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Matt Towery
Matt Towery
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Matt Towery: Florida- It's leading changes on political landscape this year
by Matt Towery
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March 15, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
I knew that I must have been off pretty badly when I casually wrote in this national column that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist would be a good example of a Republican that voters in critical swing sta...

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Bill Press: The battle between POTUS and SCROTUS
by Bill Press
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March 15, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Poor John Roberts. His feelings are hurt. And he wants big bully Barack Obama to stop picking on him. Poor John Roberts. Apparently, he's been nursing a grudge ever since Jan. 27 when President Ob...

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Bill Lewis: New bargain for die-hard shoppers? How about Iceland?
by Bill Lewis
Columnist
March 15, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Did you know you could probably own your own country if you wanted to? I think Iceland may soon be for sale. If I read the reports right, in the last 18 months or so, Iceland's central bank failed,...
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin
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Michelle Malkin: 'House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Deficient Cleaning Service'
by Michelle Malkin
Columnist
March 15, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
"Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House," Nancy Pelosi boasted before the 2006 midterm elections. Looks like those XX chromosomes didn't give her much advantage over the old cleaning crew...

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Jonah Goldberg: Health care hell-There is no 'over' with this debate
by Jonah Goldberg
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March 15, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
The time for talk is over. So proclaimed the most talkative president in modern memory. I can't remember when Barack Obama said that. Maybe it was during the first "final showdown" on health care. ...

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Susan Estrich: How long will it take to go from 'first woman' to 'no big deal?'
by Susan Estrich
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March 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Like most Americans, I haven't seen "The Hurt Locker," but I was still rooting for Kathryn Bigelow to claim the Best Director statue. This is, after all, 2010 - a little late in the day for "first ...

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Cal Thomas: High Court case may change First Amendment lines
by Cal Thomas
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March 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Supreme Court has decided to take a case that may change the boundaries for types of speech protected by the First Amendment. The case was brought by a Maryland man whose son's 2006 funeral wa...
Bill Kinney
Bill Kinney
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Bill Kinney: Farewell and Revival
by Bill Kinney
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March 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
A FAREWELL PARTY for departing Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens is slated for 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 1 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Olens is planning to resign at month's end to qua...

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Laura Armstrong: Moms should ask tough questions, accept no excuses
by Laura Armstrong
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March 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 8 8 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
If it seems I'm harping on the school bus controversy, well, I am. You see, I have a beautiful little boy who will be turning 5 years old on the first day of school on Aug. 2. His name is Jason an...

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Nelson Price: It's two steps forward, one back for health-push advocates
by Nelson Price
Columnist
March 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The dialectic approach to health care is confusing at best. It is intended to be. One definition of dialectics is the juxtaposition or interaction of conflicting ideas or forces. As applied to the...

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Cliff Johnson: Teen drinking story shows need for fair treatment
by Cliff Johnson
Guest Columnist
March 12, 2010 01:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
It's not really tough to figure out, is it, armed with nothing more than common sense? As the incendiary debated raged over affluent teens going unpunished for a recent drinking party in Cobb, the ...

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Ann Coulter: What's Arabic for 'You're no Atticus Finch?'
by Ann Coulter
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March 12, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
A group of "leading conservative lawyers" - a phrase never confused with "U.S. Marines" - has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at...

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Alisha T. Morgan: Georgia charging ahead to lead 'Race to the Top'
by Alisha T. Morgan
Guest Columnist
March 11, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week, the US Department of Education announced that 16 states, including Georgia, have advanced to the final round of their competitive "Race to the Top" grant program. While we won't know the...
Dick Morris: A Pickett's Charge
by Dick Morris
Columnist
March 10, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
And now the House Democrats line up at the instruction of their blind commanders for a final charge into glory as they battle to foist a health care system on a country that neither wants it nor ca...
Larry Wills
Larry Wills
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Larry Wills: Day of historic reckoning arrives for Marietta
by Larry Wills
Guest Columnist
March 10, 2010 01:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The Marietta City Council is like the circus performer that walks the high wire. It wants to exploit Marietta's status as one of the state's most historic places, but does not want to make the sacr...

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Nelson Price: Nicknames can tell you much about folks
by Nelson Price
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March 07, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
What's in a name? Whatever there is perhaps Shakespeare, the Bard, could have gotten even more out of a nickname. The word "nick name" also spelled "nickname" came from Old English "ekename," mean...

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Judy Elliott: Cross-party friendships ever more rare in D.C.
by Judy Elliott
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March 07, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
My mother's grandfather was a small-town Georgia lawyer. In the 1930s, when money was as scarce as hen's teeth, his clients paid him in sacks of field-grown potatoes, with homemade sausage and an o...

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Ron Lowry: Tort reform? Product safety no accident
by Ron Lowry
Guest Columnist
March 05, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Charles Krauthammer's column, "Toyota, Vioxx and the Price of Modernity" (Feb. 26 MDJ) demonstrates the wrong-headed approach of some in the media elite to the problems facing Americans every day. ...

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Phil Gingrey: Health care summit a good photo op, but that's all
by Phil Gingrey
Guest Columnist
March 04, 2010 01:00 AM | 13 13 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
For the last year, Democrats in Congress have debated how to reform our health care system in the United States. Over and over again, we have heard how a massive government takeover of our health c...
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