Those of us with a bully platform can get so caught up in our own self-importance we may forget it takes two to have a dialogue. If you are not interested in what I have to say or don’t find me cre...
Readers give their feedback on recent column topics including Gov. Nathan Deal’s call for Georgia Republicans to reach out to minorities, saying “if we don’t reach out to them, then shame on us.” ...
As an angry President Obama said last week, there is no excuse for IRS agents interfering with partisan political groups. So let’s have a full investigation, not another witch hunt. Perhaps it will...
Recent revelations about the Justice Department’s secret seizure of journalists’ telephone records and emails raise an extremely important question: How many journalists have been or are now subjec...
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Dick Yarbrough ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 21, 2013 09:53 PM | 4 | 5 |
Dear Public School Teachers in Georgia: It looks as if you have survived another year of underwhelming support from state legislators, many of whom would kiss a tree toad if so instructed by the an...
Good news for conservatives! Marco Rubio’s “I wanna be president” poll numbers are taking a decided dip. That happy fact is starting to make this writer think there may be hope for a dash of sanity...
No, this is not an English lesson, but rather the presentation of a term that should be used in what has now been called “The Mary Finlayson Story,” concerning the recent termination of Cobb School...
Gov. Nathan Deal could be on to something big with his call for Georgia Republicans to reach out to minorities, following the lead of the GOP national committee and several prominent party figures....
Barack Obama is at it again. Once more he is wooing young women in hopes of drumming up support for ObamaCare. And why not? He knows that he probably owes his re-election to having succeeded in att...
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Nelson Price ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 18, 2013 11:35 PM | 0 | 8 |
There are individuals who don’t believe an all-wise and loving God created the world, but there are places and experiences that argue He did.
For several years I have had the joy of spending a cou...
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Roger Hines ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 18, 2013 11:34 PM | 1 | 6 |
It really isn’t proper to “tell on” anybody unless the telling is positive and edifying. Neither, by Southern standards, is it proper to “talk about” people.
Whenever my mother heard any of her chi...
Perhaps we should go ahead and remove “In God We Trust” from our buildings, license plates and as a phrase which gives many Americans an encouraging reminder and replace it with “In Government We T...
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Dick Yarbrough ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 17, 2013 11:00 PM | 1 | 5 |
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 | 17 | 5 |
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 | 4 |
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...
As these are anxious times, let me reassure readers that my column today is a talking point-free zone. Some space in modern life has to be available for people to sit down and read without being bo...
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Charles Krauthammer ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 23, 2013 11:48 PM | 0 | 3 |
“Horrible customer service.” That’s what the newly fired IRS commissioner averred was the agency’s only sin in singling out conservative political groups for discriminatory treatment.
In such grim ...
At first I thought the IRS scandal was leaked to distract from the Benghazi scandal. But that didn’t make sense because the IRS scandal is a more obvious abuse of power than the White House lying a...
This week’s Time Capsule looks at a dynamited house, lunch counter sit-ins, the death of a popular Marietta mayor and wing cracks in Lockheed C-141 StarLifters.
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Martin Schram ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 22, 2013 10:44 PM | 0 | 3 |
On days when the president is coming, the White House press room, the East Room and even occasionally the Rose Garden are ornamented with dozens of objects that perform the decorative and utilitari...
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George Will ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 22, 2013 10:43 PM | 0 | 3 |
Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: “Although the parties have no...
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Froma Harrop ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 22, 2013 10:32 PM | 0 | 3 |
The world looked upon the tornado-flattened landscape of Moore, Okla., with awe. The destruction was shocking, as were the personal losses. Many Americans in the audience also felt — and this must ...
No, this is not Watergate or Iran-Contra. Nor is it like the sex scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached.
The AP, IRS and Benghazi matters represent a scandal not of presidential wrongdoing, but o...
If Obama’s Rose Parade of scandals gives you a headache, here’s why: This is your brain on Big Government.
The deteriorating developments on Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice D...
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Dana Milbank ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 21, 2013 09:50 PM | 3 | 2 |
Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now.
Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexora...
Chilling effect. That’s the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples...
The hundred pages of Benghazi emails released last week tell us almost nothing about how four Americans came to die so tragically in that Libyan city. But they are a case study in why nothing works...
“When those liberals start mixing into policy, it’s murder.” That quote came from none other than John F. Kennedy in 1962, taken from a source in a Newsweek article, and later discussed with his fr...
On Sept. 12, 2012, President Barack Obama vowed to “bring to justice” the perpetrators of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya. On Oct. 26, 2012, Obama said his “biggest priority” was bringing the ...
There’s nothing Washington likes better than a scandal. So official Washington was absolutely orgasmic last week while dealing with not one, but three scandals at the same time. Not one of which, s...
Of course the president deserves some of the blame. Yes, it’s extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against tea party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why an...
Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing.
There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-...
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Ann Coulter ColumnistThe Marietta Daily Journal
May 16, 2013 10:37 PM | 0 | 8 |
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 | 4 |
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 | 3 |
“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 | 3 |
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 | 4 |
“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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