While voting allows citizens to take part in the political process, it rarely gets them what they want out of government. For that, one needs to hold office themselves or hire lobbyists to try an...
Will actions match presidential tough-talk? Apparently, in rare instances no doubt, liberals can actually perceive reality. Speaking of the exploding national debt, Obama said that it “keeps me awake at night, looking at all that red ink.”...
Smaller dreams I once heard it said that today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact. But after the Obama administration announced that it has directed NASA to focus its considerable scientific resourc...
Licking the hand that feeds us Somewhere along the way we forgot that without brains connected to it, the heart does more harm than good. We forgot that human beings have a certain nature, and, without the natural rewards and ...
Healthcare in the liberal/socialist big picture According to Rasmussen Reports, only 34 percent of voters believe passing the healthcare bill currently before Congress is better than passing nothing at all. Only 25 percent overall actually bel...
What to give the children There were three of us children, and my parents raised us with intention. They bought a set of encyclopedias while my big brother was still in diapers and dutifully put the yearbook stickers in pl...
Living the victory life
Many misunderstand the biblical teaching on victory. Victorious living is not trouble-free living. Numerious believers have the idea that victorious living means you have at-tained a level in God t...
Parenting Parents
Okay now. I need you to stay with me on this so we can get where we’re going without anyone over-reacting. There is a point to all this but it begins with a bizarre incident. The incident took pl...
Muhammad Ali was identified by his self-evaluation, “I am the greatest.” Tony the tiger declares it of his frosted flakes as, “They're great,” and we sing, “How great thou art.” We use the word “gr...
The answer to upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 is no and yes. You can upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 just using the Windows 7 DVD and a license key/CD key. Microsoft's answer to upgradin...
Eating healthy is an issue that is important year-round but during the holidays, which are traditionally a time of excess, even more attention should be paid to a balanced diet. Alan Hutchins, owne...
The 40 th annual Calhoun Bull Evaluation Sale will be Friday, Dec. 11, at 12:30 p.m. at the Northwest Georgia Branch Experiment Station Livestock Pavilion in Calhoun. Approximately 75 performan...
Consider comparables. What have other homes in your neighborhood sold for recently? How do they compare to yours in terms of size, upkeep and amenities? Your realtor can provide this information to...
The Postal Service expects to process more than 30 million pounds of mail destined for overseas military installations during November and December, including war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fo...
I want to begin by asking for your indulgence. Today I need to write something for myself. Yes, I know it’s usually always about me as I try to take something that has happened to me (as well as mo...
I suppose one of the key words that describes our society is the word anxiety. Anxiety comes with a mixture of news headlines, rising prices and inflation. It comes with the frightening esclation o...
PRESIDENT OBAMA wants to double U.S. exports between now and 2015, and it's a worthy goal. It won't be easy: Exports fell from $1.8 trillion in 2008 to $1.5 trillion in 2009, due to the global recession. But, as the president suggested in a speech Thursday, a big boost in sales of U.S. goods and services abroad would support 2 million American jobs. And some of his ideas could help that happen: an additional $2 billion in Export-Import Bank credit; streamlining the review process for sensitive technology exports; high-level support from the President's Export Council.
IF ALL GOES according to plan, Democrats in Congress will attempt to pass two major, long-sought reforms at once in the coming weeks -- of health care and student loans -- using the controversial reconciliation maneuver in the Senate. Some have characterized the move to add education to the health bill as a sneaky attempt to ram through one more "government takeover." That's unfair.
LAST SUMMER it was reported that Montgomery County public safety officers -- more than 200 police officers, sheriff's deputies and others -- had taken taxpayer-funded courses that, upon scrutiny, looked very fishy. These courses, ostensibly offering firearms training, were in fact scams that traded hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers' money for cut-rate weapons for the officers to use recreationally or resell as they saw fit.