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Stop trying to save the planet
Contrary to the sign at the grocery store, it’s pretty safe to say you will not be able to save the Earth by purchasing a reusable bag. Do an experiment: buy a canvas bag and see if the issue is t...
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Throwing more money at Haiti
Dozens of governments and aid groups are scheduled to meet at the United Nations later this month to pledge millions, perhaps billions, in assistance to Haiti. My advice to many of those donors: S...
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Were the Founding Fathers Media Socialists?
The Federal Communications Commission’s Chief Diversity Officer, Mark Lloyd, wants government to socialize the media. In his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce, Lloyd calls for a far-reaching governmen...
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CCH's departure doesn't mean Rome's sky is falling
BYE BYE to CCH Small Firm Services and good luck to the company, and those of the 372 Rome employees who stick with it, as it moves to a new headquarters in Cobb County. However, the story h...
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Ballet doesn’t make me less of a man
I have a confession to make, and I won’t be able to sleep until I get it off of my chest. So here it is. I went to the ballet the other night. There, I feel better already. A weight has been lifte...
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Sounds of wind and rain once defined one’s home
It used to be said that a person’s ultimate dream was to live in a brick house. If that be so, my dream has come true, for I now live in a brick house. Why then why do I yearn for the houses that ...
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Release Russian oil tycoon
WASHINGTON — President Barak Obama has his hands full these days dealing with Russia. However, high on his agenda should be the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Moscow’s most famous prisoner. S...
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UC Irvine’s free speech debate
College campuses, especially at public universities, are places where all ideas should be expressed and debated. No speech ever should be stopped or punished because of the viewpoint expressed. Of...
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Rome Symphony wows again
by Bradford C. Gooch
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Another dynamic duo nattily dressed in black invaded the City Auditorium on the night of Feb. 27, and conquered Rome. This was a special program not just because soloists Timothy Schwarz, violin an...
10 reforms to cover pre-existing conditions
by John C. Goodman
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Most current proposals for dealing with the problems of preexisting conditions would completely divorce health insurance premiums from expected health care costs. Yet a policy of trying to force he...
Georgia Guardsmen home after service in Afghanistan
by Gen. William T. Nesbitt
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After a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, it’s time to welcome back the Georgia National Guard’s 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT). Their mission has been to organize, train and prepare A...
Theater of the Electorate
by Kathleen Parker
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WASHINGTON — For all our bemoaning the tortures of health-care reform, the debate has been healthy for the nation. Everybody’s crazy aunts and uncles have been let out of their respective attics a...
Stop Atlanta’s water grab
by Joe Cook
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From Clayton to Donalsonville, St. Mary’s to Tunnel Hill, voters frustrated over recent proposals to pipe water from across the state to Metro Atlanta are calling on legislators to take action to p...
Love of baseball stretches from Big Apple childhood
by Pierre-René Noth
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FOOTBALL’S GONE for a while, baseball’s fast approaching and the idle time between is being occupied by basketball, invented to plug the gap so sports writers and broadcasters could not be put on f...
Snow brings out Southern craziness
by Bernice Couey Bishop
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There is just something mysterious about snow. Each snowflake is different from all of the rest however together they can cover mountains, spread a pristine white mantle over valleys and create bea...
Shortchanging our students
by Ed Feulner
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Even in the depths of the Great Depression, with the economy bottomed out, Americans showed they could still think big. In just over a year, construction crews built a landmark that still stands pr...
ON THE INTERNET, friends can communicate across continents via live video hook-ups for free. Companies can exchange 100-page documents in nanoseconds. Meanwhile, at the U.S. Postal Service, 600,000 employees spend their days stamping and sorting large pieces of paper and carrying them by plane, train and truck to every home and office from Guam to Georgetown -- as federal law requires. This quaint business model was bound to be stressed by recession, and it has been. Mail volume fell from an all-time high of 213 billion pieces in 2006 to 177 billion in 2009, with more declines to come. The Postal Service is on course to lose more than $7 billion this year, despite substantial recent cost-cutting, and it could lose more than $238 billion by 2020. Approaching the limits of its federal credit line, the USPS must change drastically or go bust.
Tue Mar 09 23:00:00 -0600 2010
DON'T BE FOOLED by the excuses offered by Senate Democratic leaders about why no vote has been scheduled to reauthorize the District's federally funded private school voucher program. The truth is that opponents know how bad it would look to vote against a program that has helped low-income, minority children get a better education. So instead they take no action and hope the program dies a slow, quiet death. Those championing vouchers are right to call out Senate leaders for their cowardly refusal to -- at the very least -- allow a fair hearing for this successful program.
Tue Mar 09 23:00:00 -0600 2010
IN A MARCH 4 missive to state colleges and universities, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) argued that the schools had overstepped their legal bounds by enacting nondiscrimination policies that include protections for sexual orientation. Under Mr. Cuccinelli's reading of the law, the schools must refrain from offering more protections than the law requires unless the Virginia General Assembly explicitly authorizes them. The attorney general admonished the schools to "take appropriate actions to bring their policies in conformance with the law and public policy of Virginia." Translation: Discrimination is alive, well and now encouraged in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Tue Mar 09 23:00:00 -0600 2010
THEY ARE common stories by now: The court-appointed defense lawyer who falls asleep during a client's murder trial. The beleaguered big-city public defender who barely has a chance to scan a client's file as she rushes from courtroom to courtroom, laboring under a crushing caseload.
Mon Mar 08 23:00:00 -0600 2010