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Dick Yarbrough ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 17, 2013 11:00 PM | 0 | 4 |
I just got off the phone with Jill, one of my favorite mules. In all fairness, I don’t know many mules besides Jill and her brother, Jack, so to call them my favorites is not saying a lot.
Anyway, ...
Some things about the Obama administration’s efforts to explain the Benghazi terrorist attacks seem inconceivable.
Start with the intelligence that the CIA and FBI seemingly relied upon in trying t...
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Kevin Foley ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 16, 2013 10:39 PM | 10 | 4 |
If you live inside the conservative information bubble relying on Rupert Murdoch’s Republican Party organs, The Weekly Standard and The Wall Street Journal, or his GOP-TV, Fox News, then you might ...
Perhaps you’ve been following — or more likely tried to follow — the Battling Benghazi Show now being played out on news outlets across the country. In a nutshell, it seems there may have been some...
The scandals now engulfing the White House have revealed egregious, chilling attacks on First Amendment rights of the news media and American citizens by the Obama administration. It’s hard to say ...
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Dick Yarbrough ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 14, 2013 10:22 PM | 0 | 3 |
David Pennington, the mayor of Dalton, is making noises about challenging incumbent Gov. Nathan Deal in the 2014 Republican primary. Say what?
I visited the mayor a couple of weeks ago at his offic...
A few weeks ago, a liberal colleague of mine at Kennesaw State University emailed me a short, short story. This was Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 tale “Harrison Bergeron.” I had never seen it before — and i...
There’s no smoking gun, but we have “smoking emails” showing how White House talking points evolved into a smokescreen about the Benghazi terrorist attacks that killed our ambassador and three othe...
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Nelson Price ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 11, 2013 11:36 PM | 0 | 7 |
Every mortal being is born indebted to one person. That person is the one they call mother. To achieve this lofty role, young women have to jeopardize their lives and alter their lifestyle.
The act...
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Roger Hines ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 11, 2013 11:35 PM | 1 | 5 |
Twenty-one years ago at the 1992 Republican Convention, Pat Buchanan delivered what is now called his “culture war” speech. Buchanan, you will recall, had challenged George H. W. Bush for the GOP n...
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Judy Elliott ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 11, 2013 11:31 PM | 0 | 3 |
My mother’s sister was named Mary Brown, a no-nonsense choice for a girl who grew up to be a fine tennis player and Navy nurse.
She was in school in Washington, D.C., when the Japanese bombed Pearl...
If you’re ever in west Cobb and see a red blur, it is probably my wife, Fran, in her trusty red Honda van. Not that she drives all that fast. Rather, it’s just that she’s constantly on the road shu...
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Dick Yarbrough ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 10, 2013 11:33 PM | 0 | 5 |
Let’s face it. We may disagree on any number of things but on one matter there can be no disagreement. If it wasn’t for our mommas, we wouldn’t be here today arguing about anything. Hooray for Moth...
The Obama administration’s actions concerning the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, don't pass the smell test. That’s been confirmed by Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of ...
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Kevin Foley ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 09, 2013 11:39 PM | 9 | 7 |
Viewers of Fox News programs are routinely subjected to right wing opinion masquerading as objective news. But because it’s slickly delivered by seemingly trustworthy people, viewers can be forgive...
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Jerry Landers ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 08, 2013 11:55 PM | 5 | 12 |
On Sept. 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, came under attack and was overrun and destroyed by terrorists. Four Americans were killed in the attack, including the U.S. am...
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Dick Yarbrough ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 08, 2013 12:41 AM | 0 | 6 |
This is the story of courage. This is a story of tenacity. This is the story of Hill Daniel.
Daniel, a 21-year-old senior at LaGrange College, will be graduating next week with a degree in psycholo...
Senate Bill 743, ingeniously titled “Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013,” has an even more high-faluting preamble: “To restore States’ sovereign rights to enforce State and local sales and use tax la...
Cobb County and the State of Georgia recently lost a human services icon with the death of Bill Hanson. Mr. Hanson was integrally involved in the creation of the Cobb Community Collaborative Inc. T...
When I was in high school, one of our required readings was George Orwell’s novel “1984.” This was so long ago that back then I thought of this year as in the distant future. Now, of course, many o...
State education Superintendent John Barge told Cobb Republicans at their Saturday breakfast he’s concerned about the looming Common Core Standards-related national assessment of students “because i...
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Nelson Price ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 05, 2013 12:09 AM | 0 | 4 |
Two points are basic. One, such terrorist acts won’t achieve your end, and two, they will achieve your end.
First, it is assumed the end intended is to intimidate America to the point consent will ...
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Roger Hines ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 05, 2013 12:07 AM | 1 | 8 |
Lewis Grizzard, the late humorist, columnist and Georgia native, once wrote that country music was changing too much to suit him. He said, “Country music used to come from the heart through the nos...
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Dick Yarbrough ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 03, 2013 11:33 PM | 2 | 8 |
Now there are three. Awtrey Middle School Principal Jeff Crawford has had charges against him dropped by the Cobb County School District for failing to report a female student’s allegation of rape....
The Cobb school district has finally taken a step toward protecting the rights, reputations and careers of principals, teachers and other staff ensnared by misguided and over-zealous application of...
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Ann Coulter ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 16, 2013 10:37 PM | 0 | 4 |
The Heritage Foundation recently issued a comprehensive report showing that Sen. Marco Rubio’s plan to instantly legalize 11.5 million illegal immigrants would add $6.3 trillion to the nation’s bud...
The problem with scandals is that those who feel scandalized the most often hated the alleged scandal perpetrators before the gleeful finger-pointing and outraged clucking began.
That leaves the re...
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Charles Krauthammer ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 16, 2013 09:41 PM | 0 | 3 |
Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don’t know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the imp...
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Deroy Murdock ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 15, 2013 11:54 PM | 0 | 2 |
“There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy,” President Barack Obama told the United Nations last Sept. 25. A fortnight after the deadly attack on America’s mission in Benghazi, Libya...
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Michael Barone ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 15, 2013 11:52 PM | 0 | 2 |
What do the Benghazi cover-up and the IRS scandal have in common? They were both about winning elections, under false pretenses.
Winning elections, after all, is something Barack Obama is good at....
At the first whiff of a scandal, we all become Deciders. It happens to presidents, other public officials, and the journalists who cover them. Also to all other folks who consume the processed news...
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George Will ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 15, 2013 11:51 PM | 0 | 3 |
“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ... cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigati...
This week’s Time Capsule looks at an ordinance on billiards, a brazen armored car robbery and the potential renaming of Fairground Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Street.
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Roger Simon ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 14, 2013 11:46 PM | 0 | 4 |
I have gone from a nonbeliever to an agnostic as to whether Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016.
Recently, however, she delivered a major signal that she may not be a candidate for high...
Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media.
Or as the tea party queen and former Alas...
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Susan Estrich ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 14, 2013 10:27 PM | 0 | 4 |
On its face, the murder of Americans in Libya, including our ambassador, has absolutely nothing to do with the inappropriate relationship former President Bill Clinton had with a White House intern...
In his defense of President Obama, Press Secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon’s spokesman. Carney only has to use the word “inoperative,” as Ziegler d...
Max Baucus’ reputation as one of the most ethically challenged members of the U.S. Senate is well earned. The Montana Democrat’s decision to retire in 2014 can’t help but improve the chamber’s sorr...
Mistakes were made. This, we are supposed to accept, is the conclusion to be drawn about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, despite congressional testimony Wednesday suggesting that signific...
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who’s the most powerful woman of them all?” No doubt about it. Not Queen Elizabeth, Angela Merkel or Oprah Winfrey. The most powerful woman on the planet is former fir...
Despite on onslaught of national press that seemed to be pushing Elizabeth Colbert Busch toward a victory in the South Carolina special congressional election, former Gov. Mark Sanford, baggage and...
How low will supporters of the Gang of Eight immigration bill go to get their way? This low: They’ve shamelessly branded an accomplished Ivy League-trained quantitative analyst a “racist” and will ...
“Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference — at this point, what difference does it make?” That was h...
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George Will ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 11, 2013 11:32 PM | 0 | 5 |
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with “twenty thousand times the force” of a political...
One of the unremarked stories of the American experience in recent years is the rise of idiocy to epidemic proportions. Everywhere one looks, idiots are at work, and not all of them in Congress.
Pe...
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Charles Krauthammer ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 09, 2013 11:41 PM | 0 | 4 |
You know you’re in trouble when you can’t even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama’s fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in...
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Dan K. Thomasson ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 09, 2013 11:38 PM | 0 | 3 |
Gregory Hicks’ account of what amounts to State Department security failures in the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, that cost the life of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others proved ...
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Ann Coulter ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 09, 2013 11:37 PM | 0 | 7 |
Every few months since at least 2006, The New York Times takes time out from brow-beating Evangelicals to praise them for supporting amnesty for illegal aliens.
Most of the “Evangelicals” the Times...
This week’s Time Capsule looks at the burning of dogs and horses at the county dump, expansion of Marietta’s Lemon Street High School and a local teen co-producing the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Martin Schram ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 08, 2013 09:53 PM | 0 | 3 |
America’s long-running, mondo-bizzaro courtship of Afghanistan’s mercurial Hamid Karzai got even wilder and wackier this past week.
Now, things that used to be top secret — like CIA bagsful of cash...
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