Gourmet Highway: A Prayer for the GulfFrom the great Gulf fishing village of Carrabelle over to places like Destin – these places have historically been popular with Atlanta travelers who came to vacation and fish. My first day in a boat on the Gulf waters was during a weekend in Carrabelle with my father...
When You Have Done The Best You CanHaving the opportunity to be of service to families is something I hold near and dear. But at the end of the day I can’t help but wonder; Have I done all that I could to help them get through such am emotional and difficult period in their lives?...
Consequences Have BenefitsAre the “new taxes, fees, and penalties” intended or unintended consequences? Ask the Democrats. They’re the ones who passed the bill, and they’re the ones looking forward to “the fog of the controversy” clearing...
History, Too?With today’s information overload, most Americans glean little bits of current events from favored sources. Each of us tends to read, listen, or view what we already agree with. “Just teaching what happened,” or reporting what happened for that matter, is complicated at best...
An Opinion on Energy and Water in GeorgiaIt is my contention that we should embark upon two fronts with the construction of very large nuclear power plants on the coast which will double as desalination plants. The technology is safe and it is already there. I know whereof I speak as I have worked directly with both the Saudi government in their desalination plants which provide significant water...
Letter to Editor: Atlanta Motorsports Park PromotionThe Park offered any person ticketed under the new "Super Speeder" law a free half day of access to the Park - if and when it is built. All they have to do is bring in their speeding ticket. While the developers may defend their promotion as a way to provide a safe environment for people who cannot control themselves on our public roadways, the reality is that it rewards criminal behavior...
Double Standards?Some hold their noses up as they profess to be race-blind, gender-blind, or fill-in-the-blank-blind. I used to think those were noble values. Now I realize those are hypocritical, self-serving, arrogant, and self-deceiving lies of extreme elitists and wannabees...
Government Acts of PiracyHealthcare (inalienable right?), confiscatory taxation, and dictated compassionate care...
2010: Punch Lines for Double-Naught PoliticsWe ended the war on terror in 2009 with new, improved respect for man-caused disasters, summarized by the head of Homeland Security and the White House saying the system worked when passengers of flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit foiled a plot by an isolated individual trying to ignite his underwear...
Whitewater Groups Sue to Stop Fish Stocking in Chattooga RiverThe Whitewater Group’s politically correct term for boating use is “nature based paddling opportunity,” which somehow or another, in their mind, places them in a morally superior category to fishermen angling for “exotic” fish. As far as I’m aware, the upper Chattooga is the only section of stream in either National Forest on which “nature based paddling opportunity” is restricted...
Washington's Snow JobHistorically, federal fiscal policies like President Obama’s have led to double-digit inflation. For those who didn’t cope with inflation during President Carter’s administration, that means you’ll see all prices (gas, groceries, Wal-Mart stuff) going up EVERY WEEK, while your paycheck remains the same...
It's Human NatureFollowing the lead of American charities and Americans’ inclinations to support charitable causes, Washington continues to install bureaucracies to facilitate the transfer of charity dollars – aka tax dollars – from those who pay taxes to those who need charity dollars – aka entitlement dollars...
Manhattan Declaration for ThanksgivingYou may have missed this extraordinary ‘declaration’ if your sole source of information and news is the ever effluent mainstream media. On November 20, a group of 152 diverse Christian leaders released “Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience.” Without politically popular apologies, the group declared three “inviolable and non-negotiable” truths: 1. the sanctity of human life; 2. the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife; and, 3. the rights of conscience and religious liberty...
Obama Blunders with 9/11 Terrorist TrialsDefendants in civilian trials are entitled to all of the evidence, which means the terrorists will get to see how American intelligence officials have been able to piece together information on al Qaida. It does not make any sense to allow terrorists to find out our means of tracking them down...
Justice for All?President Obama and AG Holder both tout the message we are sending to the world about our civilized justice system. Really? Are not the people evil who planned and carried out those attacks as well as the continual stream of daily atrocities on innocents?...
A Veterans Day Tribute and RemembranceLet us remember “1861” when our nation became two nations. The South under President Jefferson Davis and the North under President Abraham Lincoln, fought for four long, bloody years to decide our future. Both armies prayed to the same God for guidance...
Expectations: Past, Present and FutureAccording to “an unprecedented nationwide survey of more than 6,400 adult Americans conducted from December 2008 through April 2009,” directed by Frank Luntz, author of “What Americans Really Want…Really,” “only 34 percent of Americans think their children will inherit a better America than their parents did, and…only 44 percent think their children will enjoy a better quality of life”...
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Major Newspapers Blast Catholicism, Says Catholic League PresidentOn Sunday,
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recalled that when she was in grade school, "Nuns were second-class citizens then and 40 years after feminism utterly changed America, they still are." She called Pope Benedict XVI the "uber-conservative pope," a.k.a. "God's Rottweiler," who was once "a conscripted member of the Hitler Youth"...