I’ve been a Ford truck man for 25 years, driving nothing but F150s during that period. My current ride is a 2006 Lincoln Mark LT, which is an F150 in a tux. And at 160,000 miles, I’m about to retire it and go searching for a new pick-up. The F150s on display at the North … Continue Reading →
In a few hours it’ll all be over but the shouting. I’ve stopped looking at polls, stopped pouring over the prognostications, given up riding the highs and lows of the wildly varying expert predictions of how it will all come out. Now it’s just a matter of waiting for the final poll to come out … Continue Reading →
It struck me as I was listening to Dr. Arthur Laffer at the Detroit Economic Club this week that what’s missing from the presidential campaign is one very big idea for fixing the nation’s economy. President Barack Obama sure doesn’t have it. If he did, he would have unleashed it during his first four years. … Continue Reading →
No Tigers? No problem. Tonight on DPTV Ch. 56 the Miweek team — me, Steve Henderson and Christy McDonald — talk with John Bebow of the Center For Michigan about the whoppers being told in this season’s campaign ads. Here’s the promo: http://10.5.8.67/tdnhome/tdnhome.html First pitch at 7:30. Or catch it anytime at miweek.org.
Democrats get giddy when President Barack Obama plays rope a dope on the campaign trail. So they’re burning up the social networks with his latest jab: Romnesia, to describe what he claims is his challenger’s tendency to forget his past positions. The president has been feistier since his disastrous first debate performance, as evidenced by … Continue Reading →
The consensus is that Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney must win tonight’s debate with President Barack Obama to revive his campaign hopes, and that his only path to victory is to connect with voters. I’m not sure either is true. First, despite Romney’s inability to catch a wave, the race is tightening, back to three-points … Continue Reading →
Conservatives are burning up twitter tonight attacking President Barack Obama for telling the United Nations “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prrophet of Islam.” I’d be joining them had I not bothered to google the entire speech. The rest of that remark included this: “yet to be credible, those who condemn … Continue Reading →
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm gave one of the more bizarre performances I’ve ever seen tonight on the Democratic Convention stage. She twisted, she shouted, she jumped and she jabbed her hands in the air as her face contorted and grew ever more red. She looked like someone possessed. And given that most of the … Continue Reading →
Democrats have trotted several speakers to their convention podium to assure Jewish voters that their party and President Barack Obama are good friends to Israel. But when it came time to back that pledge, convention delegates told a different story. Convention Chair Antonio Villaraigosa took a platform amendment to the delegegates Wednesday that recognized Jerusalem … Continue Reading →
Former President Bill Clinton will help push the my tonight that a return to the policies of his administration will bring back the economic prosperity of the 1990s. But the only Clinton-era policy Democrats want to mimic are the tax rates that were in place. The case from the Obama administration is that even though … Continue Reading →