Opinion

The federal government’s crisis response has taken quite a beating lately. Its reaction, or lack thereof, to Hurricane Katrina confirmed for many people that the federal government was asleep at the switch in the aftermath of a terrible natural disaster. More recently, the meltdown in the financial sector has exposed severe weaknesses in the government’s ability to recognize and act quickly to confront a major economic crisis.

Friday

It is a travesty that the American people do not appreciate one of the greatest assets they can have at no direct cost. Maybe that is why it goes unappreciated.

One of the purposes of education is to convey a society’s mores, customs, morality, body of knowledge and traditions from one generation to the next.

Georgia had its runoff for the U.S. Senate last week to settle things between Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss and Democratic challenger Jim Martin.

To the editor:

In this holiday season, it’s hard to be hard-hearted. So you’ll pardon me if this week I refrain from writing one of my usual missives condemning the waste, fraud, arrogance and generally thuggish behavior of our government masters.

O.J. Simpson is the former football star and movie actor who was acquitted of murder in a criminal trial 13 years ago in the Los Angeles slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

This week’s special legislative session promises all the drama of a professional wrestling match. There will be posturing and grandstanding, all right. But whatever deal is struck to cover a state revenue shortfall of $342 million will be staged to the last punch and wail. The whole thing is being scripted in secret meetings in Carson City.

Well, well.