Erick Erickson
No confidence in the T-SPLOST
The transportation special purpose local option sales tax, which we all call the T-SPLOST, has a lot of good projects in it. I am excited to see funding for an extension of the Middle Georgia Regional Airport’s runway. I cannot state enough the importance of such an extension. It really will create...
Erick Erickson
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ERICK ERICKSON
Consolidate
I favor consolidation. I do not, if I am honest, think it will save us money in the short term. It is designed to, but I’m not sure that it will. But longer term, consolidation will make our local government more efficient, benefit from economies of scale and make larger companies take a ...
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ERICK ERICKSON
Barack Obama’s evolution
Two days after major gay donors said they’d withhold funding from his campaign and one day before his swank $40,000-a-person fundraiser with George Clooney, President Barack Obama publicly reversed course on gay marriage. The Washington Free Beacon’s headline proclaimed “Gay...
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ERICK ERICKSON
Politics of distraction
It is hard for the Republicans to credibly take on President Barack Obama’s speech this week in Afghanistan, claiming he was spiking the football. The Republican’s guy flew in a fighter jet to an aircraft carrier where he climbed out, helmet in flight-suited hand, and gave a speech...
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ERICK ERICKSON
Erickson: Bulldoze Bass Road
I want a Taco Mac at the front entrance of Providence on Bass. I want a stop light there too. But what I want more than anything is to bulldoze Bass Road.
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ERICK ERICKSON
The other tragedy in Sanford, Fla.
Many conservatives would accuse Mike Wallace and “60 Minutes” of a liberal view point and shading stories to match their world view. Growing up, “60 Minutes” was, to me, journalism done right. They asked questions, got answers, highlighted problems, and, though sometimes...
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ERICK ERICKSON
The lasting impression of Professor Reynold Kosek
Reynold Joseph Kosek taught law at Mercer’s Walter F. George School of Law. His reputation ascended to the rare height of a professor whose legend spread beyond his own campus. Other law students at other schools knew the name “Kosek” and, we who actually experienced him liked...
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ERICK ERICKSON
Racism as an excuse
It is a logical outcome of 40 years of government policy predicated on minimizing the need for two parent nuclear families. The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), a liberal lion who played Cassandra to the expanding welfare state, warned of the effects aggressive social welfare programs would...
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ERICK ERICKSON
Not closing the deal
Tuesday, before the polls closed, Mitt Romney went on CNN and told Wolf Blitzer that Rick Santorum’s campaign was coming to a “desperate end.” Then the polls closed and Romney had lost both Mississippi and Alabama.
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ERICK ERICKSON
Opportunity lost
Taxpayer funding of local education is a bitterly resented tax. Those who can, appalled by the standards, secularization, safety or environment of public education, send their children to private school. They still pay taxes to pay for the public schools they see turning out 18-year-olds lacking...
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ERICK ERICKSON
Cain, Abel, and the Bibb/Monroe county line dispute
In the beginning the line between Monroe County and Bibb County existed in quiet. There were no great battles to resolve a disputed border. There was no “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight.” There was no Gadsden Purchase, no Alamo and no Seward to commit a folly. The border just was.
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