By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  October 8th at 09:09 AM  | 

In a recent issue of Atlanta Times News, Mike DeVine admonished DeKalb County voters to send only Republicans to represent them in Washington, D.C. given the desperate need to repeal Obamacare and pass economic growth-friendly legislation so that a real recovery can commence across the Fruited Plain, including in the Peach State. But given the circumstance in portions of Georgia south of DeKalb, this Sandlapper thinks an | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 15th at 01:25 PM  | 

On primary day last month, DeKalb County, Georgia rejected T-Splost and founded a new city in her midst but the Great Recession/most anemic “Recovery” since the Great Depression continues and no amount of new cities, transportation plan Bs, nor Democrats or Republicans in the State Legislature, can fix it. Why? Because Georgia (nor any other state without oil beneath their feet) can’t fix what Washington, D.C. | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 11th at 04:27 PM  | 

So, why not expedite Keystone Pipeline and stop closing coal power plants? Georgians, South Carolinians and their respective Republican governors got early Christmas presents from an unlikely Democratic Party source last week when President Barack Obama agreed to waive further application of federal environmental rules in order to expedite the dredging of several U.S. ports, including those at Savannah and Charleston, S.C. The dredging is needed so | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 17th at 12:25 PM  | 

Where does this New City movement stop? With a new City of Mike, when every person is their own munici-personality divorced from DeKalb County? No taxation without representation Such was the battle cry of colonists resentful of a distant and arbitrary King and Parliament unresponsive to their happiness pursuits. The shot heard round the world at Lexington and Concord launched an American revolution in self | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  March 6th at 12:46 PM  | 

Any of these Republicans would deny Obama re-election The view from this South Carolina gamecock’s Stone Mountain of Georgia roost sees Newt Gingrich winning from whence he made conservative Republican history, second only to Ronaldus Maxus. DeVine Law dictated this Southern Baptist’s vote for the young Catholic, while my long-time, part-time, lifetime-Democrat girlfriend will be casting an anti-religious bigotry vote for the savior of the Salt Lake City Olympics | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 20th at 11:03 AM  | 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that crime in America is down, but too many in state and federal governments wouldn’t know a crime if billy club-wielding New Black Panthers intimidated white voters outside of a polling booth on election days. But just let an election registrar ask a black person for a photo ID before they vote for sheriff and the “return of Jim Crow” | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  October 21st at 11:03 AM  | 

Personal hygiene and message of those now occupying Atlanta, stinks, literally and figuratively Downtown Atlanta has had a homeless and panhandling problem, to varying degrees, for the past ten years that I have lived here in the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. But never have the poorest of the poor in the City too Busy to Hate stunk it up with self-indulgent entitlement whining | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  September 3rd at 03:03 AM  | 

Fifth annual Braves-Gamecock Ode to the late radio pigskin prognosticator, Leonard Postero aka “Leonard Postosties” of Athens, Georgia that thanks God for: the return of college football; the mostly non-rushing but still enjoyable NFL version of same; and the Vernal Equinox-induced cooler weather. This year we begin our coverage with the vacation-delayed 4th Quarter of the 2011 ABL (Ain’t Bean Ball League) championship game, scheduled | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 18th at 02:32 PM  | 

“Chaos” born of the rule of law? The view from Stone Mountain of Georgia To hear the wailing of “Big Agriculture” on the shortage of peach-picking hands in the Peach State, all was peachy in Georgia before Governor Nathan Deal signed its Arizona-style, illegal immigration-enforcement law last month. Political Insider wailing from the state’s newspaper of record suggest that heretofore cautiously conservative Republicans lost their traditional fear | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  March 27th at 09:14 AM  | 

March Braves-Gamecock Madness The post-Vernal Equinox view of all things legal, political and sporting from Stone Mountain of Georgia, co-starring Cockstradamus from The Azores… When GDP does not a recovery make? When Massachusetts jobs fair is cancelled! The Speaker may be listening after all? GOP must hold firm on riders de-funding ObamaCare-Pelosi, Planned Parenthood, NPR/PBS in next budget/CR vote. Why is the man our president always makes sure | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 12:37 PM  | 

Or, when will Neil Boortz start mocking restaurateurs? Who knew that the tea partier-fueled greatest conservative Republican wave election in history would lead to a Georgia Republicans-sponsored bill to allow package sales of beer, spirits and wine on Sunday? The Georgia GOP pre-whip count tease of increased Publix profits, sure got Atlanta’s notorious Christian-basher more excited to shout Welcome South Brother (750 WSB-AM), until a redundant “secret” | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 13th at 11:48 PM  | 

On the 10th anniversary of Bush v. Gore, we re-visit our Man of the Decade Despite a cold decade and recent climate hoax revelations, no other person had more of an impact, for better or for worse (see worse in Gore’s case), on life in America and on Planet Earth than the man that never was the next President of the United States. Gore lacks the | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 10th at 12:22 AM  | 

Black Democrats break race pathology by joining the GOP: Two African-American Democrats on Thursday announced that they were joining the Republican Party. Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell and former state executive committee member Andre Walker said the Democratic Party had grown too liberal and they are finding a new home with the Republicans. It takes courage to leave the political party one inherits, especially in one’s | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 2nd at 10:55 AM  | 

Take no comfort in the letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) signed by all 42 current members of the Republican caucus in the U.S. Senate promising to filibuster all legislation brought to the floor by the Democratic majority: “…until the Senate has acted to fund the government and we have prevented the tax increase that is currently awaiting all American taxpayers.” The letter is a lie. | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 24th at 07:35 PM  | 

And I don’t mean a chicken in every pot given the proliferation of beans, franks and store brand peas’ diets (Le Sueur peas still too expensive, but we can dream…) Speaking of dreams, several of the poultry-related R.E.M., USC type came true in Omaha, Columbia and Gainesville before this year’s Turkey Day, but I digress…(at least until later in this column) ObamaDems Year of the Chicken stretches | Read More »

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 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 »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  September 7th at 11:55 PM  | 

Cockstradamus returned from his Azores sabbatical to correctly pick 12 of 16 college and 9 of 16 pro football games last week, including our USC Fighting Gamecocks 17-6 victory over the Georgia Bullgogs. James Madison: The father of the Constitution and diminishing Boise BCS Championship game hopes The Broncos barely beat the, now 0-2, Virginia Tech Hokies after the Gobblers were defeated by Div-AA James | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 11th at 09:41 AM  | 

[update, Noon, August 11, 2010 - from the Political Insider] The statement just arrived from her campaign: I want to thank all of my friends, supporters, volunteers and my campaign team for a tremendous effort over the last 16 months. We ran a terrific campaign, beat the odds to come in first place in the Primary, and came so very close in the runoff election. | Read More »