IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD, HOW WOULD I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE? I heard that former Clinton White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers was coming to Atlanta to keynote a conference with an eye-glazing title: “Possible Woman Conference: Power, Promise and Possibilities,” to take place April 21 at the Georgia World Congress Center. The proposed subject of her talk intrigued me: “Why … [Read more...] about Apr. 6, 2009: If Women Ruled The World, How Would I Know The Difference?
Columns
Mar. 30, 2009: Could My Three Favorite Subjects Be Plotting Against Me?
COULD MY THREE FAVORITE SUBJECTS BE PLOTTING AGAINST ME? We are four months into the new year, and I have heard nary a public peep from President-for-Life Jimmy Carter, our Ambassador to Outer Space Cynthia McKinney or noted land baron Ted “Buffalo Boy” Turner. Churning out breathtaking prose week after week is hard enough without having this crowd go mute on me. Their loose … [Read more...] about Mar. 30, 2009: Could My Three Favorite Subjects Be Plotting Against Me?
Mar. 23, 2009: Let’s Furlough Legislators And Bureaucrats And Make Them Collect Back Taxes
LET’S FURLOUGH LEGISLATORS AND BUREAUCRATS AND MAKE THEM COLLECT BACK TAXES I have a way to cut the state’s $2 billion deficit significantly while keeping members of the General Assembly, the state’s constitutional officers and assorted bureaucrats busy doing something meaningful for a change. Impossible, you say? Hear me out. I must confess I was inspired by the … [Read more...] about Mar. 23, 2009: Let’s Furlough Legislators And Bureaucrats And Make Them Collect Back Taxes
Mar. 16, 2009: Ballot Box Most Effective Way To Deal With Legislative Tax Evaders
BALLOT BOX MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO DEAL WITH LEGISLATIVE TAX EVADERS I think I have just figured out a way to get the 22 legislative tax evaders out of the General Assembly and onto the streets where they might have to find real work and quit swilling from the public trough. Don’t re-elect the miscreants. It worked like a charm two years ago. Remember Jeanette Jamison, … [Read more...] about Mar. 16, 2009: Ballot Box Most Effective Way To Deal With Legislative Tax Evaders
Mar. 9, 2009: Some Legislators Want To Spend Tax Dollars, Not Pay Them
SOME LEGISLATORS WANT TO SPEND TAX DOLLARS, NOT PAY THEM Let me say unequivocally that Rep. Al Williams, D-Midway, and I are on the same page regarding the fact that the Georgia Department of Revenue says Williams and about 10 percent of his colleagues in the Georgia General Assembly are delinquent in paying their taxes. Williams, who reportedly owes the state $42,672 in back … [Read more...] about Mar. 9, 2009: Some Legislators Want To Spend Tax Dollars, Not Pay Them