Georgia Senator David Perdue, a member of the Senate Budget Committee is continuing his efforts to reform the way the federal government makes spending and appropriations decisions. The current system, he argues, has only worked four times in the last 40 years, and has led to gridlock, last minute omnibus spending bills, and a national
Is it coincidence that two of the top five days in mankind’s history (MLB Opening Day and my birthday) are so close? Probably not. #IntelligentDesign “Big Dipper” by Built to Spill One of These is the Most Pressing Issue in the World Today. You Decide Which. GSU eyes conference title, continued growth. Sam Nunn offers
Just one day after Governor Nathan Deal declared that Georgia would remain open for business and void of potential discrimination, members of the Atlanta City Council are requesting that the NBA relocate the 2017 All-Star game, and all the commerce that comes with it, from a state that decided to, well, take a different route. We’ll
At a Capitol press conference this morning more than 30 religious leaders expressed their disappointment over Governor Deal’s veto of House Bill 757, and vowed to redouble their efforts to override the governor’s veto or to pass religious freedom legislation in an upcoming legislative session. The group announced the results of a new poll conducted
Senator Greg Kirk, sponsor of the “First Amendment Defense Act” which became part of HB 757 when attached to the less controversial Pastor Protection Act, has decided that he is “moving on” with respect to sponsorship of religious freedom bills in next year’s General Assembly. As reported by Jill Nolan in the Dalton Citizen, Kirk
GeorgiaPol.com resident Millennial here to empirically prove to you that Mayor Kasim Reed is a Twitter mogul, at least if you’re not blocked. My deep appreciation for Mayor Reed’s snark and sass is officially backed up by data. Development Counsellors International, a tourism and marketing firm, analyzed and ranked the Twitter activity of 250 mayors from the
On Saturday night I watched the housing bubble movie “The Big Short” and concluded that Donald Trump’s campaign has some amazing parallels to the 2007 collapse of the financial markets. Start with the premise that real estate is a safe investment because it always goes up. Compare that to the premise that government should run
“You can only stick a stick in somebody’s eye for so long before enough is enough” says Representative Richard Smith, a Columbus-area Republican. He was referring to the lightning-rod Senator Josh McKoon. An article from the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer details the affair, in which six of the eight million dollars requested by Columbus State University and two
Back in 2014, I wrote a post about the Preservation of Religious Freedom Act, the first effort by Rep. Sam Teasley and Sen. Josh McKoon to pass a version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Georgia. In the post, I referred to the objections of a young Republican Christian activist who is also gay:
During a March 16th House Armed Services Committee hearing on the National Defense Authorization Act, Representative Austin Scott (R-GA) stated to the Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley that he believed it is “absolutely ridiculous” that Milley did not have the authority to choose a pistol for the Army, instead of the slow and
