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Free speech is like oxygen

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Friday, July 30. 2010

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By Dink Nesmith

People ask, "What's your description of a good newspaper?" I believe a good newspaper is a smorgasbord of information - something for everyone. A good newspaper also is a community talking to itself. [Full Story »]

No doc for Mama

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Wednesday, July 28. 2010

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By Matt Towery
Marietta Daily Journal

Lately, even the most elite in media have started to report some of the intended and unintended consequences of the rushed and ill-conceived federal health care bill passed earlier this year by the Barack Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress.
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'Slow down' is message in Sherrod case

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Tuesday, July 27. 2010

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The Athens Banner-Herald

Until early last week, Shirley Sherrod was a little-known public service executive, serving as head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Athens-based Rural Development Office. [Full Story »]

If you are poor, it's likely your fault

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Monday, July 26. 2010

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By Walter Williams, syndicated columnist

If you're a poor adult in America, for the most part, it's all your fault. That's true, at least today, whether you're black, white, brown or polka dot.

According to the definition the U.S. Bureau of Census uses, a family of four with an income over $18,244 is not poor. The poverty cutoff for a single-person household is $9,359, and that for a two-person household is $12,000. With those definitions, the poverty rate was 11.7 percent, or about 33 million Americans living in poverty in 2001. [Full Story »]

Getting that check started

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Walter Geiger

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Tuesday, July 20. 2010

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I saw a group of pretty young girls last week.

Just released from the confines of high school for the summer, they were sashaying down the street in short shorts and tank tops.

They reminded me of my friend. [Full Story »]

Immigration: The Regents still don't get it

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Monday, July 19. 2010

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Marietta Daily Journal

Georgia University System Chancellor Erroll Davis and the state Board of Regents still don't get it. And we're starting to wonder if they ever will.

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Lamenting an 'untimely' death

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Friday, July 16. 2010

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The Augusta Chronicle

In case your Liberal-to-English Dictionary is too worn to make out the words, we'll translate the latest liberal-speak from the Associated Press.

An AP story upon the death of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner this week actually bemoaned the fact that he died in a year in which there is no federal "death tax" on large estates. [Full Story »]

Pure, racist slander

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Walter Geiger

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Thursday, July 15. 2010

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The Augusta Chronicle

New Black Panther Party members have been caught trying to intimidate whites at polling places and even calling for the extermination of whites.

Mr. Obama this week said al-Qaida is essentially racist against Africa (agreed, but what about its racism against the rest of us, Mr. President?) [Full Story »]

Automatic for the People

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Tuesday, July 13. 2010

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Jeffrey B. Wenger/New York Times

One of the saddest lessons of this recession is that the United States has no adequate response for rising long-term unemployment. Contrast this with our policy for combating inflation: the Federal Reserve can always reduce the money supply, no Congressional approval required. There isn’t a comparable mechanism to create jobs or to protect the long unemployed, no contingency plan that kicks in whenever job losses continue to mount. [Full Story »]

A fast friendship

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Saturday, July 10. 2010

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A box of Vidalia onions arrived at the office the other day – a gift from old friends. I smelled their distinct aroma and knew before I saw it that the annual treasure from Alston, Ga. had arrived.

The smell took me back 40 years to spring football practice and a memory of an unlikely friendship formed. [Full Story »]

An ill-fitting suit

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Friday, July 9. 2010

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The Augusta Chronicle

The Obama administration has wailed for weeks and weeks now about how the Arizona illegal immigration law will lead to racist arrests and mass civil rights violations. [Full Story »]

Immigration: Feds can't solve the problem

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Wednesday, July 7. 2010

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The Brunswick News

Members of Congress and other so-called political gurus are to be congratulated. Once again, by using spark-igniting words like "ultra-liberal" and "extreme conservatism," they have managed to move the public spotlight off themselves, off their own inability to lead the nation, and onto an issue for which they are wholly and personally responsible. [Full Story »]

Be afraid - very afraid - of T-SPLOST

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Monday, July 5. 2010

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By Walter Geiger

Citizens of Lamar and Pike counties should be vigilant in the coming months as projects are prioritized for transportation SPLOST initiatives to be placed on the ballot in 2012. [Full Story »]

Gun rights dodge a bullet

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Friday, July 2. 2010

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The Augusta Chronicle

It hasn't been very often in recent decades that Americans could truly say we are a little freer today than we were yesterday. The trend, sadly, has been in the opposite direction. [Full Story »]

'Education candidates' spout utter falsehoods

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Wednesday, June 30. 2010

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By Larry Fennelly
The Macon Telegraph

Georgia’s current struggle to improve the quality of the state’s educational system is nothing new. Back in the 1960s the state’s political leadership realized that increasing the educational levels of the citizenry would be essential if Georgia were to prosper in the modern world. The number of public colleges was expanded so that most of the populace would have at least a two-year college within commuting distance. [Full Story »]