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Good Governing Starts with Smart Budgeting
"A simple and proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong," former President Jimmy Carter during his nomination acceptance speech in July 1976. A local, state or federal government budget is much more than pages and ...
Expose Obama's abuse, then de-fang the IRS
It’s no small matter that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting conservative groups for heightened scrutiny. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and there are few limits to what the IRS can do when exercising its taxation power. Just an IRS demand for documents can virtually ...
Tourist Trolley or Folly?
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," Irish author, playwirght and economist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), in "Everybody's Political What's What" in 1944. My experiences with trolleys and street cars are limited to visits to New Orleans and San Francisco. Scenic, ...
Good Governing Starts with Smart Budgeting
"A simple and proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong," former President Jimmy Carter during his nomination acceptance speech in July 1976. A local, state or federal government budget is much more than pages and ...
A Lifeline and a New Model
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man," author and humorist, Mark Twain (1835 – 1910). A 'new deal' and new model of doing the public’s business under the heading of ...
MARTA Is Open For Business
Okay, okay...I feel you smirking as you read the column title, but please, hear me out. At the end of 2012, MARTA placed a talented new GM at its helm. Keith Parker means business, and he has a track record of success in other places. Though the transit systems he ...
Air traffic madness: Intentional deception of the public
How far have we fallen when the president of the United States is intentionally sabotaging operations of the federal government for the purpose of putting the hurt on the American people – and he’s not being roundly condemned for it? That’s what President Obama and his administration did with their ...
Making Sense Where There Is None
"We are here to proclaim a victory. We are here not to wallow in tragedy, but to celebrate a triumph, a triumph of the human spirit. We are here to remember the lives of Alice Hawthorne and Melih Uzunyol. Two wonderful citizens one from America and one from Turkey, who ...
Boston shows the true nature of the American people
It could be a long time before we know anything of substance about why Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev decided to wreak terror on the Boston Marathon. Or it may be that there’s nothing more to know – that they were simply a couple of angry losers caught up in a ...
A Grand Old Dame
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding, because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) and the United Kingdom's longest serving PM of the 20th Century (1979-1990). Born in ...
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