Mike DeVine

Mike DeVine is a former op-ed columnist at the Charlotte Observer and legal editor of The (Decatur) Champion (legal organ of DeKalb County, Georgia). He is currently with the Ruf Law Firm in Atlanta Metro and conservative voice of the Atlanta Times News.

Economy

Mike DeVineMarch 15, 2014
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Obama’s Ides of March murder of the rule of law

The assassination of Julius Caesar 2,058 years ago today in the middle, or Ides, of March signaled the end of…
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Economy

Mike DeVineMarch 14, 2014
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Obamacare coverage mandates alone enough to wreck health care

Delays in employer and individual mandates, expanded grandfather clauses for pre-Affordable-Care-Act policies and a broad hardship exemption from the individual…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineMarch 12, 2014
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Spied-on Senators still protected from Obamacare, etc.

The Leaky Leahy Legacy and the presence of so many liberal, appeasing-apologists-for-terrorists Democrats in the U.S. Senate makes CIA eavesdropping…
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Foreign Affairs

Mike DeVineMarch 4, 2014
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Bush airlift and Condi Rice stopped Putin’s Georgia invasion in S. Ossetia

Will Obama do as much for Ukraine? Six years before the Sochi Winter Olympics, then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineFebruary 21, 2014
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FCCgate: The content of news and the character (or lack thereof) of Democrats

Even Clinton consigliere Lanny Davis is outraged that the Federal Communications Commission would even entertain the idea of placing government…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineFebruary 19, 2014
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GA bill expands gun-carry and private property rights [UPDATED]

Georgia property owners and leaseholders should support Republican-passed House bill 875. It restores the rights of bars, churches and other…
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Politics

Mike DeVineFebruary 17, 2014
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Allstar MVP Kyrie dethrones Lebron, King Obama vulnerable

Decisions, decisions and The Decision. In 2008, We the People decided to turn over the nukes to a community organizer…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineFebruary 16, 2014
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Washington’s Birthday, not just any old president’s day

It is fitting that if we are to celebrate the birthday of just one president as a national holiday that…
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Economy

Mike DeVineFebruary 12, 2014
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Clintons’ poverty-producing policies worse than peccadillos

That’s right, both Clintons are Democrats who favor economic policies that have an irrefutable track record of killing jobs, preventing…
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Economy

Mike DeVineFebruary 10, 2014
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After Obama, America will need fundamental transformation

That is, if remaining Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials and their successors are to live in a nation that even…
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Economy

Mike DeVineFebruary 8, 2014
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Uninsured while self- or underemployed for 20 years

Millions of such small business owners share similar healthcare-deprived histories, never qualified for unemployment compensation, and often aren’t counted in…
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Economy

Mike DeVineFebruary 6, 2014
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Dems have long discouraged all but slave, government, and union labor

And only limited amounts of non-government versions of the latter. Democrats are the ones that need to be put out of…
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Economy

Mike DeVineFebruary 5, 2014
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50 years of change Sam Cooke wanted and some he didn’t

Fifty-one years ago, Sam Cooke and his band were denied rooms at a Holiday Inn in Shreveport, Louisiana thanks to…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineFebruary 3, 2014
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00bama’s smidgenless-IRS license-to-kill tea party groups

In addition to yesterday’s less-than-Super Bowl game, we were treated to the indispensable pre-game interview with President Barack Obama as…
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Sports and Culture

Mike DeVineFebruary 1, 2014
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NJ, ATL win Super-disrespect Bowl but, respectfully, NY…

…will still not have hosted a Super Bowl this time next week. While tea party conservatives endure IRS audits and…
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Economy

Mike DeVineJanuary 31, 2014
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Big Biz GOP donors, Dem Labor Unions for cheap labor

Of course, big businesses led by Democrats, Republicans and independents naturally favor greater supplies of labor, but these aren’t your…
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Economy

Mike DeVineJanuary 29, 2014
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Hell: When Hotlanta freezes over or ObamaDems don’t?

The latter, by far. Yesterday at High Noon, Mother Earth decided to up and quickly dump snow and ice on…
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Economy

Mike DeVineJanuary 27, 2014
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Disastrous State of liberal-Democrat-governed Union

Section 3 of Article II of the U.S. Constitution provides that the President “shall from time to time give to…
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Economy

Mike DeVineJanuary 20, 2014
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MLK, poor people’s campaigns, and the GOP

Forty-six years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Democratic Party has made clear its rejection…
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Social Issues

Mike DeVineJanuary 19, 2014
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Fetal pain on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday

Today, the third Sunday in January, due to its proximity to anniversaries of the notorious Roe v. Wade decision by…
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Foreign Affairs

Mike DeVineJanuary 19, 2014
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Under secret deal, ‘commission’, not U.S., verifies Iran nukes

We have favored military action against Iran’s ruling Islamist-terror-regime mullahs before their nuclear arms program was uncovered and even before…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineJanuary 17, 2014
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GOP nixed Dems’ farm subsidy cuts, slashed military pensions instead?

Capitol Hill sources have advised this reporter that Paul Ryan-led Republicans included the cut in career military pensions (reported yesterday) in…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineJanuary 16, 2014
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Oklahoma spared Utah’s same-sex-marriage-limbo

No Supreme Court precedent exists to justify any state or federal court declaring that state laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex…
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Economy

Mike DeVineJanuary 15, 2014
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Obama has a pen, phone, scepter and failed presidency

And We, the People, have lost six, working on eight, years of liberty-fueled pursuits of happiness. Soon after his coronations…
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Politics

Mike DeVineJanuary 14, 2014
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Compassionate Bushies slander tea partiers as anti-government

As reported by JoeForAmerica two days ago, Sen. John McCain’s Phoenix/Maricopa County, Arizona base of precinct committeemen had had enough…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineJanuary 13, 2014
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Obama probes Christie’s ‘Sandy’ funds after praising relief efforts

First it was “inequality,” unemployment benefits extension, minimum wage hikes and “promise zones” (no word on whether shovel-ready jobs have…
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Politics

Mike DeVineJanuary 12, 2014
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McCain censured in Arizona for amnesty, conservative betrayals

And we thought the tea party and Ted Cruz were on the run for daring not to cave in to…
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Economy

Mike DeVineJanuary 11, 2014
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Reagan Farewell Address @ 25: Conservatism works

A third of a century ago, an old B-movie actor, radical right-wing conservative, tea party-like Republican was appointed Chief Executive…
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Economy

Mike DeVineJanuary 10, 2014
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Progress in war on black poverty due to civil rights, not welfare

Current poverty stats generally show the same 15-17% rate of Americans living in poverty today as were when President Lyndon Johnson launched…
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Social Issues

Mike DeVineJanuary 5, 2014
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Green Bay Packers, ERs and NFL Blackout/Obamacare mandates

Will Roger Goodell be dressed in George Constanza-Gortex, squeezed into a nose-bleed seat above Lambeau’s frozen tundra tonight making sure the…
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Foreign Affairs

Mike DeVineJanuary 5, 2014
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If only Obama had drawn Saddam’s red-WMD line?

Does anyone on Earth believe that the Bashir Assad-Syrian-puppet of the terrorist nation of Iran is voluntarily surrendering all of…
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Social Issues

Mike DeVineJanuary 4, 2014
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Only two ways Manchin-Obamacare-Democrats can redeem themselves

And by Manchin-Obamacare-Democrats, I mean ALL elected Democrats serving in Washington, D.C. today at the White House, Blair House and…
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Social Issues

Mike DeVineJanuary 4, 2014
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I love this Bar? Toby Keith goes Wyatt Earp, bans guns

The pro-gun-control Governor-elect of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, doesn’t take office until January 11, 2014. Therefore the state for lovers still…
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Social Issues

Mike DeVineJanuary 3, 2014
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Best GOP Obamacare-repeal strategy: Replace with Dr. Tom Price plan

Obamacare can’t be “fixed”. But neither could the Medicare-going-Bankrupt, Medicaid-bankrupting-states, and state-insurance-market-monopolies system that prevailed for decades before Obamacare doubled-down…
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Social Issues

Mike DeVineJanuary 3, 2014
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Five New Year’s Resolutions for Conservatives

Disappointments since Speaker Boehner’s establishment Republicans squandered the tea partier-fueled, anti-Obamacare, conservative-momentum from the GOP 2010 mid-term election landslide, coupled…
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Media

Mike DeVineDecember 30, 2013
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Cockstradamus 2014: Kirsten Powers will renounce Dem Party-affiliation, etc.

Thought you were heading into tomorrow night’s New Year’s Eve and The Year of our Lord (aka anno domini aka…
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Mike DeVine

Obama’s Ides of March murder of the rule of law

Obamacare coverage mandates alone enough to wreck health care

Spied-on Senators still protected from Obamacare, etc.

Bush airlift and Condi Rice stopped Putin’s Georgia invasion in S. Ossetia

FCCgate: The content of news and the character (or lack thereof) of Democrats

GA bill expands gun-carry and private property rights [UPDATED]

Allstar MVP Kyrie dethrones Lebron, King Obama vulnerable

Washington’s Birthday, not just any old president’s day

Clintons’ poverty-producing policies worse than peccadillos

After Obama, America will need fundamental transformation

Uninsured while self- or underemployed for 20 years

Dems have long discouraged all but slave, government, and union labor

00bama’s smidgenless-IRS license-to-kill tea party groups

NJ, ATL win Super-disrespect Bowl but, respectfully, NY…

Big Biz GOP donors, Dem Labor Unions for cheap labor

Hell: When Hotlanta freezes over or ObamaDems don’t?

Disastrous State of liberal-Democrat-governed Union

MLK, poor people’s campaigns, and the GOP

Under secret deal, ‘commission’, not U.S., verifies Iran nukes

GOP nixed Dems’ farm subsidy cuts, slashed military pensions instead?

Obama has a pen, phone, scepter and failed presidency

Compassionate Bushies slander tea partiers as anti-government

Obama probes Christie’s ‘Sandy’ funds after praising relief efforts

McCain censured in Arizona for amnesty, conservative betrayals

Reagan Farewell Address @ 25: Conservatism works

If only Obama had drawn Saddam’s red-WMD line?

Cockstradamus 2014: Kirsten Powers will renounce Dem Party-affiliation, etc.

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