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The media-conscious President-elect Obama obviously understands the importance of creating the strongest possible first impression on the country as he gets ready to tackle a plateful of woe inherited from the departing Bush crowd.
We’ve been treated to a real spectacle as President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney limped into the home stretch of their Magical History Tour, employing distortions, half-truths and untruths in a final, desperate attempt to pervert or somehow prevent history from judging them accurately.
New Year’s celebrations have traditionally become a time for us to gather up our hopes and prayers for the coming year and express them in resolutions. I confess to being a resolution maker.
During the recent national political campaign, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin responded to a telephone call she believed was from French Premier Sarkozy. The idea was to make her sound entertainingly foolish when recordings of the conversation were played back by the Canadian radio personalities who perpetrated the gag.
Businessman John Gordon admits that, until the shooting of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston by rogue Atlanta drug agents two years ago, he had never heard of the English Avenue neighborhood -- or “The Bluff,” as it’s often called.
McClatchy Newspapers ------ Twice in recent weeks big news outfits embarrassed themselves when affiliated Internet operations ignored basic principles of journalistic practice. What's apparent is that although legacy media may regard their Web sites as domesticated showcases for traditional work, heeding the same rules, the Internet is no petting zoo. It's a wilderness, and the wildlife has free-ranging ideas of their own about what they should be doing.
What are you afraid of? That question was recently posed to a group discussing the current presidential campaign. Answers were all over the lot, depending upon each person's own political persuasion. Some listed frightening things they thought Barack Obama might do if elected. Others listed just as many terrible things if John McCain got elected. People have a lot of things to fear these days, as always.
Special to the Ledger-Enquirer ------ (Second of two parts) Tith autumn comes the revival of fervor unlike any other: the spirit and passion of college football. Every fourth autumn, this frenzy for touchdowns and tackles is paired with a more civic-oriented activity: national elections.
Special to the Ledger-Enquirer ------ Sen. John McCain is probably aware that as a onetime Navy officer he has a good shot at winning the White House. Six of the last nine presidents in the past 47 years were each a "former naval person." (That's how Winston Churchill signed his correspondence to Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s and 1940s. More about FDR later.)
The primary responsibility of government is to protect its citizens.
Dude! Do you get off for Columbus Day? It’s a paid city holiday. Par-dee!
Scan the magazine covers in a visitor’s center here and you’ll begin to question this town’s slogan: “Florida’s Forgotten Coast.” Forgotten? How about famous?
Developing a state water plan that will serve all of Georgia presents a considerable challenge, which can be met only through thoughtful and informed deliberation.
Hidden behind the mind-numbing technical detail and protestations about being "fair" to all lies the ugly core truth of the "state water plan" that will be debated in the Legislature in January: The primary point is to legalize piping water to metro Atlanta from downstream areas. A burglar in your house or an embezzler in your bank account will steal your economic future. That’s what the "state water plan" may ultimately do to downstream communities: steal their economic futures by taking the water the future depends upon.
Exactly 46 years ago today — May 20, 1961 — U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia met Alabama lawman Floyd Mann in the Montgomery Greyhound bus terminal.
