Lions and Eagles

I'm going to do something different this time. In the past, I've looked at the candidates at the order they appear on my sample ballot. (If you haven't looked at your own sample ballot, you really owe yourself a visit to the Georgia My Voter page .) This time, I'm changing it up a little. Three-candidate races are actually interesting, so I'm going to give them top billing. Two-candidate races, not nearly so interesting, they get pushed down. One-candidate races get ignored altogether, as I have in the past. Last of all, as always, I will look at the proposed constitutional amendments and ballot referendums. Interesting races  For Governor  BRIAN KEMP Republican  STACEY ABRAMS Democrat  TED METZ Libertarian  I’m tired of playing the Red and Blue game. The only thing Kemp had going for him was that he wasn’t Cagle. Other than that, his appeal is strictly "good old boy" Trumpian.  The only reason to vote for him is if you don't like Democr...

Today was the first ever national test of the system which can send Presidential Alert notices to almost every cell phone in the country. We've joked about it, which is good. We've also wondered, do we need to be worried that this could be abused? Is the ability to send a national, “no opting out” text message too much power for a President known for rash tweets?  One thing to ask is whether there is a law from Congress that allows the Executive Branch to implement this system and strictly controls its use. And in fact, there is just such a law. This is from the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2015:  Except to the extent necessary for testing the public alert and warning system, the public alert and warning system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.  Okay, good. As long as the President keeps to this rule, and onl...