Letters to the Editor

Mayor: Even if it’s 4-1, I’ll vote against tax hikes

The December City Council meeting had a few agenda items that are of note and should be of interest to the residents of Peachtree City. I feel two warrant comments in addition to The Citizen’s reporting.

On the “PTC closes legal pay loophole,” some additional information is valuable to paint a full picture of the historical circus cited as the motivation for this ordinance. Read More»

Officials must have infrastructure plan

“Never buy anything that eats.” Billy Rose, an investor and Broadway impresario, said that in 1949. His warning was about racehorses. Today, that racehorse’s name is “Infrastructure.” In the language of horse breeding, it’s “Infrastructure by Neglect.”

Racehorses are beautiful creatures, paraded on the track before major races, adorned with roses when they win. Infrastructure is seldom beautiful and is often hidden: sewers, water lines, underground electric cables. Read More»

Time to help military families with Christmas

Let’s go out with a bang! Guess that’s a poor choice of words, but you know me! The war is finally winding down, and this will be the last year that Embracing Military Families will be helping the brave men and women at Ft. Benning provide a Merry Christmas for their families.

Even as the news continually updates us on the units coming home, a lot of units remain deployed. And, as I have said in the past, for many of the soldiers, this is their fourth or fifth deployment. They still need our help. Read More»

The fiscal cliff: Time to stop dividing, start making decisions

You hear and read a lot about the Taxpayer Protection Pledge (a creation of Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform) related to the “fiscal cliff.” Norquist has become the scapegoat for a congressional body that ceases to function.

I think it’s a bit tragic when there is a pledge-in-force to not raise taxes, but spending goes unchecked. It’s a bipartisan tragedy, leading our country further down a path of destruction. Read More»

Special treatment for law officers

Coweta County Sheriff Mike Yeager wouldn’t release the name of his deputy who tasered a 16-year-old boy streaking in boxer shorts at a high school football game, and pushed another kid while yelling at people at a concession stand.

The streaker is suspended from school and is charged with obstruction. The deputy is getting “remedial training.”

I’m guessing he won’t miss a dollar of his paycheck. Anyone want to guess what would have happened had I pushed the deputy at the football game? Even if it were my son he just assaulted? Read More»

Leftists are not yet a protected class ... yet

Today I opened the paper and found out that Mr. David Aycock has accused me of planning to put left-wingers in concentration camps like the Nazis. I don’t understand how he reached that conclusion.

I said that I thought the people on the right who still treasure freedom, personal responsibility, capitalism, and individualism should band together and use our economic power to fight back against the leftist moochers and looters who want to plunder our earnings and assets. Read More»

For Scouting, issue is conduct vs. Oath

Last Wednesday, a friend gave me a call, telling me I needed to read an article written in the Nov. 7 edition of The Citizen. The article was entitled, “Can’t support Boy Scouts’ gay ban.”

I sat down with the paper, and read how the author laments many of the “reprehensible and inexcusable” examples of discrimination against gays in the past few years. The author noted the recent actions removing Jen Tyrrell of Ohio as a den mother, on the basis that she is a lesbian, as well as denying Ryan Andresen of California his Eagle award, based on his sexual orientation. Read More»

Boy Scouts have right to set requirements

This is in response to Kenneth Hamner’s letter in the Nov. 7, 2012, issue of The Citizen:



“On my honor I will do my best

To do my duty to God and my country

and to obey the Scout Law;

To help other people at all times;

To keep myself physically strong,

mentally awake, and morally straight”.


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Let’s take that ‘taker’ scenario out to its logical conclusion

In response to Briggs Arrington’s “An open letter to President Obama,” I would like to paint you a picture of life as a “taker” as you described.

(Mr. Briggs is planning to “arrange to be laid off” from his job so he can live off of government assistance.)

OK, so I’m imagining that you are a white male over the age of 60, but for the sake of argument, let’s say you are a married father of two small children.

First of all, you say you would “arrange to be laid off” from your job and would live off of what you already have in addition to government assistance. Read More»

Keep the faith in our tested political system

After spending most of my adult life teaching government to high school seniors (and not all of that time in the so-called “government schools” either), I am appalled and embarrassed by the statements made in reference to our latest Presidential elections.

Our lack of attention paid to civics education is finally coming home to roost.

One of the basic principles of democracy (and, by extension, representative democracy) is compromise. Democracy cannot survive if the participants are not willing to compromise in order to find a workable solution. Read More»

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