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Rock ’n roll deity doesn’t disappoint
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Last Updated: 12:17 AM 03/14/10 - Eric Clapton is still god. The words of the graffiti prophets from more than 40 years ago, when one of music’s greatest pure guitarists emerged from the London underground to take his instrument to never before dreamed-of heights, still rang true Tuesday night when the 65-year-old Clapton played to a packed house at The Arena at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth. Carlton Fletcher, metro editor (Full Story) |
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Justice Department hangs in the balance
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Last Updated: 12:20 AM 03/14/10 - The State budget writers received more bad news this week. The Revenue Department announced that February collections declined by almost 10%. In dollars, they decreased by $62,197,000. Solutions are hard to find. Cut services or raise revenues? Here are three examples of proposals. Michael Meyer von Bremen, guest columnist (Full Story) |
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There’s good debt and there’s bad debt
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Last Updated: 12:01 AM 03/13/10 - There is a pathetic quality to our discussion of deficits and fiscal responsibility because we never face up to how much we need government to do. Our debates are also characterized by a politically convenient amnesia. - E.J. Dionne, syndicated columnist (Full Story) |
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Applauding the rotation of power
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Last Updated: 12:01 AM 03/13/10 - As the Afghanistan War intensifies — Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops — it has come to be seen as Obama’s war. - Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist (Full Story) |
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Bittersweet Saturday one of the good ones
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Last Updated: 9:32 PM 03/09/10 - In the early-morning cool of Saturday’s perfect Southwest Georgia day, the gathering along the Flint River at Albany’s Riverfront Park is subdued. They’re waiting ... waiting for the first of some 1,500 runners in the Snickers Marathon Energy Bar Marathon and Half-Marathon to start trickling in. The thing about Saturday’s gathering, the largest in the four years of the event, is that this year he’s flying solo. His wife Sara, who was instrumental in making the Snickers Marathon a reality, had left him to the task when her long fight against non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma — a form of cancer — ended in July of last year. - Carlton Fletcher, metro editor (Full Story) |
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ABAC students join anti-cuts chorus
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Last Updated: 9:32 PM 03/09/10 - Students at Abraham Baldwin College are putting their big golden hoof down on a proposal offered by the Board of Regents seeking to slash funding at the state’s higher-learning institutions to close a steep budget gap. - J.D. Sumner, government writer (Full Story) |
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Tinkering stagnates economy
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Last Updated: 9:36 PM 03/09/10 - Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has, if you called the tail a leg? When the audience said “five,” Lincoln corrected them, saying that the answer was four. “The fact that you call a tail a leg does not make it a leg.” That same principle applies today. The fact that politicians call something a “stimulus” does not make it a stimulus. The fact that they call something a “jobs bill” does not mean there will be more jobs. - Thomas Sowell, syndicated columnist (Full Story) |
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Zealots try to re-create America in their image
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Last Updated: 11:28 PM 03/06/10 - One of the byproducts of writing this column is that I get lots of feedback from readers. One reader sent me this the other day: “Time permitting, please consider an in-depth study to determine just who are the ‘REAL AMERICANS’ that politicians continue to refer to in poll results. Is it the native Indian, the conservative, the blue dog Democrat, the Republican or the ‘solid South’ as a whole?” Perhaps it is time to have a space on the ballots to designate if one is a ‘real’ American. Should those who are not real Americans be allowed to vote? Should they be treated as aliens, illegal or otherwise?” While I admit I haven’t done a lot of research on this topic, I do have what I think is a pretty good take on who the “real Americans” are we’re hearing so much about these days. - Carlton Fletcher, metro editor (Full Story) |
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Reports of 4-H’s demise are greatly exaggerated
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Last Updated: 11:26 PM 03/06/10 - I have to admit that before the University System of Georgia Board of Regents laid the Head part of the 4-H Club on the chopping block last week, I hadn’t really thought much about the organization lately. But let me say this right off the bat — the organization is not going to be chloroformed. No how. No way. - Jim Hendricks, editor (Full Story) |
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Legislature returns to the Gold Dome
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Last Updated: 7:45 PM 03/06/10 - The General Assembly has been adjourned to work on the budget. The heavy shortfalls have been covered thoroughly in the press this past week, primarily in higher education. You owe it to yourself to be following this. It is most serious. Roads, education, law enforcement — the basics are facing drastic cuts. Cuts mean services you take for granted will be eliminated. - Michael Meyer von Bremen, Guest Columnist (Full Story) |
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