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According to the calendar, we are already two and a half days into our next 584 million mile trip around the sun, zipping along with the rest of our solar system neighbors. It’s a brand-new year, …
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Charles Schwabe
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1/3/24
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I am so conflicted these days. I haven’t been my usual sharp incisive self. Even the RITNOs (Republicans in Trump’s Name Only) must be wondering why I haven’t jerked their pompous, …
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Dick Yarbrough
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1/3/24
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It’s been more than 20 years since Swainsboro High School won a state football championship. That’s a long time to pursue a dream, but that’s how good football programs rise and rise again. …
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12/6/23
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You never know what you are going to discover in the process of churning out columns. And, of course, I have an obligation to share with you any new and exciting developments, hoping that at your …
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12/6/23
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After giving thanks for our many blessings and had our fill of turkey and dressing, we turned our wishes onto the magic that will happen on the evening of December 24. Shirley and every other Emanuel …
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12/6/23
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Rats! Can you believe it? Once again I have been passed over for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is beginning to get on my nerves. Some guy named Jon Olav Fosse won it this year. As you may know, …
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11/29/23
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In the room, on the other side of the curtain, lay a young man. I watched as two uniformed officers accompanied him. He looked to be about 20 years old and appeared to be sleeping. There were several …
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11/29/23
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As I am writing this on November 26, 2023, the country is celebrating a new holiday. Today is National Leftovers Day. Obviously, the first Sunday after Thanksgiving is the natural time for this …
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11/29/23
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One of my grandmother’s favorite expressions was, “if you worry about nothing, pretty soon you will really have something to worry about”. Now I don’t know if that makes sense to you, but if …
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Charles Schwabe
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11/15/23
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“Hello. Dick Yarbrough Enterprises. Dick Yarbrough, one of America’s beloved and yet one of its most-modest columnists speaking.”
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Dick Yarbrough
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11/15/23
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When I reflected in this space recently about having lost a grandson some 15 years ago, I received a lot of responses, including from those who had shared a similar experience of losing a child or …
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11/8/23
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Georgia’s Attorney General Chris Carr is neither a RINO (Republican in Name Only) nor a RITNO (Republican in Trump’s Name Only.) His solid conservative credentials mirror those of our late U.S. …
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11/1/23
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Georgia Congressman Austin Scott, of Tifton, is what a Republican should be and used to be before the right-wing crowd took control. Never in my long life I have I witnessed such a debacle as has …
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10/25/23
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A few days ago, I was watching a weekend news show featuring a 28-year-old who called herself a “senior climatologist”. She was getting all worked up and fussing at all the non-believers for not …
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by Charles Schwabe
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8/2/23
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It’s kind of a shame that politics are such a deep-down, basic part of life. You can lament and bemoan that fact, but you cannot deny it. Everybody at one point or another in the average work week …
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Charles Schwabe
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7/19/23
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