The Cobb County Republican Party held it’s annual BBQ today, complete with a straw poll and about 3-4 hours of “family fun”, i.e. sitting indoors and listening to various presentations and candidate speeches. The news out of most of these types of events usually includes straw polls, and there were a few candidate announcements for
Happy 4th of July! America is 243 years old. I hope y’all enjoy the blessing of liberty today and (safely) celebrate the fact that we threw off the reigns of a tyrannical government based on the ideas of protecting the individual’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In this day and age,
The Deep Dark is out getting darker, so I am filling in. The World’s Game The women’s national team defeated England yesterday 2 – 1 and move onto the World Cup Final to face the winner between Sweden and the Netherlands. The final will take place this Sunday at 11:00 a.m. The men’s national team
Good morning! Please excuse any technical difficulties – no need to adjust your screen. Yesterday at Wimbledon, a 15-year-old Georgia teen defeated Venus Williams. Atlanta is now a smoke-free city! Smell ya later, Hartsfield-Jackson smokers’ aquarium! Representative Carter and the duality of drill, baby, drill – just not in Georgia. Oregon lawmakers (I guess they’re
Government, by design, has dozens of problems worthy of criticism, but among the less frequently discussed topics is how often frequent elected officials don’t finish what they start. Public officials at all levels of government quit their jobs. Often. Be it for to run for higher office, to tend to family issues, because of work
From a press release: Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan today announced the members of three Senate Study Committees: SR 202 (Senate Study Committee on Evaluating and Simplifying Physician Oversight of Physician Assistants and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses), SR 353 (Senate Study Committee on Community Schools), and SR 371 (Senate Protections from Sexual Predators Study Committee). “The
At a Carter Center event in Virginia, Former President Jimmy Carter questioned the legitimacy of President Trump’s election. The most interesting part about this is how long it’s taken Trump to respond with a semi-coherent insult via Twitter.
Happy Friday, everyone! We’re celebrating Paul Bunyan Day with a list of random facts about the tales of the mighty lumberjack compiled by somebody else. Pat Conroy Georgia’s heartbeat bill has now been challenged in court by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile,
The road to the White House runs straight through Georgia. The chair of the Georgia Democratic Party, Senator Nikema Williams has a new mantra. She is right. Tonight, begins a two night debate with the top twenty Democratic 2020 candidates. Partly thanks to the national groundwork laid by Stacey Abrams’s gubernatorial campaign and her potential
We usually talk inside baseball when it comes to politics on here, and the two actually will cross paths for charity at the Congressional Baseball Game tonight…but today Georgians have a mission for the next few hours: #VoteBraves The Atlanta Braves have seven players(!) that have made it to the proverbial runoff for the All-Star