PaulThology

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of California’s 8th District, declined to provide information about her earmarks in the recent budget. Yep, the same Nancy Pelosi, who as Speaker-elect said in Dec. 2006, “We will bring transparency and openness to the budget process and to the use of earmarks, and we will give the American people […]

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Some wahoo in NY thinks that because she doesn’t have children that her dogs should be tax deductible, and somebody at Congress.org thought the letter important enough to publish on their website for feedback. And how would the IRS verify this without doggie Social Security IDs? “Give Social Security numbers to all the […]

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I finished Barack Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” the other night, and felt like I ought to write down my thoughts on it, particularly so that I can refer back to this entry come election time. I was on the waiting list at three local libraries for both the print and audio versions of the […]

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The Georgia legislature isn’t the only group of state lawmakers looking to cover their collective asses by creating a new sales tax to fund transportation in the state’s biggest metro area.
So is Minnesota’s state legislature, looking to ease the Twin Cities “roadshow,” where you usually have time to perform a puppet show for the car […]

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Wouldn’t it be nice to have a political do-not-call list?
Yes it would. But again for the 275th consecutive year since Georgia was colonized, the 220th since statehood, and the 132nd since the invention of the telephone, those of us not wanting to be bothered with recorded voice messages by political candidates will adopt the Chicago […]

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Presiding Georgia Supreme Court Justict Carol W. Hunstein breezed to victory yesterday in her bid for re-election, winning more than 63% of the Georgia vote. She won in all 159 Georgia counties…EVERY ONE. It turns out that Mike Wiggins’ PAC-funded campaign was pretty inefficient in terms of converting large, veiled corporate donations into votes.
Yeah for […]

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Evidence:
With Harold Ford Jr. losing the Tennessee US Senate race, we (as Americans) have not elected a black senator from the former Confederacy since Reconstruction. This map (pages 4 and 6) shows race by county from the 2000 Census, and it seems we (the South) have had the best opportunity of all of the states.
Georgia […]

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I voted today in Atlanta, GA, in DeKalb County. Electronically. Eight pages of elections and referendums. I voted for Garrett Hayes (the Libertarian candidate) for Governor, and a mixed bag of other candidates, and mostly no on the tax exemptions, as they are typically special interest legislation masked as altruistic “public good” garbage, and as […]

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Today’s deep thought
If I were to judge the 230-year development/progress of our “democracy” (or “constitutional republic” as some will argue…so let’s just settle on “nation” then) by the quality of the TV and radio campaign ads aired during elections these days, I’d say:
“I’m not sure we’re mentally competent enough to be considered first-world. Hearing […]

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From Fred Barnes’ book, “Rebel in Chief“
President Bush’s withdrawal of the US from the Kyoto treaty was heavily influenced by Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear,” in whose villain falsifies scientific studies to justify draconian steps to curb global warming.  So much so Bush invited Crichton to the White House, where they chatted in “almost […]

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