The Walking Dead…
Tweet AMC has created a monster smash hit with The Walking Dead. A tale of humanity and survival during the zombie apocalypse. Watching the first episode of season one, it will be easy to understand why one would become an addict. Great show and I highly recommend getting into the zombification that is sweeping America. [...]
Read More →Congress Considers “No Budget, No Pay”
Tweet Last week I argued that Republicans needed to reorder the deadlines they face to unwind the remainder of the fiscal cliff by pushing the debt ceiling back until after sequestration and a new Continuing Resolution (CR) are passed. The debt ceiling seemed the wrong battle to have first both politically and for the well-being [...]
Read More →Fiscal Cliff Economics
Tweet Today, we’re going to take a quick look at basic microeconomics to help understand why our elected leaders in Washington D.C. see no easy fixes to the “fiscal cliff” issue that will be dominating political news for the rest of the year. For the three of you still reading after that first sentence, I [...]
Read More →Our Leaders’ Leaders
Tweet This week, leaders in the US Congress as well as the Georgia Legislature will begin the process of deciding who will lead them as they try to lead us through the next two years. The battles are not insignificant though most will likely never know these elections happen. The results will determine the direction [...]
Read More →Barrow Keeps Georgia 12
Tweet As Georgia’s Republicans continue to grasp the national election results, there remains a clear disparity. It appears that Republicans will now have a supermajority in the State Senate. At this time they are one Republican short in the State House. Republicans held on to both statewide Public Service Commissioner seats convincingly, retaining all statewide [...]
Read More →Time To Govern
Tweet Four years ago, Americans came to the polls and swept Democrats into control of the White House and Congress. It was a landmark and sweeping election of historic proportion.
Read More →Election Night: What I’m Watching
Tweet Today’s the day. This chapter in the never ending campaign cycle is over at 7pm. We then count the votes, which hopefully will be mercifully decisive by the wee hours of the morning. I don’t believe the country is in much of a mood to tolerate a recount of Bush-Gore proportions.
Read More →Final Poll Results Due Tuesday
Tweet This is the column where I’m supposed to tell you what’s going to happen Tuesday night. Except I can’t, and I’m not sure who can. We’ll know soon enough anyway. At least we can hope so. While there are predictions for landslides for both Presidential candidates, there exists the possibility that one or more [...]
Read More →Barrow Hanging Tough In Republican Leaning District
Tweet When the Georgia legislature redistricted Congressional maps in the summer of 2011 to fit with new census numbers and allow for Georgia’s new 14th congressional district, much attention was given to the district of John Barrow. It was not the kind of district that Congressman Barrow necessarily wanted. Much of the Democratic base from [...]
Read More →Right “In The Main”
Tweet Tuesday night featured the 3rd debate, but the second of the largely inconsequential, entertainment for the partisan bases debates. Vice Presidential debates are purely for sport. Barring a horrible flub, the VP debate usually accomplishes the art of doing something that would be less than presidential if attempted by the candidates on the [...]
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