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Ann Coulter: Obama Is No Muslim
by Ann Coulter
Columnist
September 03, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Reg Henry: Memo to 'cougars': Older men offer 'splendid ruin'
by Reg Henry
Columnist
September 03, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Charles Krauthammer: 'Scandalous'
by Charles Krauthammer
Columnist
September 03, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Bill Maxwell: Grim future ahead for many black males
by Bill Maxwell
Columnist
September 03, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Martin Schram: Turning dyslexia's liability into a virtue
by Martin Schram
Columnist
September 02, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Cal Thomas: Obama may be 'turning page,' but book our enemies are writing has a different ending
by Cal Thomas
Columnist
September 02, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
George Will: Showdown
by George Will
Columnist
September 02, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Clifford D. May: Mainstream media giving violent Muslims a fee pass
by Clifford D. May
Columnist
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Don McKee: Cobb couple has 'once-in-a-lifetime' experience in D.C.
by Don McKee
Columnist
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 6 6 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
Sally Bethea: States must work together to solve tri-state water war
by Sally Bethea
Guest Columnist
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Dick Yarbrough: Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Georgia
by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Melvyn L. Fein: The mosque, the politicians and the Jews
by Melvyn L. Fein
Guest Columnist
August 30, 2010 12:00 AM | 8 8 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Bill Kinney: Helping Hospice
by Bill Kinney
Columnist
August 29, 2010 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Laura Armstrong: Words to inspire unity at Beck rally draw cynics' fire
by Laura Armstrong
Columnist
August 29, 2010 12:00 AM | 11 11 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Kevin Foley: America is tolerant (unless you're a Muslim)
by Kevin Foley
Guest Columnist
August 29, 2010 12:00 AM | 8 8 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Larry Wills: Marietta's costly BLW needs regulating
by Larry Wills
Guest Columnist
August 27, 2010 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Dick Yarbrough: Don't feel sorry for the squirrels
by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
August 25, 2010 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Judy Elliott: New lens offers one-eyed view, brightly shining
by Judy Elliott
Columnist
August 22, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Joe Kirby: Garrulous Gingrey
by Joe Kirby
Columnist
August 22, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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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