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George Will: Showdown
DENVER – Put away the pitchfork metaphors that are prevalent in this season of populist ferment: Colorado’s Senate contest is a duel of distinguished diplomas. Tea partiers toiled mi...
September 02, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dick Yarbrough Dick Yarbrough: Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Georgia
You can take the boy out of Georgia, but you can’t keep him from swelling with pride while he’s gone. On a recent visit to Michigan and Canada in search of igloos and reindeer, we dro...
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Juanita Hughes Juanita Hughes: Woodstock ghost hunt to raise spirits - and funding
Those cultural art enthusiasts are moving right along with plans for the Elm Street Cultural Arts Village project, and impressive plans they are. They’re a creative crew, and with every new ...
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nelson Price: 'Retired' pastor headed back to Tennessee church
I’m going back to Tennessee, but not really. Cobb is home. Today, I return to Sevierville, Tenn., to once more serve the First Baptist Church as interim pastor for an indefinite time. I did ...
August 29, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Donald Conkey: Who are the modern-day Benedict Arnolds?
In recent years, my Labor Day columns were usually complimentary to the union movement. I wrote about the early history of the trades unions and how assembly line workers struggled to obtain their...
September 02, 2010 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rebecca Johnston: Cherokee should let chickens come back to roost
Cherokee County Commissioner Harry Johnston finally has an issue he can squawk about. Now let me admit that I am married to the man, but that does not mean I always know what he is up to. I had no...
August 29, 2010 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Matt Towery: Voters tired of politicians who bulldoze the public
I was among the last pollsters and pundits to buy into the notion that 2010 could be a reprise of 1994, when Republicans abruptly took control of a U.S. House of Representatives that had seemed ir...
August 28, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marguerite Cline: June Wester inspired all who knew her
June Hart Wester left many warm memories of life well lived when she past away last week. On that day, she and Bill Wester had been married for 60 years and one day. As always, he gave her roses. ...
August 27, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Donald Conkey: 'Thank God for our liberties!'
Following my talk before the Georgia Tea Party in Marietta last week, a member asked me a question that I didn’t answer well. She asked me what is there for Tea Party members to do other th...
August 26, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dick Yarbrough Dick Yarbrough: Don't feel sorry for the squirrels
If you find any dead squirrels in my backyard, it is because they have laughed themselves to death. It isn’t that I haven’t tried to wing one with my trusty Red Ryder pump-action BB gu...
August 25, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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