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ABC's odd poll positioning
Augusta Chronicle - April 29, 2007
      Oddly, ABC News found this out in its own poll and didn't broadcast it on its nightly TV news show: A vast majority of Americans don't blame the availability of guns for the Virginia Tech shooting. Indeed, 75 percent - three out of four Americans - say the primary causes of gun violence are the ...
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LETTERS
      No gray area with NRA Dear editor: In last week's column, long-time Democrat cheerleader Bill Shipp paid the National Rifle Association several very nice compliments. Of course, he didn't intend to do that.
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Mumbles
But, the kudzu's growing
      I've said it in jest several times over the years - both sitting at my desk and approaching the skyline of the metropolis - "they are spilling more concrete each day in Atlanta than we pour in Southwest Georgia in a year!
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All That's Fit to Print
Yikes, Hogzilla's back
Brenda Wall
      The giant hog is back. Hogzilla, the great wild hog killed over around Tifton, has returned from the grave. Again. In case you don't remember, a young man claimed he had killed this huge wild hog. The thing was over 12 feet long and weighed thousands of pounds. He didn't show him around, just buri...
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Alex McRae
Is there indigestion in paradise?
      A couple of years ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed obesity was the nation's most urgent health "crisis." Amazing how quickly things can change. We used to worry about kids going to bed hungry. Now, the CDC claims half of them are overweight.
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Shipp's Georgia
Georgia needs ethics for dummies
Bill Shipp
      Wake up! Read this! Georgia needs a strict Code of Government Ethics. Don't roll over and go back to sleep. Listen! This is serious. State government is broken down. We have put an all-star team of saps in charge of the Capitol - saps impaired by severe difficulties in separating right from wron...
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Other Voices
Hagel goes on the record regarding Iraq
Robert Novak
      Sen. Chuck Hagel returned from his fifth visit to Iraq to join Senate Democrats last Thursday as one of two Republicans voting to begin withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. It was not an easy vote for a conservative party regular and faithful supporter of President George W. Bush's non-Iraq policie...
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