Yarbrough: Voters, not courts, should decide presidential choices

In case you haven’t noticed, there is an election scheduled for this November to choose the Leader of the Free World. As of this writing, the choice is between two candidates that a majority of the American people don’t particularly care for.

Yarbrough: Some advice for the new year

Dear Cameron: Well, here we go again. To Cameron Charles Yarbrough, it’s a new year so here’s some more unsolicited advice from your great-grandpa. We have been at this quite a while, so I hope these observations have been of some value to you.

Yarbrough: Here comes 2024

Wait a minute! What was that that just blew by me? It looks like 2023 but it has gone so fast I hardly saw it. Okay, I know we have a few days left in the year, but by the time I write this and you read it, it will probably be July. Or at least it seems that way. I remember sitting in Ms.

Yarbrough: When going to the dogs is a good thing

You’ve heard the old saying that things are going to the dogs. After talking to Jennifer Arnold, we should be so lucky. Ms.

Yarbrough: A sense of closure over long lost fraternity brother

The mystery is solved. I now know what happened to my fraternity brother, Maj. Paschal Boggs, USMC, was declared Missing in Action in 1967. Finally, there is a sense of closure. Pat Boggs and I were from the same town, East Point, and we were both undergrads at the University of Georgia.

Yarbrough: Awakening on sleep deprivation

You never know what you are going to discover in the process of churning out columns.

Yarbrough: Giving thanks at a special time of year

I am thankful. I am thankful that while you may see other Thanksgiving columns appear at this time of reflection, you took the time to read this one.

Yarbrough: Why Israel has a right to defend itself

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 grandchild of their own. One particular note stood out.

Yarbrough: Attorney General seeks stop to police training center violence

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. Sen. Johnny Isakson, which is appropriate since he once served as Isakson’s chief of staff in Washington.

Yarbrough: No Nobel Literature Prize – again

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, the Nobel Committee is located in Sweden and the award went to a Norwegian.