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Homeland Security: Do citizens benefit?

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Monday, May 14. 2012

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By Robert Heiney

The DHS, an Orwellian sounding agency that literally smothers you with surveillance, gun toting guards, naked scanners at airports and other 1984 type controls, is looking to purchase up to 450,000,000 hollow point bullets. [Full Story »]

Thoroughbred racing's small world

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Thursday, May 10. 2012

I love to watch the horses run.

There is just something special about any horse race. Standing on the rail watching these magnificent beasts thunder down the track is a thrill that cannot be duplicated. [Full Story »]

Who are they protecting?

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Tuesday, May 1. 2012

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Some years ago, we took a family vacation trip to Boston. Our girls, ages eight and four, had a blast and so did we. Thanks to Laura, I got to mark a trip to Fenway Park off my bucket list. [Full Story »]

I will always remember the videotape

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Monday, April 30. 2012

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I will always remember the videotape.

The were horrors galore but the videotape is permanently etched into my mind’s eye. [Full Story »]

Obama targets farm kids

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Thursday, April 26. 2012

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By Robert Heiney

If you're like most Americans, your time is occupied trying to pay your bills, bring up your children, and if you have any time left over, volunteer in your community. It's stressful and exhausting. Average Americans have little time for politics or watching their elected thugs in government. The royalty occupying their splendid digs in Washington DC however, spend their time and your tax dollars thinking of new ways to meddle in your personal affairs. [Full Story »]

America's greatest natural resource

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Tuesday, April 24. 2012

By Dr. Spencer Price

Some say coal. Others say natural gas. A few say iron ore. Many say the land itself. Years ago, most everyone said oil. Good choices all. However, when it comes to natural resources, I say that which America is most blessed is the American mind.
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BBQ & Blues offers up fun!

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Monday, April 23. 2012

It is nearly time for one of my favorite annual events - the Barnesville BBQ & Blues Festival. [Full Story »]

Eunice Graham says goodbye

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Saturday, April 21. 2012

By Eunice Graham

I came to Georgia following a dream. What I received from Georgia was far more than a dream, it was a new life. I arrived late 1992 and in early 1993 began working with the Soil Conservation Service as a county technician. Immediately Georgia set about to educate this transplant. Our agency had a young college intern who promptly informed me, “Now, Eunice, if you are ever going to expect us to understand you, you’ll have to speak like a Georgian.” [Full Story »]

Spare the rod, spoil a nation

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Tuesday, April 17. 2012

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By Dr. Spencer Price

“Out of control” – that’s how some describe today’s youth in America. Of course, obviously, this phrase doesn’t apply to all of America’s young people as many are well-behaved, well-disciplined, and well-adjusted. Regrettably, however, a significant portion of America’s youth are, in fact, out of control and our nation is suffering as a result.
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Yesterday's Footsteps: Titanic problem

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Monday, April 16. 2012

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By Greg Parrott

I’ve always been intrigued by the great passenger ship, Titanic. The White Star Liner Titanic, the largest ship the world had ever known, sailed from Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage to New York City on Wednesday, April 10, 1912. She was built with double bottoms and her hull was divided into 16 watertight compartments. She was thought to be unsinkable. The liner carried more than 2,200 passengers, with 700 on the ships registry who were immigrants coming to America in pursuit of the land of milk and honey. [Full Story »]

Poll: Open juvenile records, proceedings

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Monday, April 16. 2012

There is strong sentiment that, in light of our recent crime spree, juvenile court records and proceedings should be open to the public.
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We just don't read the signs

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Monday, April 16. 2012

By Walter Geiger

In Columbus, Georgia - as everywhere else in this country - textiles are dead.

The American textile industry now consists almost solely of distribution centers where goods made overseas are sorted and shipped. Textile mill payrolls, which once stabilized countless local American economies, now stabilize economies elsewhere.
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Trayvon Martin, media dishonesty and race hustlers

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Wednesday, April 11. 2012

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By Walter Williams
Creator's Syndicate

When NBC's "Today" show played the audio of George Zimmerman's call to a Sanford, Fla., police dispatcher about Trayvon Martin, the editors made him appear to be a racist who says: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." [Full Story »]

Vast majority feel more public housing means more crime

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Monday, April 9. 2012

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The vast majority of respondents in a unscientific opinion poll conducted by The Herald-Gazette and its sister publication, The Journal-Reporter in Zebulon, feel the spread of public and Section 8 housing means a direct increase in crime. [Full Story »]

A win for Obama is a loss for seniors

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Tuesday, April 3. 2012

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As justices of the US Supreme Court consider the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to derogatorily as “Obamacare,” the fate of millions of America’s senior citizens hangs in the balance. If Obama loses and the law is thrown out, these seniors can breathe a sigh of relief. However, if Obama wins and the law stands, the fate of many of these seniors will be sealed as the Independent Payment Advisory Boards or “death panels” will soon begin deciding which seniors do qualify for life-saving procedures and/or medications and which seniors do not. [Full Story »]