now there’s new research that suggests these programs aren’t benefiting other states’ economies either. The evidence comes from an article published in the American Review of Public Administration written by Michael Thom, a professor...

Holy Cow! What a speech! This woman is fantastic. I am simply astonished, gobsmacked and in awe of this speech. You really need to see this.

Ah, I remember my own days in the military fondly, but one of the biggest adjustments we had to make was learning that there was a set of instructions for doing everything from operating heavy machinery to washing your socks. Hey… that’s just military life for you. There’s always a manual to be referred to and if you get confused, there’s a manual listing all of the manuals. Take for example the rules about getting a sex change operation. You’ll want to make sure that you’ve checked in with the correct sources and… Wait a minute. What was that again?...

Not in the literal sense. Charles Manson wanted to incite a race war because he thought that after a race war that saw blacks kill all non blacks (Manson and his “family” would survive however…) that he would return to rule them. You can be pretty sure that the Black Lives Matter guys aren’t seeking to start a race war so they can be ruled by a white guy… But they certainly seem to want a race war.Just as Charles Manson was not connected with reality, the ideas behind the Black Lives Matter movement are equally disconnected to reality. Remember...

So it happens again. Yet another Muslim commits mass murder on European soil. This time, it was in Nice on the French Riviera. A terrorist from Tunisia killed at least 84 people by plowing a truck into a crowd of thousands gathered along a seaside promenade in Nice to watch the city’s Bastille Day fireworks. Some of those who were murdered were children. Next time, it may be in London, Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, Vienna or Stockholm. Or perhaps in a French city yet again. It is immensely tiresome to listen to the many nonsensical comments after each Islamic atrocity. As...

Freepers,We have heard about "The Monster Vote", and add to that, folks who won't speak about voting for Trump because it could cost them, but what if their are Trump Voters are like the "Broken Glass Republican" and will crawl over broken Glass to vote for him?Think about this, in regards to Law Enforcement. Via some quick research, and I see we have something like 1.4 million Law Enforcement Officers in America. Now count the Spouses, Siblings, Parents, Inlaws, Kids, Cousins etc that will stand with Law Enforcement as they go in the booth in November, and they will be...

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” -Barack Obama, 2008Enough. Yes, obama is inciting violence against cops and he's got to stop. It started with Henry Gates. Without knowing a single fact, obama accused the cops of "acting stupidly": "But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, No. 3 ... that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped...

Michigan’s 100 largest cities and townships have over $5.4 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. The liabilities are the difference between what municipalities have promised to public workers as retiree benefits and what they have put aside to pay for them. A main driver behind this future debt seems to be the “discount rate” – the investment rate cities assume when projecting costs far off in the future. Some cities assume extremely generous market returns, which mean they pay less in the short term but much more later when their assumptions turn out to be too high. But cities that use...

I'm listening to the speech from clinton talking about those who commit crimes must pay. I'm thinking; howabout we start with you - the most well known criminal in America today

I believe our world is on fire and the flames are licking at our feet. Because this is how I see things, if it were up to me I would grab the NeverTrump “Oh so much more conservative than thou” crowd and throw them around like a rag doll. They have put my family and my country in great danger with their selfish antics and insistence upon backing some non-existent, purely utopian, conservative warrior over Donald Trump, a man who is more than capable of doing the job. These quislings would rather see America’s destruction, by planning to actively campaign...

This week Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg waded into the political domain and unintentionally bolstered the chances for Donald Trump to win the presidency. Calling him a "faker with a big ego," the 83-year-old Justice threatened to move to New Zealand if Trump wins in November. Alarmed that Ginsburg's outburst could work in Trump's favor, the Washington Post's editors criticized "her abandonment of the veneer of judicial impartiality. The acceptance of the Court's authority to strike down legislation enacted by the people's representatives relies on a perception of unbiased application of basic legal and constitutional rules. Taking sides in...

By continuing to cast aspersions on police in general even as they're being gunned down, Obama fans the flames of this madness and gets blood on his own hands I do not make this statement lightly. I thought about it a lot. I used to roll my eyes at liberals who blamed Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush for everything under the sun - including things that clearly had nothing to do with them. I don’t want to behave in the same silly way now just because we have a liberal president and my political bias makes me want to...

If you didn't believe Obama wanted a race war before, you better believe it now CLEVELAND —In what is becoming a depressingly regular occurrence in the Obama era, police officers were murdered by a black militant in a shootout in Baton Rouge on Sunday, apparently in revenge for the recent police-involved death of black career criminal Alton Sterling outside a Baton Rouge food store. At time of writing, three police officers had succumbed to the injuries they suffered in Louisiana’s capital city. Another three were wounded.

The other day, I attended a public hearing of the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan in Northwest Detroit. The Mackinac Center’s analysts haven’t dug deeply into the RTA’s plans and assumptions surrounding its $4.6 billion millage request on November’s ballot. But the rhetoric from the RTA leadership in attendance was troubling — even before we look at the numbers. Longtime Detroit radio host Mildred Gaddis broadcast from the event for her show on WCHB-AM 1200, interviewing RTA representatives and taking questions from the audience and social media. Virtually all the questions focused on either service concerns — Would the...

Black Lives Matter, who have cancelled out all other lives mattering, seek to make cop killing the norm We should think of Barack Hussein Obama as so much dust because not only is it the natural order of things, but just like all the rest of us, that’s exactly what Obama really is. “Dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.” (Gn.3:19) Today is Monday, July 18, 2016 anno Domini (Year of the Lord) often translated to the Year of Our Lord. It’s supposed to be Day 1, the beginning of the George Soros-funded, Obama-inspired take down of the...

FN Manufacturing rented advertising space in the Columbia, SC Airport. The Richland-Lexington Airport District approved the billboard. It didn't see anything inappropriate about the ad. Twenty percent of the travelers through the airport are soldiers. Then the political pressure started.From thestate.com: Columbia Metropolitan Airport has removed a billboard-sized advertisement of a firearms manufacturer from its concourse.The decision comes a day after The State newspaper reported the ad, featuring eight firearms from FN Manufacturing, upset some travelers. It touted, “Yeah, we carry.” “I pulled in the commission, and really, they felt that given the negative feedback that it’d probably be...

Having eliminated some teaching positions and still facing a projected budget deficit, a community college in Michigan's Upper Peninsula plans to launch an athletics program. The move is stirring criticism from faculty members who question the administration’s priorities. Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba will add men’s and women’s cross-country in the fall of 2017, and then men’s and women’s basketball in the winter. The college president said athletics will be added — on a shoestring basis — as a way to attract students and offset a declining enrollment. “We need to do something,” said Bay College President Laura...

Without being able to peer into the mind of Donald Trump, it’s hard to discern what prompted him to pick Governor Pence. If we take his words at face value, party unity was one of the primary motivating factors. That undoubtedly played a role, although I doubt it will sway Republicans in the Dump Trump camp, whose obsession borders on the pathological and will undoubtedly persist through Cleveland. My take is that this choice is a bid to boost the perceived statesmanship of the GOP going into November. The gravitas deficit, a la Dick Cheney and Gaffes Biden, who was...

Obama constantly tells us that ISIS (The Islamic State) has nothing to do with Islam, even though Islam is its foundation. However Isis, the Egyptian goddess of health, marriage, and wisdom, plainly had nothing to do with Islam. If Obama's references are actually to Isis, then His characterization is true. After the silly stuff, there are some pertinent videos about the ongoing Islamist conquest of America under Obama. First, a not-very-funny attempt at humor on a very unfunny topic. Not  Islamist terrorist Not Isis' followers   Not Egyptian goddesses The Cultural Appropriation Is our Right (CAIR) organization praised Obama for His appropriation...