Entries by Misty Tompkins

The summer holidays are something to celebrate. But they have a deadly reputation on the road. Because too many summer party-people leave their designated drivers behind at the barbecue. And that means too many Georgians will die in alcohol-related crashes during the Labor Day weekend. There’s a traffic fatality every thirteen minutes on America’s crash clock with no time off for holidays.
In 2007 more than 13,000 people died in highway crashes involving drivers with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. The FBI projected 1.5 million nationwide DUI arrests that year. Across the country drunk driving persists as one of America’s deadliest crimes. [Full Story »] 

As the unemployment rate rises, so does the threat of scams targeting job seekers. Better Business Bureau (BBB) warns job hunters to be extremely cautious in their search for work because scammers are out to take advantage of them and make a fast buck.
The national unemployment rate is creeping closer to 10 percent—worse than the Federal Reserve predicted back in April. Already 13 states are experiencing unemployment rates in the double-digits. As more people find themselves out of work, they are also becoming targets of scammers looking to take advantage of those who are already facing a tough financial situation. [Full Story »] 

By Chad W. Smith
The Dodge County Indians football team opened up their 2009 season with a 27-0 win over the Southeast Bulloch Yellow Jackets in Brooklet on Friday, August 28. The Indians had 254 yards of total offense with 212 yards coming on the ground. Cyprin Burse, Devon Simmons and Laquan Hogue led the Indians’ running backs. Burse rushed for 77 yards on 12 carries with one touchdown. Simmons had 73 yards on 14 attempts with two touchdowns. [Full Story »] 

Thoughts from the right side
By Marshall Miller
Which is it?
Senate candidate Obama 2003: “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer healthcare plan.”
President Obama 2009: “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.”
Vice Plagiarist Biden 2009 with the new math, D.C. style: “We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt.” [Full Story »] 

A little common sense
By Rich Lowry
One of the few strictly accurate things that President Barack Obama routinely says about his health-care reform is that it’s much bigger than just the so-called public option. Yet when his administration signaled that the public option could be dropped, the left threw a collective tantrum.
Why the uproar over what Obama at his recent Colorado town hall called a “sliver” of reform? After all, the left should be delighted about the movable feast of statism in the congressional bills: new mandates on employers and individuals, $1 trillion in new spending over 10 years, heavy regulation on insurers, a vast accretion of new bureaucratic power, and higher taxes. What’s not to like?
But nothing offers the near-term promise of moving toward a single-payer government-controlled system quite like the public option. [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor,
Every time I see a man with a pit bull, I think what a coward and a loser. If someone is so insecure about himself and his masculinity and macho image that he can’t, or is too afraid to fight his own fight, that he has to put a poor, innocent animal in a ring to fight to make up for his own lack of machismo, there is something wrong with that man. [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor,
An open letter to Dr. John D. Roberts. [Full Story »] 

Legals for August 26, 2009 [Full Story »]