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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 11:00am EST
  

• Your morning jolt

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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 8:40am EST
  

• A volatile debate over taxes in the Senate

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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 7:06pm EST
  

• Phil Gingrey on the topic of Rush Limbaugh, again

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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 7:05pm EST
  

• Florida study: Sarah Palin hurt by a focus on her looks

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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  

• Your morning jolt

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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 8:37am EST
  

• Kemp jumps into secretary of state race, shows backing

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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 5:20pm EST
  

• Trouble here: Paychecks for son-in-law went to Sanford Bishop's wife

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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 4:58pm EST
  

• Sunday sales bill yanked in face of committee defeat

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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 4:54pm EST
  

• White House: Rush Limbaugh fight ‘counterproductive'

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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  

• Operation Rush job: How Democrats painted Limbaugh as face of the GOP

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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 9:09am EST
  

• Your morning jolt

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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 9:07am EST
  

• Senate minority leader one of 19 lawmakers who haven't paid taxes

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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 8:02am EST
  

• A nail that could spoil Sonny Perdue's road trip

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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 6:23pm EST
  

• Drunk-dialing over Sunday sales

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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 2:56pm EST
  

• GBI looks at a congressman's stepdaughter and her two jobs

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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 2:13pm EST
  

• Sonny Perdue endorses President Obama's choice of Kathleen Sebelius for HHS secretary

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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 1:02pm EST
  

• Gingrich to convert to Catholicism

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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 10:33am EST
  

• Rural Georgia explores governor's transportation reorg

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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 9:47am EST
  

• Group urges defeat of bill to require proof of citizenship for voter registration

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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 9:11am EST
  

• Your morning jolt

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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 8:44am EST
  

• On Glenn Richardson and remaking the DOT

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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 5:17pm EST
  

• Moving day for Political Insider

  We’ve got a new blogging platform that should get comments up more quickly, and is a little bit better at handling multi-media. You can find it here. But do me the larger favor — grab this slice of code below,... [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 3:18pm EST
  

• David Frum on Rush Limbaugh's rise as voice of the GOP

  Conservative David Frum this morning on the downside of a decision to choose Rush Limbaugh as the Republican party’s answer to President Barack Obama: On the one side, the president of the United States: soft-spoken and conciliatory, never angry, always... [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 12:43pm EST
  

• Gingrich the Phrasemaker on European socialism

  As everyone learned last year, Newt Gingrich’s new and enhanced role in the Republican party is that of Chief Phrasemaker. He’s the coiner of policies boiled down to bumper-stickers. Last year, it was “Drill here, drill now.” Over the weekend,... [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 10:03am EST
  

• Your morning jolt

  This morning on ajc.com: — Georgia Power gets its wish as opponents fume. — Who voted for pay-in-advance nuke bill, and who didn’t. — DOT says it’s capable of spending stimulus money without Gena Evans. — Obama to tap Kansas... [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 8:27am EST
  

• On the slowing flow of people into the South

  Perhaps in a few years, each of us will look back and tell of the moment we realized that this economy was spiraling in an exceptional and dreadful way. When that time comes, I will remember a party out in... [...]
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  Posted: March 01, 2009, 10:46am EST
  

• Sorry, no morning jolt

  My apologies, but family business has called me away today. George Galloway, a 94-year-old veteran of General Patton’s’ Red Ball Express, must be buried in Cleveland tomorrow. The Legislature isn’t in session, but for doings in the state Capitol, please... [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 7:00am EST
  

• Reed lays claim to Obama campaign advisors

  Last year, Councilwoman Mary Norwood said she’s the Barack Obama candidate in the race to succeed Shirley Franklin to become Atlanta’s next mayor. But when it comes to Obama infrastructure, much of that has been snagged by state Sen. Kasim... [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 6:57pm EST
  

• Governor vows to crush a transportation rebellion

  Holy cow. Have you ever seen anything so….well, snafued. While you sit in traffic, the state’s system for getting you there is erupting in a civil war that’s likely to end up before the Georgia Supreme Court. Less than an... [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 5:46pm EST
  

• On Sunday sales and the Senate's playful sense of irony

  The joy of our state Capitol can be found in the twists and turns that lawmakers are prepared to take — sometimes, on behalf of the right people. Late Wednesday, after an hour and 45-minute delay, a meeting of the... [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 3:26pm EST
  

• The topic of the day for conservatives: The "2% illusion''

  This opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal is churning through right-handed web sites today, and providing much fodder for talk radio: A tax policy that confiscated 100% of the taxable income of everyone in America earning over $500,000 in... [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 1:46pm EST
  

• January unemployment rate hits record high

  The state Department of Labor just released January unemployment figures, showing a preliminary but record-high rate of 8.6 percent. This is the highest seasonal rate since 1976, when the U.S. Labor Department standardized unemployment rates among all states, said state... [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 1:10pm EST
  

• Your morning jolt

  This morning on ajc.com: — Sonny Perdue says if he doesn’t take every last stimulus dollar, it won’t be out of protest. — Georgia economy in the tank until 2011. — Georgia Power’s nuke bill up for what could be... [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 8:51am EST
  

• Bobby Jindal as the next 'secret Muslim'

  Dan Gilgoff, who writes the God & Country blog for U.S. News and World Report, says that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is running up against the same “secret Muslim” allegations that dogged Barack Obama. Gilgoff had posted earlier this week... [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 8:15am EST
  

• The speedy but rocky first vote on Gov. Sonny Perdue's transportation bill

  The Senate Transportation Committee late Wednesday passed out Gov. Sonny Perdue’s legislation to reorganize the state’s transportation agencies — which allowed S.B. 200 to keep moving at breakneck speed despite serious questions raised by both Democrats and Republicans. The final... [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 7:02pm EST
  

• Reading material for your drive home

  The great fear among business types is that the push for a sales tax for transportation — whether regional or statewide — will be swamped by Gov. Sonny Perdue’s decision to propose a reorganization of Georgia’s transportation agencies. So Get... [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 2:07pm EST
  

• Did Obama just call the F-22 a Cold War relic?

  For a Republican, Rep. Phil Gingrey of Marietta was fairly complimentary of President Barack Obama’s big speech last night. But there were a couple things the president said that make him worry, according to my AJC colleague Bob Keefe in... [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 11:31am EST
  

• Taking the fight over sexual academics to Facebook

  When he last appeared in the AJC two weeks ago, state Rep. Calvin Hill (R-Canton) had — before a House committee — backtracked a bit on his criticism of state universities that offer programs with a sexual emphasis. Hill defended... [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 9:15am EST
  

• Your morning jolt

  This morning on ajc.com: — President Barack Obama: We are not quitters. — Stimulus money doled out before it gets here. — State cuts few jobs, but furloughs 25,000. — We don’t have sanctuary cities, but Senate would make them... [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 8:25am EST
  

• Proof that Obama is sending Republicans to the couch

  A friend ripped this from the pages of The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress:... [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 6:28pm EST
  

• Perdue talks transportation with the man who controls the flow of dollars

  Gov. Sonny Perdue wrapped up his four-day Washington trip on Tuesday talking about his new favorite subject — transportation. Perdue met Tuesday with U.S. Transportation Department Secretary Ray LaHood to discuss transportation funding possibilities through the $787 billion economic stimulus... [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 6:05pm EST
  

• Kathy Cox's turn to see what the stimulus offers

  First the mayor, then the governor, now the state school superintendent. Kathy Cox is scheduled to be the latest Georgia official to road trip to Washington for a lecture on the downstream effects of the economic stimulus, says my AJC... [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 2:34pm EST
  

• In Texas, Hutchinson leads Perry with 'landslide' numbers, says poll

  U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson would beat incumbent Republican Rick Perry “in a landslide” if a primary for governor of Texas were held today, according to a North Carolina polling firm. Public Policy Polling currently has Hutchinson at 56 percent,... [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 1:31pm EST
  

• Perdue on the stimulus: He didn't lobby House Republicans to oppose it

  An interesting couple paragraphs appeared this morning on The Atlantic Monthly’s business blog. The topic was the rift among Republican governors over the $787 million stimulus package: Many Republican governors seemed more comfortable on the sidelines of their intraparty debate.... [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 1:05pm EST
  

• The transportation push-back begins

  Last Thursday, minutes after Gov. Sonny Perdue, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and House Speaker Glenn Richardson unveiled a plan to reorganize the way Georgia makes road and rail policy, the rebellion started. A series of three elections for membership on... [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 10:27am EST
  

• Your morning jolt

  This morning on ajc.com: — Most fees for nuke plant would go to investors, not debt. — Florida trying to undo nuclear plant financing — Federal Medicaid funding arrives Wednesday, Perdue says. — Hospitals, insurers, likely to avoid new fees.... [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 8:14am EST
  

• Write your own caption here

  It’s hard to say what Gov. Sonny Perdue has on his mind here, but he appears to have more than a mild headache as he listens to President Barack Obama this morning in a session with the National Governors... [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 1:12pm EST
  

• Radio ads target to GOP senators for voucher vote

  Speaking of religious conservatives reasserting their clout. The Georgia Christian Alliance launched radio ads this morning in Gainesville and Augusta, in an attempt to pressure two Republicans to vote a school voucher bill out of a Senate committee this week.... [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 9:55am EST
  

• Your morning jolt

  On ajc.com this morning:” — Governor balks at some stimulus money. — Perdue defends overhaul of transportation agencies. — Georgia transportation plan a power shift of big funds. — Growth screeches to halt. Last fall saw an increase of only... [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 8:26am EST