Snyder delivering early on promise of bipartisanship

(NOTE: This article originally appeared in the November 15, 2010 edition of Central Mochigan Life.)

Gov.-elect Rick Snyder talked the talk, now he is starting to walk the walk.

During his campaign for governor, Snyder, a political novice, promised to bring bipartisanship back to Lansing to get Michigan back on track.

So far, he is off to a great start.

Mark Kirk deserves to beat seated, immediately

Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is a fraud.

There is no two ways about it, the man should no longer be serving in the United States Senate.

In early 2009, Burris was appointed to serve in the interim basis before a special election could be held to fill the remainder of the Senate term that became vacant when Barack Obama resigned after being elected president.

The special election was held last on November 2 along side the regularly scheduled election for a full 6-year Senate term.

Republicans should take advantage of opportunity; will not get another soon

(NOTE: This article originally appeared in the November 5, 2010 edition of Central Michigan Life.)

A second chance.

That was the common theme among victorious Republicans on Tuesday night.

It first came from Senator-elect Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who said in his victory speech the Republican wave across the country that catapulted the GOP into the majority in the U.S. House, cut the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate in half, and saw numerous gubernatorial and statewide races go for the GOP was “not an embrace of the Republican Party but a second chance.”

It is a chance that must not be squandered because, as demonstrated by Tuesday night, the American voting public can be very unforgiving at the polls.

Students saw what happens when smart meets crazy during Westboro Baptist Church event

(NOTE: This article originally appeared in the November 3, 2010 edition of Central Michigan Life.)

There is an old expression that goes something like, “Never argue with an idiot because they’ll take you down to their level and then beat you with their experience.”

Shirley Phelps-Roper is many things. She is a hateful, spiteful, mean-spirited angry bigot whose words and actions are a disgrace to anybody who calls themselves a Christian or professes a love for Jesus Christ.

But she is no idiot.