Doubling down on dubious bets is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such policy for grades K through 12, and better off for that,...
A year ago, David Axelrod, the president's senior adviser, was a genius. A year ago, Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff, was a wizard. Axelrod was at President Obama's side for the long...
At a joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last year, President Obama vowed to make ending border violence a "top priority." How's that hope and change working out? Drug-rel...
Readers give their views on my broadside at a bill by state Sen. Mitch Seabaugh (R-Sharpsburg) that would expand Georgia gun-toting rights in all directions, allowing licensed gun carriers in resta...
I recently read in the MDJ that Southern Polytechnic State University had received a grant to assist the enrollment of Hispanic students. Southern Poly is an excellent school and we are lucky to ha...
As Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, is the rush? A year ago, whe...
Senate Majority Whip Mitch Seabaugh (R-Sharpsburg) wants to eliminate a bunch of Superior Court judges in Georgia. Seabaugh says getting rid of 19 judges would save the state $13 million to $14 mil...
The nation's insurers may never be the same by the time Barack Obama is through tarring them as the bad boys of the nation's medical care problems. The president's latest gambit in his obsessive ef...
The Association County Commissioners of Georgia and the Georgia Municipal Authority are not exactly well-known, household names to the average Georgian. They should be. They are two of the largest...
"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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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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