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Why young women back Obama
by Melvyn L Fein
May 19, 2013 08:07 PM | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Barack Obama is at it again. Once more he is wooing young women in hopes of drumming up support for ObamaCare. And why not? He knows that he probably owes his re-election to having succeeded in att...
Angels must have applauded Creator on earth’s beauty
by Nelson Price
Columnist
May 18, 2013 11:35 PM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
There are individuals who don’t believe an all-wise and loving God created the world, but there are places and experiences that argue He did. For several years I have had the joy of spending a cou...
Telling on people ‘southernly’
by Roger Hines
Columnist
May 18, 2013 11:34 PM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
It really isn’t proper to “tell on” anybody unless the telling is positive and edifying. Neither, by Southern standards, is it proper to “talk about” people. Whenever my mother heard any of her chi...
True U.S. motto ‘In Government We Trust’?
by Claire Dunaway Cyr
Columnist
May 18, 2013 11:28 PM | 5 5 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Perhaps we should go ahead and remove “In God We Trust” from our buildings, license plates and as a phrase which gives many Americans an encouraging reminder and replace it with “In Government We T...
Checking up on Cobb County news with Jack and Jill
by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
May 17, 2013 11:00 PM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
I just got off the phone with Jill, one of my favorite mules. In all fairness, I don’t know many mules besides Jill and her brother, Jack, so to call them my favorites is not saying a lot. Anyway, ...
White House efforts to explain Benghazi attacks inconceivable
by Don McKee
May 17, 2013 12:28 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Some things about the Obama administration’s efforts to explain the Benghazi terrorist attacks seem inconceivable. Start with the intelligence that the CIA and FBI seemingly relied upon in trying t...
Benghazi facts vs. Benghazi fiction
by Kevin Foley
Columnist
May 16, 2013 10:39 PM | 17 17 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
If you live inside the conservative information bubble relying on Rupert Murdoch’s Republican Party organs, The Weekly Standard and The Wall Street Journal, or his GOP-TV, Fox News, then you might ...
A horse with stripes: Oh what a tangled web ...
by Bill Lewis
Columnist
May 16, 2013 10:38 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Perhaps you’ve been following — or more likely tried to follow — the Battling Benghazi Show now being played out on news outlets across the country. In a nutshell, it seems there may have been some...
Obama administration scandals: Assaults on First Amendment rights
by Don McKee
May 14, 2013 11:54 PM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The scandals now engulfing the White House have revealed egregious, chilling attacks on First Amendment rights of the news media and American citizens by the Obama administration. It’s hard to say ...
If self-confidence won elections, Deal rival would be a shoo-in
by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
May 14, 2013 10:22 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
David Pennington, the mayor of Dalton, is making noises about challenging incumbent Gov. Nathan Deal in the 2014 Republican primary. Say what? I visited the mayor a couple of weeks ago at his offic...
Focus on ‘universality,’ not equality
by Melvyn L Fein
May 13, 2013 12:05 AM | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
A few weeks ago, a liberal colleague of mine at Kennesaw State University emailed me a short, short story. This was Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 tale “Harrison Bergeron.” I had never seen it before — and i...
Emails unveil evolution of Benghazi talking points smokescreen
by Don McKee
May 12, 2013 11:07 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
There’s no smoking gun, but we have “smoking emails” showing how White House talking points evolved into a smokescreen about the Benghazi terrorist attacks that killed our ambassador and three othe...
Columnist grateful for his ‘two mothers’
by Nelson Price
Columnist
May 11, 2013 11:36 PM | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Every mortal being is born indebted to one person. That person is the one they call mother. To achieve this lofty role, young women have to jeopardize their lives and alter their lifestyle. The act...
‘The Speech’ and the original culture warrior
by Roger Hines
Columnist
May 11, 2013 11:35 PM | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Twenty-one years ago at the 1992 Republican Convention, Pat Buchanan delivered what is now called his “culture war” speech. Buchanan, you will recall, had challenged George H. W. Bush for the GOP n...
Memories wrapped in packet of blue silk
by Judy Elliott
Columnist
May 11, 2013 11:31 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
My mother’s sister was named Mary Brown, a no-nonsense choice for a girl who grew up to be a fine tennis player and Navy nurse. She was in school in Washington, D.C., when the Japanese bombed Pearl...
‘Taxi Driver’ No, not the movie — just the typical Cobb mom
by Joe Kirby
Columnist
May 11, 2013 11:30 PM | 2 2 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
If you’re ever in west Cobb and see a red blur, it is probably my wife, Fran, in her trusty red Honda van. Not that she drives all that fast. Rather, it’s just that she’s constantly on the road shu...
A Salute to Mothers — They’ve made this conversation possible
by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
May 10, 2013 11:33 PM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Let’s face it. We may disagree on any number of things but on one matter there can be no disagreement. If it wasn’t for our mommas, we wouldn’t be here today arguing about anything. Hooray for Moth...
Obama administration’s Benghazi actions don’t pass smell test
by Don McKee
May 10, 2013 12:01 AM | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The Obama administration’s actions concerning the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, don't pass the smell test. That’s been confirmed by Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of ...
‘Christian cleansing’ claims defy facts
by Kevin Foley
Columnist
May 09, 2013 11:39 PM | 9 9 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Viewers of Fox News programs are routinely subjected to right wing opinion masquerading as objective news. But because it’s slickly delivered by seemingly trustworthy people, viewers can be forgive...
Benghazi handling a disgrace, and we deserve better
by Jerry Landers
Columnist
May 08, 2013 11:55 PM | 5 5 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
On Sept. 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, came under attack and was overrun and destroyed by terrorists. Four Americans were killed in the attack, including the U.S. am...
LaGrange College senior triumphs over life-altering event
by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
May 08, 2013 12:41 AM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
This is the story of courage. This is a story of tenacity. This is the story of Hill Daniel. Daniel, a 21-year-old senior at LaGrange College, will be graduating next week with a degree in psycholo...
‘Marketplace Fairness Act’: Example of what Washington does best
by Don McKee
May 08, 2013 12:12 AM | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Senate Bill 743, ingeniously titled “Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013,” has an even more high-faluting preamble: “To restore States’ sovereign rights to enforce State and local sales and use tax la...
Hanson was Cobb human services ‘icon’
by Tod Citron
May 07, 2013 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Cobb County and the State of Georgia recently lost a human services icon with the death of Bill Hanson. Mr. Hanson was integrally involved in the creation of the Cobb Community Collaborative Inc. T...
Shades of ‘1984’: ‘Obamaspeak’ made easy
by Melvyn L Fein
May 06, 2013 12:08 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
When I was in high school, one of our required readings was George Orwell’s novel “1984.” This was so long ago that back then I thought of this year as in the distant future. Now, of course, many o...
IRS and AP scandals cast ... Big Chill on Free Speech
by Michael Barone
May 20, 2013 08:17 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Chilling effect. That’s the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples...
Benghazi Emails: They put the ways of Washington on display
by David Ignatius
May 19, 2013 08:19 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The hundred pages of Benghazi emails released last week tell us almost nothing about how four Americans came to die so tragically in that Libyan city. But they are a case study in why nothing works...
When those liberals start ... Mixing Into Policy ...
by Matt Towery
May 19, 2013 08:17 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“When those liberals start mixing into policy, it’s murder.” That quote came from none other than John F. Kennedy in 1962, taken from a source in a Newsweek article, and later discussed with his fr...
Obama’s emptiest Benghazi talking point
by Michelle Malkin
May 19, 2013 08:16 PM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
On Sept. 12, 2012, President Barack Obama vowed to “bring to justice” the perpetrators of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya. On Oct. 26, 2012, Obama said his “biggest priority” was bringing the ...
The shocking IRS scandal that isn’t
by Bill Press
May 19, 2013 08:08 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
There’s nothing Washington likes better than a scandal. So official Washington was absolutely orgasmic last week while dealing with not one, but three scandals at the same time. Not one of which, s...
IRS clearly ... Followed Obama’s Lead
by Jonah Goldberg
May 19, 2013 08:06 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Of course the president deserves some of the blame. Yes, it’s extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against tea party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why an...
Who to trust: Obama? Or your lying eyes?
by George Will
Columnist
May 18, 2013 11:26 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-...
Dynamic Scoring — Taxpayers lose with amnesty, no matter how you look at it
by Ann Coulter
Columnist
May 16, 2013 10:37 PM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The Heritage Foundation recently issued a comprehensive report showing that Sen. Marco Rubio’s plan to instantly legalize 11.5 million illegal immigrants would add $6.3 trillion to the nation’s bud...
Obama’s opponents spend a lot of time crying wolf
by Reg Henry
Columnist
May 16, 2013 09:42 PM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The problem with scandals is that those who feel scandalized the most often hated the alleged scandal perpetrators before the gleeful finger-pointing and outraged clucking began. That leaves the re...
White House should give truth a try
by Charles Krauthammer
Columnist
May 16, 2013 09:41 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don’t know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the imp...
The biggest coverup since Watergate
by Deroy Murdock
Columnist
May 15, 2013 11:54 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
“There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy,” President Barack Obama told the United Nations last Sept. 25. A fortnight after the deadly attack on America’s mission in Benghazi, Libya...
Benghazi and the IRS — Targeting politics by other means
by Michael Barone
Columnist
May 15, 2013 11:52 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
What do the Benghazi cover-up and the IRS scandal have in common? They were both about winning elections, under false pretenses. Winning elections, after all, is something Barack Obama is good at....
Measure scandals by the Nixon News-O-Meter
by Martin Schram
Columnist
May 15, 2013 11:52 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
At the first whiff of a scandal, we all become Deciders. It happens to presidents, other public officials, and the journalists who cover them. Also to all other folks who consume the processed news...
Myriad Mendacities — Are we forgetting Watergate’s lessons?
by George Will
Columnist
May 15, 2013 11:51 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ... cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigati...
MDJ Time Capsule: The Week of May 16th
by Damon Poirier
May 15, 2013 05:22 PM | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
This week’s Time Capsule looks at an ordinance on billiards, a brazen armored car robbery and the potential renaming of Fairground Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Street.
Hillary will take only so much guff
by Roger Simon
Columnist
May 14, 2013 11:46 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
I have gone from a nonbeliever to an agnostic as to whether Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016. Recently, however, she delivered a major signal that she may not be a candidate for high...
Obama’s Nixonesque probe of AP not just dangerous, but outrageous
by Kathleen Parker
Columnist
May 14, 2013 11:41 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media. Or as the tea party queen and former Alas...
Benghazi, Lewinsky and Republican overkill
by Susan Estrich
Columnist
May 14, 2013 10:27 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
On its face, the murder of Americans in Libya, including our ambassador, has absolutely nothing to do with the inappropriate relationship former President Bill Clinton had with a White House intern...
Benghazi, IRS scandals: Son of Watergate?
by Cal Thomas
May 14, 2013 12:42 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
In his defense of President Obama, Press Secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon’s spokesman. Carney only has to use the word “inoperative,” as Ziegler d...
Democrats and the ‘ethics’ of Max Baucus
by Froma Harrop
May 14, 2013 12:40 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Max Baucus’ reputation as one of the most ethically challenged members of the U.S. Senate is well earned. The Montana Democrat’s decision to retire in 2014 can’t help but improve the chamber’s sorr...
Benghazi Bungle: It’s the cover-up that counts
by Kathleen Parker
May 13, 2013 12:12 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Mistakes were made. This, we are supposed to accept, is the conclusion to be drawn about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, despite congressional testimony Wednesday suggesting that signific...
Welcome to the ‘Stop Hillary’ hearing
by Bill Press
May 13, 2013 12:11 AM | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who’s the most powerful woman of them all?” No doubt about it. Not Queen Elizabeth, Angela Merkel or Oprah Winfrey. The most powerful woman on the planet is former fir...
Republicans won in South Carolina, but will they be able to ... Win in Georgia?
by Matt Towery
May 13, 2013 12:10 AM | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Despite on onslaught of national press that seemed to be pushing Elizabeth Colbert Busch toward a victory in the South Carolina special congressional election, former Gov. Mark Sanford, baggage and...
Immigration ‘Gang of Eight’ critic gets crucified
by Michelle Malkin
May 13, 2013 12:09 AM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
How low will supporters of the Gang of Eight immigration bill go to get their way? This low: They’ve shamelessly branded an accomplished Ivy League-trained quantitative analyst a “racist” and will ...
In wake of Benghazi debacle, Obama and Hillary decided to ... Blame the Constitution
by Jonah Goldberg
May 13, 2013 12:07 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
“Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference — at this point, what difference does it make?” That was h...
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