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- Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
Archive By Section - Viewpoint
Internet taxation: Fair or foul?
As a general rule, whenever one hears members of Congress talking about "fairness," you should hold on tight to your wallet.
Commentary: We need a income tax to offend every special interest
Tax reform talk is in the air, so it time to hold onto your wallet. But whenever the discussion turns to taxes, it's always tax someone else - they have more.
Commentary: Health care is key to rehabilitation as female incarceration rates soar
The campaign in Georgia and in many states for adult and juvenile criminal justice reform has highlighted an alarming trend: Women represent a small portion of the prison population but their numbers are rising rapidly, with serious consequences for the children and communities they leave behind.
Commentary: Higher wages make it hard to hire workers
In announcing his wrongheaded proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour, President Obama spoke in lofty terms: "In the wealthiest nation on earth," he said in his State of the Union address last month, "no one who works full time should have to live in poverty."
Commentary: Too many American workers live in poverty
Nearly 8 million Americans go to work every day yet still live below the poverty line. That is in part because the federal minimum wage is too low.
Commentary: Pennington played it straight-on
Today's place kickers would consider those upright, square-toe-shoed, straight-on kickers of the past to be relics. Antiques. Like Durward Pennington, whose extra point in the 1959 Georgia-Auburn game enabled the Bulldogs to clinch the Southeastern Conference championship.
Commentary: Health care for 30 million more Americans will boost nation’s prosperity
The Affordable Care Act will create a healthier population less burdened by excessive medical bills and the fear of economic ruin from getting sick.
Commentary: Act will impose new burdens on consumers, businesses
With unemployment stubbornly high and economic growth shrinking, it is clear the economy is headed in the wrong direction. And the Affordable Care Act is a major cause.
Commentary: A sequester solution both sides will like
With about a week to go until the previously agreed-upon budget cuts called the sequester, some Republicans and virtually all Democrats in Washington are searching for a new agreement that will avoid those budget cuts and replace them with either fewer cuts, some tax increases, or nothing at all.
Commentary: Postal Service sinks Saturday service, but does it really matter?
What did you get in the mail last Saturday? If you are like most people, you got a few advertising flyers, a few mass-mailed solicitations asking for donations, others telling you can save on car insurance. There may also have been a couple of bills, which - if you're like a growing number of Americans - you had already received online. For most people, this uninspiring haul is hardly the highlight of their day.
Commentary: Obama looks for lessons from a five-star president
As President Obama contemplates his second term, he has been talking to historians about another two-term president, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Commentary: Benghazi incident won’t leave a lasting scar on Clinton’s 2016 campaign
It's possible that Hillary Clinton may decide not to run for president in 2016, but there is very little reason to believe such a decision would be a result of her handling of the Benghazi attacks.
Commentary: ‘What difference ... does it make’ quip may thwart her political ambitions
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon become Citizen Clinton once more. She'll rake in huge speaking fees, juicy book deals, corporate board seats and dozens more honorary doctoral degrees. But none of that can ever wash away what happened at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Commentary: With a million people on medical marijuana, crackdown on sellers seems misplaced
As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama emphatically stated that medical marijuana use was an issue best left to the states. One of the first promises he made as the newly elected president was that he was "not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws." This was even reiterated formally in the so-called Ogden memo of 2009, in which the Department of Justice instructed U.S. attorneys that federal enforcement ...
‘Our Town:’ Thornton Wilder’s play carries basic truths, 75 years after opening
"Our Town," Thornton Wilder's three-act play set in a small town in New Hampshire a century ago, turns 75 Tuesday. It was Jan. 22, 1938, when the main character, the Stage Manager, first guided an audience through the play - staged at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.
Articles by Section - Viewpoint
Commentary: Assessing life's urgency
The most important fact of life is death. Yet, we spend our whole lives busily running away from that fact to create an ever-more complex world of endless trivial tasks and diversions. But the ultimate reality is that our time here is so limited and ever closer to the end.
Commentary: Proposed trade helps Big Pharma, other corporate sectors, not workers
WASHINGTON - The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a very special trade agreement. It is so special that our government officials who are negotiating it want to keep it completely secret from us.
Commentary: To protect American jobs, we need more global trade, not less
WASHINGTON - Those who think we can protect U.S. jobs by turning inward have got it exactly backward.
Commentary: Are we sending the wrong message on assimilation?
In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, many are asking how someone who came to America at the age of 9, attended some of our best schools, captained the wrestling team, went to the prom and became a citizen could have inflicted such a devastating attack on our society.
Commentary: Schools scandal in Atlanta reveals the dark side of offering incentives
Earlier this month, 35 public school teachers and administrators indicted for allegedly cheating to raise test scores in an Atlanta school district began turning themselves in to authorities. They may be the tip of the iceberg; a state investigation implicates 178 educators in the scandal.
Commentary: Feds need it in order to rehire public employees
America's economy is poised to roar ahead if only Washington would stop holding it back.
Commentary: Government shouldn’t spend beyond its means
With Tax Day upon us, American families and employers are keenly aware of the deep cut the government is taking out of their household incomes and hard-earned profits - especially during the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression.
Commentary: Follow FDR’s sage advice: Tax those most able to pay
America's economy is in the midst of a Great Stagnation that almost rivals the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the nation is fighting a costly and prolonged worldwide war against relentless Islamic terrorism.
Commentary: State, local collaboration helps spur today’s economic growth
In January, the Georgia Economic Developers Association hosted more than 50 state legislators at a luncheon to celebrate economic development accomplishments over the past 12 months. We also launched a year of celebration complete with a proclamation from Gov. Nathan Deal, as 2013 marks GEDA's 50th Anniversary.
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