RT @markhallCC: The white house is closed today due to snow. Quick, start your small business! Invest! Maybe they won't notice! #
And some say 40 days isn't long enough RT @SpaceyG:… I'm in a #GALeg committee meeting where they're [...] Loren Collins sends along a video of a local birther (who has tried to indict President Barack Obama in a common law grand jury) that approached Rep. Nathan Deal, a candidate for governor, at the Georgia Christian Alliance held the Faith, Family and Freedom Kickoff and asked him [...]
I am certain we have a few dozen volunteers here in Oconee County wanting to help with the local tournament.Nationwide event at UGA course seeks volunteers || OnlineAthens.com [...] Loren Collins sends along a video of a local birther (who has tried to indict President Barack Obama in a common law grand jury) that approached Rep. Nathan Deal, a candidate for governor, at the Georgia Christian Alliance held the Faith, Family and Freedom Kickoff and asked him [...]
The AJC has a story about the GOP establishment becoming less than comfortable with John Oxendine’s campaign.
Georgia’s Republican establishment is showing signs of discomfort with the prospect that John Oxendine will be the party’s nominee for governor, despite his popularity with many voters and status as early front-runner.
I am [...]
John Murtha's dead, victim of what sounds like surgical error while he was having his gallbladder removed. Do we miss him? Are we merely glad he left before he got himself indicted? (This blogger thinks he spent as much time being part of the problem as he did' [...]
I guess MARTA is just keeping up its racially insensitive history. I mean, you take the red line to go to the Braves’ stadium. So now the yellow line will go to Doraville.
Doraville has a high Asian population and they don’t like that the yellow line goes there.
This is [...]
Yet John Oxendine waits till he needs earned media for his governor’s race to order a hearing on this matter:
a Georgia Department of Insurance investigation of one of the nation’s largest title insurers suggests consumers should check out their policies. The department has accused Texas-based Stewart Title Guaranty [...]
The first recommendations from Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle’s Senate Budget Task Force came out today in the form of two bills designed to promote transparency and savings in state government.
SB 388, introduced by Sen. Jim Butterworth, is called the Paper Reduction Act and will bring up to $7 million in [...]
A few weeks ago, I posted on a proposal that would expand Georgia’s DNA database that was introduced by State Rep. Rob Teilhet (D-Smyrna). The proposal would require anyone arrested of a felony to submit a DNA sample.
Over at Beyond the Trestle, Martin has weighed in on my post about the proposed ballot access legislation. We both agree that Georgia's ballot access are out of date and need to be reformed to allow easier access for third parties and independents to offer Georgians more [...]
Local governments that use established governmental programs to find and identify criminal illegal immigrants would be given monetary incentives under a newly-proposed senate bill.
Sen. John Wiles (R-Kennesaw) today introduced SB 385, which would reward governments for using U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Section 287(g) and Secured Communities programs so [...]
While Robert Proctor sits on the State Ethics Commission board as its newest member – with an outstanding ethics claim pending against him – a Georgia State Senator has introduced legislation that would prevent the likes of the Atlanta attorney joining such a board.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Steve Henson [...]
Always happy to help my friends at Habitat for Humanity and the Oconee County campus of Gainesville State College.
As much as I dislike Tim Tebow, and it has everything to do with him playing for the Florida Gators, the uproar over Focus on the Family buying an ad during the Super Bowl was hilariously blown out of proportion.
What is wrong with this ad?
Did anyone catch any of the National Tea Party Convention on C-SPAN this weekend? I wasn't going to watch any of it, but as I was switching through the channels in my office on Friday evening, the name of one of the speakers caught my eye, it was Joseph Farah.' [...]
You all know where I stand on the ideological spectrum both socially and fiscally. So let me talk to my own kind for just a minute.
Dear social conservative/Christian groups opposed to Renee Untermann: are you out of your ever living mind? The sheer dumbassery by which you guys are attacking [...]
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