This is our fourth installment on the ongoing series about U.S. involvement in the Middle East

In the third installment of our on-going series on the war in Iraq we dissect the original plan and intent of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

When the Soviet Union dissolved 20 years ago, their willingness to give up their empire was unique in history. The Russians let the Warsaw pact evaporate, giving their former Eastern European satellite states complete freedom as the iron curtain came down. They also gave their contiguous territories like Georgia, Ukraine and the Balkans the freedom to choose independence or become part of the new Russia. This willingness to dismantle an empire was proof at the time that the new Russia was serious about changing their role in world.

“Once upon a time there was a retard.”

President Bush was wrong to recently veto the new farm bill, and I am pleased Congress voted to override that veto. This bill – a product three years in the making that also passed by unprecedented margins – is extremely important to both rural and urban areas of Georgia.

It's easy to lose sight of real change when it occurs incrementally over time. Today our daughter tries on the cap and gown for this week's high school graduation. It gives me pause. Whatever happened to the 4-year-old girl who wouldn't stop sticking out her tongue at her pre-school graduation?

Adulthood can certainly sneak up on a man.

If you are a person who already feels you couldn’t be any happier, then turn the page because this article’s not for you. If you sometimes feel there’s more to life than what you are or have, then read on.

In January, the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority (Grady Board) voted to lease the facilities and operations of the Grady Health System to a non-profit corporation (Grady Corp). This followed more than a year of exhaustive analysis of the actions needed to save the insolvent institution. The consensus opinion...

In the famous 1980 presidential debate between Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter, upon hearing Carter go off yet another time on why Reagan would disband Social Security and threaten the financial security of millions of seniors, Reagan smiled, shifted his head, and replied softly and devastatingly, “Well now, Mr. President, there you go again.”

The City Council race of 2007 revealed what most of us on the Council knew already:  Roswellians want the blighted and underperforming areas of their city redeveloped – just not with skyscrapers or projects that further hinder traffic flow...

Alpharetta, meet Mindy Jones. Mindy is a rather unassuming woman. At a glance, she is attractive, articulate, and seems like any number of other women you could meet around Alpharetta. But there’s much more to Mindy than meets the eye. She is a woman who’s making a difference in the lives of many others.

I have been working on the state budget (my assigned primary responsibility), tax reform (as a member of the Ways and Means subcommittee reviewing the proposals) and a couple of bills I am personally championing.

Is it my imagination or has customer service gone to Bangalore in a hand-basket? I don’t know which is worse, talking with an automated phone attendant or live operators who speak four languages – none of which happen to be a variation of English readily understood by the average American.

I read the editorial of Councilman Kent Igleheart with some dismay as I was at the very same meeting and saw things quite differently from what he describes. I, as a citizen of Roswell, attend many Council meetings and had not been called by Mayor Jere Wood or any one else to speak out against the ludicrous legislation...