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 DeVineNovember 6, 2013
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Virginia no longer for lovers … of conservatives

The Hunger Games have been pushed too far outside of the Capitol City for the Old Dominion to maintain its…
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Economy

Mike DeVineNovember 5, 2013
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Obamacare, Obamanomics ‘stimulus’ for parent move-ins with kids

The only “work” stimulated for non-government union employees by President Obama’s 2009 “stimulus” bill was for U-Haul to move adult…
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Politics

Mike DeVineNovember 4, 2013
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Would Alabama’s Byrne or Young have caved on Obamacare shutdown?

Tomorrow, Republicans in Alabama will choose a conservative to replace a conservative in Congress, but will their choice drive with…
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Politics

Mike DeVineNovember 3, 2013
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HealthCare.gov, other scam sites and Kaiser-now-non-Permanente?

When it comes to compassion for the sick, Obama Democrats can’t compete with the late Henry Kaiser, including his Kaiser…
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Social Issues

Mike DeVineNovember 2, 2013
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Obamacare is ‘working’ to kill the private health insurance industry

From their inception, the individual and employer mandates got the ink. But it was always the insurance mandates that were…
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Media

Mike DeVineNovember 1, 2013
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Juan Williams makes Clintonian ‘blue dress’-defense of Obamacare

Valerie Jarrett and Jay Carney had already launched the demonization of insurance cos.-defense to cover President Obama for his lying-guarantee…
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Sports and Culture

Mike DeVineNovember 1, 2013
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Being an NBA fan in Football Nation aka Braves Country

King James began his quest for an NBA-title three-peat this week but Atlanta sports talk profoundly asks…How ’bout them Dawgs!…
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Economy

Mike DeVineOctober 29, 2013
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The Housing Bust and Obamanomics, five years on

This month and next mark the fifth anniversaries of the housing bust-caused financial crisis that led to TARP and other…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineOctober 28, 2013
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Now, Dems want King Obamacare to delay mandate, illegally

Offered no less than two chances to delay Obamacare’s individual mandate earlier this month, not one Democrat in the United…
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Social Issues

Mike DeVineOctober 27, 2013
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Climate didn't kill JFK or Sebelius' Healthcare.gov

Liberal Democrats just can’t accept reality when it conflicts (a frequent occurrence) with their liberal world view or political vanity.…
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Social Issues

Mike DeVineOctober 24, 2013
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Obamacare ushers in Halloween spirits

We’re not sure if the ghost(s) of Anniston and Gadsden, Alabama, respectively, caught on security-camera video below were thrown out…
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Economy

Mike DeVineOctober 23, 2013
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ITIN de facto amnesty empowers Obama IRS to buy votes

Outraged that illegal aliens claimed child-tax-credits, but no outrage that current tax law allows them to report income and pay…
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Politics

Mike DeVineOctober 21, 2013
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Cruz, Lee and me, the new RINOs … and proudly so

This gamecock thinks it’s time that tea partier and other conservatives in the GOP started referring to ourselves as RINOs,…
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Economy

Mike DeVineOctober 21, 2013
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Merely maintaining sequester cuts no GOP victory

Non-tea partying Senate Republicans insisted upon cruising to debt limit and government shutdown-showdown defeat after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) dared…
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Economy

Mike DeVineOctober 14, 2013
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Redskins, Greenbacks and Obamacare blues on Columbus Day

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and, modern-day liberal Democrat protestations to the contrary, the world is better off…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineOctober 14, 2013
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Vets return BarryCades to Spite House…feels right

Has America ever had a smaller Chief Executive? Yes, I know that James Madison stood only 5 feet, 4 inches…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineOctober 13, 2013
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Even MSNBC can’t justify Fat Cats’ Obamacare exemptions

No one could, save for believers in the divine right of kings. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell has a very high regard…
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Economy

Mike DeVineOctober 10, 2013
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Why Wall Street should be concerned even after debt limit is raised

The only “faction” that controls whether to default, remains president of the United States. Conservatives should be happy that Speaker…
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National Security

Mike DeVineOctober 4, 2013
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Grand Bargain must cut spending, end Obamacare’s Hunger Games-exemption

Speaker Boehner must not be spooked, by President Obama’s debt ceiling-default threat, to grab defeat from the jaws of government…
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Politics

Mike DeVineOctober 2, 2013
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Exchange exchanges, state monopolies for Free national health insurance Market

What’s next, government exchanges for health care-related goods and services like personal trainers, walking shoes, housing, automobiles, gasoline, food and…
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Economy

Mike DeVineSeptember 29, 2013
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GOP delays Obamacare, funds government: Let Obama shut it down

The GOP needs a government shutdown to re-establish GUT-bone fides with the American people. Republicans should allow President Obama to shut…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineSeptember 27, 2013
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Intelligent Krauthammer’s debt limit-showdown strategy also a Cruz-like cul-de-sac

Any Republican strategy to force Obama and the Democrats to compromise on Obamacare, taxes, spending or even the Keystone XL…
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Economy

Mike DeVineSeptember 26, 2013
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Cruz cures Krauthammer of cul-de-sac phobia?

For weeks, Charles Krauthammer has trashed the effort led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to defund Obamacare as a “cul-de-sac”…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineSeptember 24, 2013
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GOP hasn’t the votes to defund, nor Obama to fund, Obamacare

Do the Constitution’s separation of powers and concomitant duty to compromise apply to all presidents save for President Obama? Few…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineSeptember 19, 2013
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Shutdown chaos preferable to GOP Obamacare-siren-song cave

Our young above-it-all president knows best. He will never compromise on the signature achievement of his presidency. He will let…
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Media

Mike DeVineSeptember 18, 2013
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Celebrate Constitution that WAS: Exercise House power that IS and defund Obamacare

The United States constitution is not self-executing. Sadly, in the Age of Obama it is more often honored in the…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineSeptember 13, 2013
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Thought Longshoremen, AFL-CIO Obamacare-split was a good sign? Not

Labor unions, public and private, have been as loyal as any faction of the Democratic Party; so it seemed a…
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Foreign Affairs

Mike DeVineSeptember 11, 2013
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9/11@12, Benghazi@12 months and dwindling Bush intel

What is the state of U.S. intelligence since President Obama succeeded President Bush in 2009? Twelve years ago this morning…
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Foreign Affairs

Mike DeVineSeptember 10, 2013
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Obama deserves impossible-to-prove-a-negative WMD-dance with Hans Blix

The president still emphasizes the “credible threat of military action,” but does anyone think Obama won’t seize upon the Russia-Syria…
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Foreign Affairs

Mike DeVineSeptember 9, 2013
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’13 Battles of Put-In in the docks of Erie and Syrian Bays

On September 10, 1813, after winning the Battle of Lake Erie at Put-In-Bay, Ohio, thus vanquishing the British Royal Navy from…
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Foreign Affairs

Mike DeVineSeptember 6, 2013
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Red lines Obama, Democrats never draw in the sand

Christians, Jews, women, and freedom-loving Muslims await compassion from liberal Democrats who have showered their love on the former Soviet…
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Law and Government

Mike DeVineSeptember 5, 2013
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Media amnesia: Bill Clinton persuaded Senate Dems to pass Obamacare in 2009

The former president used the same ‘fix it later’ argument in November of 2009 to persuade reluctant faux Blue Dog…
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Economy

Mike DeVineSeptember 2, 2013
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Labor Day and election days dropouts

If only Democrats celebrated non-government, non-union and non-Obama-crony labor on non-Labor Days. Five Labor Days after the housing bubble burst…
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Foreign Affairs

Mike DeVineSeptember 2, 2013
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535 congressmen can’t fix Obama’s weak foreign policy

Did over four months of begging the United Nations to authorize the invasion of Iraq aid in the discovery of…
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Economy

Mike DeVineAugust 26, 2013
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Obama's non-content-of-character March to non-Washington poverty equality

Civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) says he is “still” marching on Washington, 50 years later. On Wednesday’s 50th…
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Foreign Affairs

Mike DeVineAugust 21, 2013
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Camp David, Coptic Christians and aid to Egyptian Obamahoods

Only now that the Sharia-loving, Israel-hating, Coptic Christian-persecuting Muslim Brotherhood is out of power is the Obama Administration reviewing aid…
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Mike DeVine

Would Alabama’s Byrne or Young have caved on Obamacare shutdown?

Being an NBA fan in Football Nation aka Braves Country

The Housing Bust and Obamanomics, five years on

Vets return BarryCades to Spite House…feels right

Why Wall Street should be concerned even after debt limit is raised

9/11@12, Benghazi@12 months and dwindling Bush intel

Obama deserves impossible-to-prove-a-negative WMD-dance with Hans Blix

’13 Battles of Put-In in the docks of Erie and Syrian Bays

Labor Day and election days dropouts

535 congressmen can’t fix Obama’s weak foreign policy

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