Earlier today, FBI Director James Comey effectively brought the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server to an end, announcing that the FBI would not recommend bringing charges against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Last week, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced she would accept the FBI’s recommendation and not override it. Georgia Republican Party Chairman
History will mark 2016 as a year when insurgent progressives seriously threatened the candidacy of a mainstream, moderate Democrat. And believe it or not, Bernie Sanders might have only been the first half of that story. On Wednesday night, Athens hosted its first presidential candidate of the 2016 cycle, bringing Dr. Jill Stein to the
Nate Silver, who runs the popular polling / prediction site FiveThirtyEight.com, developed a forecasting model that correctly picked the outcome of the 2012 presidential election. Now, he is out with the 2016 version, which is based on the one used in 2012, but has been improved, notably by splitting the model into three separate forecasts,
Former businessman, presidential candidate and conservative talk show host Herman Cain has endorsed Drew Ferguson for the open 3rd District congressional seat being vacated by Lynn Westmoreland. In a press release issued by Ferguson, Cain said, In politics, there are candidates with a record of doing things and others with a history of talking about
The race to replace retiring State Representative Stephen Allison is down from 4 candidates in the May Primary to 2 candidates in the July 26 Runoff. Matt Gurtler, a Rabun County home builder won the primary with 35% of the vote with Rabun retiree Kent Woerner coming in second with 22%. On Tuesday a debate
There are a handful of runoff elections on July 26, but none more important than the judicial contests. As entertaining as it may be to watch the Euro-weenie elites and their fellow travelling American counterparts have a collective meltdown over the fact that Great Britain voted to leave a common market that they first weren’t
My grandfather always hated politics, and by extension, politicians. They were all crooked, or soon would be, and he didn’t look favorably upon the fact that his grandson was interested in pursuing a career in politics. This distaste for politicians compounded when I informed him that I not only loved politics, but that I wanted
If you have ever thought about running for office as an independent, rather than as a candidate for one of the two major political parties, this is your big week. Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s elections office is waiting for you at 802 West Tower of the Sloppy Floyd building across from the Capitol. Qualifying
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12 ESV I don’t normally stick scripture into my posts to make a point, but I thought the Golden Rule is applicable (of course, it should be applicable in our lives daily,
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
