Upon the memory and truthfulness of Christine Blasey Ford hangs the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his reputation, and possibly his career on the nation’s second highest court.

While questioning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about abortion during his Senate confirmation hearings, Senator Dianne Feinstein grossly misstated statistics about abortion deaths before Roe v. Wade.

Police came to Kim Brooks’ parents’ door in suburban Richmond, Virginia, demanding that her mother say where her daughter was or be arrested for obstructing justice. So began a Kafkaesque two-year ordeal that plunged Brooks into reflections about current parenting practices. It also produced…

Occasionally, I will drop in a comma where it doesn’t belong or fail to associate phrase modifiers with the nearest preceding noun and other stuff like that to see if you are paying attention. Trust me, I do this on purpose. I happen to be an expert on the subject (or is it predicate? I can’…

Honest talk from political partisans about the federal budget situation has always been rare. With the ascendance of progressives in the Democrat party and right-populists in the Republican party, it’s nonexistent.

“When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami University of Ohio, volunteering on my campaign,” former U.S. House Speaker, John Boehner,53rd Speaker and longtime GOP representative of Ohio’s 8th Congressional district.

One of the hazards of writing about complex issues in 600-word increments is it’s hard to explain the problem and also offer much of a solution. So it is easy, if one isn’t careful, to focus on the problem and leave the details, goals and even motivations behind potential solutions to the im…

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One of the most striking things about the age of Trump is that Democrats have convinced themselves all the misogynists, racists, anti-Semites and moral cretins are on the right and everyone on the left is either pure as the driven snow or their motives can be explained away. Meanwhile, Democ…

I just zipped down a city street on an electric scooter. It cost me 15 cents a minute. Fast and fun!

Is President Donald Trump about to intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war? For that is what he and his advisers seem to be signaling.

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The Trump administration is considering rescinding a Dear Colleague Letter, sent to public school administrators nationwide in 2014, which provided guidelines regarding school discipline policies consistent with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

A couple weeks ago, Travis Stegall, Brunswick’s Economic and Community Development Director, stopped by the college to give a talk to the students in my economic development course. He did a great job. He was interesting and engaging, and he conveyed a real passion for seeing Brunswick devel…

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the loss of our oldest grandson, Zachary Earl Wansley. Zack was 20 at the time he collapsed and died while training for the Atlanta Marathon.

“The most frequent complaint we hear at MARTA about transit is that we simply need MORE of it. We’re working on that now.” says longtime MARTA Board Chair Robbie Ashe.

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I wrote recently that the right way to think about expanding Medicaid — currently a hot topic among candidates for statewide office in Georgia — is not merely as a way to add coverage for those truly in need. Rather, it’s a step toward health care fully run by the government.

A smart old editor who had seen just about everything told me: “Dogs come with fleas. The bigger the dog, the more the fleas.”

The passing of Senator John McCain was marked by a sea of eulogies mourning the end of an era of civility and compromise.

Some people are very angry about President Trump’s new Supreme Court pick.

“To understand the world, you must understand a place like Mississippi.”

I am occasionally asked to present the weekly lesson in my Sunday School class. I do it with the clear understanding that everyone in class accepts the fact that I need the lesson’s messages worse than they do.

College classes have begun for fall semester 2018. Since fall 2011 Coastal Georgia’s School of Business and Public Management has grown from about 400 students to nearly 900 this fall. That is a compound annual rate of growth of 12.28 percent. Growth stocks should be so consistent. In this l…

“In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test.”

The college football season is under way, and the NFL kicks off this week. With apologies to “America’s pastime,” baseball, and despite controversies on and off the field in recent years, football remains the nation’s most popular sport. But which brand is better, collegiate or professional?

This summer, the sex scandal that has bedeviled the Catholic Church went critical.

Are those who question the severity of global warming worse than Nazis? I wouldn’t think so, but YouTube, owned by Google, seems to.