I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
A typical candidate will remove his or her website, lay low and then reload it at the beginning of the next election cycle. I have a lot to say, so I’m leaving mine in place, convert it to a blog and will post periodic comments about the state of the nation and the world. [...]
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I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
A typical candidate will remove his or her website, lay low and then reload it at the beginning of the next election cycle. I have a lot to say, so I’m leaving mine in place, convert it to a blog and will post periodic comments about the state of the nation and the world. [...]
Business as usual?
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
I had a long discussion with my campaign manager today. He has been thinking for a while about my decision to publish a series of posts, after the November election, expressing my ongoing current events points of view. He said to just leave my website up, election positions pos [...]
Article One…
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
As you may know Article One was the first Article of our Constitution. It established the powers of, and the limitations of the Congress.
I had some discussion with Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brian Kemp about geographic restrictions when running for Congress. He confir [...]
Yet another war!
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
The question is why now? See below for the answer.
President Obama has finally decided that the Syrian government, or regime as they are now known, has crossed the “red line.” The red line is that Syria has been using chemical weapons on its citizens. He is now sati [...]
Edward Snowden
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
Much has been written, and will be about this 29 year old government contractor. He’ll either move to a country and be granted political asylum. People and governments who hate us will embrace and protect him, until they grow bored, use up his political value for their ow [...]
Government snooping, part one
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
As you may have read, the U.K.’s The Guardian newspaper broke a story about how Verizon is releasing vast amounts of information to our government. They are delivering detail of its customer’s movements, numbers dialed or received, call length, GPS coordinates and a [...]
Government snooping, part two
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
Continued from part one.
The same technique may be working for collecting data on American citizens in an effort to bypass the Fourth Amendment. It would not be surprising if our government has laid secret fibre optic cables across the Atlantic to the U.K., our closest and most [...]
Give me liberty or give me DNA testin...
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
As you may know the Supreme Court just ruled that its okay for the police to take DNA samples from people arrested for “serious” offenses. What are serious offenses? Take your pick; as far as I can tell they don’t say. I suspect that a “serious offense&# [...]
Are you a prisoner?
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
No, I’m not suggesting that you are incarcerated but you may still be a prisoner, and if elected I know how to get you out.
I’m writing about one of the things I want to do if elected to help our nation’s homeowners. As you know, the housing market slumped in [...]
TSA foolishness
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
I don’t fly much. It’s a very time consuming business and, as you know, you can spend far more time in the airport than in the air.
This Memorial Day weekend, we flew to Detroit and Lake Huron to see some friends. The Detroit weather was perfect, and Lake Huron was [...]
Syria
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
As you know, the Syrian government, or regime as the media calls it now is under attack by various groups trying to “liberate” Syria. What that means, if successful, will be evident after the Syrian government has fallen, if it falls.
It appears that chemical weapo [...]
Gitmo and how to fix the mess
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
Gitmo is a mess. We have held prisoners at Guantanamo for many years without trial, admitting that almost all are innocent of any crime but don’t know what to do with them.
President Obama has resolved the problem with catching more and more people in the Middle East and [...]
Finally… a good use for our dro...
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
First the bad then at the end of this posting, the good…
If you’re thinking that I approve of our current policy of droning suspected militants or terrorists in houses where our government claims that only militants are killed, and no innocent people are, I don̵ [...]
How Washington deals with crises
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
As you may know, we have three crises developing in Washington. The first is who knew what related to the attack on our Benghazi mission in Libya last September 11. Second, who really ordered the IRS targeting of Tea Party and similar organizations and finally, the Associated P [...]
The tender trap
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
I heard a report recently that U.K. payday lenders were making significant profits from penalty charges associated with customer loans. When I stopped at my bank in Marietta to deposit some checks I had a discussion with the head teller about our banks providing something simil [...]
