See the blog at...

http://mqup.typepad.com/mcgill_queens_university_/2007/09/tom-flanagan---.html

While it's specific to Canada, it has many applications for Republicans here in Michigan.

For example, Tom Flanagan recommends:

Conservatives must be willing to make progress in small, practical steps. Sweeping visions have a place in intellectual discussion, but they are toxic in practical politics. Incrementalism is the twin of moderation. Small conservative reforms are less likely to scare voters than grand conservative schemes, particularly in Canada, where conservatism is not yet the dominant public philosophy. In any case, incrementalism is intrinsically the right approach for a conservative party. Modern conservatism has its origins in Edmund Burke's critique of the sweeping radicalism of the French Revolution. "We must all obey the great law of change," he wrote. "It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees."

For more information, go to these websites...

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/Notice_To_Voters_209345_7.pdf

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/090507_Voter_Id_QA5_209294_7.pdf

See the article at... http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_buffalo_ny.html

While focused on Buffalo, this article also has application to Detroit.

From City of Troy Community Affairs...

As a new horizon of opportunities unfolds for the Troy Public Library, the City of Troy is asking for help from our Troy citizens to participate in focus groups that will help form the future for the Troy Library. Held on Tuesday, November 13 and Wednesday, November 14, from noon to 8 pm additional times for focus groups will be aimed at audiences ranging from fifth-graders to senior citizens, and all ages in between, offering their opinions related to needs and desires of the community...

For more information, go to...

http://www.ci.troy.mi.us/CommunityAffairs/PressRelease/LibraryFocusGroupsadditionaldatesinNovember.htm

Check out the blog of Donald R. Byrne (professor at UDM and adjunct professor at Walsh College) and Edward Derbin (adjunct instructor at UDM and Walsh College) at... http://byrned.faculty.udmercy.edu/

The blog is entitled "An Economics Newsletter for the New Millennium."

Here are a couple of excerpts...

There are two primary reasons for the production of this economics newsletter.  The first is to bring to the readers the growing relevance of what some like to call the New Paradigm in Economics.  By the end of the Second World War, the American economy had become burdened with a bias to both inflationary and recessionary episodes.  It appeared that episodes of both were becoming more frequent and more severe in terms of both depth and duration.  These biases have seemed to weaken as the economy evolved to the present time...

...The second reason for this newsletter is to avoid as far as possible, ideologically driven arguments.  For this reason, only officially published data will be used such as the National Income and Product Accounts from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Flow of Funds Accounts from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Census Bureau data, etc...

Troy City Council 2007 endorsements by the Right to Life of Michigan Political Action Committee:

Deborah DeBacker
Martin Howrylak
Edward Kempen
David Eisenbacher

I posted a few weeks ago that Mayor Schilling was also endorsed by the Right to Life of Michigan Political Action Committee.  Politics truly makes strange bedfellows!

Check the endorsement information at... http://www.rtl.org/html/elections/endorsed.html

Held on Saturday, October 20, 2007

See previous postings on the symposium at...

http://blog.dave.lambert.net/blog/_archives/2007/10/20/3304313.html
http://blog.dave.lambert.net/blog/_archives/2007/10/21/3306111.html