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Cobb schools lack needed resources

May 21, 2013 09:49 PM | 5

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DEAR EDITOR: We need to open our eyes. As a lifetime citizen of Cobb County and the parent of two Cobb teachers, I am amazed at the lack of resources available to the teachers and therefore the st...

GOP convention saw hypocrisy by tea party groups
DEAR EDITOR: The concern expressed by tea party activists at the Georgia GOP Convention about Karl Rove’s plan to run advertising for Republicans they view as capable of winning a general election ...

May 20, 2013 08:17 PM | 3

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‘Fox guarding henhouse’ on IRS probe; prosecutor needed
DEAR EDITOR: I couldn’t help but chuckle when I read your recent headline, “Justice Dept. investigating IRS”. Did the old adage of “the fox guarding the henhouse” occur to anyone else? I am quit...

May 18, 2013 11:31 PM | 0

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IRS can’t have it both ways
DEAR EDITOR: Whether or not the IRS was targeting the tea partiers unfairly or not will be sorted out, but it is clear the IRS has a responsibility to all citizens and taxpayers to make certain th...

May 18, 2013 11:30 PM | 2

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Edit wrong: Bombing not reason for pride
DEAR EDITOR: In a recent MDJ guest editorial, the Macon Telegraph proudly proclaimed, “Bravo to law enforcement. … Boston residents … have reason to applaud.” It’s hard to imagine why, when the au...

May 14, 2013 11:43 PM | 4

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IRS flap reminds of Cobb schools’ flawed probes
DEAR EDITOR: In light of recent developments, both in Washington and Cobb County, it is an easy task to draw some very frightening parallels. All one needs do is simply substitute the CCSD hierarc...

May 14, 2013 11:42 PM | 0

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Common Core goal student indoctrination
DEAR EDITOR: It’s my understanding that the Common Core Curriculum was a bi-partisan effort of the national governors association and a similar organization of the superintendents of education with...

May 14, 2013 12:43 AM | 10

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MDJ better off keeping columnist Foley
DEAR EDITOR: All you conservatives out there keep writing in, hatin’ on MDJ columnist Kevin Foley. Don’t you realize you’re biting yourselves in the wazoo when you do that? Even a good, right-thin...

May 08, 2013 12:37 AM | 11

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Sequester, other cuts hurt ’Hooch Recreation Area
DEAR EDITOR: Kudos to the National Park Service for seeming to make the best out of sequestration-related budget cuts (per your article “Sequestration: National parks in Cobb looking down barrel o...

May 08, 2013 12:36 AM | 1

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Obama asked God’s blessing for killing babies
DEAR EDITOR: The AP article on President Obama’s speech at Planned Parenthood left out one very important but sick statement: Obama closed his address to the largest abortion provider in the U.S., ...

May 07, 2013 12:00 AM | 1

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School systems undervalue teachers

Foley clueless about conservatives

Loyalty to country part of Islam

How lawful should it be for all to own guns?

School board should target delinquent taxes

Common Core Curriculum a dying initiative

Cyr outstanding, but Foley drunk on ‘socialist moonshine’

U.S. created by geniuses, but now run by idiots

‘Experts’ wrong: Panthers are here

Carson, not Obama, the better example

Where’s tea party when needed in Acworth?
DEAR EDITOR: Georgia Republicans spend a great deal of time fighting federal mandates on core education, health care, immigration, etc. Yet, when the state mandates that cities such as Acworth eli...

May 21, 2013 09:50 PM | 1

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Be own patient advocate
DEAR EDITOR: The cancer-related article in Sunday’s MDJ was welcome information. I would like to go one step further and inform those who have been, or know someone diagnosed with cancer about one ...

May 20, 2013 08:16 PM | 1

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Buck doesn’t stop with Obama
DEAR EDITOR: What happened to Harry Truman’s motto “the buck stops here”? Now we have Obama claiming he didn’t know about the terrorist connection with Benghazi. Then he claims that he was not aw...

May 18, 2013 11:32 PM | 3

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Former CCSD ethics director: ‘I am the fall guy’
DEAR EDITOR: I was dismayed to read the portrayal of me in Saturday’s edition of the Marietta Daily Journal, headlined “Top school administrator may be out.” Please know that I am proud of my and m...

May 14, 2013 12:44 AM | 22

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Too bad Bush wasn’t as cautious as Obama
DEAR EDITOR: If I’m not mistaken, there is no definitive proof that Assad has used chemical weapons against the opposition. As letter-writer Bill Bruner “Obama Gone Wobbly” stated in last week’s M...

May 08, 2013 12:38 AM | 1

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Smart leaders would back background checks
DEAR EDITOR: After the school shootings at Sandy Hook many Americans were disturbed about the violence. I was profoundly moved by an interview of one of the parents. The parent expressed dismay tha...

May 07, 2013 12:00 AM | 3

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Obama ‘gone wobbly’
DEAR EDITOR: I thought the president established a red line as a warning to Mr. Assad; that if Assad used chemical warfare, i.e. poison gas, against the rebels in Syria, that would result in dire ...

May 01, 2013 12:13 AM | 3

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Isakson, Chambliss bowed to NRA lobby
DEAR EDITOR: I thought it was the duty of our elected officials to represent the wishes of the majority of their constituents. Obviously that’s not the case with Georgia’s U.S. Senators Johnny Isa...

April 23, 2013 12:00 AM | 12

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Bombing symptom of society’s loss of hope
DEAR EDITOR: What’s most tragic about the never-ending horrific things happening today is that our politicians, our news media, our intelligentsia and the population at large take such care to avo...

April 18, 2013 09:46 PM | 2

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Hold weapons sellers accountable
DEAR EDITOR: Re: Reuel Hamilton’s letter to the editor of April 7 on the Columbine and Virginia Tech school shootings Hamilton’s letter reveals problems in the legal system that could possibly pr...

April 16, 2013 10:04 PM | 3

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Cobb schools turn ‘reporting’ law into fiasco

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Everhart’s comments ‘an abuse of pulpit’

‘Lost soul’ offended by Foley column

Strand ‘unfriended’

Fein right on Obama

County should subsidize Lyric Theatre, too

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