Opinion by George McClellan: Officials in the City of San Bernardino, Ca. (my home town) “aims to prevent anti-muslim hate crimes.” Where did that come from a full one year after two muslim jihadists, who hated America, declared war on San Bernardino co-workers and slaughtered fourteen people in a hail of gunfire. It was a […]
Read More »Towns County Sheriff’s Citizen Law Enforcement Academy Graduates Sixth CLEA Class
Towns County Sheriff’s Office is pleased to announce the graduation of the sixth session of the Citizen Law Enforcement Academy on November 1, 2016. The Towns County Sheriff’s Office Citizen Law Enforcement Academy is a 10-week course designed to give participating citizens a close-up look at the operations of the Towns County Sheriff’s Office. Our […]
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Opinion by Jennifer Bassett: CNN and other mainstream media along with Hillary and her supporters have been damning Donald Trump for taking one hour to do a ribbon cutting at his new hotel in Washington DC. When he just yesterday did EIGHT campaign stops and was in two states along with the ribbon cutting in […]
Read More »Supreme Court Appoints Chief Judge Self to JQC
Atlanta, October 20, 2016 – The Supreme Court of Georgia has appointed Chief Judge Tilman E. “Tripp” Self, III of the Macon Judicial Circuit to the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC). Self replaces Chief Judge Brenda Weaver of the Appalachian Circuit, who resigned from the Commission in August. The Judicial Qualifications Commission is a seven-member constitutional […]
Read More »Mr. Gerald C. Messer: Obituary
Gerald C. Messer, age 75, of Young Harris, Georgia passed away on December 5, 2016 at his home following an extended illness. Gerald was born on June 11, 1941 to the late Clyde and Leona (Dietz) Messer. He was born in Young Harris at the home of his grandparents, Coleman and Candace Dietz, in the […]
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Where We’re Headed
Opinion written by George McClellan: After the final debate between Trump and Clinton, a question was asked that rises to the highest level of silliness: Did Trump lose the debate? I gave that some thought before finally falling back on some truths I had learned in my youthful up-bringing. No, Trump did not lose the […]
Read More »To Those Who Feel Helpless
Opinion written by Conrad Quagliaroli: I’d like to address this letter to everyone who feels helpless in the face of President Obama’s politicization and corruption of every agency of the Federal Government. From the Justice Department whose director lied to Congress and sued the State of Arizona for trying to enforce their border against illegal immigrants, to the IRS […]
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Attorney General Olens Warns Consumers to Beware of Flood-Damaged Vehicles Being Sold in the Wake of Hurricane Matthew
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 18, 2016 ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Sam Olens is advising consumers who are buying used cars to be wary of vehicles that might have suffered flood damage as the result of Hurricane Matthew. Flood-damaged vehicles are often sold at auction and then wind up on used car lots. Sometimes […]
Read More »Perceptions Can Be Dangerous
Opinion by George McClellan: Perceptions are like magic tricks, now you see it, now you don’t. We struggled for years thinking the Democrat Party was all powerful. We allowed them to shove odious ideas down our throats like LGBT bathroom use, “If you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan,” […]
Read More »Fantasy Football, or Fantasy Politics?
Opinion by George McClellan: An interesting question was asked recently in a NYT article: is Fantasy Football a tawdry example of wicked gambling or is it simply an exercise in fledging capitalism? Should we be concerned that gambling is going on using the Internet, or is it really free enterprise? The question came up because […]
Read More »It’s a Cultural Thing Stupid
Opinion by George McClellan: Slowly the opprobrium that had long been directed to Donald Trump by the fawning far left wing media, as well as the loser establish GOP elites, are slowly shifting to refocus on the abysmal campaign the Democrats thought they were conducting through the inevitable presidency of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the anointed […]
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