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• "Kumar" for Obama!

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  Posted: January 17, 2008, 2:52pm EST
  

• Regula to retire

  
  Republican Congressman Ralph Regula is expected to announce his retirement in the near future. Regula is a moderate and his retirement appears to be due to age (Regula is 82 years old). Regula has had a long, honorable career in Congress.
  
  Regula is the eleventh [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2007, 10:05am EDT
  

• Obama gets Oprah Winfrey's support

  
  Yesterday, in Montecito, California, Oprah Winfrey delivered on her pledge of support for Barack Obama. Winfrey hosted a massive fund raising event for Obama, raising an estimated $3,000,000 for the Democratic Senator from Illinois. To put this in perspective, this is roughly the same amount of money Fred [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2007, 11:40am EDT
  

• Relaunch coming soon!

  Yes, this site was allowed to fall by the wayside for a couple of months. I am a tax professional and found it necessary to focus on tax busy season through September 17th. But soon I will have more time to spend on writing and other adventure around Atlanta.
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  Posted: September 08, 2007, 11:21am EDT
  

• Bush commutes Libby's jail sentence

  AP is reporting that President Bush has commutd Scooter Libby's jail sentence.
  
  In spite of a jury's verdict, in spite of the fact that Libby's prosecutor was a Republican, his judge was Republican and two thirds of the judges on the appeals court were Republicans, in spite of all [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2007, 6:12pm EDT
  

• Pay it forward, blog style

  David Parker, over at Another History Blog, did the Eight Random Facts meme and tagged me. Now I'm paying it forward. The rules:
  

  • Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
  • Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
  • Players should tag 3 other people and [...]
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  Posted: June 28, 2007, 9:14pm EDT
  

• Coulter "owned" by Elizabeth Edwards

  Confronted by Elizabeth Edwards, Ann Coulter humiliates herself on camera in front of a live audience on national television. See it here.
  
  Having Ann Coulter serve as the public face of the Republican Party is worth 2-3% to the Democratic Party in any race she comments on. I [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2007, 11:20pm EDT
  

• Republican Party crumbling

  Republican last-ditchers are disconsolate over the failure of the Republicans in Congress to block comprehensive immigration reform. The Republican base is crumbling under the perceived betrayel of core Republican values. But the disappointment of the Republican base over immigration will be nothing when compared with their disappointment when Republicans in [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2007, 10:46pm EDT
  

• So that's how they've managed to work all those late nights . . .

  "Flash: Guiliani's SC State Chair Indicted On Crack Cocaine Charge"
  
  It speaks for itself, doesn't it?
  
  Update: Yahoo says that it was only 500 grams of ordinary plain-jane cocaine, not crack.
  
  
  I love it: the alleged coke dealer invokes Ronald Reagan as he [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2007, 10:43pm EDT
  

• Georgia Governor may have sanctioned 1946 lynching

  From the Houston Chronicle:

  The 3,725 pages obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act do not make conclusions about the still-unsolved killings at Moore's Ford Bridge. But they raise the possibility that Eugene Talmadge's politics may have been a factor when a white mob dragged the four [...]

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  Posted: June 15, 2007, 9:00pm EDT
  

• Pardons and Amnesties

  Republicans are strange creatures.
  
  A pardon is like an amnesty for one person. Amnesty is like a pardon for a class of people.
  
  Republicans favor a pardon for Scooter Libby, a convicted felon, but oppose amnesty for illegal aliens.
  
  So Republicans are in favor of [...]
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  Posted: June 14, 2007, 9:41pm EDT
  

• Rand Knight announces for U.S. Senate

  A scientist for the Senate: verrrrry interesting.
  
  Knight for Senate website. [...]
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  Posted: June 07, 2007, 7:56pm EDT
  

• Obama launches religious outreach

  From The Washington Post:

  Obama is the first of the Democratic presidential contenders to launch a religious outreach Web site, but the others won't be far behind. Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) is set to unveil his "moral leadership" Web site tomorrow, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) campaign is working on [...]

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  Posted: June 05, 2007, 7:57pm EDT
  

• How to spike a watermelon

  Just buy a medium-sized seedless watermelon, then follow these easy steps.
  
  Step 1: Use a small knife to gently cut a round hole in a watermelon to create a "plug." Do not cut a square or triangular hole, as that may cause your watermelon to crack.
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  Posted: June 04, 2007, 7:54pm EDT
  

• Tuesday in Glynco

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  The idea that George W. Bush would get up and talk about enforcing immigration laws is just silly. He has failed to enforce the laws on the books for six years and now is poised to grant amnesty to millions. [...]
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  Posted: May 31, 2007, 7:53pm EDT
  

• School days, school days, Dear old golden rule days

  
  
  Kinda makes me nostalgic for my own graduation . . . [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2007, 7:58pm EDT
  

• John Edwards makes his move

  When the Democratic leadership of Congress decided to back off from their demand for a timetable of withdrawal in the latest draft of the Iraq funding bill they created a problem for two of the Democratic front-runners and an opportunity for the third.
  
  The candidates with a problem are [...]
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  Posted: May 24, 2007, 8:00am EDT
  

• Goodling testifies before House Judiciary Committee today

  Monica Goodling testifies today in front of the House Judiciary Committee. The meeting is scheduled for 10:15 AM in Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building. It appears from the committees website that the testimony will be webcast live.
  
  Now bloggers will be able to replace that [...]
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  Posted: May 23, 2007, 8:02pm EDT
  

• Gonzales unlikely to depart

  I don't think Gonzales will leave under any circumstances. [...]
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  Posted: May 22, 2007, 8:06pm EDT
  

• The worst President in History?

  I've been trying to take the temperature of the local newspaper here in Atlanta. I'm from Richmond, Virginia where the local newspaper is legendary for its right-wing bias (though it must be said it has improved dramatically since the retirement of an especially noxious editor).I wonder if today I didn't [...]
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  Posted: May 21, 2007, 8:04pm EDT
  

• Prominent Georgia legislator arrested for DUI

  Representative Ben Harbin (R-Evans), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, was charged with driving under the influence Sunday after a minor accident near downtown Atlanta.

  Shortly after the crash, Robby Russ, a waiter at the Standard Food & Spirits, heard what he said sounded like a boom and looked out through [...]

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  Posted: May 21, 2007, 11:50am EDT
  

• The Teutoburg Forest

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  Is the new strategy putting our soldiers at even greater risk? Are they being sent out in smaller and smaller detachments that can be ambushed and overwhelmed?
  
  Does this strategy remind you of anything? Anything at all? [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 7:48pm EDT
  

• Under Construction

  "Sweet Georgia Blue" is my new home on the web. I am an experienced blogger and political activist from Virginia. I moved to Atlanta, Georgia recently and I will be using this blog to explore Atlanta and the Georgia political scene.
  
  I look forward to sharing my adventures with [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2007, 7:46pm EDT