Georgia

Blake Aued has the scoop on the latest of many rants from the ultra-conservative Georgia congressman on the subject of whether President Obama is becoming a dictator. (The first came days after the 2008 election.) “He told a meeting of the Morgan County Republicans on Wednesday night,”  Aued reports, “that Obama already has or will [...]

In a highly unusual decision, a majority of Supreme Court justices yesterday ordered that a federal judge in Georgia must hear new evidence that lawyers for Troy Davis have been saying for years will prove his innocence.
Davis, as I’ve explained before, has been on death row in Georgia since 1989, when he was found guilty [...]

Via Michael Shedlock, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reviews the growing problem of zombie subdivisions, those half-built developments you often see from a highway. Developers broke ground for these subdivisions near the end of the housing boom, and abandoned them when the mortgage crisis hit and financing dried up. Now the subdivisions are a drag on surrounding [...]

While the coal industry lobby in Washington seeks to rebrand its product as “clean,” and the fate of climate change legislation in Congress remains hostage to partisan maneuvering, two recent decisions by local power companies show a lower carbon future slowly taking shape.

The Obama campaign announced Friday morning that it is investing new resources for a TV blitz deep in Republican territory, running new ads in North Dakota, Georgia  and Sen. John McCain’s home state of Arizona.
The announcement is either a small-buy head fake, which could stoke heady press coverage of the campaign’s offense in the closing [...]

Let me add to DeLong’s post. First, the idea that there is anything at all unseemly about “associating” with Rashid Khalidi is — why mince words — racist.
As Matt Duss points out, Khalidi is a respected professor of Middle Eastern studies. His history of the Palestinian people was on the syllabus of a course I [...]

At 7 p.m. Monday, Troy Anthony Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia. Even for those who support the death penalty, that’s cause for concern.
Davis was convicted in 1991 of murdering a Savannah, Ga., police officer based on witness testimony that, for the most part, has since been recanted. As I wrote [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for Georgia to execute a man convicted of murdering a police officer in 1989, though seven of nine witnesses in his case have since recanted.
Lawyers for the defendant, Troy Anthony Davis, now 40, had hoped the court would grant certiorari to review whether it is constitutional for [...]

COMMENTARY
Washington again placed bets on the wrong foreign leaders. Is personal diplomacy a farce?

At a fund-raiser in Sacramento, Sen. John McCain just told attendees that his wife, Cindy, is en route to the war-torn country of Georgia. No word yet on what her plans are. Last week, McCain dispatched his friends, surrogates and fellow U.S. Senate Armed Service Committee members Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsay Graham [...]