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March 2008
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This Is Not Your Father’s Christian Coalition
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Tue Mar 11, 2008
11:27 am
by McGehee
[Our Times]
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I’m not sure if I just hadn’t heard this, or maybe I did and—not rolling that way myself—didn’t pay attention at the time.
About 18 months ago, the national umbrella organization for what was the Christian Coalition accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from backers of MoveOn.org to serve as the “conservative voice” in their campaign for regulation of the Internet.
And as a result of that scandal, a number of state “Christian Coalition” groups quit the national organization, renaming themselves and serving autonomously.
“It was embarrassing that they sold themselves for 30 pieces of silver on an issue that free marketers were fighting against,” says a former national board member of the Christian Coalition. “They aren’t the group the Democrats and MoveOn make them out to be. They don’t speak for Republicans or anyone else.”
Sources at the RNC say that the national organization has not been active in this election cycle on any level, anywhere in the country. »
Ghosts from the Past
And you may ask yourself </Talking Heads> “Of what is this apropos?” </never end a sentence with a preposition>
You can’t blame Rep. John Conyers and the Democrats for not keeping up with Republican politics, but it appears they are more out of touch with reality than many people thought.
On Tuesday Conyers and his staff are doing a favor for their friends at MoveOn.org by holding a hearing on “Net Neutrality,” a catchy word for government regulation of the Internet. Along with ending the war in Iraq, it is one of the top political issues for MoveOn and its satellite organizations.
Also set to testify: an organization called the “Christian Coalition.”
I wonder if they’ll have Terry Kiser representing the coalition?
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February 2008
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William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008
12:26 pm
by McGehee
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An era has ended.
William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right’s post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.» William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82
Years ago he gave a talk in Sacramento, and I took my mother to hear him speak. He sat slumped in an easy chair on stage, not unlike he was wont to do on “The Firing Line,” and talked about a wide range of topics. What I remembered most was a well-dressed young woman who came down one of the side aisles to ask Buckley about abortion, and who seemed satisfied with his answer. Oddly, my mother’s main comment after the event was that Buckley’s clothes were rumpled and untidy-looking. I guess she was expecting a conservative, Yale-educated intellectual to look more like a conservative than like a Yale-educated intellectual.
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Just Enough to, er, Wet Our Appetite…
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Wed Feb 27, 2008
12:24 am
by McGehee
4 comments
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[Wackadoodle]
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The mayor of Chattanooga isn’t willing to part with the Tennessee River (let alone a certain distillery in Lynchburg), but he has offered a small compromise:
The city of Chattanooga, facing a possible Georgia land grab as part of an effort to get access to the Tennessee River, is sending a truck load of bottled water to Atlanta.
Mayor Ron Littlefield said the water will be delivered on Wednesday by his aide Matt Lea wearing a coonskin cap.
The mayor has officially proclaimed Feb. 27, 2008, as “Give our Georgia Friends a Drink Day.” The proclamation comes as a result of the Georgia Legislature passing a joint resolution that seeks to pursue reestablishing the boundary between Georgia and Tennessee.
The truck load of bottled water along with the proclamation will be delivered to the Georgia Legislature Wednesday morning. »
Chattanooga Sending Truck Load Of Water To Atlanta
The water will be a refreshing change of pace from sweet tea, especially for those of us who are still sitting at the computer at half past midnight.
H/t Dustbury.
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The Great Georgia-Tennessee Border War Over Water
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Sat Feb 9, 2008
8:00 am
by McGehee
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[Our Times]
[Wackadoodle]
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If you haven’t already heard about this, the current drought conditions in most of Georgia have caused some of our lawmakers to rediscover an old surveying error that resulted in Georgia’s northern boundary being about a mile south of where it should have been.
Seems if the surveyors had done their job right, the Tennessee River would have just kissed the northwest corner of Georgia, thus offering the Peach State access to its water.
Tennesseeans reacted with humor, anger and defiance Thursday to Georgia’s legislative attempt to move the border north so the drought-plagued state can tap into the Tennessee River.
“Us good Tennesseeans will take our long rifles up to Lookout Mountain and fire when ready,” said Justin Wilson, a Nashville attorney and former deputy governor.
Sen. David Shafer (R-Duluth) and Rep. Harry Geisinger (R-Roswell) introduced resolutions this week to, in essence, move the state line a mile north which would run the border right through a bend in the river. Then, the legislators say, Georgia could send billions of gallons of water to parched Atlanta without Tennessee’s permission.
Shafer, Geisinger and others say an “erroneous” survey completed in 1818 placed the border 1.1 miles below what Congress had earlier established as the boundary.
Virtually every Georgia legislator signed on to the resolutions (SR 822 and HR 1206), which direct Gov. Sonny Perdue to remedy the border dispute with his Tennessee counterpart. »
Water war between the states is for real
We’re already at war with Alabama and Florida over water, so why not also Tennessee?
Of course, shifting the border wouldn’t only affect that one corner of Georgia…
The mayor of McCaysville, Ga., Buddy Finch, 78, said it’s hard to say what the long-term repercussions will be if the border dispute between Georgia and Tennessee becomes more than just a political dust up over water.
The Tennessee-Georgia state line cuts through the heart of McCaysville, separating it from Copper Hill, Tenn. If the line moves about a mile north—where some Georgians argue it belongs—Copper Hill will be swallowed by McCaysville.
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Vest and Finch said they hadn’t heard about the latest fracas, but it didn’t surprise them. “People have been talking about the border up here for years,” said Finch.
Robert K. Ballew, a Blue Ridge, Ga., lawyer who was born 82 years ago in Copper Hill “50 feet inside the Tennessee line,” said he was not sure what the legal ramifications might be if the line moves, but he might end up Tennessean by birth, but Georgian by Supreme Court decision.
“Locally it’s always been known to be wrong and in error; that’s not in dispute,” he said. “But there’s never been a concerted effort to change that.” » Georgia town at the heart of border dispute
My mother-in-law in Chattanooga lives within a mile of the Georgia line. If this silliness were actually to happen, she would end up living in Georgia without having lifted a finger.
This would also affect Georgia’s border with North Carolina, and probably Tennessee’s borders with Alabama and Mississippi and North Carolina’s border with South Carolina. So I think what’s most likely to happen is the courts will simply direct Georgia and Tennessee to make nice and negotiate on Tennessee River water for Georgia.
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January 2008
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Minor-League Baseball to Atlanta
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Wed Jan 16, 2008
8:17 am
by McGehee
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I’m poleaxed.
Such was the secrecy surrounding efforts to bring minor league ball to Gwinnett that the plan seemed to spring fully formed from the landscape Monday in leaked news reports. The county reportedly would build a stadium near the Mall of Georgia and import the top farm team of one of the top sporting franchises in modern history to play in it.
But Tuesday’s formal announcement was in fact the product of lengthy secret negotiations that began with Nasuti’s private brainstorming session in 2006 and ended Tuesday with the announcement that the Richmond Braves would be relocating for the 2009 season.
The team will play in a new $45 million stadium to be built on land the county also purchased Tuesday, located on Buford Drive east of I-85. Under the county’s agreement with the Braves, construction on the stadium must begin by April and conclude by March.
At first, it all seemed so unlikely. »
Nasuti wanted baseball in Gwinnett and made it happen
I wish Gwinnett the best. I can’t imagine myself going all the way to Buford for a ball game, but it’s more likely than going to <glurg> Turner Field for the overrated and ever-choking-in-the-playoffs “major"-league Braves.
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