Morning Reads for Friday, September 6, 2019

Prayers for all in the path/aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.  Cruise ships taking aid to Bahamas.  Another former Atlanta official pleads guilty.  Faster, please.  Funny. Folks are talking about this very same thing in South Georgia, too.  Remember Neerja Bhanot. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/338496/ Really. No-one is worse than Voldemort. (Except maybe Anne Rice, who thought it was okay for a

Roger Williams — Rest in Peace

Roger Williams past away this week after a lifetime of public service to his country, community, and the State of Georgia.  In 1963, he moved to Dalton, Georgia after having served in the Army as a Captain.  He quickly became a leader in his community and was first elected to the Georgia House of Representatives

Morning Reads for Thursday September 5, 2019

On this day the Brits took Singapore without opposition, Tokyo Rose was arrested in Yokohama, ZEEP – Canada’s first nuclear reactor went critical and Igor Gouzenko defected with 109 documents detailing Soviet espionage in the West. More importantly Kathryn Louise Gent was born in Baltimore, MD and she went on to attempt to keep one

Oct 1 Runoff for HD-71 Election

Republicans Philip Singleton and Marcy Westmoreland Sakrison were the top vote-getters in last night’s election for the HD-71 seat in southwest metro Atlanta. They will face off again in the October 1 runoff. The AJC details the results and how the two remaining candidates represent The Establishment(TM) and Anti-Establishment(TM) wings of the GOP.

Morning Reads – Wednesday, September 4, 2019

We said this yesterday… There is a hurricane coming. Please evacuate if you have been asked to. Satellite imagery of the flooding in the Bahamas is amazing. Aerial footage of the destruction. Pretty good article on GEORGIA v California. Water Wars 10/17/2019 edition. The Cherokee Nation has appointed their first delegate to Congress in their

College Pick-Em – Week 1, 2019

The first full week of NCAA football is in the books and Clemson and Alabama are still on top. Our annual college pick’em is in full swing and it appears it may be a tight race for top bragging rights. The following are the current top 5 in the pick’em standings: 1 – Kavorca –

AG Carr on the addiction stigma

September is National Recovery Month, and today, an estimated 180,000 Georgians are living with an opioid-use disorder. To put this staggering number into perspective, that means we have a population the size of Macon coping with the malicious effects caused by the opioid crisis. That was the opening paragraph of Attorney General Chris Carr’s op-ed

Morning Reads for Tuesday, September 3

Good morning! If you live east of I-95, you know what to do: be safe, and go with the contraflow. We’re still not sure exactly where Dorian will go next, and the wanton nature of hurricanes is precisely what makes them so lethal. Here are the latest updates from Savannah. Here’s what you might expect