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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Spitzer a victim of Puritanical America?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
University of Chicago law professor Martha Nussbaum, writing from Europe, argues that America’s Puritanical view of sex is to blame for ruining one of the nation’s most promising politicians, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. “My European colleagues (I write from an academic conference in Belgium) have a hard time understanding what happened, but they know that it is one of those things that could only happen in America, where the topic of sex drives otherwise reasonable people insane,” writes Nussbaum. Is she right?
Weighing school kids: a lawmaker explains
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
State Sen. Joseph Carter (R-Tifton) sponsor of legislation aimed at reducing childhood obesity, explains his proposals and welcomes debate on the issue, including whether students should be weighed and school average body mass indexes posted.
What do you think about Carter’s efforts?
How conservative are Ga. conservatives?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ronald Reagan, like a lot of conservatives, often repeated the maxim “that government is best which remains closest to the people.” Back then, conservatives could still honestly claim some loyalty to concepts such as local control and small government.
But no longer. In fact, Reagan would be ashamed of those who today profess to govern Georgia in his conservative spirit. In the great legislative power grab of 2008, local control and other once-treasured conservative principles have been tossed into the trash like yesterday’s political posters, useless and outdated and in fact inconvenient to the new agenda. Which is power. (Read Jay Bookman’s entire column.)
The question: How conservative are Georgia conservatives?
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