Patriotism 07/02/2008
The definition of patriotism used to be pretty simple: Love of country and the willingness to put its needs ahead of your own, such as putting your life on the line to defend it in time of war.
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Execution blog 06/26/2008
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana law that allows rapists to be executed if their victims are children. Even Barack Obama disagrees with the decision.
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Drilling blog 06/20/2008
Gas prices have crept past the $4 a gallon mark at many pumps in Marietta and Cobb County, with no guarantees they won't soon be higher. With the likelihood strong that prices might be $5 a gallon by Christmas - or even Labor Day - do you think it's time to take the handcuffs off the oil industry that have prevented it from tapping into the huge known reserves in our country? There are billions of gallons just offshore and billions more in a tiny corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska.
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Obama blog 05/20/2008
Should the wives of presidential candidates be off-limits from partisan criticism? That's what Barack Obama argued on Monday, describing as ``detestable'' a Republican ad that made note of his wife Michelle's widely reported comment that "for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."
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Running mates blog 04/23/2008
This year's Super Bowl took place with the ``Super Tuesday'' primary as the backdrop two days later. The nationwide primary was supposed to anoint the presidential nominees for both parties. Now, unbelievably, we are on the eve of the second-most-watched event on the NFL calendar - its annual college player draft - and it's still anybody's guess who the Democratic nominee will be.
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Kesting blog 04/15/2008
Southwest Cobb Commissioner Annette Kesting held a press conference on Marietta Square on Friday, no doubt in hopes of ``putting to bed'' the controversy that erupted after her remarks at a February Black History awareness at Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Marietta were reported in the media last week. In those remarks, she complained about the ``evilness'' on the third floor of the county commission offices where she works, said her coworkers are not Christian and lamented having to work with ``white women'' there.
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Obama blog 03/26/2008
Barack Obama is - or was - the candidate who wants to move us beyond race, the candidate who transcends race. But his decades-long membership in the church pastored by the inflammatory Rev. Jeremiah Wright, shows that Obama likely differs only in style, not in substance, from the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
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VP Blog 03/11/2008
Now that Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain has wrapped up the GOP presidential nomination, he must turn to the business of selecting a running mate. And who should that be? Among the names being bandied about are those of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, South Carolina U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.
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Water Blog 02/27/2008
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a drought-response plan on Tuesday that will allow limited outdoor watering starting March 1.
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TAD blog 02/18/2008
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled last week that local governments cannot use school tax revenues to help underwrite redevelopment efforts via Tax Allocation District subsidies. Those subsidies have proven highly controversial in Marietta and Cobb in recent years, as regular MDJ readers know.
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