The award against Gawker in the Hulk Hogan case was so out of all proportion, one had to wonder what it was all about. The only possible explanation I could think of is that it was meant to get the media to self-censor, but that would mean that someone with a bigger agenda was behind (more…)
I wasn’t very political engaged back when the Clintons’ were in office the first time & didn’t follow the blow-by-blow of Ken Starr’s investigations into White Water, Vince Foster’s death and the Monica Lewinsky scandal, so I didn’t really form an opinion of Starr. I can’t seem to help but to form one now, however, (more…)
Ever since I read that both Richard Nixon and Michael Bloomberg owed their political success in no small part to exploiting the public’s fear of crime, I have been alert to the possibility that rising crime rates would again be used for political purposes. No great stretch, except that plummeting crime rates have been the (more…)
Hour 1 Hour 2 Find your ballot and check out the candidates ahead of time at vote-ga.org. Two candidates I have followed over the past few years and who I think have strong principles & the courage of their convictions, are self-described “liberty-loving Republicans,” Catherine Bernard (running for a State House seat in HD80–Brookhaven & (more…)
This just posted (h/t DT). I’m not sure if I’m more shocked at the content of this video or by the fact that it made it on the air. (It was just posted on youtube, but I don’t know the date of the broadcast–anyone? Anyone?) For more on ALEC, click here: http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed . WARNING: DISTURBING (more…)
I thought pathocracy described our current system, but it might be even worse than that – we might have a Kakistocracy!! EtymologyEdit Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, “worst”), superlative of κακός (kakós, “bad”) + -κρατια (-kratia, “power, rule, government”). PronunciationEdit IPA(key): /kækɪsˈtɑkɹəsi/ NounEdit kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies) Government under the control of a nation’s worst or least-qualified (more…)
Tomorrow’s show is on 5-7PM ET on wsb–short and sweet with lots of comments and tweets! Tuesday May 24 are the Georgia State Primaries…not the presidential primary but the primary to determine who will be on the Georgia ballot for state and federal offices come November. I (almost) gave up on the federal government after (more…)
Last year I added a glossary entry “coercive engineered migration” about a phenomenon described in Kelly Greenhill’s book, Weapons of Mass Migration, in which she uses as her best example Qaddafi threatening Europe with uncontrolled migration from Africa if they didn’t comply with his demands. The theory behind coercive engineered migration is that relatively weak (more…)
I simply can’t see how microaggression sensitivity training or a microaggression hot line and “bias response team” is helping college kids get ready for the real world–agreed? So, what then is it for? Hour 1 Hour 2 Hour 3 Here’s the WSJ article I referred to on the air: Hard Truths About Race on Campus (more…)
The Georgia GOP primary is coming up…May 24…this primary is probably more important for Georgia than the presidential primary…many local issues are within our control… Which ones are most important to you? Should we talk about this on the show this Saturday? A few i care about are: Atlanta being on the cutting edge of (more…)