Two bills are pending in the Mississippi Legislature that would allow voters to recall their elected officials. Read moreRep. Yates’ controversial recall bill doesn’t include lawmakers. A Senate bill does.

Statewide elections will be on the ballot later this year for all state eight statewide executive branch offices, all state district offices and for all 174 posts in the Mississippi Legislature in addition to county offices and county district offices in all 82 Mississippi counties including… Read moreRestoration of Mississippi’s ballot initiative process should be on voter’s agenda in 2023

An Old Testament story records an overwhelming infestation of frogs throughout Egypt. There was no place in Egypt where frogs were not present in large numbers. The plague was sent in response to Pharoah’s attitude toward the Israelite people who lived in slavery under his rule. When God end… Read moreClassified documents continue to pile up

If you want to see a classic case of how President Joe Biden’s regulatory tendencies are strangling the U.S. economy and raising prices, look no further than the latest Justice Department efforts to kill an airline merger that is pro-consumer. Read moreProposed airline merger would bring more competition and lower fares

There’s nothing white supremacy can’t do. Read moreMemphis is not about racism

No adjective is sufficient to describe the reaction one gets from watching five Memphis police officers beat 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to within an inch of his life. He later died of his injuries in a local hospital. Read moreInhumanity in Memphis

The disconnect is stunning. Read moreBest fiscal condition in state history? Mississippians clearly don’t see it that way.

STARKVILLE — Even before global headlines seized on the fact that for the first time in a half-century, China’s mammoth population was in decline, Fiscal Year 2023 U.S. agricultural trade projections were down overall and specifically down with China. Read moreGlobal agriculture markets have substantial impacts on local Mississippi communities

Change is inevitable. Change is OK. Everyone changes and everyone experiences change. You will experience internal and external changes. External changes originate from your environment and the people in it. Internal changes often occur in response to external changes. Read moreChange is inevitable

As tensions about raising the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling build, the headline that should be flashing in front of every American is that our country is not working. Read moreNational debt reflects a nation that's lost its way

In the wake of the “Twitter Files,” let’s revisit former President Barack Obama’s warning last April about the spread of misinformation: “You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspir… Read moreObama ignores Democrats' own garbage

In our relativistic age in which everyone has his or her own “truth” and none is to be preferred over another so long as the individual feels good about it, why should anything be considered scandalous? If truth is subjective rather than objective, who is to say what is right and what is wro… Read moreScandal? What scandal?

STARKVILLE — In a Jan. 12 email announcing that he is challenging incumbent Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves for the state’s top job, Democratic Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley said in the final paragraph: “If you make me your Governor, I promise you this… Read moreFamiliar Democratic echoes heard in Presley’s challenge to incumbent GOP governor

Whether United States Supreme Court justices take the time to understand how Mississippi’s Constitution is amended could determine if they agree to hear a case asking that a provision prohibiting most people convicted of felonies from voting be found unconstitutional. Read moreSupreme Court's decision on felony suffrage hinges on understanding of state amendment process

Integrity: adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty Read moreIntegrity is priceless

Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, pro-life Americans will March for Life in Washington, D.C. Read moreThe struggle to protect life continues

Copernicus surely had no idea when he got the Scientific Revolution underway in the 16th century that an unintended effect would be empowering agenda-driven bullies and fanatics. Read moreNo, you can't believe the science

“I’m gonna live forever, baby, remember my name” Read moreThe other side of fame

In terms of political theatre, there is nothing like a speaker’s race. Read moreU.S. House speaker chaos proves it could happen again in Mississippi

You have complete control over your thoughts. Thought patterns develop over a lifetime; a result of the influences of schooling, parents, friends, relatives, TV, movies, etc. Read moreYou are what you think about

American citizens last week learned a new phrase in the nation’s political lexicon, one not heard 14 consecutive times on Capitol Hill since before the Civil War: “No person having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected.” Read moreMcCarthy’s politically expensive election as House Speaker leaves a hard road forward

I grew up in a household with parents who were of the Greatest Generation. They lived and shouldered through the Great Depression, and then their lives and families were thrown into turmoil on Dec. 7, 1941. My grandfather worked for the War Department in Washington, D.C., and during World Wa… Read moreUS Big Three auto companies commit to making cars nobody wants

After months of ignoring the problem and demonstrably false claims by his Homeland Security secretary that the southern border is “secure,” President Biden is finally visiting the area this week as part of a trip to Mexico. Read moreBarn doors and horses

Not all conspiracy theories are created equal. Read moreThe conspiracy theory that deranged American public life

When the Mississippi Legislature convened at noon Tuesday, it marked the final time for House Speaker Philip Gunn to gavel to order a regular session. Read moreGunn ushered in budget rule limiting influence of rank-and-file members

Just three months back, Mississippians celebrated Gov. Tate Reeves’ announcement of a $2.5 billion aluminum mill project in the Golden Triangle that promised 1,000 jobs at an average salary of $93,000. Read moreState’s agriculture and forestry is a $9.7 billion renewable economic development project

By now, just about everyone has heard about the massive campaign of lies that Republican George Santos fabricated that just got him elected to a congressional seat from New York. Read moreSantos is a child of woke America

Where are Americans moving? And where, to make things more specific, have Americans been moving since the sudden onset of COVID lockdowns? Answers to these questions come from the annual Christmastime release of the Census Bureau’s estimates of the population of the 50 states and the Distric… Read moreCOVID only accelerated the blue state exodus

Long after it has run its course on TV, the show “Yellowstone” will provide fodder for countless Ph.D. candidates in whiteness studies. Read moreYellowstone is not a show about race

For the first time in more than 68 years, the statue of Theodore Bilbo will not be in the Mississippi Capitol when the Legislature convenes its 2023 session on Jan. 3. Read moreCould Jefferson Davis, J.Z. George follow Bilbo to storage?

Frankly, neither Republicans nor Democrats hold much moral high ground on the issue of immigration. Historically, the issue has been a political football with both parties talking a lot but not taking much action in the halls of Congress. Read moreTitle 42: Health protection law or border control measure to impede asylum seekers?

We developed the habit of looking down as young children when we were upset, angry, embarrassed, frustrated, or dejected. We stared at the ground as we walked around sulking. We were withdrawn and unresponsive. We used this behavior as an escape rather than trying to remedy a situation. Read moreLook up, not down

One of the biggest promises by Republicans in the 2022 election season was that if they won a majority in the House, they would defund the $80 billion that Biden wants to hire 87,000 new IRS agents. Read moreRepublicans should say no to IRS expansion

In a theatrical performance the worst thing that can happen is to have a predictable outcome. That is precisely what occurred with the Jan. 6 Committee, which has referred former President Donald Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution on four counts – “influencing or imp… Read moreBad political theater

China sent 71 aircraft and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour period, while Russia shelled the Kherson region more than 70 times. Read moreBeware aggrieved empires

Having an opportunity to spend a little time with Mike Leach and experience the world through his filters – or lack of them – was a privilege for which I will always be grateful. Read moreCoach Mike Leach: Fair winds, calm seas to college football’s most famous ‘pirate’

A majority of the members of the Mississippi Ethics Commission said they were required to ignore what the state constitution said when they made their ruling that the Legislature is not bound by the open meetings law. Read moreEthics Commission contradiction: Members take oath to constitution, but can't consider it in rulings

So far, Donald Trump is having the worst campaign launch since Beto O’Rourke. Read moreTrump's miserable month

If you like cream in your coffee (if not, the analogy works with any other drink), keep pouring after you have reached what you would normally drink. If you pour the cream long enough it will replace the coffee. Read moreThe diluting of America

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving – we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Read moreDon't drift through life

Mississippi’s historic growth in state tax collections is slowing – at least for a month. Read moreAre revenue collections already slowing as state leaders consider massive tax cut?

STARKVILLE — The debate over the recent prisoner exchange that brought about the release of WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Britany Griner’s release from a Russian prison is yet another example of a polarized, divided America and of bedrock political disagreements that make the … Read moreTwo U.S. presidents have ignored Marine Paul Whelan’s plight in a Russian prison

So, I’m an idiot. Read moreFinding our own superheroes

Elon Musk, who has never called himself a conservative, is now the nation’s foremost culture warrior. Read moreElon Musk is the nation's foremost culture warrior

Politico Europe, a publication marinated in green politics, has named Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of its “power players of the year” – for, in the publication’s words, “advancing Europe’s green agenda.” Read moreThe Night the lights went out in Europe

Leaving aside any possible undeclared motives for leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an Independent, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema has said some things that have needed to be said for a long time. Read moreSinema departs the Democratic Party

Tate Reeves, during his nearly 19 years in elective office, has subscribed to the theory that a good defense is best achieved through a bold offense. Read moreFeds take over Jackson water after failures at the local and state level

Somewhere from a place high on God’s mountain, lifetime Neshoba County resident Hugh “Boots” Harpole is smiling and bragging about his grandson Andrew Bailey, the newly-minted attorney general of the State of Missouri. Read moreMissouri’s new attorney general learned courtroom ropes from a Mississippi grandfather