The jury verdict in the recent trial of H. Rap Brown, aka Jamil Al Amin, should serve as an important reminder to us all. Although “civil rights activists” like Jesse Jackson want you to think otherwise, blacks have minds of their own and can dispense appropriate justice, too. To bring you up to speed, Al Amin was accused of having shot two Fulton County deputies two years … [Read more...] about Mar. 11, 2002: Al-Amin jury acquitted itself well with verdict
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Mar. 4, 2002: Has it been just six months since our world was turned upside down?
Was it only this past September when a bunch of madmen – not brave men, madmen – destroyed so many innocent people and forever changed the lives of the rest of us? I kept asking myself those questions last week as I listened to the students and faculty at my grandsons’ school present a stirring tribute to America. The assembled experienced soaring highs as we heard patriotic … [Read more...] about Mar. 4, 2002: Has it been just six months since our world was turned upside down?
Feb. 25, 2002: Don’t stop at the DMV, governor, your money-back plan is needed elsewhere
If Roy Barnes were a truck, he would be a horn-blowing, tailgating, 90-mile-an-hour eighteen-wheeler. No question, the man is on a roll. Our Governor has been going hard since he was elected four years ago. Before he had located the keys to the executive washroom, he was reforming public education in Georgia. I didn’t have the heart to tell him he was about the fiftieth … [Read more...] about Feb. 25, 2002: Don’t stop at the DMV, governor, your money-back plan is needed elsewhere
Feb. 18, 2002: Even Ted Turner’s annoying, babbling words deserve to be protected.
Well, if I can do it, I guess Ted Turner can, too. A week after I induced mass hyperventilation with my tongue-in-cheek spoof of television personality Rosie O'Donnell's upcoming announcement that she is gay, Ted Turner's comments at a Brown University forum made me hyperventilate a bit myself. In case you missed it, Turner called the Arab terrorists ''brave'' for flying … [Read more...] about Feb. 18, 2002: Even Ted Turner’s annoying, babbling words deserve to be protected.
Feb. 11, 2002: How in the world was Tony Cole ever accepted to the University of Georgia?
To refresh your memory, Cole is one of three UGA athletes being investigated for having raped a female student or having had consensual sex with her or some combination of both, depending on whose story you believe. Call me naïve but I was hoping someone would say that Cole was attracted to Athens by the new School of Public and International Affairs and decided to get a head … [Read more...] about Feb. 11, 2002: How in the world was Tony Cole ever accepted to the University of Georgia?