This morning 3rd District Congressman Lynn Westmoreland endorsed former West Point Mayor Drew Ferguson to be his successor. Ferguson faces State Senator Mike Crane of Newnan in next month’s Republican primary runoff. In addition to the Congressman, Ferguson has garnered the support of every other primary challenger from May’s primary – as well as Mike
The political winds are shifting in Georgia and hopefully those winds will soon start generating electricity. On Thursday Georgia Power formalized an agreement with the Public Service Commission to add 1,200 megawatts of renewable power to its energy plan for the state. For those of us who don’t know science, that is enough energy to
Happy Monday, everyone! Yesterday was Kim-Jung Harper’s birthday. It was celebrated with a military parade, the launching of ballistic missiles, and crowds of crying #gapol lurkers. All in all, it was an average birthday for Supreme Leader Harper. Jawja Herschel Walker is losing speaking gigs for supporting Donald Trump. The quest to understand Mayor Reed
It’s that time of year again. Time to wish a happy birthday to our publisher, Charlie Harper, sometimes known as Icarus Pundit. Over the last year, Charlie started this blog, and got our contributors moved from the old place to here. He finds things that should be posted here, and gently nudges us to get
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens was elected Vice President of the National Association of Attorneys General at the organization’s meeting yesterday in Burlington, Vermont. In addition to serving as Vice President, Olens will be co-chair of the Federalism/Preemption Committee and the Law Enforcement and Prosecutorial Relations Working Group. He will serve on three additional committees,
On this date in history, the United States Government released its Roswell Incident report, claiming that the aliens people claimed to have seen were merely life-sized dummies and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in
The Charter System Foundation, which promotes and supports Georgia’s 40 charter school systems, announced the winners of its 2016 awards program on Wednesday. Marietta City Schools was named the Georgia Charter System Innovator of the year, while Calhoun City Schools was named the Georgia Charter System of the Year. The awards were presented at a
Cindy Manning is a friend of mine. One of those I knew before and outside of current political circles. She’s a now former candidate for District Attorney in the Griffin Judicial Circuit. That was a 3 person race and she missed the runoff. I supported her, because 1) that’s what friends do, and 2) I
Approaching the end of its 2016 term, the Supreme Court today effectively upheld a lower court’s decision that President Obama violated the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of the federal government by issuing executive actions that would have allowed around four million illegal immigrants to remain in America for a period
Dear Republicans: it looks like things are about to get very bad thanks to Mr. Trump. In his most recent Crystal Ball, Larry Sabato says there is very little reason for the GOP to be sanguine about the Donald in November–even in Georgia. Hillary Clinton still has 347 Electoral College votes, the same as in Sabato’s
