Opinion by George McClellan: Following the 9/11 terrorist attack, the federal government immediately reformed its existing security programs by creating new bureaucracies. The previously unknown Patriot Act immediately hove into view and while the smoking ruins of the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and the hole in the Pennsylvania farm were still burning in peoples minds, […]
Read More »Education by Diversity
Opinion by George McClellan: There are words introduced into American’s vocabulary that act like little land mines of political correctness. Apart from the odious word, “multiculturalism,” one other such offending word is “diversity.” In Progressive speak “Diversity” is code for trashing one culture and replacing it with another. It’s happening daily in our public schools. […]
Read More »Spring Forward, Daylight Savings Time Begins Sunday 3/13
Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour this Saturday night. Daylight savings time begins this Sunday March 13th. This is a good time to check your batteries in your home smoke detectors.
Read More »Speaker Ralston Press Release: Free Exercise Protection Act Passed by General Assembly
ATLANTA – On Wednesday, March 16, the Georgia General Assembly gave final approval to HB 757, the Free Exercise Protection Act. This bill began as the Pastor Protection Act which was proposed by Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) last summer. Sponsored by Representative Kevin Tanner (R-Dawsonville), the final bill protects the religious liberties of individuals […]
Read More »Give Me an F-150 or Give Me Death……
Opinion by John Tutten: I picked up my shiny, new Ford F150 last night. You know there’s just something good and right about getting behind the wheel of such a classic American machine. I couldn’t resist keeping the turbocharger whining all the way back to the homestead. I like the idea of recklessly expanding my […]
Read More »Mr. Howard “Dobbin” Garrett: Obituary
Howard “Dobbin” Garrett, age 82 of Hayesville, died Friday, March 18, 2016 in a Sylva hospital. He was a native of Towns County, Georgia, but had lived in Clay County for most all of his life. He was a retired electrician. He was heavily involved in the community throughout his life including service on the […]
Read More »We Are Losing Our Youth
Opinion by John Tutten: The successful continuance of our country depends on our youth and with what we see happening today, I am very concerned if America as we have known it will even exist in a couple of decades. So many of our future leaders do not have even a basic understanding of our […]
Read More »Niota Ann Nation: Obituary
Cochran Funeral Home of Hiawassee announces the death of Niota Ann Nation, age 62, who passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at her home. Niota was born in Young Harris, Georgia, on May 25, 1953, a daughter of Anne Rose Bradshaw Nation and the late J.T. Nation. Besides her father, she had been […]
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Mr. Bernard Smiley Scott: Obituary
Bernard Smiley Scott, age 79, of Hiawassee, Georgia, passed away on Monday, March 14, 2016 in Chattanooga, TN. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on June 01, 1936 to the late carl and Dorothy (Craus) Scott. Bernard was a member of the Lion’s Club, Knights of Columbia, Fraternal Order of Police, Jaycee’s and the […]
Read More »The Turmoil of a Republican Presidency
Opinion by George McClellan: Has it dawned on anybody yet, the supreme importance of not only defeating the Clinton machine in the general election, but of neutralizing, at the same time, the influence of Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove, Paul Ryan, & etc. if either Ted Cruz or Donald Trump succeeds to the Presidency? There is […]
Read More »Replacement Underway
Opinion by George McClellan: We are in a “Catch-22” Situation. The grassroot voters, those Americans who now see clearly that we are losing our constitution, our culture and our country to proponents of bigger and bigger government, have also made it quite clear that the old, unbending, corrupt GOP, long in league with the Democrat […]
Read More »Mr. John Richard Hudson: Obituary
The Cochran Funeral Home of Hiawassee announces graveside services for Mr. John Richard Hudson who passed away on March 7, 2016. Mr. Hudson was born and raised in Tampa, Florida moving to Young Harris, Georgia in 1996. He was very devoted to his family. Mr. Hudson retired from a career with the United States Air […]
Read More »Mr. Joseph Gerald Holmes: Obituary
Cochran Funeral Home of Hiawassee announces memorial services for Mr. Joseph Gerald Holmes, who passed away Saturday, March 5, 2016. Born and raised in Hiawassee. Gerald joined the Navy after high school in 1952. He married Wanda Garrett in 1956 and moved to Atlanta after leaving the Navy. They raised their children in the metro […]
Read More »Reagan Couldn’t Get Elected Today
Opinion by John Tutten: I am beginning to believe that if Ronald Reagan were alive today and running for president, he would never be elected. He might not even win the Republican nomination given the state of our culture today. His landslide victories are fading fast in our rearview mirror and I doubt we will […]
Read More »Will the Real Contestants Please Come In and Identify Themselves…
Opinion by George McClellan: Mitt Romney came, he saw, he stumbled… and confirmed my original pre-debate assessment that his enlistment to denounce Donald Trump as the very personification of wickedness and evil was simply the establishment Republican’s latest desperate attempt to save the Republican old guard from the destruction they truly deserve. The GOP is […]
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