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On the path to good citizenship
"My job is to make the country work, and help it to come together." I don't remember the name of the young woman who said that, but I certainly remember the circumstances. It was at a high school in the southern Indiana congressional district I once represented. As a member of Congress, you get asked regularly to speak at high schools, and I always tried to comply. I also tried to meet with small groups ...
Running for a bad job
By this time next year, the United States will have elected a new president, and Georgia will probably have the same two senators.
JFK"s assassination changed liberalism
From a distance of nearly 50 years, the liberalism of 1960 is hardly recognizable. It was comfortable with the use of American power abroad, unabashedly patriotic and forward-looking. But that was before The Fall.
Woodstock was a life saver
John McCain scored a standing ovation at the last Republican presidential debate when he attacked Sen. Hillary Clinton for proposing - unsuccessfully - to spend a million taxpayer dollars on a museum commemorating the 1969 Woodstock festival.
Bush blunder prolongs Castros tyranny
Not the least of the Bush administration's foreign-policy fiascos is its inability to influence change in Cuba in a period when Cubans are pleading for change.
'Why don't you people understand'
By now you have probably figured out the mussels in Apalachicola Bay are really red herrings. Georgia officials raising Cain about federal agencies releasing "our" water to nourish Florida's shellfish is no more than a diversion. The fuss is designed to make us believe the Gold Dome crowd is truly doing something to save and protect our water resources. As usual, they are lying, and the big Atlanta media have bought their lies. If we ...
Drowning in Georgia's water woes
"It is remarkable how many political 'solutions' today are dealing with problems created by previous political 'solutions'," conservative commentator Thomas Sowell wrote recently on the fires in Southern California. Sowell could have been talking about Anyplace, USA, but his point certainly is especially poignant when it comes to Georgia's ongoing water challenges.
Establish a national valor database
After watching the film "Saving Private Ryan," that showed scenes of the U.S. cemetery in Normandy, France, Monty McDaniel became curious about the grave of his uncle, who is buried there.
A learning paradise
Since its 1956 opening as an affiliated school to Hangzhou University in China, Xuejun High School has evolved into an award-winning provincial model school in the city of Hangzhou, one of China's most important tourist venues about 120 miles southwest of Shanghai.
FBI"s right to threaten torture defended
A federal appeals court has concludedan FBI agent must go to trial on charges he coerced a false confession out of a prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks. But the FBI still insists its agent did nothing wrong. And the feds swayed the court to suppress that portion of a recent decision detailing how the FBI agent used the threat of torture to break an innocent man.
Democrats children's crusade
Democrats are altogether too modest in the claims they make for the SCHIP children's health-insurance program. They talk only about what it does to cover needy families with uninsured kids, but never about all the wondrous things it can do for middle-class families with their own private insurance.
More than one dummy
Some people in upscale Madison, N.J., were screaming so loudly they couldn't hear their neighbors. Worse, they couldn't even hear themselves.
A tale of two scandals
Like so many national stories these days, the deepening scandal surrounding the Bush administration's unforgivable politicization of the U.S. Department of Justice seems to pass Georgia right by.
Debate is good for our system
We certainly have a quarrelsome Congress. In recent weeks its members have been arguing about funding children's health insurance, whether to assert that the Turks committed World War I-era genocide against the Armenians, and what sort of energy policy should guide the nation.
Parents must be involved with children
It happened again at a school in Cleveland. And a repeat of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting was just prevented in Philadelphia. Horrible, insane, what is this world coming to? But overlooked in the media stories were why this is happening and who is responsible.
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It's Win-dex Awards time again
Creating an attractive Liberty County is good for all of us who live here.
Jekyll ploy jeopardizes marshes
Georgia's citizens have been kept in the dark regarding two troubling occurrences related to the ongoing update of the Jekyll Island State Park Master Plan:
Public eying more government surveillance
What was thought by many, especially on the left, to be domestic overreach by the George W. Bush administration in the name of national security now appears to be standard practice under the Obama administration.
Diary details Lincoln assassination
Charlie Tinker, according to his diary, was feeling poorly on the morning of April 15, 1865. He had left the office April 12 and gone home to bed. A doctor visited and said he must stay in bed since he had an intermittent fever.
Sticking up for what is right
I'm a bit old-fashioned when it comes to values. Now, mind you, I'm not talking about politics here; I try to steer clear of hot-button issues when it comes to this column. However, I could see how the two could become easily confused or even intertwined.
IRS scandal should be rallying cry for tax reform
The more we learn about the Internal Revenue Service targeting groups based on their ideologies, the more chilling the case becomes.
Tough to be proud of changing nation
Recently, I have been thinking quite a bit about my late father, John Riddle.
No one can question the wisdom of ‘Answer Man’
Well, boys and girls, I see by the old clock on the wall that it is June already. We know what that means. It is time for Answer Man to dig into the question box and see what is on your hearts and minds and assorted body parts.
Community newspapers tell our story
Most community newspapers are small, although there are two or three larger ones that contain pictures of my show calves and me. All of them are slightly yellowed and somewhat worn by the weight of many years.
Waiting for atheists to create sunset or duck-billed platypus
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