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- Thursday, May 23, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
Archive By Author - Joan King
King: Mystery of life not answered by laws
It appears that some Georgia legislators want to tell us when life begins.
King: Irresponsible act leads to a sickening thud
The week began badly. I had picked up my granddaughter from school and was heading home in the dark when a dog appeared in my headlights. I braked and veered as best I could. Then there was that awful thud.
King: We need a healthy dose of truth
Trust me, says candidate No. 1. I will tell you the truth.
King: Youth should rally against nukes
A culture can be defined by the secrets it keeps from its children. Primitive tribes had ghosts and demons that danced around ceremonial fires when the elders called on them. At puberty, the male initiates learned that those freighting figures were actually their fathers and older brothers, but the truth was kept from the women and children.
King: Don’t buy the case for keeping the status quo
Two weeks ago Congress raised automotive fuel efficiency standards from 25 mph to 35 mph. Big whoop de do!
King: Nuclear plants not worth cost, risk
When I agreed to write for The Times on a regular basis, the paper had only one stipulation: Write about something besides the nuclear industry.
King: Reject labels; embrace forgiveness
This column is going to be up close and personal. To a certain extent every columnist is a public figure and open to public criticism. That's fine with me. I learn something from every letter or e-mail I get, but I object to labels.
King: Our national honor is at stake over Iraq
President Bush has made it very clear he will not withdraw American troops from Iraq. If the Congress proposes any legislation to that effect, he will veto it. Congress can override a veto, but it takes a two-thirds majority vote in both Houses, 67 votes in the Senate and 290 votes in the House, to do it.
King: Nature of a lie based on perception
If a person believes he or she is being truthful, a false statement does not become true, but is it a lie? The individual may have been misinformed. The facts may have been distorted or perhaps unknown at the time, but there is another possibility.
King: A dual lesson in free speech, press
I have been writing for The Times for more than seven years. It has been a good relationship, and they have never refused to publish anything I sent, nor have they made more than minor edits, but there is always a first. The Times decided that my column for Sept. 25 was offensive, and they pulled it. Interestingly enough, this was one day after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, ...
King: Grow economy or happiness?
When backed into a corner, global warming skeptics admit that yes, it is getting hotter, and yes, human activity has something to do with it, but they still insist that taking steps to halt climate change would cost too much. Regulating automotive emissions or mandating pollution controls at coal-fired power plants would jeopardize the economy.
King: Mankind must avoid war at all cost
War is a disease to which humanity falls prey. By its very nature war is destructive, dehumanizing and an unmitigated evil, yet we succumb to it over and over again.
Articles By Author - Joan King
King: Root of gun violence can be found in human brain
Last week, NPR announced that a bullet had been successfully fired from a plastic gun. The big news is this: The gun came from a 3-D printer. So much for gun control, for background checks and any other measure to reduce the number of easily available handguns in the nation.
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