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 [...]
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 [...]
Why Mark Sanford won in SC
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
As you may know, Mark Sanford won the 1st congressional district seat in South Carolina a few days ago. While the media has focused on his fall from grace and that he was heavily fined for using state travel funds to finance a tryst in South America, I looked behind the scenes [...]
How to fix SSDI and save billions
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
A number of years ago, an acquaintance of mine said that his lawyer was finally able to persuade a judge that he was disabled so he could collect SSDI, Social Security Disability Insurance. SSDI is one of many programs designed to help people in need. I didn’t think much [...]
Finally, some good news – then ...
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
The Senate voted against restricting ownership of firearms, a victory for our Constitution, especially the Second Amendment. What is it about this sentence that is difficult to understand, one that was kept concise, so that it would not be open to discussion -
“A well re [...]
Another Democrat trillion dollar mist...
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
You probably haven’t heard, but representative Karen Bass from California is proposing a bill that will cost taxpayers about a trillion dollars. Clearly, she has no idea of the ramifications of what she wants to do, but it will help her reelection next year.
As an example [...]
Why the public doesn’t really c...
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
I talk to a lot of people, gauging political beliefs, focus and voting preferences. I’ve come to the conclusion that the vast majority of the public doesn’t really care who gets elected as long their lives aren’t altered.
They claim they care, but aren’t [...]
President Obama’s taxes
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
As you may know, President Obama released his family’s 2012 tax return. He made $608,611 and paid $112,214 in taxes, so his effective federal income tax rate was 18.4%. He made a comment that he didn’t pay enough.
Here’s the question… if he is so concer [...]
The Obama 2014 budget
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
I was surprised to find that President Obama has presented a $3.77 trillion Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget and is promoting it as a balanced deficit buster.
This “deficit busting budget” is actually a budget that spends more and increases the deficit with no end in sight. In Wash [...]
The post office retirement game
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
You may have heard that the U.S. Postal Service is in financial trouble. They are steadily raising first class postage rates one penny at a time, and will soon end Saturday delivery.
I like the postal service. The people are friendly, efficient and first class postage rates are [...]
Louis Taylor
I am your common sense candidate. No fluff, just common sense.
I watched the CBS evening news last night and was touched by the Louis Taylor story, and angered by the use of coercion to avoid paying damages to someone who lost over forty years of his life to an overzealous system.
If true, the video tells the whole story. The system neede [...]
