Category: Tom Baxter

Is it a sin to take advantage of business competitors when they take a controversial moral stand? Maybe so, depending on your morality, but no one is expecting that Georgia will turn away any business fleeing from the states which have passed laws similar to the one halted here by Gov. Nathan Deal’s veto pen.

It’s not as if Robert Bentley is the first Southern governor to end up in the compromising position the Alabama governor currently finds himself in. No, no. Bentley’s predecessor, Big Jim Folsom, made the definitive statement on this subject back before Bill Clinton reached puberty.

Tommy Irvin saw this coming, way back when. The pragmatic former state agriculture commissioner was an early prophet and enthusiastic advocate of the Cuban thaw which is coming to pass.

That quaint custom by which we give up an hour every spring in order to get an extra hour back in the fall is under attack on both coasts. Oddly, this effort to decouple our clocks is going on while the country seems to be coming apart all at once.

For a glimpse of what the fall general election campaign might really look like, neither of last week’s primary debates may have been as revealing as President Obama’s trip to Milwaukee.

Last Friday, as the race for the Republican presidential nomination was descending into a ragged brawl here in the United States, Japan announced that its population had fallen by nearly a million people over the past five years, an unprecedented decline in a time of peace. What’s happening here and what’s happening there have much to do with each other, if we stop to think about it.

When historians go back to sort out how the political establishment sleep-walked into the 2016 presidential election, Gov. Nathan Deal’s comments last week should stand out. Days before the South Carolina Republican presidential primary that everybody knew Donald Trump was going to win, as Jeb Bush was gasping his last air, Deal got grumpy about the water wars.