In a move that has taken many, including ME, by surprise, the Michigan Supreme Court handed down a decision this morning (pdf) denying Rep. Paul Scott’s request for a preliminary injunction meaning that his recall is back on for the November 2011 ballot. As I wrote yesterday, the Michigan Court of Appeals had put an injunction in place on the […]

As regular Eclectablog readers will have noticed, I’ve done some tinkering with the site. In addition to removing the top logo, I have changed the content to the right side and added Google+ buttons to the posts for you to easily share stuff here over at Google+. Like it? Hate it? Have suggestions? Let me know in the comments or […]

The effort to repeal Public Act 4, the odious “Emergency Manager Law”, is in the final stages. They are now in a serious campaign to count the signatures they have get them verified. They need YOUR HELP with this effort. From LaToya A. Henry, the Secretary-Treasurer of Michigan Forward: We have begun doing Saturday data entry and verification for the […]

Michigan Republicans must live in another world where everything is fine and the only things that need fixing are things that aren’t broken. Earlier this month, they passed a law that makes illegal abortions more illegaler. Now they want to make English the official language of Michigan. I must have missed the memo telling everyone it wasn’t. “We’re a nation […]

I received this comment on my latest piece about impending No-Fault insurance reform in Michigan from “Jabbo”. It displays a complete misconception regarding this so-called reform that I think is worth dispelling. I am all for the no-fault reform bill. I am tired of paying for other people to be irresponsible. I have worked since I was 12 years old […]

As I wrote about in my piece for A2Politico this week, the organizers of the recall effort against Republican state Representative Paul Scott was dealt a devastating blow last week when Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Clinton Canady granted an injunction barring the use of petition signatures that have been gathered. This was the only recall effort in Michigan to […]

The We the People rally for jobs at the Stadium Bridge in Ann Arbor scheduled for this evening has been cancelled. I do not know the reason for this and have only been told “it’s a long story”. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

This one is from Bonnie Bucqueroux of Lansing Online News.

Holy craptastic crap! “I’m on strike!” – Ellis Wyatt, from the end of the movie “Atlas Shrugged, Part 1”, based on the novel by Ayn Rand Resolved that: The Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Senate, in alliance with a global Progressive socialist movement, have participated in what appears to be a globalist socialist agenda of redistribution of wealth, and the […]

As I wrote yesterday, Rush Limbaugh criticized President Obama for sending 100 of our troops to Africa to help rid the planet of some of the most evil people alive. Here’s what he said: Now, up until today, most Americans have never heard of the combat Lord’s Resistance Army. And here we are at war with them. Have you ever […]

One of the many people who are working to ensure that Republicans do not hand a gift to insurance companies by “reforming” our state’s auto insurance laws wrote to Governor Rick Snyder. They asked him to veto any changes to our current law that would remove the requirement for lifetime benefits in the event of catastrophic injuries sustained in a […]