‘No taxpayer dollars are used,’ says state’s quasi-official subsidy organization - mcclallenThe Michigan Economic Development Corporation spent $31,862 to send five employees to the Middle East in December...
“Last week, five Michigan businesses traveled to the Middle East to explore new opportunities and build global partnerships that drive growth back home,” the MEDC posted on LinkedIn in January...
The trip wasn’t funded by taxpayers, Danielle Emerson, MEDC public relations manager, told CapCon in an email...
“The companies who come on these trips pay their own way, and no taxpayer dollars are used. The expenses you reference cover hotel, transportation, and food for the five MEDC staff who went on the trip and were also not supported by taxpayer dollars. Rather, they come out of the MEDC corporate budget...
Thursday, March 19, 2026
History for March 19
History for March 19 - On-This-Day.com
William Jennings Bryan 1860 - American politician
- 1831 - The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the robbery.
- 1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
- 1963 - In Costa Rica, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledged to fight Communism.
- 1998 - The World Health Organization warned of tuberculosis epidemic that could kill 70 million people in next two decades.
- 2001 - California officials declared a power alert and ordered the first of two days of rolling blackouts.
- 2003 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced that U.S. forces had launched a strike against "targets of military opportunity" in Iraq. The attack, using cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs, were aimed at Iraqi leaders thought to be near Baghdad.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Taking a Stand: Cops Say No Way When Nepo-Dem Judge Orders Them to Release and GPS Monitor Deadly Career Criminal
Taking a Stand: Cops Say No Way When Nepo-Dem Judge Orders Them to Release and GPS Monitor Deadly Career Criminal:
According to KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department last week filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court rather than comply with an order from Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Eric Goodman, son of former Las Vegas Democratic Mayor Oscar Goodman, to release a dangerous career criminal under the department’s electronic monitoring program.
IRAN IN CHAOS: PRESIDENT WANTS OUT
"There’s a real upheaval in Iran... President Pezeshkian is considering resigning from his post." Channel 14's Senior Iran Analyst - C14 News Israel | EN@c14israel
- @DBalazada explains what inside sources tell him is happening today inside the government: Pezeshkian is reportedly "exceptionally angry" at the Revolutionary Guards, accusing them of "reckless" conduct...
Father Sues Blue-State School District on Behalf of His Son Over Pledge of Allegiance
Father Sues Blue-State School District on Behalf of His Son Over Pledge of Allegiance:
A father in Maine has filed a lawsuit against his son’s school district, accusing them of failing to provide children an opportunity to recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the school day.
The lawsuit, filed against the Falmouth School Department and Superintendent Steve Nolan, alleges that the district is violating Maine law, according to the Portland Press Herald.
The statute in question dates back to 2011 and is posted on the legislature’s official website.
IRAN IN CHAOS: PRESIDENT WANTS OUT
"There’s a real upheaval in Iran... President Pezeshkian is considering resigning from his post." Channel 14's Senior Iran Analyst - C14 News Israel | EN@c14israel
Pezeshkian is reportedly "exceptionally angry" at the Revolutionary Guards, accusing them of "reckless" conduct.
- He claims the failure to protect Ali Larijani was not negligence, but a deliberate move to ensure his elimination.
- The IRGC is reportedly "very pleased" with Larijani’s death, having already prepared an "elimination dossier" on him and his brother.
- The bottom line - Iran is transitioning into an extremist military regime where Mojtaba Khamenei acts as a mere "puppet" of the Revolutionary Guards, who completely control the country.
'TOTAL CORRUPTION': Anti-Trump Judge Boasberg issues order protecting Fed chief Jerome Powell from subpoena * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
'TOTAL CORRUPTION': Anti-Trump Judge Boasberg issues order protecting Fed chief Jerome Powell from subpoena * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
Their activism already has resulted in a Supreme Court decision that they are no longer allowed to issue nationwide injunctions, a decision they've worked around by then declaring plaintiffs to be a "class."
The report cited two people familiar with a recent virtual meeting who explained chief prosecutors and other leaders of the 93 U.S. attorneys' offices "were told to provide DOJ headquarters with vivid instances in which judges obstructed through adverse rulings."
What the Pro-Iran Protests Reveal About Foreign Influence
Questions of outside funding surround the ANSWER Coalition’s protest network. - Tal Fortgang, Stu Smith
- The American strikes on Iran have opened both a new military front abroad and an old front at home. Mere hours after the bombs began to fall, leftist activists took to the streets with signs and chants denouncing American “imperialism” and demanding “Hands off Iran” and “No New US War In The Middle East.”
- It’s no coincidence that these protests bear similarities with the sometimes-violent anti-ICE, pro-Cuba, anti-Israel, and pro-Maduro rallies that have dotted the country in recent months. Behind many of these disruptions is the ANSWER Coalition—Act Now to Stop War and End Racism—an umbrella organization composed of various far-left groups.
These organizations are, in turn, closely linked with hostile foreign actors, raising questions not only about their propriety, but their legality...
300 Admirals Asleep at the Helm - Jupplandia
The Iranian blockade that barely exists, and 40 years of failure before this. - Jupplandia
- We are told that the Iranians have blockaded the Strait of Hormuz.
- We are told too that the US is losing.
- Both of these points are bullshit.
The Iranians don’t really have a blockade.
There is no physical barrier of ships.
They don’t have a bigger fleet than the US.
And they aren’t blocking all shipping.
They are letting Indian and Russian ships through, and negotiating to let Chinese ones through.
- What they do have are drones, remaining light fast craft to get on the water, and people able to drop mines in the water.
That’s all, but it is enough to cause an embarrassment.
And that’s because of military spending and naval preparedness errors going back decades...
And that’s because of military spending and naval preparedness errors going back decades...
In retrospect the Global World was excessively dependent on chokepoints controlled by terror groups and theocracies for decades.
These narrow points, like mountain passes, could be crossed only by their leave...-@wretchardthecat
Rather than mitigate supply chain risk, the Global World for ideological and economic reasons, increased their dependence without corresponding insurance, either in the form of stockpiles, alternative suppliers or military forces.
- They relied instead on the charlatans who offered "international law" as a substitute for physical security...
- Until, in a moment of reckoning Iran partly closed the Bab el-Mandam and more consequentially menaced the Strait of Hormuz and there was no answer...
The only question now is do we have the capacity to learn.
'Die in your rage': Islamist attacks and murder plots are quickly adding up | Blaze Media
'Die in your rage': Islamist attacks and murder plots are quickly adding up | Blaze Media:
According to a U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security terror threat assessment report published last year, there were over 50 jihadist cases in 30 states between April 2021 and June 2025, including vehicle ramming attacks and efforts to provide material support to ISIS.
Last year, for instance, started off with the slaughter of 14 Americans and the grievous injury of scores of additional victims in New Orleans by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a radical whom the FBI revealed had pledged allegiance to ISIS.
How a First-Grader Taught Her School District and a Federal Judge about Free Speech
In March 2021, California principal Jesus Becerra was confronted by a clear and present threat to his school. - JONATHAN TURLEYStanding before him was the culprit — a student apparently so dangerous that Becerra had to act without delay to protect the entire Viejo Elementary School in the Capistrano Unified School District.
The little girl is known only as B.B. in federal filings, but her actions were so heinous that a parent alerted Becerra to take whatever action was necessary.
The little girl is known only as B.B. in federal filings, but her actions were so heinous that a parent alerted Becerra to take whatever action was necessary.
- Beccera showed B.B. the incriminating evidence: a picture of children holding hands with the words “any life” written under “Black Lives Matter.”
- He told her that she would need to apologize for the outrageous statement. (Becerra denies using the word “racist.”).
- Her family alleges that she was also suspended from recess for two weeks, apparently to consider her failures as a human being.
That single piece of paper has since prompted years of litigation, in which California educators fought for the right to punish this child for a picture given to a friend.
And if that seems outrageous, you do not even know the worst of it...
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