Tom Baxter

Atlanta

Columnist at SaportaReport

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With Enoch, AI touches religion

2 weeks ago | saportareport.com | Tom Baxter

There has been a modern development in an ancient story. For decades after the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in 1946, they were treated like religious dynamite. A small group of scholars maintaining tight control of the ancient texts, even as territorial control of the area where they were discovered shifted from Jordan to Israel.
With Enoch, AI touches religion

2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Tom Baxter

There has been a modern development in an ancient story. For decades after the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in 1946, they were treated like religious dynamite. A small group of scholars maintaining tight control of the ancient texts, even as territorial control of the area where they were discovered shifted from Jordan to Israel.
After vote, Greene calls out the Big Beautiful winners

2 weeks ago | saportareport.com | Tom Baxter

There was some inevitable blowback last week when U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would have voted against the Big Beautiful Bill if she’d known some of the things that are in it. For once, her critics need to cut her a little slack. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act — that’s the official name — is so long that on the congress.Gov website, it’s loaded in plain text format because it would take too long and possibly crash people’s computers to present it in the normal, nice-looking way.
After vote, Greene calls out the Big Beautiful winners

2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Tom Baxter

There was some inevitable blowback last week when U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would have voted against the Big Beautiful Bill if she’d known some of the things that are in it. For once, her critics need to cut her a little slack. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act — that’s the official name — is so long that on the congress.Gov website, it’s loaded in plain text format because it would take too long and possibly crash people’s computers to present it in the normal, nice-looking way.
Turns out, the Ukrainians had some cards to play

3 weeks ago | saportareport.com | Tom Baxter

Suppose that in answer to a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s drive to take over Greenland, Denmark launched a surprise attack on the United States. With a little help from Canadian and Mexican border authorities, the Danes would already have in place the drones that would carry out the attack.
Turns out, the Ukrainians had some cards to play

3 weeks ago | buff.ly | Tom Baxter

Suppose that in answer to a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s drive to take over Greenland, Denmark launched a surprise attack on the United States. With a little help from Canadian and Mexican border authorities, the Danes would already have in place the drones that would carry out the attack.
For states, happy days may be over

1 month ago | saportareport.com | Tom Baxter

Georgia finished in early April, but around the country, a number of state legislatures are concluding their sessions about now. They may not know it yet, but these could have been the happiest days this generation of state legislators will ever know. While the headlines are mostly about the federal budget deficit, the number of states with healthy budget surpluses has been growing in recent years.
Showdown in Texas: Dispatchables vs. renewables

1 month ago | saportareport.com | Tom Baxter

As the Texas legislature grinds toward a June 2 sine die, T. Boone Pickens must be turning over in his grave. In 2008 Pickens, a Texas oil man with a voracious appetite for the next bonanza, became a high-profile convert to wind energy and set out to build the world’s biggest wind farm in West Texas. His plan went bust when natural gas prices fell, but he turned out to be a prophet concerning wind.
Along county lines, the shape of a national issue

1 month ago | saportareport.com | Tom Baxter

Push has come to shove in American politics, and that famous location turns out to be somewhere down on the Coweta County line. When the Coweta County Board of Commissioners approved a rezoning request for a 320-acre data center in April, there was a heated response not only from Coweta residents but from the South Fulton town of Palmetto, which sits across the county line almost directly adjacent to Project Peach, as the $1 billion enterprise is called.
With trade war looming and time on his side, Kemp spurns Senate race

1 month ago | saportareport.com | Tom Baxter

With so much high-level pressure on him to run, Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision not to challenge U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff next year has to be considered something of a surprise, but really it wasn’t. A race between the state’s two most talented politicians would have been great fun to watch, but in pondering his options, Kemp would have to have thought carefully about what was in it for him. The latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll has Kemp in a very narrow lead over the Democratic incumbent.