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Susan Estrich: Politics, Washington style: Heads you lose, tails you lose
by Susan Estrich
Columnist
March 18, 2010 01:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Michelle Malkin: Slaughter
by Michelle Malkin
Columnist
March 18, 2010 01:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Don McKee: Readers fire away on proposal to expand gun-toting rights
by Don McKee
Columnist
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Rod Paramoure: Federal grants just another form of earmarked pork
by Rod Paramoure
Guest Columnist
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Kathleen Parker: Sneak and Sprint
by Kathleen Parker
Columnist
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Dick Yarbrough: Just what we need: fewer judges and more guns
by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Dan Thomasson: Demonizing Insurers: Democrats should be careful what they wish for
by Dan Thomasson
Columnist
March 16, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
D.A. King: ACCG, GMA lobbying against stronger law on aliens
by D.A. King
Guest columnist
March 16, 2010 01:00 AM | 18 18 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Michelle Malkin: 'House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Deficient Cleaning Service'
by Michelle Malkin
Columnist
March 15, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
"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...
Nelson Price: It's two steps forward, one back for health-push advocates
by Nelson Price
Columnist
March 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Ann Coulter: What's Arabic for 'You're no Atticus Finch?'
by Ann Coulter
Columnist
March 12, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Cliff Johnson: Teen drinking story shows need for fair treatment
by Cliff Johnson
Guest Columnist
March 12, 2010 01:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
Alisha T. Morgan: Georgia charging ahead to lead 'Race to the Top'
by Alisha T. Morgan
Guest Columnist
March 11, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Dick Morris: A Pickett's Charge
by Dick Morris
Columnist
March 10, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Larry Wills: Day of historic reckoning arrives for Marietta
by Larry Wills
Guest Columnist
March 10, 2010 01:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Nelson Price: Nicknames can tell you much about folks
by Nelson Price
Columnist
March 07, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Judy Elliott: Cross-party friendships ever more rare in D.C.
by Judy Elliott
Columnist
March 07, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Ron Lowry: Tort reform? Product safety no accident
by Ron Lowry
Guest Columnist
March 05, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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. ...
Phil Gingrey: Health care summit a good photo op, but that's all
by Phil Gingrey
Guest Columnist
March 04, 2010 01:00 AM | 13 13 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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