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Register By October 9th /High School Football
Georgia is a possibility for Team Obama if we get young people registered and prepared to vote. Chuck Todd with MSNBC keeps pointing to a map with Florida, North Carolina and Virginia as the only...
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The Two State, Two Step for Obama/Biden
Obama/Biden strong supporters in non-swing states are chomping at the bid for some of the action. It’s hard to hear that our states are (in the words of Evelyn from Basketball Wives) non-mother...
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Table of Discussion: School Choice and Family Planning
School choice and family planning are two topics I would love to hear discussed in my community because they are at the foundation of our futures. However, I want that discussion to take place around...
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I’m Different: Two Chainz, Politics and Southern Mindsets
Surprisingly, I agree with the rapper Two Chainz’s preoccupation with “I’m different.” We need some different mindsets in many aspects of our public and private lives because what has happen in the...
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Naturally: African Americans, Jack Kingston and the U.S. Senate race
My thoughts on the future of Black political centrists in the South have been two weeks and/or two decades in the making. So, brace yourself for an unusual brainstorm. The open U.S. Senate race in...
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Alicia Keys “Brand New Me” Is A Great Political Anthem
To me, Alicia Keys has written the political song of the decade unbeknownst to her. She was writing about love or whatever but the lyrics capture my feelings and concerns for the troubled...
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Shady For-Profit Colleges: Waste, Fraud and a Ruse
Recently, we came across the issue of faux colleges and their activities with federal funds. These so-called schools are hitting the economically challenged communities in America in several different...
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T.V. Brainwashed: “Married To Medicine” isn’t Georgia
The horrific, cowardly acts in Boston last year were carried out by young men who were brainwashed and/or radicalized. An argument can be made that all or most of us could be or have been radicalized...
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Politics: Be Careful What You Say Out Loud
An old southern adage states “be careful what you say out loud.” Everything you think isn’t supposed to be said when and where you think it—maybe it shouldn’t be spoken at all but it’s clearly...
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Black Republican U.S. Senate candidate Derrick Grayson is something else
I came across Derrick Grayson, a U.S. Senate GOP candidate from Georgia, on Peach Pundit blog last week and this guy’s logic was refreshing. As a moderate, I can be easily put off by angry talk from...
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My Annual Rambling Rant: Fat on Food Stamps
It’s time for my annual “consider yourselves told” blog post for southern conservatives. For years now, I have been patiently waiting for someone or some group on the right to ask how to do better in...
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Local Elections Are Building Blocks
In the local elections this fall, I know and respect all of the candidates. But, competition is actually healthy; competition like Obama vs. Hillary that elevated both of their games. I can’t help...
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Public Servants/Unofficial Duties
Elected officials and public employees have official responsibilities and also have unofficial duties. These duties aren’t on paper but are sometimes as important as the items on the official job...
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Elections and Football Cheerleading
We are in the middle of local elections and my thoughts turn to the days when preachers, barbers and funeral directors were the community leaders because “the man” couldn’t quiet them since their money...
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Local Election Issues/Georgia New Crop of Leaders
5:10 a.m. is before the dawn of a new southern day or as we use to say “ ‘fore day in the morning.” It’s also the dawn of a new day politically and the beginning of a new season. Change is...
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ABC’s Scandal and OWN’s The Haves and the Have Nots: Our Plantation Mentality
From ABC’s Scandal to OWN’s The Haves and the Have Nots, I see two lovely and brilliant characters who look like me chasing weak men who don’t look like me. So, it’s time for a blog post full of wild...
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GOP: Skinning A Black Cat
There is more than one way to skin a cat and the Republicans have recently taken the worst ways to address outreach. First, their outreach reeks because policy, techniques and branding is being driven...
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Sensitivity or Common Sense: From Duck Dynasty To Congress
So, the political comic strip Doonesbury spent this week messing the GOP regarding sensitivity training. They should have hired me because I would have made it simple: love thy neighbor as thyself....
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Rep. Sanford Bishop vs. Vivian Childs: Childs, Please
A conservative named Vivian Childs is running for the U.S. House seat held by Rep. Sanford D. Bishop and I say great. Her candidacy seems like that ant with the rubber tree plant but sometimes it’s...
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The Blacklist: Rep. Allen West, Mrs. Vivian Childs, Rep. Sanford Bishop and You
NBC’s The Blacklist was sneaky to have doctored photos of former GOP Rep. Allen West and current Senator Ted Cruz on this week’s episode. They were implying that an international spy/criminal was...
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