Glimpses back to childhood always bring an odd remembrance of some kind. Sometimes when I go into our kitchen at night, I will think of the kitchen of my childhood home.
The year was 1972 and Americans wanted out of the Vietnam War; the right because it was not being won and the left because of the increasing body count and lies from generals and politicians about “progress” toward defeating the communists.
I try not to beat a dead horse, in other words, by addressing the same or similar subjects over and over and over.
Truth is, if we start out in life to accomplish anything, sooner or later we are going to experience defeat.
If you are out and about and see a small cloud of smoke nearby, then chances are there is a young person underneath puffing away on an e-cigarette.
This is all political theater and bad theater at that. Democrats are going through the motions of impeachment, hoping to thwart the president’s re-election.
Gov. Brian Kemp recently announced that he has directed state agencies to cut 4% from this year’s state budget and an additional 6% next year.
I was driving down the road the other day and Macon came wafting across time and space and landed right in the midst of my memory. For the record, Macon is the hottest place on earth in August and always has been.
When I was born to my parents – late in life, folks used to like to say – they had a college freshman, a high school student and one in seventh grade.
I have a hard time dealing with new. That’s the primary reason I’ve kept the same wife and house for almost 40 years. The thought of trying something different just never has sat well with me.
The internet offers access by crooks seeking an opportunity to fleece innocent people of their money or their identity.
The debate about political power and authority among those who profess the Christian faith has raged since the 1st century. In modern America, the debate raged throughout Jimmy Carter’s presidency and more recently through the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. The debate now looms large for Donald Trump.
It is Oct. 2, and if you are holding an actual paper in your hand, you are reading from an edition that includes pink newsprint.
Back when reruns were a staple of summer programming, television networks aired repeats of their programs, giving viewers another opportunity to see what they had already seen. Democratic politicians are now conducting their own version of reruns.
Forty-five years after President Richard Nixon faced certain impeachment by the House of Representatives and Nixon, confronting an overwhelming Senate vote to convict him, resigned his office, Washington again faces the prospect of another profoundly grave and uniquely disruptive presidential impeachment.
How much credibility should we give to a 16-year-old when considering her qualifications to lecture adults about science and an end-of-the-world scenario?
Baby, it has been hot out there and how I once thought I could live without air conditioning in the whole house, I’ll never know!
Now I know the real reason Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus shut down. Turns out it had nothing to do with mistreatment of elephants and the demands of the SPCA after all.
There was massive pageantry at last Saturday night’s football game between Georgia and Notre Dame.
They are all gone now; the men (and one woman) who were major influences in my early journalism career. The last two died within weeks of each other. They were Jack Perkins and Sander Vanocur, both veterans of NBC News where I started as a copyboy.
Years ago, when the great American socialist Norman Thomas was speaking at the University of Virginia, he was cross-examined by a self-satisfied undergraduate who charged that Thomas' call for universal health insurance, federal civil rights laws and federal aid to education were all backed by the U.S. Communist Party.
When the Supreme Court, under a previous ideological majority, was handing down decisions favorable to the left, Democrats were fine with deferring to that third branch of government to achieve what they declined to produce in legislation. Some Democrats in conservative states took the position that it wasn’t their fault that cases voters regarded as constitutionally wrong and morally unprincipled were being decided. Blame the justices, not them.
With all of the publicity about vaping, it appears there is a lesson to be learned by teens who are using e-cigarettes.
I don’t understand how some people think, but I believe they have every right to think the way they do, which is what separates them from me. I respect their rights to a difference of opinion. I am not sure they respect mine.
Like my friend, positive people are always inspiring us.
What a storm of memories an old tin pan can bring churning through a moment in time.
I love the early morning. It’s my time. My quiet time.
By definition, what 14 million viewers watched on TV last Thursday night was not a debate -- not even close.
As children return to school and football season kicks off again, I wanted to talk a little about our incredible teachers.
“When would you like to schedule your knee replacement surgery?” asked my American doctor before I left for Ireland. I gave him a date that works for me (I’m calling it the result of an old basketball injury, not advancing age). His office scheduled it for that date.
It is obvious that Uncle Joe Biden is the front-runner on the Democrat side because he received most of the heavy fire from the other candidates.
I want to comment on the story of Jim Brady written by Mark Shields published on Sept. 11.
We have an opioid epidemic and those taking these medicines need to be careful and follow directions lest they become addicts and further endanger their health.
President Trump was right to cancel a “secret” meeting with leaders of the Taliban and the Afghan government following two bomb attacks by the terrorist group that killed 10 civilians, an American soldier and a Romanian service member in heavily fortified Kabul.
What do y’all eat for breakfast?
People say it’s the most important meal of the day. I’m not sure how many of us still treat it that way.
Back when Richard Nixon was president, a Washington saloon five minutes' walk from the White House named the Class Reunion was the go-to watering hole where press, politicians and real people could rub and bend elbows.
The late bank robber Willie “The Actor” Sutton is said to have been asked by a reporter why he robbed banks, to which he supposedly replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” In his autobiography, Sutton denied the quote, but it serves as a warning to those who fear Democrats will come after their retirement savings because that’s where the money is.
Too many times these days, we are following a news story being reported by the national media when one or the other of us will have a question such as, “How did this start in the first place?” or “Why did she do that?”
Saturday the whole state of Georgia and the entire Georgia Bulldog Nation pays long overdue homage to the man who took a football program that had fallen on hard times and not only returned it to its Glory Days but exceeded those days.
I usually refrain from commenting on the topic de jour in the media. I’m not much of a “bandwagon” person. Let everyone else have their say and when the dust has settled, I will have mine. Otherwise, you risk being lost in the noise.
The final results of the 1980 presidential election between the Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican challenger, former California Gov. Ronald Reagan are rightly recorded as a landslide Republican victory.
One doesn't have to be a cynic to be cynical about the Justice Department's decision not to hold former FBI Director James Comey accountable for what an Inspector General report called his violation of FBI policies and his setting a "dangerous example" in order to "achieve a personally desired outcome."
And just like that, it’s September, with all the inherent dangers that come with it.
So where can we go to find the strength we need to face life, death and grief?
At least once a day, I think of something Mama taught me — like how to match checks and stripes when I sewed.
Johnny Isakson is the Senior Senator from the state of Georgia. Johnny Isakson is a wholly decent human being. It’s hard to be both. Trust me.
There are people in every generation who believe the generation following theirs is either going to the dogs or will ruin the country.
Family members are always looking for ways to entertain themselves.
Forget about the trade war with China. The Chicken Wars are way more entertaining, and not nearly as stressful.
San Francisco, a city described in song for its natural beauty, is descending into an abyss of homelessness, the use of sidewalks as toilets and a place you might not want to visit, much less live.
The Annual Rockdale County Middle School Oratorical Competition is set for Monday Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. at Rockdale Career Academy.
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