By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 09:39 PM  | 

View from Gamecock’s Roost on Stone Mountain of Georgia In the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by a communist in Dallas exactly 47 years ago today, the liberal press (redundant even then, I know) blamed a Southern “atmosphere of violence” rather than the perpetrator. The death of the rabid anti-Communist and supply-side tax-cutter ushered in the takeover of the Democratic Party by | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  October 31st at 12:25 PM  | 

Halloween view of Election 2010 from Stone Mountain of Georgia “Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!” – Martin Luther King, Jr. This conservative Republican looked for two silver linings after the election of Barack Obama as President and the filibuster-proof majorities of his Democratic Party: The re-education of a majority | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  October 25th at 02:24 PM  | 

Effect of D.C. party policies on the economy outweigh state policies and voting for “the man” Even as a young Democrat in the 1980s, I disagreed with former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill’s supposed axiom, no matter one’s definition of “local”. Then, as now, Democrats were facing an electorate suffering the consequences of policies enacted by their super-majorities in both houses of Congress and | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  September 19th at 12:27 PM  | 

The ObamaDem criminalization of our cultural, political and economic life ALBANY, Ga. — U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop Jr., D-Albany, gave his definition of the word “politics” to the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County at a luncheon Monday at the Hilton Garden Inn. “Politics is all about who gets what, when and how,” Bishop said. Americans not yet schooled in the evils of symbolic speech, burned | Read More »