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Cal Thomas: Romney’s visit to Liberty was a stellar performance
May 15, 2012 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
LYNCHBURG, Va. — It wasn’t exactly the belly of the beast Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited recently on a picture-perfect commencement day at “the world’s largest Christian Univ...
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Pete Borden: Voters to get chance to ‘clear water’ this fall
May 15, 2012 12:00 AM | 5 5 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Though, I doubt it is intentional, the workings of the school board and district are so transparent a blind man could see it with his cane. Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa built a case for red...
Don McKee
Don McKee
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Don McKee: Are projections, forecasts used by TIA backers equivalent to facts?
May 14, 2012 01:17 AM | 16 16 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
This column has questioned projections used in support of the regional one-cent sales tax under the Transportation Investment Act – as have quite a few other people. My May 4 column was the subjec...
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Melvyn L. Fein: ‘Biltmore Effect’ corrupts many in spendthrift ways
May 14, 2012 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Biltmore is splendid. Nonetheless, the largest private residence in the United States, it is, unfortunately, no longer a home. Too expensive to maintain as a family dwelling, it has devolved into a...
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Judy Elliott: ‘Miss Nell’ was poetry in motion to her daughter
by Judy Elliott
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May 13, 2012 01:14 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
My mother would not like the catch-phrase identifying those in the sisterhood as “breadwomen.” Sounds too much like the Pillsbury Doughboy in drag. Still, “breadwomen” intends to acknowledge two-th...
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Nelson Price: There are too few happy mothers today
by Nelson Price
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May 13, 2012 01:06 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Happy Mother’s Day to the many who value their high office of mother. Grievously, there are all too few happy mothers today. Technology has enabled there to be 38 ways to produce a human child. T...
Dick Yarbrough
Dick Yarbrough
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Dick Yarbrough: Mt. Paran Christian made coaching change, but ... Booted It, Big Time
by Dick Yarbrough
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May 12, 2012 01:14 AM | 9 9 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
I have no dog in the fight that has become the controversy surrounding the Mount Paran Christian baseball program and the recent dismissal of its coach. I don’t know any of the individuals involved...
Douglas R. Hooker: Get facts on TSPLOST’s regional impact
by Douglas R. Hooker
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May 11, 2012 12:49 AM | 12 12 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
On May 4 Don McKee wrote an MDJ column about the Regional Transportation Referendum, citing statistics used in a presentation to the Cobb Young Republicans. McKee challenged several of the facts th...
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Kevin Foley: Gay marriage a civil rights issue, not religious one
by Kevin Foley
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May 11, 2012 12:43 AM | 11 11 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
North Carolinians voted this week for a state constitutional amendment stating marriage is only between a man and a woman. The vote triggered an immediate reaction from a gay rights group that bega...
Don McKee
Don McKee
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Don McKee: Is superintendent looking for ways to make serious cuts in school staff?
by Don McKee
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May 11, 2012 12:34 AM | 3 3 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
It seems that Cobb school Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa is looking for a way to reduce costs of operating the system by spending $300,000 or more for about 150 district employees to attend th...
Martin Schram
Martin Schram
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Should we ‘recommission’ the ‘War on Terror’?
by Martin Schram
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May 09, 2012 11:59 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
It is late April, and as America’s president you are about to be reacquainted with the buck-stopping burden of working at the narrow end of the vast global funnel that dumps all that is known and m...
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Cal Thomas: Gates helping us find our roots
by Cal Thomas
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May 09, 2012 11:59 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
“Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” is another of the Harvard professor’s wonderful television series for PBS. This is “must-see TV” and a more than worthy sequel to three previous proj...
Don McKee
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Don McKee: Federal judge doing job for legislators in redrawing districts
by Don McKee
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May 09, 2012 12:00 AM | 8 8 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
All sides are praising the proposed Cobb commission redistricting map drawn by U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones — maybe just in the nick of time to avert more unnecessary costs in a special el...
Froma Harrop
Froma Harrop
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Froma Harrop: Kentucky Derby throwing American tradition into the ‘Cultural Mixmaster’
by Froma Harrop
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May 08, 2012 11:59 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
The overnight rating for the Kentucky Derby telecast has slipped again, hitting a six-year low. This was despite NBC’s best efforts to fill the hours with such celebrities as “Two and a Half Men” s...
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Pete Borden: Do you take it ‘saucered and blowed’?
May 08, 2012 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
There is a humorous collection of sounds you will never hear in the South. The list includes such statements as “I thought Graceland was tacky,” “No grits for me,” “NASCAR is boring,” “Who the heck...
Don McKee
Don McKee
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Don McKee: Readers continue debate over top priority of proposed 1-percent sales tax
May 07, 2012 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The debate among readers continues over the TIA/TSPLOST — economic development versus transportation. Maatf: We are not ready to make a ten year tax commitment and the projects chosen are not chos...
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Melvyn L. Fein: Does Obama think we’re stupid? Look at record
May 07, 2012 12:00 AM | 11 11 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
According to Mitt Romney, Americans are not stupid. He tells us that we, his fellow citizens, realize the economy remains in trouble — whatever the Obama administration propaganda. This, of course...
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Bill Lewis: Edwards’ soap opera too much even for TV
by Bill Lewis
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May 06, 2012 12:26 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
In my youth, I had the privilege of being involved with a TV show called Days of Our Lives. Fans of daytime television will recognize that name as one of the longest dramas or “soap operas” ever pr...
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Charlie Sewell: Police need residents’ help to keep cities safe
by Charlie Sewell
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May 06, 2012 12:06 AM | 1 1 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard, “You can never find a cop when you need one.” The number of police officers available to patrol an area is a tiny handful compared to the number of res...
Bill Kinney
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Bill Kinney: Hunstein: Courts must rule based on law, even though ... ‘Heavens May Fall’
by Bill Kinney
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May 06, 2012 12:01 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
We often hear about the state’s budget crisis and the effect it is having on local school systems and county governments. But it is impacting the state’s court system in a big way as well, state Su...
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Nelson Price: Discipline yourself to pray daily
by Nelson Price
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May 06, 2012 12:01 AM | 5 5 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Our nation just engaged in the annual Day of Prayer. Such days have been celebrated from the earliest days of America’s emergence. Not only has the nation commemorated them, but individual states h...
Dick Yarbrough
Dick Yarbrough
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Dick Yarbrough: Without Jasper Dorsey, there might not be ... The Fox Theatre
by Dick Yarbrough
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May 05, 2012 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
If and when you are ever in the Fox Theatre in downtown Atlanta, you might want to remember the late Jasper Dorsey. If it wasn’t for him, there likely would not still be a Fox. I was reminded of th...
Don McKee
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Don McKee: TIA mainly about economic development, not congestion
by Don McKee
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May 04, 2012 12:00 AM | 11 11 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The proposed one percent sales tax being sold as a transportation solution under the Transportation Investment Act is mainly about economic development, not any substantial reduction of traffic con...
Lance LoRusso: Glass houses and the Secret Service
by Lance LoRusso
Columnist
May 03, 2012 12:01 AM | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The Secret Service is under the microscope. Agents are accused of wrongdoing. Like every other law enforcement agency in the United States, there is a process for investigating allegations of misco...
Matt Towery
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Matt Towery: Many messages sent by Lugar’s loss
May 14, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The defeat of Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar has political tongues wagging all over the nation. Lugar was a major force in the U.S. Senate. He was well liked by colleagues and, ironically, made an earl...
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Jonah Goldberg: Obama being pushed leftward by ‘The Money Primary’
May 14, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd given that he’s essentially running unopposed. Though don’t tell that to West Virginia Democrats,...
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin
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Michelle Malkin: White House lied, jobs died
May 14, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
While the White House and its media water-carriers try to distract the American public with gay-marriage talk and half-century-old tales of Mitt Romney’s prep school pranks, the inconvenient truth ...
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Bill Press: Obama leads way on same-sex marriage
May 14, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Samuel Gompers, the cigar maker who became a labor leader and founder of the AFL, was once asked: “What does labor want?” His answer was simple and direct: “More!” “We do want more,” he explained,...
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Kathleen Parker: Evolution of a narrative - Is this really the right subject to dominate a presidential election?
by Kathleen Parker
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May 13, 2012 01:09 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
This past week’s news cycle has produced two narratives: One, Barack Obama is an evolutionary, 21st-century hero who supports equality for all. Two, Mitt Romney is a gay-bashing bully mired in the ...
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
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Ann Coulter: Stealing Credit ... for someone else’s suffering
by Ann Coulter
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May 11, 2012 12:40 AM | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Elizabeth Warren, who also goes by her Indian name, “Lies on Race Box,” is in big heap-um trouble. The earnest, reform-minded liberal running for Senate against Scott Brown (R-Mass.) lied about bei...
Reg Henry
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Reg Henry: Conservatives’ idea of a good time is the 1700s
by Reg Henry
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May 11, 2012 12:01 AM | 5 5 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The late William F. Buckley, the intelligent and witty voice of conservatism before talk-show primitives took over the microphone and the movement with it, famously described a conservative as “som...
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Charles Krauthammer: Echoes of ’67 - Israel unites as war looms
by Charles Krauthammer
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May 11, 2012 12:01 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel’s southern out...
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Dale Cardwell
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Dale Cardwell: Slumdogs, millionaires and ponies
by Dale Cardwell
Business Columnist
May 10, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Did you see “Slumdog Millionaire”? It’s the story of a boy from India who was born in a literal garbage dump — and through a twist of fate — ended up a millionaire. It’s one of my all-time favorite...
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George Will: Obamacare successful ... at taxing good jobs out of existence or out of the country
by George Will
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May 09, 2012 11:59 PM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that becam...
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Getting Fat — Americans are proving that it’s never been easier
by Kathleen Parker
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May 09, 2012 11:59 PM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Close your eyes and picture 110 million obese people waddling around America’s sidewalks. You’ll probably want to keep your eyes closed. Such is the scenario suggested by a new study projecting th...
Dick Yarbrough
Dick Yarbrough
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Dick Yarbrough: Random thoughts ... on Daffy Duck, UGA fishing team and lobbyist limits
by Dick Yarbrough
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May 09, 2012 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Just when my life seemed to have lost all meaning, up jumps our Ambassador to Outer Space, Cynthia McKinney, who has announced her intentions to run for Congress as a member of the Green Party this...
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Dick Morris: The reality of unemployment
by Dick Morris
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May 08, 2012 11:59 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
At last, Obama’s economic strategy becomes clear: Encourage Americans to stop even looking for work! In April, the number of Americans seeking work dropped by 522,000, part of a long term decline o...
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Star Parker: Criticism from some Catholics aside, Paul Ryan’s budget is a moral budget
May 07, 2012 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) chairman of the House Budget Committee, provoked some angry pushback when he claimed that not only is his proposed sweeping revamp of the U.S. budget fiscally sound but also...
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Clifford D. May: We don’t know our enemy — and don’t want to
May 07, 2012 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The “fog of war” is a concept derived from the writings of Carl von Clausewitz, the great 19th century Prussian military theorist who recognized that those leading troops into battle often lack dat...
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Bill Press: Drone warfare: Coming to a town near you
May 07, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
With a dramatic trip to Kabul, President Obama announced the beginning of the end of the war in Afghanistan. But while wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, a third war is winding up: a wa...
Matt Towery
Matt Towery
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Matt Towery: U.S. health care system is becoming impossible to deal with
May 07, 2012 12:00 AM | 4 4 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
I have no idea if it is because of Obamacare or not, but the health care system in America is just impossible for the average person to navigate. For all the talk of modernization and improvement i...
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George Will: Finance ‘reformers’ take scythe to Bill of Rights
by George Will
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May 06, 2012 12:25 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Et...
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Kathleen Parker: Seeing-Eye Nation - If we don’t care what happens to Chen, who will?
by Kathleen Parker
Columnist
May 06, 2012 12:19 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
News that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and his family might be allowed to leave China for a university fellowship in the U.S. brought relief not only to Chen, but also to dissidents around the...
Froma Harrop
Froma Harrop
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Froma Harrop: Wishing the worst for John Edwards
by Froma Harrop
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May 03, 2012 11:59 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
John Edwards allegedly misused campaign money to cover a tawdry affair while posing lovey-dovey with his dying wife for the cameras. All this happened in 2008, as the former Democratic senator from...
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
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Ann Coulter: Immigration solution? Deport the GOP establishment — and the Democratic one, too
by Ann Coulter
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May 03, 2012 11:59 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
On no issue is the elite/American divide so great as on immigration. For decades, a majority of Americans have wanted to decrease immigration. Not just illegal immigration — all immigration. Nearl...
Michelle Malkin
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Michelle Malkin: ‘Sacaja-Whiner’ - Elizabeth Warren and the Oppression Olympics
by Michelle Malkin
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May 03, 2012 12:01 AM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Elizabeth Warren is the Harvard law professor running for Senate in Massachusetts as a Democratic populist-progressive champion. But don’t call her “Elizabeth Warren.” Call her “Pinocchio-hontas,” ...
Martin Schram
Martin Schram
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Martin Schram: The making of the commander-in-chief
by Martin Schram
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May 03, 2012 12:01 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
You are America’s commander-in-chief and you have been battling an evil foe in a national security crisis that has riveted world attention. Now your military chiefs and director of intelligence ha...
Dale Cardwell<br>Business Columnist
Dale Cardwell
Business Columnist
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Dale Cardwell: Left, right and irrelevant
by Dale Cardwell
Business Columnist
May 03, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
One of the smartest people I know asked me to lunch recently. He knew that I had run for U.S. Senate a few years ago, and was concerned that I had moved too far to the political ___ (what do you th...
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Dan K. Thomasson: Time to restore common sense on zero-tolerance school laws
by Dan K. Thomasson
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May 02, 2012 12:01 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
In the world of zero tolerance, common sense does not exist. It is not even in the vocabulary of most public school administrators who practice the dark art of persecution for anyone caught violati...
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