Republican gubernatorial nominee Nathan Deal is running against Barack Obama and it seems to be working with many Georgia voters: They are looking at Obama instead of the actual Democratic nominee,...
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist. Leave aside Obama's fanatical o...
When my father was about 95 and living in a nursing home, he complained to me about the younger women he had met there. "These younger women," he said, "they can't make good conversation - they don...
Many have charged that President Obama's decision to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan 10 months from now is hampering our war effort. But now it's official. In a stunning statement last week, Mar...
A sound formal education is the surest way to succeed in America's increasingly tough, knowledge-based economy. "Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2010" in...
Kendrick Meek and Francesca Yabraian are two fighters in a vast army that has been waging war against a common foe, for what seems like forever. They don't know each other - he is a Florida congre...
In his Oval Office address Tuesday night announcing the end of combat operations in Iraq, President Obama said "It's time to turn the page" and start focusing on rebuilding the American economy. T...
DENVER - Put away the pitchfork metaphors that are prevalent in this season of populist ferment: Colorado's Senate contest is a duel of distinguished diplomas. Tea partiers toiled mightily to nomin...
Wow! The Washington Post has identified "rabble-rousing outsiders!" I haven't heard language like that since southern segregationists complained about civil rights activists descending on Mississip...
There's been plenty of commentaries about the massive "Restoring Honor" rally led by conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck on the National Mall last Saturday, but a first-hand account comes from Kym ...
For two decades, Georgia, Alabama and Florida have been battling over future water allocation in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin which straddles their borders. The dispute also inv...
You can take the boy out of Georgia, but you can't keep him from swelling with pride while he's gone. On a recent visit to Michigan and Canada in search of igloos and reindeer, we dropped by Henr...
To be or not to be, that is the question about building a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero. During the dog days of August this issue has ignited a firestorm. Nevertheless, it is very revealing o...
Hospitals started setting up hospices a few decades ago to create special places for terminal patients to spend their final days. Places where they can be surrounded by loved ones and care-givers i...
The spirit of America was in Washington, D.C., yesterday, and it was very good and very strong. Restoring Honor, the theme of Glenn Beck's rally, drew hundreds of thousands to the Lincoln Memorial...
Until 9/11, Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was the worst terrorist attack on American soil. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh murdered 168 people inclu...
According to its website, the Marietta city council approved a balanced budget with no tax increase for the fiscal year beginning July 1. This was not accurate. The city did in effect raise taxes b...
If you find any dead squirrels in my backyard, it is because they have laughed themselves to death. It isn't that I haven't tried to wing one with my trusty Red Ryder pump-action BB gun with the c...
Her voice had the lilt of island speech as she reeled off post-operative instructions before sending me forth, sans cataract. She was young enough to be my daughter, but I offered a "Yes, Ma'am" a...
U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta) rarely has been one to mince words when it comes to talking about politics. That remained true when he dropped by the MDJ office Wednesday for a chat. Gingrey, a...
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