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Residential Design Standards Revisiting Forsyth County Commission

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Here we go again, another pitch for our Forsyth County Commission to mandate blanket residential design standards on all new rezoning countywide.  Please understand, nobody wants nice neighborhoods more than I do.  Nobody wants to maintain property values in Forsyth County more than I do.  And nobody wants to maintain the character of Forsyth County more than I do, as a county resident for over 34 years. And at the same time, no one wants to hold government to its proper, constitutional authority more than I do.  That our government, at all levels, has overstepped its authorities is largely why America is in the shape it’s in today.   The push for county government to dictate what new homes must look like, beyond protecting the safety of inhabitants, and beyond generally protecting values of neighboring property, is not founded on any legitimate authorities for American government.  While nothing can or should stop our county commission from negotiating with developers to achieve ce

Fat Lady to Sing Soon?

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It’s just an expression, folks.  Don’t get caught up in it.  It is an expression asking whether a long trial or struggle is almost over.  And we are getting there.  On the one side of this struggle, we see President Trump consistently outlasting the attacks against him, while his attackers, one by one, die the eventual deaths of a thousand lies.  It is a process by design, Trump design, one that allows his enemies to destroy themselves in front of the American people, while he lets them.  The president could end it all with a signature or two.  But why expend the time and political capital to vanquish foes who do a better job of vanquishing themselves?  As they say, when your enemy digs a hole, hand him a shovel and stand back. What we are witnessing with the Trump’s Tweets, his public statements, statements by Republican congressional leaders Nunes and Gowdy and others, and of course the IG report, is a marketing textbook on how to educate a basically disinterested and uninformed

Casey Cagle, Always True to His Principles

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Last week, supporters of gubernatorial candidate Casey Cagle had the opportunity to learn a hard truth.  That truth is that their candidate for Georgia’s highest elected office readily promotes “bad policy” if it works to his political advantage.  You see, last week was when a concealed recording went viral in which Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor and odds-on favorite for governor, bragged about promoting and passing, “bad policy,” for what he termed, “politics.”  According to the audio, Cagle pushed an education bill, which he admitted was bad “in a thousand different ways,” because in his words, “There’s a group that was getting ready to put $3 million behind Hunter Hill.”  Had fellow candidate Hill received those funds, Cagle reasoned that the eventual 3rd place finisher could have made the recent Republican primary much closer. Casey Cagle explaining his recorded admissions Now is anyone really shocked hearing Cagle’s candid remarks?  They shouldn’t be.  Putting politics befor

A House Divided Cannot Stand, or Can it?

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I recently wrote of a war being fought, not abroad, but right here in America.  I contended that today’s enemies walk among us.  They wage wars of misinformation and disinformation, weapons designed to foster confusion and distrust among the American people.  They charm us to believe as they do.  They soften our resolve. They divert our attention toward seeking entertainment rather than satisfying life goals through personal achievement and helping others.  And while there are many who recognize and resist their efforts, there are just as many who unfortunately succumb to enemy purposes.  The resulting divisions among the American people may prove the issue of our generation.  Today I build on that theme. The war our enemies wage against us is a generational effort. To them, the journey is truly the destination. They engineer among themselves the most effective issues to divide us.  They deal them as if cards in a game.  When each receives his hand, he (or she) ventures into our worl

What Darwin and the Russian Collusion Theory Have in Common

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For as long as man has stared toward the heavens and wondered why, and subsequently charged his sciences with the responsibility of answering that question, the holy grail of that largely worthy discipline has been to discover the origin of life itself, of course assuming as a foundational aspect of that effort, that with no help from outside the physical world, "something," originally morphed out of "nothing."  The built-in assumption regarding the scientific perspective on the origin of life is that "life" must have resulted naturally from "no-life."  If that is true, then a verified, reproducible life-creation discovery could even, eventually, place science into a position of supervising that activity.  If that is not true, then science ultimately has little to consider here. Darwin, Rosenstein, McCabe, Comey and Mueller But once the scientist’s foundational assumption that life came from no-life might be authentically verified, his next