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Opinion — Voters pull plug on Plunkett

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:53:30 -0500

Can you spell r-e-p-u-d-i-a-t-i-o-n?

That’s the resounding verdict of the voters of Peachtree City to the two incumbent City Council members running for another four-year term.

“Always faithful” for 234 years

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:16:14 -0500

Some would say that it not surprising that the United States Marine Corps was born in a bar — a tavern, actually. On Nov. 10, 1775, the Continental Congress formed the Continental Marines. Captain Samuel Nicholas was commissioned as the first officer in the Corps on Nov. 28, 1775, and set up the first recruiting post in a tavern.

Can Washington make you buy health insurance?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:06:45 -0500

Yes, yes, says White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Congress has the power to make everyone buy health insurance. “I don’t believe there’s a lot of case law that would demonstrate the veracity” of comments to the contrary.

When I was ...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:05:34 -0500

When I was small, my best friend suddenly stopped coming around to play. Mom said, “He’s moved on to a better place.”

The ‘costs’ of medical care

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:04:33 -0500

We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is “too high” — either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to lower those costs, and much that is being proposed is almost certain to increase the costs.

Economic myths and irrelevancy

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:03:01 -0500

Steve H. Hanke is a professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes frequently for Globe Asia and Forbes magazine. Professor Hanke starts off his “Hu versus Sarkozy” article (Globe Asia, November 2009) with a warning.

Coping with Energy and Autism

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:18:10 -0500

His apparent inability to control himself and to communicate clearly has earned grandson Samuel, 6, the title of “high functioning autism” or “Spectrum Kid.” He’s so incredibly smart, a happy little boy, but he is going to have to learn how to cope with life on its own terms. Not to mention the determination of his mother, our daughter Jean. Join their journey:

Eat well, support troops at Mimi’s in PTC

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:21:19 -0500

“Morning, Vern!” is heard over and over at Mimi’s Restaurant on Ga. Highway 54 in Peachtree City, as regulars roll in one at a time with the day just starting and chat with Suzy, Stephanie, Mimi and Vern when he takes a moment to turn away from the grill. But something more important than eggs and burgers is being cooked up at Mimi’s in November.

Can 10th Amendment save us?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:20:38 -0500

Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?

Guidelines for rookie local elected officials

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:19:58 -0500

This could be useful for newly elected politicians and students of political science as they will not learn this in class.

Finding my people in Beverly Hills

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:19:04 -0500

There’s nothing like a trip to Hollywood to remind you of the fantasies that grow there as rapidly as kudzu grows in Southern summers. There, I often find people who are not exactly my people.

Ask Father Paul 110409

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:22:59 -0500

Answers to your questions about life, religion and the Bible

Pastors get some of the most interesting questions from people they meet and people in their congregations. Here are questions that I’ve gotten over the years and for this column.

OPINION — PTC candidates: Look at their records

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:16:42 -0400

I eyeballed the whole slate of Peachtree City Council candidates at the recent forum at McIntosh High School and came away impressed with the strength and substance of the field.

Remembering the saints

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:38:06 -0400

In some parts of the Church world, the “saints” are those men and women whose lives are so exemplary and in whom such love and grace was manifest that, after their death, they were declared to be “saints,” worthy of veneration and imitation.

Obama taxes pacemakers, heart valves

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:37:26 -0400

The more fiscal details of the healthcare bills emerge, the more appalling they seem. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a broad provision taxing all manner of medical devices.