Juanita Hughes: School's start brings back old memories, makes new ones   08/06/2008
Where has the summer gone! True, it is still summer, but with school in session, our schedules look different.

Government needs to regulate speculation on fuel prices   08/03/2008
Unregulated and undocumented speculation controlled by a few trading arsonists is not free trade or conservatism. Bush says, "Wall Street just got drunk," but then we got stuck with the likes of Enron and a sub-prime rate debacle. Precisely because the government did no oversight on speculation and its idea of correction is bailing out banks, providing a tax rebate check, encouraging the sending of jobs overseas, and rewarding oil and gas companies with continued subsidies.

Canton City Council should just say 'no' to Canton West   08/03/2008
The Canton West project is not as good as it gets or is it Canton's best offer for development of that land. A park and a road sounds nice. But Canton would be better off without a road whose impact that we can't afford and the land left as nature intended.

Bill O'Reilly: Flying Low   08/02/2008
With less than six months left in office, George W. Bush has already been branded one of the worst presidents in history by some in the left-wing press. To them, Bush is the worst thing to happen in America since the advent of talk radio.

Dick Yarbrough: Laugh, Cry, Rant, Sputter   08/02/2008
It was 10 years ago this month that the Atlanta Business Chronicle asked me to write a column giving my view of Atlanta two years after the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. I had been the managing director of communications and government relations for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and the paper wanted to know how I thought the city had changed after hosting the world. Or had it changed at all? The offer was too good to resist.

Michelle Malkin: The 'Brangelinafication' of the Obamas   08/02/2008
You couldn't pass a grocery store line this weekend without seeing the picture-perfect smiles of the Obama family. There were Barack Obama's young daughters (whose privacy their parents so sanctimoniously claim to want to protect) flashing their pearly whites on the cover of People magazine. Malia and Sasha competed for attention right next to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's toddler daughter, Shiloh, whose cherubic face was splashed on the cover of another celebrity tabloid. Next to them beamed basket-case starlet Lindsay Lohan and her new lesbian lover - oh, and that formerly pregnant "man" who just gave birth to a baby girl.

Congress is 'Public Enemy No. 1' and we know it   08/01/2008
The United States Congress has become "Public Enemy No. 1" and the good folks of America know it. Recent opinion polls give Congress a 9-percent approval rate - 9 percent! Heck, al-Qaida itself may have a higher approval rating! The U.S. Congress has become the most anti-American, anti-prosperity, anti-business, anti-family and anti-common sense entity on this planet.

Save the Planet?   08/01/2008
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won't even allow it to come to a vote. With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor of domestic production, she wants to protect her Democratic members from having to cast an anti-drilling election-year vote. Moreover, given the public mood, she might even lose. This cannot be permitted. Why? Because as she explained to Politico: "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet."

History of America, including religion, needs to be taught   08/01/2008
The United States of America (despite what some textbooks and commentators say) was founded as a Christian nation.

Bambi's lesson: 'To each his own'   08/01/2008
She said her name was Bambi. I doubted that, but the name suited her well. Our paths crossed months ago. I was going through Montgomery, Ala. After driving for several hours without stopping, I needed to get out of the car for a while.