Common Core Is Now A Common Enemy of Conservatives
Tweet It is no longer polite to talk about the Common Core curriculum in many conservative circles. Just as any proposal for immigration reform is immediately labeled “amnesty”, any talk of setting a national standard so that K-12 education can be portable as students move around the country or attend colleges out of state is [...]
Read More →Karen Handel Set For Pro-Life Candidacy
Tweet As Georgia media outlets were breaking the news that Jack Kingston was moving his “unofficial” candidacy for the US Senate into a formal and official campaign last week, Karen Handel was sending out an email reminding Georgia voters that she too is officially an unofficial candidate. In the note, she said the following:
Read More →So You Say You’re Angry? So What.
Tweet It was not so long ago when anger was a pejorative in politics. Those trying to marginalize the Tea Party as it originally organized referred to them as an “Angry Mob”. Without much sense of irony, this angered many that were part of the protests. But the anger wasn’t the kind of blinding anger [...]
Read More →A Week We Would Like To Forget
Tweet Last week was one that many will want to forget, but few will. It began Monday with a terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon. As this column is being written Friday morning, it is ending with a Policeman at MIT and one suspect dead and a Boston suburb shut down searching for a suspect [...]
Read More →No Pleasing The Party Of No
Tweet I’ve almost been amused at the press Senator Johnny Isakson has received over the past week. Almost. Some on the hard right are going ballistic over the temerity of Isakson to agree to have dinner with 11 of his colleagues from the Senate and the President. These same folks are people who like to [...]
Read More →Immigration Reform Isn’t Amnesty
Tweet After more than two years of Washington focused on short term contrived financial deadlines, our nation’s government is preparing for a different – and significant – policy debate. Possibly as early as this week, the U.S. Senate is expected to release a bi-partisan proposal to reform immigration laws.
Read More →Cutting Back To Move Forward
Tweet There is an old proverb that says “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.” It’s time for me to plant some new trees to replace the ones I didn’t plant 20 years ago. And with that understanding I won’t bury the lede of this [...]
Read More →A Post Easter Message
Tweet The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had an excellent piece this weekend on Billy Neal Moore. Moore has a prison ministry where he preaches the gospel of forgiveness. But he doesn’t do this as a well-intentioned pastor who has led a perfect life. He is, rather, a man who spent 16 years on death row for a [...]
Read More →No One Wins When Local Governments Fail
Tweet 35 educators are now under indictment as what hopefully will be the final chapter in the cheating scandal in Atlanta Public Schools. The indictments include the charge of racketeering under RICO statutes. This essentially means that Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard is charging those in charge of Georgia’s capitol city schools as running [...]
Read More →Georgia’s Gone Hollywood
Tweet The Movie Industry has returned to Georgia, and the industry continues to grow. Last week, Fayette County Commissioners gave zoning approval to 288 acres of land that will soon see a movie studio rise from the rolling farmland. The owner, Pinewood Studios, is organization behind the Harry Potter and James Bond films among many [...]
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