If you're looking to go out at insane hours of the day on Black Friday, like my wife and mother-in-law, there a couple websites that are keeping tabs on many of the deals for Christmas. Check out TheBlackFriday.com, Black-Friday.net and DealNews.com.
I refuse to step foot in any' [...]
Remember the census worker that everyone thought was murdered in Kentucky? Reports are out today that he committed suicide and staged his death to look like a murder:A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look [...]
A day after apologizing for the death of Kathryn Johnston and the day patrons of the Atlanta Eagle filed suit against the city, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington has resigned.
[...]It doesn't look like things are all well and good among Democrats in the Senate:Fissures between liberal and centrist Democrats cracked open on Sunday in the aftermath of a procedural vote, which paved the way for the estimated $848bn draft Senate bill to be debated on the floor. Leaders' [...]
In case you're interested, Committee for a Better Atlanta is hosting a web forum this evening with candidates in runoffs for elected office inside the City of Atlanta. Kasim Reed, who served in the State Senate until this summer, is currently speaking.
I got an invite for this at' [...]
The national debt and spending need to be addressed:Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal [...]
The Atlanta Police Department has finally gotten around to apologizing for the death of Kathryn Johnston, who was killed in a botch drug raid three years ago this week:“I take full responsibility for what happened. What happened to Mrs. Johnston was tragic,” said Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington. “I [...]
Walter Jones points out that a tough session lays ahead for legislators:Past sessions became known for the dominant legislation debated, such as school reform in 2000, the statewide water plan in 2008 and redistricting in countless years. The 2010 session, which convenes Jan. 11, will be characterized not by [...]
Rasmussen is out with a new poll that shows opposition to ObamaCare has reached a new high:Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls [...]
It's that time of year again, members of the Georgia General Assembly are prefiling legislation for the 2010 session. Insider Advantage already has an article up about them, though only a handful of bills have been prefiled for either Chamber and almost exclusively by a few members.
House prefiles [...]
Georgia Democrats raised more than Republicans in the month of October, and have raised more for the entire year-to-date. However, Republicans have well over $1.6 million cash-on-hand compared to the Democrats $147k.
[...]In case you're interested, I sat in on the Georgia Politics Podcast on Saturday with Joseph Geierman, Catherine Smith, Rusty Tanton and James Williams.
You can listen to it here.
' [...]According to Gallup, President Barack Obama's approval numbers have slipped below 50 percent. Up to this point Rasmussen is the only polling firm to reflect that (different methodology).
"We would like to link you to all the top stories in today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution, but some aren’t posted online. In fact, the Atlanta/State News page and the editorial page are unchanged from Saturday morning. No one there appears to care anymore. Among the stories missing are two front-page" [...]
According to a new poll from CNN, Democrats are taking heat for the economy, months after taking ownership of these woes:
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country’s current economic problems. That’s down 15 points from May, [...]
In case you haven’t already heard, the Democrats in the Senate were successful on the procedural to open debate on ObamaCare:
The spectator galleries were full for the unusual Saturday night showdown, and applause broke out briefly when the vote was announced. In a measure of the significance of the [...]
The first procedural vote on Obama in the Senate will come tomorrow as Democrats try to win 60 votes to begin debate:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that the first crucial vote on an $848 billion health care overhaul package would probably happen Saturday.
That procedural vote will decide [...]
If I told you a United States Senator drew this picture of his home state, you wouldn't believe me. It looks just like the State of Georgia.
You can check out other Senators' drawings here.
[...]Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) may be in trouble if he gets a primary challenger:A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in Arizona finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie with potential challenger J.D. Hayworth. McCain earns 45% of the vote, while Hayworth picks [...]
In case you're interested, Brett Bittner and I talked with former Congressman Bob Barr about a letter he co-signed earlier this week with David Keane of the American Conservative Union and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform supporting a move of detainees from the United' [...]
On news of the score from the CBO on the Senate version of ObamaCare I wrote:As I've noted in posts on previous scores, the CBO always adds that each score is "subject to substantial uncertainty" because these estimates are almost always inaccurate.This morning, thanks to Jamie' [...]
US Rep. Nathan Deal, who is seeking the GOP nomination for Georgia of Georgia, told the Savannah Morning News that he'd sign a $1 per pack cigarette tax hike into law if it were passed by the legislature, hoping to use the revenues to plug the budget gap:U.S. Rep.' [...]
Remember all those jobs supposedly saved or created by the so-called "stimulus" bill? The guy responsible for federal oversight of "stimulus" spending can't verify the Obama Administration's claims:Recovery Board Chairman Earl Devaney was responding to a request for information by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the top Republican on the' [...]
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Libertarians believe capitalism works better than any system that instead is based on government intervention. [...]
Congrats to Kelly McCutchen, who has been named President of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
[...]Yes, this is the dumbest resolution to ever come before Congress.
I'll complain if I damn want to.
' [...]There is yet another score from the Congressional Budget Office for ObamaCare (it hasn't been released to the public). According to the Wall Street Journal, the legislation will cost $849 billion in the first ten years and also cut budget deficits by $127 billion. Oh, and it contains' [...]
We can't buy alcohol on Sunday in Georgia, but it looks like momentum is building to bring horse racing to the state:A bipartisan panel of state lawmakers on Wednesday backed a plan to legalize betting on horse racing in Georgia.
Rep. Harry Geisinger (R-Roswell), the chairman of the Special Equine' [...]
Over at the Tax Foundation, Gerald Prante explains some of Frédéric Bastiat's economic beliefs by using New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick's decision to go for it on 4th and 2 against the Indianapolis Colts:The type of response we see to Coach Belichick's decision is too [...]
The national debt of the United States has topped $12 trillion:It's another record-high for the U.S. National Debt which today topped the $12-trillion mark. Divided evenly among the U.S. population, it amounts to $38,974.34 for every man, woman and child.
Technically, the debt hit the new high yesterday, but it [...]
The Florida legislature passed a $1 dollar tax increase on cigarettes this year, on top of the increase passed by Congress with SCHIP expansion, and sales have taken a hit:Cigarette sales have fallen sharply across Florida since a $1-a-pack tax increase took effect July 1, plunging nearly 50 [...]
China wants to know the fiscal implications of ObamaCare:
Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House [...]
The House of Representatives will vote this week on a $300 billion "doc fix," similar to what failed in the Senate last month:Say you are a member of Congress who agrees that the cuts should be rescinded -- that physician payments shouldn't be reduced, that is -- but' [...]
We all know the jobs "created or saved" by this Keynesian spending are bogus, but [...]
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[...]Sen. Johnny Isakson doubts ObamaCare is going anywhere and notes that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will not listen to any compromises (not that a compromise would be a good thing):Georgia’s senators are bracing for a contentious debate on health care reform and are dubious of Majority Leader [...]
It looks like President Obama is backing away from job-killing environmental policies that would have come out of Copenhagen:President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed today that next month's much-anticipated climate change summit will be merely a way station, not the once hoped-for end point, in the search [...]
You've got to appreciate humor, especially when it's at the expense of a racist.
' [...]Congress will vote to raise the debt ceiling by the end of the year: The Obama administration is confident Congress will raise the country’s debt limit by year end to avert a showdown similar to the one that shuttered parts of the government in 1995, administration officials said.
The White [...]
Rep. John Barrow (D-GA) explains his vote against ObamaCare:Late Saturday night, the House of Representatives voted on H.R. 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act." Health care reform is one of the most critical issues facing this nation right now, and fixing the problem in a way that [...]
Jim Galloway gives us details about House Speaker Glenn Richardson:Last Sunday, Paulding County sheriff deputies and others were called to Richardson’s home in Hiram, set on scrubland that he’d purchased to give his boys a place to rev their ATVs.
The next day, the speaker missed a major GOP bash [...]
President Barack Obama is talking about addressing the deficit, apparently telling cabinet departments to expect the issue to be addressed either by a spending freeze or cuts:The Obama administration, mindful of public anxiety over the government's mushrooming debt, is shifting emphasis from big-spending policies to deficit reduction. Domestic agencies [...]
Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) recently attempted suicide and is admitting to suffering from depression:Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) suffers from depression and recently tried to take his own life.
Richardson, in a statement to the media, said he has been suffering from depression for the past two-and-a-half years since [...]
Gallup is out with a new poll with that shows a majority of Americans do not believe that government should be in the business of ensuring health care:More Americans now say it is not the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say [...]
The RNC will opt-out of the abortion coverage provided by its insurance plan, reversing what had been in effect for years:The Republican National Committee will no longer offer employees an insurance plan that covers abortion after Politico reported Thursday that the anti-abortion RNC's policy has covered the procedure [...]
