
Christ follower, husband, & father of 3, @UnivWestGa & @LibertyU alumni, @bartowschools School Board District 3, @USMC Vet. Matthew 25:40 | Opinions are my own.
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For more than 20 years, on and off, I have had the privilege of representing District 3 on the Bartow County Board of Education. I have served openly and proudly as a Republican. I have held leadership positions within the Bartow County Republican Party, run for State School Superintendent, and been a Republican candidate for the Georgia House of Representatives. My conservative principles have not changed.
That is why I know my decision in this election may surprise some people.
In the race for School Board District 3, I have two choices: leave that portion of my ballot blank or vote for Reverend Willie Coombs. After considerable thought, and more importantly, after making a point to spend time with Reverend Coombs through numerous conversations, I have decided not only to vote for him, but to formally endorse him.
I did not come to this decision because of party affiliation. I came to it because I believe local school board service should ultimately be about our students, our teachers and staff, our parents, and the taxpayers who entrust us with both their children and their money.
Over the years, I have learned that serving on a school board requires more than campaign promises or political labels. It requires good judgment, a willingness to listen and learn, responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, respect for the people doing the work in our schools, and the temperament to make difficult decisions when the easy answer may be politically appealing.
My conversations with Reverend Coombs have given me confidence that he understands the responsibility he is asking voters to give him. We will not agree on every political issue, nor would I expect us to. But I believe he will approach this office with a genuine desire to serve and to do what is best for Bartow County.
For me, this election is not about Republican versus Democrat. It is about who I believe can best serve the students, teachers, parents, and taxpayers of Bartow County.
Based on my experience serving this community and the time I have spent getting to know Reverend Coombs, I believe that person is Willie Coombs. Therefore, I am proud to endorse Reverend Willie Coombs for Bartow County School Board, District 3.
~Matt Shultz
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"โwhether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasnโt sharp enough down the stretch. Iโm sure thatโs true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollsterโone of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday weโd lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (Sheโs also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcementโby focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, โI told you soโ: youโre right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Letโs take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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This one hit hard this morningโฆ.
โWe spend the majority of our life, looking for recognition and validation from a world that crucified a perfect man.โ
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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor womanโs final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraftโs maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
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Was America founded as a Christian nation?
Charlie Kirk answered this question better than anyone I've ever seen. I never get tired of this clip.
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FINAL: Cass beats Cedartown 14-11 to improve to 7-1 on the season
People complaining about high gas prices should read about the sacrifices Americans made for the WWII war effort. No one likes high prices, but temporary pain at the pump to permanently deal with Iran is a good deal for America. ๐บ๐ธ
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FINAL: Cass improves to 5-0 with their victory on the road at Villa Rica by a final score of 31-21. The Colonels have given the Wildcats their first loss of the season. @CassFootball
2,977 lights rose over New York Harbor in a stunning drone show, with one light for every life lost on Sept. 11.
The powerful public art installation recreates the Twin Towers at full architectural scale, illuminating the skyline in a tribute to the victims, their families, and first responders.
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Q: "Why did Jesus have to die on the cross?"
Pastor Josh's answer is worth your time... ๐
๐จ The @ShawnRyan762 x @howertonjosh episode is out now: youtube.com/watch?v=zk0wExWXโฆ
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Quote of the day and one Americans, and especially Democrats, should commit to memory:
"Socialism is a political religion whose God is the State and whose priests are the bureaucrats... It is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal distribution of misery"
Winston Churchill
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Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivers an incredibly powerful speech about Iran.
Watch every second of this.
"Yesterday we saw the president of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.
That process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.
One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.
This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don't care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don't just say it, they actually do it, and they've been doing it for forty-seven years.
This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It's a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn't free their people, they didn't unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges.
They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing. They don't just say it and talk about it. You don't have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they've done.
They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don't just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they're heroes to that nation.
They've done it to friends of mine. They've done it to families who've been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead.
They don't want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That's what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don't have to theorize that.
That's what they do. From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in a morning, from USS Cole to the Achille Lauro, to every terrorist attack, from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.
William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians. American prisoners of war who were captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered, power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they've never gotten a single dime.
These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There's never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world.
And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn't stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It's a global radical ideology, and we've been fighting it for half a century.
We didn't start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of the love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you're fighting for your country, you don't care what party's in office, but you're fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you're failing, that you've failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.
Last time I checked, we've wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that's not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever's politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life.
Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It's time to fix this problem and make sure another generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary."
'IT'S TIME TO ELIMINATE IRAN'
"I will pay my taxes twice this year... if you tell Congress this is what we want to do, and this is how we're going to achieve it... and you bury that entire country under a blanket of American-induced dust."
@CarlHigbie reacts to War Secretary Pete Hegseth's request for more funds for the Iran war.
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1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. More than 35,000 will lose their lives to it this year alone.
That's why we trek.
ZERO Peaks Challenge: Everest Base Camp. April 15โMay 1, 2027
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