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Cal Thomas: ‘Spinning’ the Bible; Obama misusing Scripture to push for higher taxes

February 07, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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For 60 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a nonpolitical event where speakers put aside their earthly biases and focus on a Higher Authority. Last Thursday, President Obama departed from ...

Pete Borden: Valentine’s Day not what it used to be

February 07, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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Last Wednesday, I was passing the time of day in the Kroger Store at Parkaire Landing, waiting for The One Who Puts Up With Me to finish making her selections prior to our weekly cash offering on t...

Ron Paramoure: Can we trust our government?

February 07, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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We depend on our elected representatives — from the president to local councils — to act faithfully on our behalf. When we vote for political leaders, we assume — maybe “hope” is more accurate — th...

Don McKee

Don McKee: If gas taxes will pay for new lanes, why will there be tolls?

February 06, 2012 01:13 AM | 4

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The new plan by Gov. Nathan Deal to build toll lanes along interstates in Cobb and Cherokee counties gets semi-rave reviews from some of our legislators. The proposed $900 million reversible HOT ...

Melvyn L. Fein: Newt not to be confused with Washington

February 06, 2012 12:00 AM | 6

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Ever since the South Carolina primary, I have been consumed by anger and dismay. That so many good people could have voted for a politician as scurrilous as Newt Gingrich strikes me as an auger of ...

Pam Thompson: Hinojosa’s Teach for America plan deserved support

by Pam Thompson
Columnist

February 05, 2012 12:01 AM | 8

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I have been following Dr. Michael Hinojosa’s efforts to improve many under-performing Cobb County schools. After reading the Wednesday front page MDJ article casting aspersions on him for his stanc...

Bill Kinney

Bill Kinney: 1862 - The year the pendulum began to swing toward North

by Bill Kinney
Columnist

February 05, 2012 12:01 AM | 2

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We’re now celebrating the Civil War Sesquicentennial, that is, the 150th anniversary of the war. So what happened 150 years ago this year, in 1862? A lot, and not much of it was good for the South,...

Judy Elliott: ‘Downton Abbey’ bests Super Bowl

by Judy Elliott
Columnist

February 05, 2012 12:01 AM | 1

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Of late, my weekend breakfasts pay homage to “Downton Abbey,” shown on PBS’ “Masterpiece Theatre,” Sundays at 9 p.m. As I stir oatmeal and make cinnamon toast, I ponder the fates of the Crawley fam...

Nelson Price: Help cast your vision via your choice of candidate

by Nelson Price
Columnist

February 05, 2012 12:01 AM | 7

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“Where there is no vision the people perish.” Solomon wisely included this axiom in his Proverbs (29:18). A word study of the Hebrew text gives understanding to what Solomon meant. The Hebrew tex...

Charlie Sewell: Use 2-second rule to avoid rear-end collisions

by Charlie Sewell
Columnist

February 05, 2012 12:00 AM | 1

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If every car manufactured had a brake pedal on the passenger side, would our nation see fewer traffic crashes, or would we just have fewer passengers in need of tranquilizers? I recently read about...

Dick Yarbrough

Dick Yarbrough: A reminder to the super ... you can't sneak a sunrise

by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist

February 04, 2012 12:00 AM | 5

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Dr. Hinojosa: Knowing that you are a sports fan, I thought that after observing the aborted attempt to establish a Teach for America program in Cobb County, I would pass along a bit of wisdom from ...

Don McKee

Don McKee: Do endorsements of candidates help, hurt or make no difference?

by Don McKee
Columnist

February 03, 2012 04:06 PM | 1

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Endorsements of candidates — do they help and if so, how much? Candidates think so, witness the slew of endorsements in the GOP presidential race, the latest being Donald Trump coming out for Mitt...

Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in Las Vegas on Thursday to endorse Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, accompanied by Romney’s wife, Ann.
The Associated Press

Trump endorses Romney in Vegas

by Beth Fouhy and Kasie Hunt
Associated Press Writers

February 03, 2012 12:58 AM | 1

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LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump on Thursday announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney for president, saying the former Massachusetts governor is “not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this...

Michael Barone: After big win, Romney faces tough opponents in a long war

by Michael Barone
Columnist

February 02, 2012 12:01 AM | 1

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Mitt Romney’s impressive victory Tuesday makes it very likely that we will look back on the Florida primary as the contest that determined the 2012 Republican nomination. To be sure, the campaign f...

Dick Yarbrough

Dick Yarbrough: Southern Baptist leader speaks right from his heart

by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist

February 01, 2012 12:49 AM | 3

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Whew! That was close! I almost became a Baptist the other day. Not just any Baptist, but a (gulp!) Southern Baptist. Let me add here that there have been times when the Rev. Dr. Gil Watson, the Wo...

Don McKee

Don McKee: Verbal war mild compared to mudslinging in first elections

February 01, 2012 12:42 AM | 1

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Verbal wars between candidates is the norm in American politics, but leave it to Newt Gingrich to provide some of the campaign season’s roughest character attacks so far. Gingrich pulled out all ...

Pete Borden: Islam’s ‘etiquette of war’ argument a joke

January 31, 2012 12:00 AM | 16

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Though the subject matter is not something with which I normally deal, I feel compelled to respond to the letter from Mishall Rehman, appearing in the MDJ on Sunday (West should learn from Islam’s ...

Cal Thomas: Reagan pushed ‘peace through strength.’ Obama’s slogan might as well be ‘war through weakness’

January 31, 2012 12:00 AM | 1

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One of the memorable slogans from the Reagan administration was “peace through strength.” Reagan believed a strong defense was a safeguard against enemy attacks and the best hope of victory should ...

Don McKee

Don McKee: Is Republican race a battle between establishment and Tea Party?

January 30, 2012 12:43 AM | 2

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The battle between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich is being defined as the Republican mainstream or “establishment” versus the tea party and other more conservative voters. Romney gained ground ove...

Melvyn L. Fein: Robin Hood theory makes us equally poor

January 30, 2012 12:00 AM | 7

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Rest assured, disputes over what comprises social justice are going to arise during the presidential campaign. The Democrats, in particular, are going to assert they are the paladins of social just...

Nelson Price: ‘Rigorous theology’ is the kind that lasts

by Nelson Price
Columnist

January 29, 2012 12:00 AM | 2

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There is a conceptual conflict of world views in our culture. There is the PC Secular World view. It is a view of life through secular spectacles. David Brooks, a New York Times Op-Ed columnist...

Bill Kinney

Bill Kinney: Crime Stoppers using tips, rewards to take bite of out crime

by Bill Kinney
Columnist

January 29, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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No one wants to be the victim of a crime. And there are many things you can do to assure you don’t become one. And on top of that, if you see a crime or have information about one — and are afraid ...

D.A. King: Newt needs ‘integrity upgrade’ on immigration

by D.A. King
Columnist

January 29, 2012 12:00 AM | 19

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As an independent voter — and thinker — writing about the current presidential race and Republican candidates, it is always necessary to acknowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is a radical, un-Ameri...

Dick Yarbrough

Dick Yarbrough: Strand production a success, thanks to local 'celebrities'

by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist

January 28, 2012 12:01 AM | 0

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Having finished a highly-successful stint as the self-appointed marching band editor of the MDJ — To my knowledge, there were no hazing incidents and everyone successfully tootled their flootle — I...

Don McKee

Don McKee: With resignation, Cobb EMC members can see light at end of tunnel

by Don McKee
Columnist

January 27, 2012 12:49 AM | 2

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Cobb EMC members can see the light at the end of the tunnel in their long battle to reform their co-op management. Board chairman Larry Chadwick announced Thursday he will resign effective March 1...

Dick Morris: It’s time for candidates to declare a Cease-fire

February 06, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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Here’s the reason Mitt Romney won in Florida: Women turned against Newt Gingrich. In the primary on Tuesday, Romney carried men by only 5 points, according to the Fox News exit poll, while he won w...

Bill Press: Koch brothers driving anti-Obama hate machine

February 06, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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“If not now, when?” It’s one of the most famous maxims of history, attributed to the great Rabbi Hillel, who’s also credited with a down-to-earth version of the Golden Rule: “What is hateful to you...

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin: Meet Rep. Jim Moran, a racist ‘progressive of pallor'

February 06, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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Congressman Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently non-white enough. Moran’s an inveterate bully, a brawl...

Jonah Goldberg: A vote for Romney’s not a betrayal, it’s a transaction

February 06, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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Years ago a friend told me a story from her days living in South America. The movie “Wayne’s World” had come out, and she went to see it. She spoke English, but it was interesting to read the Spani...

Charles Krauthammer: In Syria, it’s not just about freedom, but finishing the job

by Charles Krauthammer
Columnist

February 03, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the ...

Reg Henry: It’s funny how scary side effects can be

by Reg Henry
Columnist

February 03, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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One thing that television is good for is making you feel better about yourself — not the TV programs so much, but the ads, particularly the ones advertising pharmaceutical drugs. In other countrie...

Martin Schram

Martin Schram: A case of classic ‘Gingrichian deceit by distortion’

by Martin Schram
Columnist

February 02, 2012 12:01 AM | 0

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On television and in social cyberspace, the talking heads were all a-Twitter Tuesday night over what Newt Gingrich just said. Or rather, didn’t say. The video/cyber punditocracy was calling the fo...

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin: Obama’s health care ‘reforms’: First, they came for the Catholics

by Michelle Malkin
Columnist

February 02, 2012 12:01 AM | 3

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President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It’s about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroach...

Susan Estrich: Ten reasons why Newt shouldn’t drop out

by Susan Estrich
Columnist

February 01, 2012 12:56 AM | 0

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10. It would be very boring. People would stop paying attention to presidential politics. Campaigns are unique learning experiences, as Professor Gingrich certainly knows. 9. He doesn’t need his o...

Kathleen Parker: Can voters forgive Romney for his perfections?

by Kathleen Parker
Columnist

February 01, 2012 12:54 AM | 0

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When a friend was writing a novel, he was concerned that his protagonist was too perfect. People can’t identify with perfection, he said. For the character to be sympathetic, he needs to have a fl...

Dick Morris: The Florida Primary, or ... How Mitt Suckered Newt

by Dick Morris
Columnist

February 01, 2012 12:52 AM | 1

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For students of American politics, following the way the Mitt Romney campaign played Newt Gingrich in Florida is a lesson to learn and to keep. Romney’s people must have realized that Newt does bes...

Bill Press: Newt’s three big lies

January 30, 2012 12:00 AM | 2

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Political junkies like me have never seen anything like it: Running 20 points behind, just a week before the South Carolina primary, Newt Gingrich catapulted to the top of the pile and ended up def...

Roger Simon: GOP candidates making Obama look good

January 30, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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The Republican field debated for the 19th time Thursday night, and once again, the media promised us it was going to be a “make or break” event. Don’t believe the media. The media say the debates ...

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin: Obama’s problem not color of skin, but its thinness

January 30, 2012 12:00 AM | 1

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So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his a...

Jonah Goldberg: Obama envisions a Spartan America

January 30, 2012 12:00 AM | 1

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President Obama’s State of the Union address was disgusting. The president began with a moving tribute to the armed forces and their accomplishments. But as he has done many times now, he celebrat...

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter: Want to re-elect Obama? Then vote for Newt!

by Ann Coulter
Columnist

January 27, 2012 12:24 AM | 5

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To talk with Gingrich supporters is to enter a world where words have no meaning. They denounce Mitt Romney as a candidate being pushed on them by “the Establishment” — with “the Establishment” def...

Reg Henry

Reg Henry: Netherworld reports U.S. is as bad as ever

January 27, 2012 12:15 AM | 0

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At the same time as President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday night, a less publicized speech — no less significant — was being delivered before a joint session of Had...

Charles Krauthammer: Small ball; State of Union speech was ‘pudding without a theme’

January 27, 2012 12:07 AM | 0

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Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of hope and change, healer of the earth, ta...

Jonah Goldberg: ‘Newtzilla’ Returns - And will history repeat itself?

by Jonah Goldberg
Columnist

January 26, 2012 12:39 AM | 1

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Newtzilla is back. Six weeks ago, during the last Newt Gingrich surge, I wrote here that “conventional weapons are useless against Newtzilla. ... Everything bad about Gingrich — the flip-flops, the...

Martin Schram

Martin Schram: GOP surfers struggle to catch winning video wave

by Martin Schram
Columnist

January 26, 2012 12:30 AM | 0

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It is so very 20th century, but the GOP presidential debates have shown us that television can still create powerful political waves — video waves — that candidates can catch just right and ride to...

George Will: Romney’s Time to Step Up - He benefited from South Carolina loss — sort of

January 26, 2012 12:30 AM | 0

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An Illinois lawyer who had a way with words once characterized a particular argument as weaker than soup made from the shadow of a pigeon that died of starvation. The argument for Mitt Romney benef...

Dale Cardwell: Adaptation key to surviving recession

by Dale Cardwell
Business Columnist

January 26, 2012 12:07 AM | 0

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We’ve all had experience with the economic downturn of 2008. In fact, for many it’s continued to be the economic downturn of ’09, ’10, and ’11. To review, not much has changed. The root and most ...

Dick Morris: Coming weeks will feature continuation of a see-saw campaign

by Dick Morris
Columnist

January 25, 2012 01:23 AM | 0

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Everybody was expecting a quick knockout in the GOP nominating contest this year. After a year of debating, it appeared that Mitt Romney would sweep the table after winning New Hampshire and seemin...

Bill Maxwell: If Michelle Obama is angry, she has every right to be

by Bill Maxwell
Columnist

January 25, 2012 01:19 AM | 1

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I read Jodi Kantor’s new book, “The Obamas.” First lady Michelle Obama is described as a strong-willed, highly intelligent spouse who works behind the scenes to protect the president’s agenda. It s...

Cal Thomas: Appeals to morality falling on ever-deafer ears

by Cal Thomas
Columnist

January 24, 2012 12:00 AM | 1

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A longtime conservative friend sent me an email after reading something positive I had written about Newt Gingrich: “Whoever votes (for) or supports Newt for president is out of their mind.” It wo...

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