Georgia Patriot Files

Fifteen years after World War II ended, I began grammar school.  In those days, my friends and I loved to play war, simulating the conflict many of our dads had fought.  My dad turned 20 two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Mom told me that shortly after the attack, Dad tried to enlist.  Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately for me, Dad was turned down because he had a gimpy leg, a defect from a difficult birth.  My dad did his duty here at home, however, working at Marietta’s Bell Bomber Plant, although he lived with the lasting regret of being turned down for service.  Dad’s interest in the war his friends fought inspired him to study it to the extent that when he died he had collected hundreds of volumes in a WWII library, each in its turn he had personally scoured for additional information about the war he missed.  After he died, I proudly donated his library to our alma mater, Georgia Tech.  Dad always felt in awe of his friends who served during the war, and I expect humbl

According to President Trump, China has been using America as its own personal piggy bank.  Is that true?  I ask because on the surface, Americans receive products made cheap overseas in exchange for dollars.  That’s a free market, right?  Well, no it’s not.  But to understand why, ask yourself these questions: Why does China even want US dollars?  Why does China hold US dollars in reserve?  Why does China buy US Treasuries with its excess dollars?  And here is the big question for all Americans, if America exports dollars to China and the world the tune of $800 billion each year, meaning that $800 billion actually exit the fifty states destined for foreign accounts, don’t those dollars have to be replaced?   Where do replacement dollars come from?  Okay, now we’re thinking.  Let’s get some answers. We can agree that “free trade” requires both sides of a transaction to enter voluntarily, neither side coerced to trade with the other.  But that is not what we have here, not really.  To

Saying it’s so does not make it so.  Therefore, to the extent possible within my allotted space, each week I try to unfold the world as I see it, but also explain why.  In an open format I might derive and hammer each point I make, citing each source as I go, leaving nothing to doubt.  But an analysis of that sort is not practical here, writing opinion pieces for the paper.  That’s not a bad thing. But realize I cannot take you back to the very nut on any subject and bring you along as I would like.  That said, today I am going to try to do just that, make a point and derive it for you.  But you are going to have to do your part and consider what I offer.  And my point today is liable to disappoint or dismay both liberals and libertarians, neither assemblage in my experience willing to understand that what they choose to believe is simply not true. The truth I will express today, and which is verifiable within America’s founding documents, changes the entire political world in which bo

The Mueller Report is published.  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is resigned. And as we sit watchfully, waiting for the next shoe to drop, today might be a good time to remind readers of a few appetizers I’ve served in the past, and then steer our sights forward to the main course ahead.  You might recall last September, when the contents of the Mueller Report were in unqualified doubt, I told you even then that, “Trump holds all the cards.”  In an article of that title, I wrote, “President Trump holds all the cards, friends.  And he is playing them in a way that has every DC Democrat, and the cabal they represent, panicking.”  Since I wrote that, those same parties have been panicking all the more.  Major crimes against the American people have been committed.   The actors who scream the loudest are the worst offenders, Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, an entire host of Democrat Presidential hopefuls and Michael Avenatti, just for example.  We knew in September that Rod Rosenstein