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Carl Langley
EdgefieldDaily.com
Guest Columnist
Carl
Langley is a veteran newspaper reporter who began his career in
1957
after his Army service. He is a graduate of the University of South
Carolina School of Journalism and has written three books based on his
columns and editorials after retiring from the Aiken Standard in 2002.
He spent 45 years in the newspaper business, most of it with The
Augusta Chronicle and Augusta Herald. During his long career he held a
number of reporting and editorial positions with the Augusta newspapers
and was a reporter and special assignments writer and columnist with
the Aiken Standard.
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Augusta
Sheriff Wins Again in Legal Battle with Radical
By:
Carl Langley
web
posted April 30, 2008
GUEST COLOUMN – The Georgia Court of
Appeals has handed down a decision that even the most incompetent of
lawyers can understand. The court, in an announcement made public
Tuesday, upheld a ruling by an Augusta judge who ordered an Aiken radio
station owner and a loud mouth, brainless talk show host to fork over
more than $6 million for slandering Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie
Strength.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Celebrating
a Hero’s Special Flag
By:
Carl Langley (Photo)
web
posted April 21, 2008
GEUST COLUMN – I was invited to a flag
raising on Patriots Day, and this was one ceremony it would have been a
shame to miss. I learned about the beauty of the human spirit and the
endurance of loving memories. It was on this special, refreshing day
that I found myself surrounded with love and remembrance in abundance,
and with so many people who love their country.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Charlton
Heston, Defender of Freedom
By:
Carl Langley
web
posted April 9, 2008
GUEST COLUMN – I began my working years
serving as an usher in my little home town’s theater and developed an
attachment to the make-believe world of movies that lasted well into
the 1970s.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Is High
Court Poised to Disarm the Lawful?
By
Carl Langley
web
posted March 24, 2008
GUEST COLUMN – The Supreme Court of the
United States is considering a lawsuit brought by a Washington, D.C.,
man and others who want to preserve the right to keep a handgun in
their homes for protection against the nation’s increasingly brazen
criminal element.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Preacher
of Hate Doesn’t Have a Clue
By
Carl Langley
web
posted March 17, 2008
GUEST COLUMN – Dr. Jeremiah Wright, the
raving lunatic who pastors a Chicago church, is about to do to Barack
Obama what Hillary Clinton has not been able to do: deliver a knockout
punch in the Democratic presidential primary.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Small
Businesses Are the Lifeblood of Capitalism
By
Carl Langley
web
posted March 11, 2008
GUEST COLUMN – Charles Wilson, a high
ranking cabinet official during the Eisenhower Administration of the
early 1950s, is famous more for one statement than any of his many
accomplishments in the private and public sectors of American life.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Hey Jesse,
Al How about a Little Help?
By
Carl Langley
web
posted February 4, 2008
GUEST COLUMN – I read about a murder
recently which was a little hard for me to take, considering the youth
of the slaying victim. But an analysis of this tragedy about a young
man who made a shambles out of his life reveals he set the stage for
his own death by choosing his associates.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Death
Takes a Cowardly Killer from the World
By:
Carl Langley
web
posted January 31, 2008
GUEST COLUMN – The average American,
burdened by ignorance on matters of historical significance, will not
notice the death of a man a couple of days ago whose passage through
life meant the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, was 82 at the time of his death from pneumonia in a Jordan
hospital, which was 82 years more than this rat deserved to live.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Remorseless
Killer’s Lifeless Hands end a Manhunt
By:
Carl Langley
web
posted January 15, 2008
GUEST COLUMN – In the end it was a pair of
hands floating in a jar of formaldehyde that brought to a conclusion
all the speculation about what had happened to a remorseless killer.
EdgefieldDaily.com
The
Lunatic Fringe Will Buy Anything
By:
Carl Langley
web
posted January 9, 2008
GUEST COLUMN – Hillary Clinton’s main
campaign mantra is the need to bring universal health care to millions
of what she describes as the lost, the hopeless, the uninsured, the
ones whose birthdays are overlooked and the ones who didn‘t get a
single present at Christmas.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Robbers
Are Victims of Price Gouging
By: Carl
Langley
EdgefieldDaily.com Columnist
web
posted January 4, 2008
GUEST COLUMN – It’s amazing what you can
stumble into while trying to ferret out some information. And that’s
especially true when you are working through the tangled web of a court
system.
EdgefieldDaily.com
A Special
Christmas With Billy the Kid
By:
Carl Langley
web
posted December 17, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – Every growing boy should
enjoy the companionship of a goat. There is much to be learned in
keeping and caring for a goat. During this Christmas season I recall
the time my brother and I got our
own goat. On Christmas Eve of 1939 Billy joined our family. He was a
solid white goat about six months old.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Life as a
Small Town Mayor Was Interesting
EdgefieldDaily.com
Guest Columnist
Part
4 of a 4-part short story
web
posted December 10, 2007
CARL LANGLEY – Being a small town mayor in
most places is not a very exciting job, so a mayor’s main job is
finding something interesting enough in town to grab and keep his
attention. You can only watch so many haircuts at the town’s one-chair
barber shop or watch so many oil changes and tire repairs at the corner
gas station before dullness sets in on a grand scale.
EdgefieldDaily.com
A Gruesome
Killing Scars a Small Town
EdgefieldDaily.com
Guest Columnist
Part
3 of a 4-part short story
web
posted December 4, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – With Tim and his pal parked
in a state penal facility, it appeared that life would return to
normal, or what passed for normal in those days. But things were going
to get worse. Much worse. The little petty crimes that had been
inflicted on the town for several years turned into horror. A gruesome
killing changed the town forever, splitting families and turning
friends against friends.
EdgefieldDaily.com
A Chatty
Girl Helps Spring the Jaws of Justice
Part
2 of a 4-part short story
By:
Columnist Carl Langley
web
posted November 26, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – With the threat of jail
removed by a judicial order, Tim loitered around town for several
weeks, always managing to elude the mayor’s watchful eye Meanwhile, the
mayor and several of his friends turned into night riders. He and his
buddies patrolled at night with axe handles, hoping to come across Tim
and his friends spray painting cars, overturning dumpsters, leaving
bags of feces on people’s porches and engaging themselves in other
civic pursuits.
EdgefieldDaily.com
A Brave
Mayor Takes on the Criminal Element
Part
1 of a 4-part short story
By:
Columnist Carl Langley
web
posted November 19, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – The sun was an hour away
from filtering through the large stand of pines along the side of the
street as the mayor wheeled his ramshackle Vega around the curve
leading to his home. The Vega, a piece of junk bought during the midst
of a divorce, wheezed and gasped at every stroke of a piston.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So You
Think You Know Everything?
web
posted November 14, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – The following is a weekly
quiz compiled by retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist Carl
Langley. It is aimed at expanding a reader’s word power and general
knowledge. Take the quiz and write down your answers to see how well
you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Grandparents
Are Special People
web
posted November 12, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – Sitting on the worn stool,
I watched the old man’s tanned and leathery hands guide the heavy
crimping tool around the end of a piece of tin pipe. As the tool worked
along the edge the tin collapsed in a succession of tiny folds, alike
in length, width and depth. The three-foot sections of pipe were joined
and held tight by the fluted ends to make venting for wood stoves,
heaters and other fireboxes.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Abuse
Mindset Seems a Twisted Dilemma
web
posted November 5, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – The stepmother thought the three children were sneaking
snacks, therefore to punish them she beat them. She beat them with a
wooden stake, the type used to mark the corners of property boundaries,
before resorting to a belt after a warning from an Aiken County Family
Court judge.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So You
Think You Know Everything?
web
posted October 30, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – The following is a weekly
quiz compiled by retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist Carl
Langley. It is aimed at expanding a reader’s word power and general
knowledge. Take the quiz and write down your answers to see how well
you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So You
Think You Know Everything?
web
posted October 22, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – The following is a weekly quiz compiled by
retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist Carl Langley. It is
aimed at expanding a reader’s word power and general knowledge. Take
the quiz and write down your answers to see how well you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
A Theory
on Global Warming
web
posted October 12, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – Now that Al Gore, an
assortment of nut cakes from academia and far-left scientists,
entertainment industry fruit loops and others have just about convinced
many of us that we are going to bake, it is time for some direct action
in this global warming business.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Judge
Tunes Out Radio Station Owner, Former Talk Show Host
web
posted October 8, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – The owner of an Aiken radio
station and its former loudmouth talk show host have been given a
lesson in the American judicial system, and those who have followed
this miserable case for months should be pleased that these two losers
earned failing grades.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So You
Think You Know Everything?
web
posted October 1, 2007
CARL LANGLEY – The following is a weekly
quiz compiled by retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist Carl
Langley. It is aimed at expanding a reader’s word power and general
knowledge. Take the quiz and write down your answers to see how well
you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So You
Think You Know Everything?
web
posted September 24, 2007
CARL LANGLEY – The following is a weekly
quiz compiled by retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist Carl
Langley. It is aimed at expanding a reader’s word power and general
knowledge. Take the quiz and write down your answers to see how well
you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So You
Think You Know Everything?
web
posted September 17, 2007
CARL LANGLEY – The following is a weekly
quiz compiled by retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist Carl
Langley. It is aimed at expanding a reader’s word power and general
knowledge. Take the quiz and write down your answers to see how well
you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So You
Think You Know Everything?
web
posted September 10, 2007
CARL LANGLEY – The following is a weekly
quiz compiled by retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist Carl
Langley. It is aimed at expanding a reader’s word power and general
knowledge. Take the quiz and write down your answers to see how well
you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So You
Think You Know Everything?
web
posted August 28, 2007
CARL LANGLEY – The following is a weekly
quiz compiled by retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist Carl
Langley. It is aimed at expanding a reader’s word power and general
knowledge. Take the quiz and write down your answers to see how well
you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Vick
Should Play, but for his Prison Team
web
posted August 27, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – The headline in the Augusta
Chronicle read, “NAACP
says Vick should play.”
I agree.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So You
Think You Know Everything?
web
posted August 21, 2007
CARL LANGLEY – The following is a weekly
quiz compiled by retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist Carl
Langley. It is aimed at expanding a reader’s word power and general
knowledge. Take the quiz and write down your answers to see how well
you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
The
lunatic fringe is at 10 percent and holding
web
posted August 13, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – One of the downsides of
living in a free society is that the more sane among us too often find
ourselves putting up with the crazies allowed to run free when they
should be bouncing off of walls covered with foam padding.
EdgefieldDaily.com
So you
think you know everything?
web
posted August 6, 2007
CARL
LANGLEY – The following is a weekly quiz compiled by retired newspaper
reporter, editor and columnist Carl Langley. It is aimed at expanding a
reader’s word power and general knowledge. Take the quiz and write down
your answers to see how well you score.
EdgefieldDaily.com
An Elderly
Senator Calls Out Dog Fighters
By:
Carl Langley
EdegefieldDaily.com Guest Columnist
web
posted July 30, 2007
GUEST COLUMN - West Virginia Sen. Robert
Byrd has filled me with pride for his fearless denunciation of the
thugs who operate pit bulldog fighting rings. “Barbarians,” cried Byrd
as he stood on the floor of the U.S. Senate
and lashed out at those he denounced for engaging in what most decent
people regard as a horrifying blood sport. Byrd, now in his late 80s
and a dog lover all his life, was unsparing
of his use of the words barbaric and barbarian. He repeated them over
and over, and I hope the thugs who support dog fighting were listening.
EdgefieldDaily.com
The Late
Terry Haskins Spared Many from Misery
By:
Carl Langley
EdgefieldDaily.com Guest Columnist
web posted July 24, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – There is joy in our land these days. Video poker, the beast
that at one time looked like it would not die, is on life support and
fading fast. Which means that the profiteers of this long-running
scandal, once sheltered by the Duke of Clarendon and his not-so Merry
Men in our state legislature, soon may have to find honest work.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Blood
Sports Are an Evil Inheritance
web
posted July 18, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – Cockfighting and dogfighting are the evil hand-me-downs from
ancient times, and despite laws prohibiting them in most of our states
they still flourish. I am animal lover, so each time I hear law
enforcement officers have
raided and broken up one of these horrid events I give a rousing cheer.
I long for the day when this despicable blood sport is purged forever,
but I fear it will take a dramatic change in some people‘s attitudes.
EdgefieldDaily.com
A Dark
Cloud Falls Over My Old Home Town
web
posted July 10, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – The Mafia, in all its
hideous glory, could have learned a thing or two about the crooks,
criminals and others who have run afoul of the law in my old home town.
EdgefieldDaily.com
God bless
you, Duke Flannagan
web
posted July 2, 2007
COLUMN – A few days ago I browsed through
my hometown newspaper and came upon an obituary notice that left me
stunned. It was a short piece about the death of a man I met many years
ago, the kind of person who attracted others as easily as a magnet
picks up iron filings.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Rogue
Prosecutor Caught in His Own Web
web
posted June 22, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – In the summer of 2006 there
was general agreement among anyone with half a brain that Durham
County. N.C., prosecutor Mike Nifong’s charges of rape, kidnap and
sexual assault against three Duke University lacrosse players
eventually would blow up in his face.
EdgefieldDaily.com
A Hate
Crime is in the Eye of the Beholder
web
posted June 7, 2007
GUEST COLUMN
– In the busy race-baiting worlds inhabited by Jesse Jackson and Al
Sharpton any unkind word spoken by a white person against a person of
color is a hate crime, and so are actions that are later found to be
false but whose revelations are greeted with silence
EdgefieldDaily.com
A Close Up
Look at One of Nature’s Miracles
web
posted May 29, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – Several years ago on a Saturday morning my wife and I loaded
up some household throwaways and headed for one of Aiken County’s
recycling centers. We drove into the center, pulled up to a huge bin
and tossed away what
once had been treasured items. We got back in the station wagon and
started to pull away when my wife said, “Hold on a minute.”
EdgefieldDaily.com
Court
sentencing recalls bad political times
web
posted May 14, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – In 1998 I was covering the
South Carolina political campaigns for the Aiken Standard newspaper,
and my focus was on the battle for governor between incumbent
Republican David Beasley and Democrat challenger Jim Hodges.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Racial
Rabble Rouser Could Use a History Lesson
web
posted May 1, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – Al Sharpton, the New York street
preacher, racial gadfly and proven outright liar, was able to gin up so
much verbal heat he cost a nationally syndicated radio talk show host
his job, but poor Al still can’t pass a 5th grade history test.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Michigan
legislators fleeing from reality
web
posted April 16, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – The Detroit News is speaking out against what it calls an
“excess of idiocy,” and if ever a newspaper had it right this one does.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Wanted
Now: A few Good Men to Lead Us
web
posted April 4, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – It’s a shame that this country and our motherland of
Great Britain no longer have people like Viscount Kitchener, Bomber
Harris, Chesty Puller and George Patton to help reinforce the
principles of a democratic society.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Religion
can be directed only be reason and conviction
web
posted March 24, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – “Religion can be directed only by reason and conviction,
not by force or violence, and therefore all men are entitled to the
free exercise of religion.” - James Madison, fourth president of the
United States.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Dogs, one
of God's wonderful gifts
web
posted March 12, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – They live in a world filled with boundless joy
that
comes from their love for the ones who care for them, and they are
privy to secrets that not even the greatest researchers have been able
to diagnosis with any great degree of confidence.
EdgefieldDaily.com
A Veil of
Secrecy Protects the Worst of the Worst
web posted February 27, 2007
GUEST COLUMN – There are few crimes that rank on the loathsome scale
with murder and rape. But there is one, when ranked in the category of
moral depravity, that can equate with murder and rape.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Where has
all the good music gone?
web posted February 19, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – Johnny Mercer’s grandmother knew the infant she was holding in
her lap would someday be famous for his musical talents. The legend has
it that the doting grandmother told family members and friends that the
six-month-old baby she was rocking in Savannah in the early years of
the 1900s would begin humming a tune each time he heard a piano playing.
EdgefieldDaily.com
A
starlet’s death exposes the empty minds of millions
web posted February 13, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – web posted February 13, 2007
COLUMN – All she ever did was stand there, flashing a manufactured
smile, tossing her bleached blonde hair in come hither fashion and
mumbling the one-syllable words that exposed her intelligence - and all
the while looking as pretty as she could.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Nation's
Slide in Education Is Picking up Speed
web posted February 5, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – For the second time in the last several months an
interesting e-mail has arrived at my desk, and this time it was passed
along to me by a friend who has long shared my fearful outlook on the
decline of American education.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Duke
Lacrosse Non-Case Exposes Some Unsavory Business
web posted January 29, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN – A noted author once wrote that there is nothing more
dangerous than an outraged mother protecting her brood. Some time back
I watched CBS’ popular news magazine show “60 Minutes”
(one of my favorite viewing areas in a bleak television landscape) and
saw firsthand what the writer was talking about. The mothers of Duke
lacrosse players Collin Finnerty, David Evans and
Reade Seligman were being interviewed by CBS correspondent Leslie
Stahl, and what these mothers had to say should send shivers up the
spine of Durham, N.C., prosecutor Michael Nifong.
EdgefieldDaily.com
One lucky
dog
web posted January 15, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN - Lucky hobbled down the ramp leading up to his new home. With
his tail wagging briskly, a dog’s university sign of welcome, he was
eager to greet the guests arriving for dinner. On this sunny, warm
afternoon the big, friendly dog was well on his way to recovery from
wounds that could have killed him. Only a few weeks back his life was
slowly ebbing away because of two broken legs that had left him unable
to seek help.
EdgefieldDaily.com
The state
of the nation
web posted January 15, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN - A
couple of weeks back I wrote a piece chastising liberal college and
university professors for tainting the minds of young students whose
parents spend thousands upon thousands of dollars for the right for
their children to be taught by the mentally deranged.
EdgefieldDaily.com
God save
the
USA!
web posted January 8, 2007
GUEST
COLUMN - My,
my, my. It seems I have put a gentleman named Alan White into a tizzy
and tied his undies into knots with my commentary about liberal college
professors running amok on some college campuses.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Taking on
education
web posted January 2, 2007
GUEST COLUMN - By even the
most conservative of estimates it now costs American parents about
$25,000 a year to pay for the college education of a single child, and
you can add several thousand more for the incidentals. That’s a
burdensome investment in preparing one’s offspring for the future, so
any parent expects his or her student will receive an education that
lays a firm foundation to succeed in a highly competitive world.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Quoting
reality
web posted December 26, 2006
GUEST COLUMN - For many years
I have made a habit of jotting down some of the more memorable quotes
heard during the past year, and now I share with your readers some of
them with accompanying commentary.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Three rousing
cheers for
Goldman Sachs and free markets
web posted December 21, 2006
GUEST COLUMN - There’s
nothing like a success story, or hundreds of success stories,
to set our liberal scolds and complainers to weeping and wailing and
screaming their protests against the free enterprise system.
EdgefieldDaily.com
Goodbye Kofi,
And Don’t Come
Back
web
posted December 18, 2006
GUEST
COLUMN - The
good news for a
war-weary world is that the United Nations, a
long-time haven for some of the planet’s worst liars and thieves, will
soon be under new management.
At the top of the international pecking order of people who shun honest
work is South Korean diplomat Ban Ki-moon, who took the oath as new UN
secretary general last week and immediately vowed to change the
character of the world body.
EdgefieldDaily.com
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