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Ward Connerly has done it again: A striking 58% of Michigan voters gave the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative a thumbs up; only three counties voted against it. The language of the MCRI closely tracks California's 1996 Proposition 209, also led by Mr. Connerly. It amends the Michigan Constitution to "ban public institutions from using affirmative-action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes." The political and business establishments, pressure groups like the AARP, labor-union leaders, religious spokesmen, the professoriat, the major Detroit...

Jeopardy question... What is - A party of elitists who are in denial about their losses, who fail to recognize that they aren't on the same page with their party's leadership, who appear blind to the concerns of the local electorate and local activists, and who at times appear to have lost their way from their founding? Answer is - The Democrat Party in 2004? Good guess and yes - but you'd also be describing today's Michigan GOP. In the month since President Bush was re-elected and claimed a mandate, the state GOP here in Michigan was acting like they...