The 2007 law that would ban abortions in Mississippi if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade isn’t the only so-called “trigger law” language the state has. Read more
STARKVILLE — Pew Center Research reflects a widely shared belief in this nation that distrust of the federal government and distrust among fellow Americans is a fundamental obstacle to finding meaningful solutions to the problems that confront our country. Read more
The horrific massacre in Buffalo has created a debate about the “great replacement theory,” the rancid theory adopted by white supremacists that Jewish people are conspiring to destroy the influence of white Americans by importing non-white immigrants. Read more
Seeing Russia invade Ukraine, historically neutral Finland has undergone a late conversion and decided to join NATO immediately. Read more
Among the many choices you have is the degree of enthusiasm you inject into your life. At one end of the spectrum are those who drag themselves through each day as if it were a prison sentence. When you greet this type of person and ask how they are doing, a likely response is, “I’m alive.” … Read more
Former Gov. Phil Bryant has constantly been in the news in recent weeks thanks to the reporting of Mississippi Today’s Anna Wolfe about his involvement in the welfare fraud scandal that engulfed the Department of Human Services that he used to oversee. Read more
‘It’s too late,” is one of the most commonly used excuses for making positive changes to your life. In reality, it’s never too late. Each day is a fresh opportunity to pursue your desires. Making excuses not to do so shortchanges your future. Read more
As predicted months ago, Mississippi is now the epicenter of America’s divisive, bitter abortion rights debate. Read more
Irony doesn’t begin to explain why pro-choice activists chose Mother’s Day weekend to picket the homes of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts, who appear ready to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read more
Last week, sources leaked to The New York Times that, in Ukraine’s targeting and killing of Russian generals and the sinking of Russia’s Black Sea flagship, the Moskva, U.S. intelligence played an indispensable role. Read more
The United States is in the grips of a fentanyl crisis that doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. Read more
The latest skirmish in the nation’s highly partisan, often logically erratic fight over the broad topic of immigration is being fought over the Biden Administration’s plan to rescind an obscure public health law written 78 years ago to stop the spread of communicable diseases like tuberculosis. Read more
Gov. Tate Reeves has been vocal in his opposition to the teaching of critical race theory and his support of the nation’s and state’s “patriotic” history. Read more
My wife and I took our sons to the circus a few years ago. Read more
President Joe Biden should take notice. With the economy the predominant issue, the last business day of April brought disquieting news for Democrats. Read more
Lending money is not, as they say, rocket science. Read more
The specter of procrastination is always lurking in the background attempting to derail your goal attainment. When you put things off, nothing happens. If you’re waiting for things to happen, you’ll be waiting a long time. Read more
STARKVILLE — In any given publication since 1939, The Journal of Mississippi History has been an invaluable record of the institutional memory of the state of Mississippi. But few editions of the scholarly journal have been more valuable to Mississippians than is the current Vol. 84, No. 1 a… Read more
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill passed by the Republican-majority legislature that revokes a special tax exemption and other privileges for Walt Disney World in Orlando. This was in response to the company’s current leadership and some of its employees who have protested anot… Read more
Close attention will be focused on the normally low-key Mississippi Ethics Commission when it considers and rules on whether members of the House Republican Caucus, led by Speaker Philip Gunn, violate the state’s open meeting law when they meet behind closed doors. Read more
Mississippi’s political leaders have talked for years about cutting the 7 percent tax on groceries, the highest statewide tax of its kind in the nation in its poorest state. Read more
STARKVILLE — One of the state’s more mainstream conservative business groups last week unveiled a unanimous resolution endorsing Medicaid expansion in Mississippi – the venerable Delta Council. The resolution, adopted by the group’s Health and Education Committee, was clear and unequivocal i… Read more
Carrying baggage is exhausting. When traveling we often pack more than we need. When making a trip it’s always easier to travel light. Read more
A year after being named Time magazine’s person of the year, Elon Musk is attempting to acquire Twitter. Read more
In Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, it reads: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” Read more
“And they’re off,” as the callers of horse races say, but in this case, it means the government will no longer enforce mask mandates on airplanes, trains, buses, subways and other forms of public transportation. Read more
How you start your day determines how your day goes. Starting you day with a positive attitude creates the foundation for a good day. But when you begin your day with a negative attitude, you set the stage for a problem filled day. Read more
As the midterm elections approach, why isn’t their more interest in the approaching U.S. Social Security and Medicare policy abyss? Read more
The failure of the Legislature to restore the initiative process that allows citizens to place issues on the ballot for voters to decide could be seen as a case study on how a handful of people or even one lawmaker can determine whether a proposal lives or dies. Read more
When he arrived at Christ the Savior Cathedral to pay his respects to the ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who had died of COVID-19, Russian President Vladimir Putin carried a clutch of red roses. Read more
Russia has found just the man to lead its ongoing assault on Ukraine, Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov. Read more
The battle over whether parents, or public schools and elites should decide what goes into the minds and souls of students has entered a second stage. Read more
Since 1992 and at earlier points in the state’s history, Mississippi voters have been able to bypass the Legislature and engage in what has been called “direct democracy” in proposing constitutional amendments and getting them decided at the ballot box rather than at the state Capitol Building. Read more
In a civil, polite society we shouldn’t run around slapping comedians, politicians, radio or television personalities, or musical performers. The list goes on and includes everyone. Will Smith’s stunt of slapping comedian Chri Rock at the 2022 Oscars was a bad idea. It was only by the grace … Read more
Gov. Tate Reeves, members of the media and other politicians are touting the $246 million teacher pay raise passed this session of the Mississippi Legislature as the largest in state history. Read more
The walls evidently aren’t closing in on President Joe Biden. Read more
President Biden declared in his State of the Union address: “In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security.” Read more
Actor Denzel Washington has done something increasingly rare these days. Variety reports Bishop T.D. Jakes interviewed Washington about Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock during the recent Academy Awards ceremony. Washington said, “But for the grace of God go any of us. Who are we to condemn?” Read more
STARKVILLE — Like Ross Barnett, Jim Buck Ross, Robert “Blowtorch” Mason, and J.P. Coleman before him, highly successful trial lawyer John Arthur Eaves Sr. was a master of populist political campaigns and always made of most of his 10-minute speaking slot at the Neshoba County Fair, the Jacin… Read more
America has been good to help people and more are on the way. Read more
We were young and Jason was my best friend. Read more
While President Joe Biden was in Brussels and Warsaw showing U.S. solidarity with Ukraine, the 38-year-old autocrat who rules North Korea made a bold bid for the president’s attention. Read more
I have been writing for years about how progressive policies championed by the Democratic Party and served up under the guise of caring about low-income Americans wind up hurting these very communities. Read more
STARKVILLE — Forget for a moment, if you can, the horrible human cost of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set aside the sad visages of the dead and maimed, the displaced and suffering, and the millions of refugees facing catastrophe. Read more
When one sits down to make a deal with the devil, it is the devil who usually wins. That’s because he is “crafty,” as the book of Genesis describes him. Read more
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: “It’s time to meet, time to talk ... time to restore territorial integrity ... for Ukraine.” Read more
- Clarence and Ginni Thomas, are American patriots
- Life is good
- Why Mississippi is not known for very competitive elections
- West Point’s Harris family cast a long, impactful shadow in Mississippi journalism
- Is a peace deal possible in Ukraine?
- Deeper and deeper in debt
- Do you take in life or do you help others?
- Searching for certainty in an uncertain world
- Surviving ballot initiative measure welcome, but short of rights voters previously had
- Lawmakers spent hours on a bill to ban critical race theory. But does it?
- We all face challenges
- US policy is to cheer Ukrainians on and keep us out
- A morally weak Biden invites Putin's advances
- You do make a difference
- Want a $1,000 check? Mississippi, flush with cash, could send you one instead of cutting taxes
- Former Ukrainian Ambassador Chaly’s words to MSU students in 2016 prove prophetic
- How much is freedom worth?
- Ukraine's fate is rooted in tragic history
- Nationalism's finest hour
- Watching the return of the 'evil empire'
- Are politicians ‘whistling past the graveyard’ with tax cut proposals while still phasing in past cuts?
- Everything comes full circle
- Failing to understand Evil: Then and now
- Are Democrats kicking away their future?
- "Freedom" is still the Republican rallying cry
- It takes courage to turn your life around
- Reversing the historic move of Bilbo statue could prove difficult
- Randolph pushing for expansion of intervention courts as an alternative to incarceration
- Dirty tricks: The sequel
- Spotify shouldn't accept the premises of the cancelers
- Lamentations over redistricting prove wrong
- Origin of state’s huge budget surplus lost in legislative march toward massive tax cuts
- Putin wants his own Monroe Doctrine
- Raskin is Biden's latest anti-freedom nominee
- Why is Sen. Roger Wicker so picky about SCOTUS picks all of a sudden?
- You can at least say howdy
- The real cause behind the rise in crime
- No action yet on Mississippi ballot initiative fix, but that’s about to change
- America’s housing dilemma, rent or own? Do what works for you
- Legislature deals with medical marijuana, but state’s initiative process remains dormant
- Biden proves hypocritical on Trump claims
- What would you do differently?
- Is NATO an asset or a liability?
- State, local governments coping with tax impacts of cord-cutting and streaming
- Success or failure is a state of mind
- Universal pre-k is another bad progressive idea
- Does the left really own the future?
- Germany is the worst ally
- Car tag reduction helps garner Democratic support for Gunn tax cut
- Biden, Democrats will drag inflation toward election as GOP’s Ford did in the 1970s