By J. Randolph Evans
Governor Nathan Deal has changed the face of state government in Georgia. Most folks see a different picture (Governor Deal in the place of Governor Sonny Perdue) hanging in government buildings around Georgia and think that is the new face. Yet, some of the most significant changes involve new faces in key government positions throughout state government.
Interestingly, unlike some of his predecessors, Governor Deal has … Read more...
There’s no such thing as a free lunch? True. Not even with the natural abundance in the Garden of Eden as described in Genesis was lunch totally free. Adam and Eve had to go get it to have it. Lunch didn’t come to them.
Just as true, there’s no such thing as free government.
That simple, immutable, inescapable fact is a major factor in why there is no such thing … Read more...
Observations©
By Don Coakley
Last week my column extolled the beauty of our Eagle Watch community and how that beauty brings solace to one’s mind and soul. I suppose we all wish life’s problems could be resolved so simply; by looking out over the fairway of a golf course into a distant mountain range. But we also know life’s challenges cannot be solved so easily. After all life is … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
I’ve read the Wall Street Journal most every weekday for 20+ years. Being a money junky, I also read Forbes, Financial Times, … Over the past few weeks, when we’ve had some of the worst market swings in memory, the discussion has recognized that the world, not just the US, is hanging on the edge of a really nasty depression. That’s to be expected and isn’t news … Read more...
By J. Randolph Evans
Okay, it is officially political chaos out there. For months, Republicans have flirted with having a ‘frontrunner’ for the GOP nomination. Sometimes, the ‘frontrunner’ has not even been a candidate – like Donald Trump and Governor Mike Huckabee.
There have been ‘if she or he ran’ frontrunners like Governor Sarah Palin and Governor Chris Christie. There have been the ‘comings and goings’ of various candidates as … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have brought up a subject that needs more scrutiny. A member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, who dissented from the report, summarizes what happened in the Oct 12th Wall Street Journal.
Judging from the squealing from the left, below, he struck a nerve. Take a look a these videos, in light of what we know now, and see if … Read more...
By J. Randolph Evans
Justice George Carley turned Georgia judicial elections upside down with a single decision this week. Here is what happened.
2012 was shaping up as a pivotal election for Georgia’s judiciary. On July 31, 2012 (Georgia’s Primary Election), Georgia voters would elect a majority of Georgia’s seven Supreme Court justices.
Placing four justices on the same ballot at the same time carried significant implications. It meant that … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
We lost a great one today – Steve Jobs lost his long battle with cancer. Our world is poorer without him. [WSJ] [Forbes]
I want to talk, not about the Mac or the iPad or … that Steve and his coven of heavy-techies created, but rather a basic principle the Macs have followed.
Open the box
Plug in the cord
Turn it on… Read more...
By J. Randolph Evans
On September 29, 2011, the Georgia Immigration Enforcement Review Board held its first meeting and elected Ben Vinson as its chair. It also started the process for enforcing Georgia’s tough new illegal immigration laws. Somehow it was fitting that it happened on the same day that a federal judge in Alabama upheld what many regard as the toughest illegal immigration law in the United States.
The … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
In a debate co-sponsored by NYSE and Corporate Responsibility (CR) magazine’s COMMIT!Forum the Agenda 21 people made clear their agenda – the destruction of capitalism. Of course, anyone who has looked at the website wasn’t surprised.
[Reuters report] [Advisor One report] … Read more...By Les Dunaway
“When institutions protect the liberty of individuals, greater prosperity results for all.”
Adam Smith in “The Wealth of Nations”, 1776
This truth is a key measure of the fitness of a government to survive. When any government fails this test, the citizens of that government must resort to another statement, written the same year:
…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, … Read more...
By J. Randolph Evans
The Chicago Cubs led the New York Mets by 9½ games in the National League East late in the 1973 Major League Baseball season. Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra summed up the situation like this:
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Yogi Berra was right about baseball in 1973. The Mets ended up winning the division in the last game of the season.
… Read more...