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By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 717 Reads
On Fri, 01/22/2021 - 08:54 AM

Sixty years ago on January 25, 1961 my mother went into labor in the house where my wife, Danny, and I now live — my great-grandfather’s house that had become my grandparents’ house by then.

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Observations as the new year begins

By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 2,803 Reads
On Thu, 01/07/2021 - 01:29 PM

So far, so good. The new year began and we were asleep before it rang in and awoke well after day break. Party animals! Pandemic party animals, I suppose.

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Christmas? Look hard, it’s there somewhere

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On Wed, 12/23/2020 - 11:35 AM

I wrote some of these words three or four years ago, but very early last Thursday morning — a week before Christmas Eve — the dogs were barking in their kennel and something, somewhere fell, and as I lay in bed wide awake I thought to myself “boy are the words to that song ringing true this year.”

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Life is short, seek the treasure

By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 2,604 Reads
On Thu, 12/17/2020 - 04:09 PM

In the blistering heat of the 1999 summer a film crew was in Mississippi shooting scenes for the upcoming movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou? The film starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, among other stars, is set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. It’s a comedy, and a good one at that.

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SALTER: Remembering Sylvia Howell Krebs: A woman of talent, substance and curiosity

By Sid Salter - Mississippi State University, READ MORE > 285 Reads
On Wed, 01/27/2021 - 11:25 AM

OPINION column by: Sid Salter

Earlier this month, a gentle, intellectual giant died and it’s likely that few among her university colleagues and friends in Douglasville, Georgia knew they were in the presence of a Hall of Fame athlete.

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Whistling Dixie

By Dustin Whitlock, READ MORE > 237 Reads
On Wed, 01/27/2021 - 10:19 AM

You do not have to be from the South to know the phrase, “You ain’t just whistling Dixie,” but to understand it one must know that to whistle “Dixie” is to fantasize of something scandalous and perilous. Specifically, it means to joke about secession.

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Nightcap, day-cap, COVID-go-away-cap

By Tim Beeland, READ MORE > 223 Reads
On Wed, 01/27/2021 - 10:17 AM

I keep seeing all these press releases come across my desk about things related to, or caused by, the COVID-19 pandemic. Things other than sickness, death, unemployment, financial ruin etc., etc., etc.

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Wicker Encourages Biden to Unify America

By Senator Roger Wicker, READ MORE > 550 Reads
On Fri, 01/22/2021 - 11:37 AM

OPINION column by Senator Roger Wicker

Impeachment and Far-Left Proposals Will Not Heal Divisions

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SALTER: With Democrat trifecta in Washington, Republicans stand at an uneasy crossroads

By Sid Salter - Mississippi State University, READ MORE > 631 Reads
On Wed, 01/20/2021 - 10:45 AM

OPINION column by: Sid Salter

At noon today with the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Democrats will control the White House, the U.S. House of Representatives and narrowly the U.S. Senate.

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Wicker: Big Tech Has Crossed a Red Line

By Press Release - Senator Roger Wicker, READ MORE > 1,168 Reads
On Fri, 01/15/2021 - 04:46 PM

OPINION column - Senator Roger Wicker

Wave of Censorship Confirms Need to Confront Tech Monopolies

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