Dodge County News

Thoughts From The Right Side
By Marshall Miller

No single insurance company made even five percent of what Medicare reportedly lost in fraud last year, says Weekly Standard writer Jeffrey H. Anderson. The tactic now seems to be: bash the insurance companies. The Obama health reform crowd will protect you from being plundered by the insurance industry, supposedly.
“So, the next time someone alleges that government-run health care is cheaper because of ‘lower administrative costs’ -- a truly preposterous claim on its surface -- these numbers would be good ones to have at the ready; $60 billion in annual Medicare fraud, $8 billion in combined annual profits for America’s ten largest insurance companies.”
Jeffrey H. Anderson 10-31-09 [Full Story »] 

A Little Common Sense
By Rich Lowry

Republicans needn’t trouble themselves to nominate a presidential candidate in 2012. No matter what, President Barack Obama will be running against George W. Bush.
Bush will be Obama’s eternal foil. At this rate, when Obama writes his post-presidential memoir, it will be titled “An Audacious Presidency, or How I Saved America From That Bastard Bush.” His presidential library will have a special fright-house wing devoted to Bush’s misrule. He will mutter in his senescence about 43, like the Ancient Mariner about his albatross.
Obama clearly wants Bush to be the Hoover to his FDR. Since his predecessor left office with a 34 percent job approval, Obama understandably feels moved to scorn and berate him. But Obama’s perpetual campaign against Bush is graceless, whiny and tin-eared. Must the leader of the free world -- if Obama still accepts that quaint formulation -- always reach for the convenient excuse? [Full Story »] 

Editor,
Just recently, the Republican candidate Scozzafava in N.Y. State has withdrawn from the race after seeing her support dwindling. The Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who by the way is just a regular everyday citizen like us, had stepped into the race and started taking all the polls by storm. At last view, he was tied with the Democratic candidate at 35% with Scozzafava only taking 20%. Almost immediately, the RNC announced their support for Hoffman. [Full Story »] 

Legals for November 4, 2009 [Full Story »] 

By Chad W. Smith
The Dodge County Indians traveled to Swainsboro last Friday, October 30, 2009 to take on the Swainsboro Tigers. The Tigers took control of the game with two touchdowns in the first quarter as they scored on an 87-yard pass play at the 7:22 mark and on a five-yard run with 2:25 left in the quarter. The Tigers never looked back as Swainsboro had two more scores in the second quarter on a 47-yard run with 6:52 left and on a four-yard pass with 19 seconds left in the second. [Full Story »] 

Recently, two Jr. Grappling Indians from the Dodge County Wrestling Club traveled to Alpharetta to compete in the Milton Halloween Havoc Wrestling Tournament. [Full Story »] 

The DC Fury fast pitch softball team traveled to Cordele on Saturday, October 31, 2009 to compete in the Camsports Southern Fall Classic. The girls played teams from Hawkinsville, Moultrie, and Perry, and went undefeated as they came away with the championship. [Full Story »]