January 21, 2009 RSS feed / Opinion

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Up The Creek Without A Paddle

A Letter to President Obama
by Terry Toole
Dear President Obama, I hope you are having a good time in our nation's capital getting sworn in with all that hoopla. You deserve to enjoy this time of fun and pageantry. It will probably be your only fun for this next four years. More...

The Law of the Garbage Truck

submitted by Charles Garrett

I recently hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car darted out of a parking space right in front of us. More...

Could it happen here?

Could submitted by Midge Sweet, Georgians for Smart Energy

The collapse of the Tennessee holding dam that contained toxic coal ash caused families near two proposed coal-fired plants in Georgia - Plant Washington outside Milledgeville, and the Longleaf Plant west of Blakely - to once again worry about th More...

Letter to the Editor

Hi Terry, As an old retired Navy man, I was thrilled to see the story of the USS Corporal (SS346) in the Miller County Liberal. Thanks very much for the article. More...

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You could have heard a pin drop

submitted by jshannon

•When in England, at a fairly large conference, Gen. Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush. More...

Quote for the day

submitted by Grady Jarvis

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. More...

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Hook, Line and...Meow?

by Alex McRae

As we say in the South, "Bless their hearts." The well-intended but mostly clueless folks at PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, have given us all a few good laughs over the years in their effort to save the world's animals by t More...

Deaf Wife- 'priceless'

submitted by Lindy

Some older folks might understand this one-- A man feared his wife wasn't hearing as well as she used to, and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family doctor to discuss the problem. More...

Ebony Dots & Dashes

by Katie Smith

The past weekend was good and cold. Rained on Sunday. Bethel M.B. Church celebrated their pastor's second anniversary. Minister Andrews was speaker for the occasion. Attendance was good in spite of the inclement weather. The pastor Rev. More...

Colquitt is the exception

by Terry Taylor, 1960 MCHS graduate

Thomas Wolfe authored a novel published posthumously in 1940 entitled You Can't Go Home Again. More...

How to dance in the rain

submitted by Lindy

It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 a.m. More...

Measure freedom?

Georgia Press Clips

"The Heritage Foundation has issued its Index of Economic Freedom for 15 years now, and each year the same sovereign state has risen to the top as having the world's freest economy. "The United States? Not so fast. It's Hong Kong. More...