At the end of the 1972 Robert Redford movie “The Candidate”, the freshly victorious U.S. Senate candidate Bill McKay, played by Redford, turns to and asks a supporter, “So what do we do now?”

While Senate Majority Leader-elect Mitch McConnell probably has a pretty good idea what he’s going to do, the [...]

Georgia State Senator Josh McKoon (R-Columbus) recently announced his intention to re-introduce a “religious freedom” bill in the 2015 Georgia General Assembly.  

A previous version was opposed by some business interests as well as the Georgia [...]

The Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C., Arlington National Cemetery, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and the World War II Memorial constitute our collective national physical thanksgiving for those who have served, and serve, our country.

Today is Veterans Day, the spiritual part, if you will, of that thanksgiving. It [...]

So the Great Midterm Election of 2014 ends.

Georgians are spared, against all the predictions of main stream polling and punditry, the ordeal of a gubernatorial runoff in December and a United States Senate runoff in January.  There is, indeed, a merciful God.

And rather than [...]

Poll Pushing and the Ethics of Reporting 

One week ago Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jim Galloway, who, like the Colossus of Rhodes “strides the world” of Georgia politics, announced that the 2014 election cycle would signal the demise of GOP dominance in Georgia and put Georgia “in play”. Hence, the state would become a mix of red (Republican) and [...]