letters to the editor
‘Fox guarding henhouse’ on IRS probe; prosecutor needed
DEAR EDITOR: I couldn’t help but chuckle when I read your recent headline, “Justice Dept. investigating IRS”. Did the old adage of “the fox guarding the henhouse” occur to anyone else? I am quit...
May 18, 2013 11:31 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Edit wrong: Bombing not reason for pride
DEAR EDITOR: In a recent MDJ guest editorial, the Macon Telegraph proudly proclaimed, “Bravo to law enforcement. … Boston residents … have reason to applaud.” It’s hard to imagine why, when the au...
May 14, 2013 11:43 PM | 4 4 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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IRS flap reminds of Cobb schools’ flawed probes
DEAR EDITOR: In light of recent developments, both in Washington and Cobb County, it is an easy task to draw some very frightening parallels. All one needs do is simply substitute the CCSD hierarc...
May 14, 2013 11:42 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Common Core goal student indoctrination
DEAR EDITOR: It’s my understanding that the Common Core Curriculum was a bi-partisan effort of the national governors association and a similar organization of the superintendents of education with...
May 14, 2013 12:43 AM | 8 8 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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MDJ better off keeping columnist Foley
DEAR EDITOR: All you conservatives out there keep writing in, hatin’ on MDJ columnist Kevin Foley. Don’t you realize you’re biting yourselves in the wazoo when you do that? Even a good, right-thin...
May 08, 2013 12:37 AM | 11 11 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sequester, other cuts hurt ’Hooch Recreation Area
DEAR EDITOR: Kudos to the National Park Service for seeming to make the best out of sequestration-related budget cuts (per your article “Sequestration: National parks in Cobb looking down barrel o...
May 08, 2013 12:36 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama asked God’s blessing for killing babies
DEAR EDITOR: The AP article on President Obama’s speech at Planned Parenthood left out one very important but sick statement: Obama closed his address to the largest abortion provider in the U.S., ...
May 07, 2013 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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School systems undervalue teachers
DEAR EDITOR: All across our country this spring, school boards are looking at millions of dollars they need to trim from their school district budgets. It seems like an insurmountable task. How do...
May 05, 2013 12:15 AM | 7 7 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Foley clueless about conservatives
DEAR EDITOR: I am not sure if I am more amused or frustrated when someone who knows nothing about me tries to tell me who I am. Such is the case with MDJ columnist Kevin Foley. Foley is an unapol...
May 05, 2013 12:12 AM | 11 11 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Buck doesn’t stop with Obama
DEAR EDITOR: What happened to Harry Truman’s motto “the buck stops here”? Now we have Obama claiming he didn’t know about the terrorist connection with Benghazi. Then he claims that he was not aw...
May 18, 2013 11:32 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Former CCSD ethics director: ‘I am the fall guy’
DEAR EDITOR: I was dismayed to read the portrayal of me in Saturday’s edition of the Marietta Daily Journal, headlined “Top school administrator may be out.” Please know that I am proud of my and m...
May 14, 2013 12:44 AM | 18 18 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Too bad Bush wasn’t as cautious as Obama
DEAR EDITOR: If I’m not mistaken, there is no definitive proof that Assad has used chemical weapons against the opposition. As letter-writer Bill Bruner “Obama Gone Wobbly” stated in last week’s M...
May 08, 2013 12:38 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Smart leaders would back background checks
DEAR EDITOR: After the school shootings at Sandy Hook many Americans were disturbed about the violence. I was profoundly moved by an interview of one of the parents. The parent expressed dismay tha...
May 07, 2013 12:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama ‘gone wobbly’
DEAR EDITOR: I thought the president established a red line as a warning to Mr. Assad; that if Assad used chemical warfare, i.e. poison gas, against the rebels in Syria, that would result in dire ...
May 01, 2013 12:13 AM | 3 3 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Isakson, Chambliss bowed to NRA lobby
DEAR EDITOR: I thought it was the duty of our elected officials to represent the wishes of the majority of their constituents. Obviously that’s not the case with Georgia’s U.S. Senators Johnny Isa...
April 23, 2013 12:00 AM | 12 12 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bombing symptom of society’s loss of hope
DEAR EDITOR: What’s most tragic about the never-ending horrific things happening today is that our politicians, our news media, our intelligentsia and the population at large take such care to avo...
April 18, 2013 09:46 PM | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hold weapons sellers accountable
DEAR EDITOR: Re: Reuel Hamilton’s letter to the editor of April 7 on the Columbine and Virginia Tech school shootings Hamilton’s letter reveals problems in the legal system that could possibly pr...
April 16, 2013 10:04 PM | 3 3 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cobb schools turn ‘reporting’ law into fiasco
DEAR EDITOR: The mandatory reporter law in Georgia was strengthened in order to provide for the protection of children, not the overzealous prosecution of educators. The Cobb County School District...
April 16, 2013 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
DEAR EDITOR: It seems fitting to have the front page news story on Ebony Berry’s murder charge for her daughter, Markea, on April 2, since April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. We as a so...
April 09, 2013 12:39 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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