Saturday July 19th, 2025 12:30AM
Coming to Terms with Term Limits
Among the highest prizes in Presidential electoral politics is having your term or terms of office coincide with the opportunity to make U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointments.
9:00AM ( 11 months ago )
The Not So Secret Service
The night of his visit to the Ford Theatre, to see a play which would not finish, second-term President Abraham Lincoln was working on a plan to establish a Secret Service, not for the purpose of Executive Protection, but to protect and ensure against the circulation of fraudulent currency.
9:00AM ( 11 months ago )
Biden His Time
The energetic New Castle County Councilman was only 29, when he decided to challenge Republican two-term U.S. Senator and former two-term Governor, J. Caleb Boggs for his Senate seat.
9:00AM ( 11 months ago )
And They're OFF
Our father, my sisters and I spent the better part of three-years with our mother during that slow, halting walk into her sunset.
9:00AM ( 1 year ago )
Abit Massey: A Life WELL Lived
"Abit Massey was the very best Governor that Georgia never had," said close friend and longtime Gainesville, Georgia neighbor, former Georgia Governor Nathan Deal.
9:00AM ( 1 year ago )
No Silver Bullet for Gun Safety and Shootings
As a gun owner, and someone who has been the victim of violent crime, I am well aware that our police, sheriff deputies and law enforcement personnel cannot be everywhere at once.
9:00AM ( 1 year ago )
Burst Pipes and Infrastructure Dreams
Near universal infrastructure, among the envy of much of the developed and developing countries of the world, remains a strong American calling card, particularly as we moved ‘the peaceful transition of power’ out of the way.
9:00AM ( 1 year ago )
Debating the Debates...and More
The first nationally televised Presidential debate in 1960, carried simultaneously live on radio, was a gentlemanly contest between then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, of California.
9:00AM ( 1 year ago )