Opinions

The Albany Herald

Burning books historically has had one and only one effect, and that is to promote ignorance.

Terry Jones, a preacher in Gainesville, Fla., plans to do that on Saturday — the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — with copies of the Quran, the Islamic holy book. [Full Story »] 

Excuse me for being hot and bothered.

Someone destroyed the air conditioning unit outside our office to get $30 or $40 worth of metal to recycle in order to feed their meth habit. [Full Story »] 

By Walter Geiger

Sleep wouldn’t come so the TV clicked on.

The clicker landed on what used to be known as a ‘spaghetti western’.

A group of miners had been beaten down repeatedly and were about to give up their claims to the big mining company executive when gunfighter-turnedpreacher Clint Eastwood showed up and emboldened the miners to stay the course. [Full Story »] 

At a time when the civil and constitutional rights of Muslims are under attack throughout the United States, the Muslim American Society Freedom (MAS Freedom) affirms the statement made by President Obama affirming the right of the American Muslim community to establish houses of worship, and expand current facilities when required by our community needs.

This right of religious freedom is guaranteed by the First Amendment of United States Constitution. [Full Story »] 

By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
The Center for Security Policy

On Friday night, Barack Obama gave his full-throated endorsement to a mosque and "cultural center" on private property that has been purchased in Lower Manhattan adjacent to the site where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood. By Saturday, however, he wanted the American people to know that he was not commenting on "the wisdom" of putting such a mosque by that hallowed ground - just "the right" of its backers like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to do it, pursuant to the Constitution's protection of religious freedom. [Full Story »] 

Associated Press/Savannah Morning News

An illegal immigrant who suffered a stroke while in custody has cost a Georgia county $400,000 in medical bills. [Full Story »] 

The Augusta Chronicle

If a Republican president were demonizing the state of Arizona as the Obama administration has been, then the "mainstream" media would surely be wondering: Has the president helped create a climate of hatred, fear and anger that might endanger people? [Full Story »] 

Savannah Morning News

Republicans and Democrats in Washington must not play a risky game of chicken with the tax cuts that are set to expire on Dec. 31.

If they do, all Americans will be dead ducks. [Full Story »] 

Afghan medical mission ends in death for 10

By KATHY GANNON
The Associated Press

They hiked for more than 10 hours over rugged mountains — unarmed and without security — to bring medical care to isolated Afghan villagers until their humanitarian mission took a tragic turn.

Ten members of the Christian medical team — six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton — were gunned down in a gruesome slaughter that the Taliban said they carried out, alleging the volunteers were spying and trying to convert Muslims to Christianity. The gunmen spared an Afghan driver, who recited verses from the Islamic holy book Quran as he begged for his life. [Full Story »] 

Video from Jihad Watch. [Full Story »] 

The Savannah Morning News

Arizona, other states should continue fight for immigration enforcement.

The debacle in Arizona is a nauseating display of federal hypocrisy.

That state is arguably the front line in the cross-border war on human and drug trafficking, murder and kidnapping.

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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 »] 

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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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 »]