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An Opinion on Energy and Water in Georgia
It is my contention that we should embark upon two fronts with the construction of  very large nuclear power plants on the coast which will double as desalination plants.  The technology is safe and it is already there.  I know whereof I speak as I have worked directly with both the Saudi government in their desalination plants which provide significant water...
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Letter to Editor: Atlanta Motorsports Park Promotion
The Park offered any person ticketed under the new "Super Speeder" law a free half day of access to the Park - if and when it is built. All they have to do is bring in their speeding ticket. While the developers may defend their promotion as a way to provide a safe environment for people who cannot control themselves on our public roadways, the reality is that it rewards criminal behavior...
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Government Acts of Piracy
Healthcare (inalienable right?), confiscatory taxation, and dictated compassionate care...
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2010: Punch Lines for Double-Naught Politics
We ended the war on terror in 2009 with new, improved respect for man-caused disasters, summarized by the head of Homeland Security and the White House saying the system worked when passengers of flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit foiled a plot by an isolated individual trying to ignite his underwear...
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Whitewater Groups Sue to Stop Fish Stocking in Chattooga River
The Whitewater Group’s politically correct term for boating use is “nature based paddling opportunity,” which somehow or another, in  their mind, places them in a morally superior category to fishermen angling for “exotic” fish.  As far as I’m aware, the upper Chattooga is the only section of stream in either National Forest on which “nature based paddling opportunity” is restricted...
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Washington's Snow Job
Historically, federal fiscal policies like President Obama’s have led to double-digit inflation. For those who didn’t cope with inflation during President Carter’s administration, that means you’ll see all prices (gas, groceries, Wal-Mart stuff) going up EVERY WEEK, while your paycheck remains the same...
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Rebellion Against the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob

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It's Human Nature
Following the lead of American charities and Americans’ inclinations to support charitable causes, Washington continues to install bureaucracies to facilitate the transfer of charity dollars – aka tax dollars – from those who pay taxes to those who need charity dollars – aka entitlement dollars...
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Manhattan Declaration for Thanksgiving
You may have missed this extraordinary ‘declaration’ if your sole source of information and news is the ever effluent mainstream media. On November 20, a group of 152 diverse Christian leaders released “Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience.”  Without politically popular apologies, the group declared three “inviolable and non-negotiable” truths: 1. the sanctity of human life; 2. the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife; and, 3. the rights of conscience and religious liberty...
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Obama Blunders with 9/11 Terrorist Trials
Defendants in civilian trials are entitled to all of the evidence, which means the terrorists will get to see how American intelligence officials have been able to piece together information on al Qaida.  It does not make any sense to allow terrorists to find out our means of tracking them down...
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Justice for All?
President Obama and AG Holder both tout the message we are sending to the world about our civilized justice system. Really? Are not the people evil who planned and carried out those attacks as well as the continual stream of daily atrocities on innocents?...
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A Veterans Day Tribute and Remembrance
Let us remember “1861” when our nation became two nations. The South under President Jefferson Davis and the North under President Abraham Lincoln, fought for four long, bloody years to decide our future. Both armies prayed to the same God for guidance...
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Expectations: Past, Present and Future
According to “an unprecedented nationwide survey of more than 6,400 adult Americans conducted from December 2008 through April 2009,” directed by Frank Luntz, author of “What Americans Really Want…Really,” “only 34 percent of Americans think their children will inherit a better America than their parents did, and…only 44 percent think their children will enjoy a better quality of life”...
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Got News?
If your church is hosting a fundraising event or phenomenal Bible study series, tell us about it.  If your child was honored for a special achievement, let us know and be sure to include a picture. Know someone in the Dawson County community who provides selfless service to others?  We'd like to honor him or her on DawsonTimes.com...
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Major Newspapers Blast Catholicism, Says Catholic League President
On Sunday, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recalled that when she was in grade school, "Nuns were second-class citizens then and 40 years after feminism utterly changed America, they still are." She called Pope Benedict XVI the "uber-conservative pope," a.k.a. "God's Rottweiler," who was once "a conscripted member of the Hitler Youth"...
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Politics and the People
Last week a friend asked me to write about the H1N1 epidemic. He was concerned because he had gone to get a flu vaccination, and they told him they could only give him the seasonal vaccine, not the H1N1 vaccine because he was over 65. He told me he thought Washington was trying to get rid of all the old people (my words, not his)...
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Marriage -- Under Attack Again
I am asking Georgians of all races to come together on the issue of traditional marriage and do all we can to protect this sacred institution.  The bottom line of all of this is that the devaluing of marriage has enormous consequences.  One only needs to look at the research and statistics from the Netherlands to see how the devaluation of marriage has caused more and more people not to marry...
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Is Facebook Dead?
Recently I stumbled upon an amusing wiki that helps Facebook addicts walk away from their addiction: http://www.wikihow.com/Quit-Facebook. You know you’ve arrived when there’s a wiki helping people recover from a dependency upon you, I guess...
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Critiquing Glenn Beck's Best Seller: 'Arguing with Idiots'
Found on page 190 in Beck's book is the following not-so-widely publicized fact: “In 2006, the most recent year that comprehensive IRS data is available, the richest one percent of Americans paid 39.9 percent of the country’s total income tax bill. The top ten percent of filers paid 71 percent of the tab”...
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Texting While Driving is a Death Sentence
Like reading a book, texting is designed to take and keep a driver's eyes off the road.  Add to that the pervasive texting by our younger and future drivers and it's easy to foresee how this popular trend could become our next deadly highway trend...
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