Morning Reads for Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Good morning! Let’s start the day with a slow clap for today’s offering from the AJC’s Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist, Mike Luckovich.
And now, the rest of the Reads:
- This Tom Friedman column is nearly a week old, but I’ve been dying to share it since last week, mainly because of this perfect paragraph:
Donald Trump is running against pluralism. Bernie Sanders shows zero interest in entrepreneurship and says the Wall Street banks that provide capital to risk-takers are involved in “fraud,” and Ted Cruz speaks of our government in the same way as the anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist, who says we should shrink government “to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” (Am I a bad person if I hope that when Norquist slips in that bathtub and has to call 911, no one answers?)
- The increase in tidal flooding correlates to the increase in rising sea levels.
- Replacing lead water lines could cost U.S. cities around $32 billion (with a B).
- Older women: they’re not just presidential candidates.
- Many House Republicans are really, really not excited by the possibility of Candidate Trump.
- Barry Loudermilk (R-CD11) draws a primary challenger: William Llop of Sandy Springs.
- Governor Deal lauds Georgia’s film industry tax breaks.
- Meanwhile, the House considers a pipeline moratorium.
- Rick Ross wants you eat at his new Macon restaurant.
- Point to Macon, but Atlanta is still a great food town.
- One explanation for why Facebook is barely tolerable these days.
- Former teacher and current rapper Dee-1 got a great record deal, paid off his student loans, wrote about it, and gave us this video.
- The best Atlanta suburbs for Millennials. (SYAC: it’s Doraville, Dunwoody, Decatur, Duluth, Smyrna, Milton, Suwanee, Kennesaw, Norcross, and Woodstock.)
- “How,” you might ask, “do you keep coming up with all of these timely, relevant, Hamiltonian links? Will you ever be satisfied?” No, I will never be satisfied! Not until each of you has streamed the cast album and been reminded of at least $10 worth of ways that our founding fathers were inimitable (and original), brilliant, flawed, and unquenchably dynamic. So, This Week in Hamilton: it won the Kennedy Prize for Historical Drama. (Last week was the Grammy’s; prior to that, it was the George Washington Book Prize, an Obie, and a MacArthur Genius Grant for Lin-Manuel Miranda. No Nobel yet – but watch your back, President Carter!).
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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“But, but, but, but…I was only talking about a hypothetical!” What a complete moron…THIS is the alternative to Hillary after the indictment! Karma….
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/biden-walks-back-1992-supreme-court-remark/article/2583910
The ten most boring cities in Georgia? What they haven’t been to Trenton. http://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-boring-cities-in-georgia/
Yesterday I wrote about some efforts to exert control over the Board of Regents. While many of the expressed reasons are about the budget and tuition costs, episodes like the one in the following link are another reason why many conservatives are taking a renewed look at taxpayer support for the ivory towers of academia:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2016/02/23/conservative-writer-ben-shapiro-banned-from-csula-n2123430
Here’s an interesting read on the history of states splitting their ticket by voting for a donk presidential nominee and a goper Senate candidate in the same cycle.
“. . . 18 states have never voted for a Democratic presidential nominee and a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in the same cycle including five potential battlegrounds in 2016: Arizona, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. . . . By contrast only one state has never split its ticket in the opposite way: backing the GOP nominee for president and a Democrat for U.S. Senate (Kansas).”
http://editions.lib.umn.edu/smartpolitics/2016/02/21/top-of-the-ticket-woes-for-2016-republican-controlled-us-senate-seats/
Does anybody wonder how many votes trump just got after promising to indict Hillaey?
Probably as many as the candidates last cycle who said they were going to overturn Obamacare. And it’s about as likely.
Trump: Prosecuting Hillary Clinton “Certainly Something We’re Going To Look At”
That certainly changes my position. I’m for Trump. ?
Senate says no hearings for Lame Duck Justice! Do I hear the bones crackling in the form of a spine?!