Wednesday, May 5, 2004

Up against fanaticism

If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you believe in ethnic and gender diversity but not diversity of thought, or if you think there is an acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages, and take the children, too. This piece is not for you.

Voters, not judges, will get to choose

By Sen. Mike Crotts

Recently the Georgia General Assembly approved Senate Resolution 595, which I proposed, to allow the people of Georgia to vote for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.

Fighting for tax relief

By DYLAN GLENN and LARRY LINDSEY
Special to The Citizen

When we worked together at President Bush’s National Economic Council, there was no higher priority than fighting for the President’s economic growth package. It is gratifying to see the payoff today from that effort in both family budgets and the national economy.

Beware of the serpent's promises

By EARL TILFORD

I teach courses in humanities and military history at Grove City College, an “enthusiastically Christian” college in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. This morning I concluded my Humanities 302 course with the Home Box Office movie, “Conspiracy,” which depicts a conference held on Jan. 20, 1942, in a mansion in the posh Berlin suburb of Wannsee.

Happy Mother’s Day

By RONDA RICH

Mama always claims that I don’t appreciate her. I do. She grouses that I take her for granted. I don’t.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR