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Earlier this year, avowed communist James "Fergie" Chambers secured "multiple hundreds of millions of dollars" from his family, which controls the Cox Enterprises empire. Now, he's using his inheritance to bankroll a far-left activist group that's harassing Jews across the country. Chambers, whose billionaire father James Cox Chambers co-owns the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, in July revealed that he cut ties with his family, securing a significant payout from Cox Enterprises in the process. Months later, following Hamas's Oct. 7 terrorist assault on Israel, Chambers began using that money to pay the legal fees for members of Palestine Action U.S., a...

The controversy surrounding Richard Jewell is heating up. Warner Bros. has released a statement responding to the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s demand for a disclaimer saying the late journalist Kathy Scruggs (portrayed in the film by Olivia Wilde) did not sleep with an FBI source for information in real life. “The film is based on a wide range of highly credible source material,” the studio’s statement, obtained by EW, says. “There is no disputing that Richard Jewell was an innocent man whose reputation and life were shredded by a miscarriage of justice. It is unfortunate and the ultimate irony that the...

Molten metal and a black Workman's Ray Bowen - Blacksmith and Utilikiltarian - was interviewed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about his life as a kilted blacksmith, "Kilt gives blacksmith memorable edge". It is a cool Q&A article with a cool guy. Unfortunately, the AJC is not cool. I tried to get permission to reprint the article here for your reading pleasure, but the AJC wants 500 smackeroos for it!! After a fairly snotty email on Feb 7th, Joni Zeccola in the News Research department sent me another email that was more carefully worded: We do not allow use such as...