2006 Columns

Here is a message especially for you from Brig. Gen. Stewart Rodeheaver, commanding general of Georgia’s 48th Brigade Combat Team in Iraq: “Hello from Baghdad, Iraq. Dick Yarbrough was kind enough to ask you to write the soldiers of the 48th Brigade. You responded with true Southern style and caring. We received hundreds of cards, letters, signs, banners, hand-painted pictures … [Read more...] about Feb. 6, 2006: A “Thank You” To Readers From Georgia General Rodeheaver

Why would anybody want to run for Congress? Most Americans view the institution with about as much regard as they do mule skinners and telephone marketers. You spend every waking hour raising money, making nice to cranky voters, running from meeting to meeting, getting your arm twisted by more special-interest groups than you can count and taking gratuitous potshots from … [Read more...] about Jan. 30, 2006: Freshman Republican Gives Behind-The-Scenes Look at Congress

As I’ve said before, one of the finest resources available to learn about the Great State of Georgia is the New Georgia Encyclopedia, a project of the Georgia Humanities Council, the Office of the Governor, the University of Georgia Press and the University System of Georgia. You can find all kinds of information at www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. I doubt other states have … [Read more...] about Jan. 23, 2006: Georgia Encyclopedia Reveals A Lot About Our Great State

If nobody else is going to mention it, then I will: How can Ted Kennedy lecture Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito about issues of morality? Kennedy got his jumbo-sized boxer shorts in a wad over the fact that Alito once belonged to a club at Princeton University that lobbied to keep the school all-male. This from a man who drove Mary Jo Kopechne off the Chappaquiddick Bridge, … [Read more...] about Jan. 16, 2006: Random Thoughts on (Mostly Political) Random Subjects

Teddy Lee just got fired as executive secretary of the State Ethics Commission. It is your loss — and a big one. He was sacked by a bunch of politicians who couldn’t bend him, fold him or intimidate him from representing your interests above theirs. It is not an overstatement to say that many in political power in the state, whether Democrats or Republicans, view the State … [Read more...] about Jan. 8, 2006: Georgians Have Lost Their Best Friend in State Government