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The Marietta Daily Journal

Today's Democrats could learn a lot from one of their icons, if they'd just pay attention.

Declared President John F. Kennedy in 1962, "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now ... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."
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The Augusta Chronicle

Ultraliberal filmmaker Michael Moore is so intellectually bankrupt that he hardly warrants the credit of a return argument. But sometimes his blather is so disgusting and offensive, you can't resist. [Full story »] 

By Conrad Fink
Athens Banner-Herald

He vanished from the stage as quickly as he arrived. But what wreckage he left behind. [Full story »] 

The Augusta Chronicle

Jimmy Carter's utterly stunning conceit -- saying he's "superior" to other ex-presidents for his humanitarian efforts -- isn't the most telling of his recent remarks.

They'll get the most attention, of course, for their unbridled arrogance and scented air of superiority. [Full story »] 

Gov. Sonny Perdue will be in Barnesville October 2 for a prayer breakfast. No local issue deserves more prayerful consideration than the Donna Ogletree Johnson murder case.

Donna's sister Becky Peterman has written Perdue directly to no avail. Thus far she has also been ignored by Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Sen. Ronnie Chance and state representatives Jim Cole, Billy Maddox, David Knight and Tony Sellier.

Sen. Johnny Isakson took time out to send a form letter. Congressman Lynn Westmoreland is the only elected official at any level to have taken any action whatsoever or even respond to correspondence. [Full story »] 

The pictures are hard to look at.

In my 32 years as a newspaperman, I have seen tragedies up close and personal. [Full story »] 

From the American Family Association...

While millions of Americans struggle to keep their homes and jobs, President Barack Obama can't give your tax dollars away fast enough.

August 26, 2010

According to the Associated Press, the Obama administration will give away nearly $6 million of American tax dollars to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including Islamic mosques and minarets, in 55 nations. [Full story »] 

Imagine, if you can stomach it, the final torturous hours of Donna Ogletree Johnson.

Those hours of brutality were much longer than we were all originally led to believe.
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