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Charles Krauthammer: Rotation of Power
As the Afghanistan War intensifies – Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops – it has come to be seen as Obama’s war. Not so. It’s become...
March 12, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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George Will: A Timid Progressive
There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes ...
March 11, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Donald Conkey: Ask bold questions of political candidates
Last Saturday morning, I again attended the Cherokee County Republican Party’s monthly breakfast at the Lodge at BridgeMill near Sixes. I attend these monthly meetings for several reasons, ...
March 11, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dick Yarbrough Dick Yarbrough: When is comes to budget, Perdue should stop horsing around
In the midst of one of the worst economic crises in memory, the Georgia General Assembly has to make some extremely difficult financial decisions. I don’t envy them their job. To make their ...
March 10, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marguerite Cline: Mollie Worley is a good example of a well-lived life
It was Joyce Poole who first told me about Mollie Wood Worley. She thought I might want to meet Miss Mollie. Joyce was right. Tommy Worley was having a birthday party for his mother. The invitati...
March 12, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marguerite Cline: Never say 'My child wouldn't do that'
There was a time when it was not unusual to hear someone say, “My child wouldn’t do that.” Rarely do you hear that said now. Too many children have done things their parents neve...
March 05, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bill Kinney: After 60 years, Lockheed planes are still rolling out
Believe it or not, this is Lockheed-Martin’s 60th year operating its airplane factory in Marietta. After being built during World War II for the Bell Aircraft Company in which to assemble B-...
February 28, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Matt Towery: Farewell to a hero: Al Haig
My recent bouts of vertigo, and the fall and concussion that resulted from one of them, meant that I was unable to attend the funeral services for a great American, Al Haig. So I’ll eulogiz...
February 27, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marguerite Cline: Douglas Gay was a precious child
The students that were in my class during the first year I was a teacher will always be special to me. It was in the fall of 1958 that I began my teaching career at Clayton Elementary. My class wa...
February 26, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Matt Towery: So Just Shoot Me
Go ahead and throw mud at me. Kick me. Call me a Republican In Name Only. I don’t care. This time, I’m siding with Alec Baldwin. The actor and liberal activist (and loud “vocali...
February 21, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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