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When it comes to major federal issues such as health care, energy plans and the role the government should have in banking and housing, Republicans Tom McMillin and Mike Bishop have very similar views. Both are well-known conservatives running to replace U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Howell, for the 8th Congressional District seat. Rogers is retiring. Bishop was the Senate Majority Leader under former Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Since leaving office, Bishop has been the chief legal officer for International Bancard Corp. and is an adjunct professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. McMillin was elected to his third term in the...

A trial date has been set for September 16th in District Court in Dearborn, Michigan with four Christians charged with breach of the peace after they tried to share their Christian faith to Muslims at the June 18th International Arab festival. As the four were taken off to jail, many in the crowd shouted "Allah Akbar" as the four were placed in handcuffs. Robert Muise of the Thomas More Law Center says there is the very strong possibility that a federal Civil Rights case will be filed on behalf of the four Christians. Muise also says, "It's evident that the...

"I find it a little bit presumptuous that his first day in the church, (Rev. Keith Butler) wants to lead the choir," Patterson said. "Proposing a preacher to lead the party reinforces what I've said all along: The Taliban wing of our party would lead us to a one-issue position, and it'll be the demise of the Republican Party." --- PONTIAC -- A former Detroit city councilman has joined what could become a three-way race for control of the Republican Party. Meanwhile, conservative Tom McMillin is circulating comments made by a political analyst criticizing the party leadership of L. Brooks...

Bill Ballenger, former moderate Republican state senator and editor of "Inside Michigan Politics" -- widely considered the state's most authorative political analyst -- made the following comments this past weekend on Lansing public TV's state capital political talk show, "Off the Record": “Isn’t the problem really in Oakland County, I’m going to turn things around, Brooks Patterson? "He goes around bashing everybody in the party in Oakland County who doesn’t agree with him and frankly, I think he’s been a disaster as a Chairman. "You don’t want a chairman like that...Brooks Patterson has gone around with a club, and he...