The Tax Man Cometh
It’s interesting to note that some allegedly conservative members of the Georgia State House are championing a new proposed tax on phone lines, television subscriptions […]
Political Commentary
To Deny Climate Change Is to Deny History
To deny climate change is indeed to deny history. Graphs, such as the one produced by longrangeweather.com, chronicle over 4,000 years of significant swings in […]
A Crisis of Bias- The New York Times Meets The National Enquirer
Nothing brings a person face to face with reality like the specter of financial distress. Just ask Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr, publisher of The New […]
The Ethanol Bandwagon Hits a Bump in the Road
The majority of scientists studying climate change (formerly known as global warming) cite carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as being the most villainous of “greenhouse gases” […]
Ethnic Gerrymandering- A Problem, Not a Solution
A group of plaintiffs, including the Georgia chapter of the NAACP and the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) recently filed lawsuit in U.S. […]
July 4, 2016
The fourth day of July, 2016 marks the 239th anniversary of what began as a grand social experiment known as the United States of America. […]
Is Liberalism a Mental Illness? You Decide
It has been written many times that liberalism is a mental illness. As an attorney friend of mine would say, “That’s harsh”. So rather than […]
Sierra Club Succumbs to Political Correctness
I’m a tree-hugger. I have been for as long as I can remember, which is well before the term was coined. I wasn’t taught to […]
Hillary Clinton- What Has She Done?
Hillary Clinton appears to be the Democrat candidate for president and that leads to an obvious question- what has she done to deserve the nomination? […]
Signs, Signs- Everywhere A Sign
You can always tell when election time is approaching- campaign signs start popping up like weeds. Campaign signs are obviously intended to encourage people to […]
Criminals ALWAYS Have Guns
During 2013, the latest year for which FBI statistics exist, 12,230 murders were committed in the United States. Of those, 8,438 involved the use of […]
Fail to Vote and You Fail Yourself
I haven’t heard them all, but I’ve heard most of them—excuses for not voting: “What difference does it make, they’re all crooks?” “I’m tired of […]
DeKalb County Commission- A Candidate’s Perspective
Nancy Jester first found a public spotlight focused on her when, as a “mom with a blog and calculator”, she exposed a host of financial […]
Senate Candidate Meets Apartment Controversy
A proposal to build apartments in Snellville has created a level of controversy that is rarely encountered, yet not unprecedented when such proposals involve a […]
Common Core- Uncommonly Rotten
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to interview Nancy Jester, a former member of the DeKalb county school board who was then a candidate […]