Santa and Frank
People who remember the old comic strip "Peanuts" will recall an often repeated situation where Lucy offers to hold a football for Charlie Brown to kick. Then, as Charlie coming running up to kick it, Lucy snatches away the ball and Charlie Brown loses his balance and goes crashing on his backside.
by Thomas Sowell
on July 8, 2010, 1:38 pm
Certainly not in vain
I went to the funeral of a friend last week. That seems to be happening more and more lately, and every time I attend one, I become more aware of just how fleeting this life actually is, and how little advance warning we sometimes have that it’s about to end.
by Dawn Dillon Barrett
on July 8, 2010, 1:09 pm
U.S. Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, left, Senate majority Leader and a staunch support of the Stennis Space Center, meets with Roy Estess, right, the center's director, during and August 1996 visit. Estess, a native of Silver Creek community near progress, died last Friday at his Bogue chitto River house south of Tylertown
on July 1, 2010, 4:50 pm
Thomas Jeffcoat, MD of the Orthopaedic Clinic of Southwest Mississippi in McComb was recently elected President of the Mississippi Orthopaedic Society at the annual meeting of the state society in Biloxi. Dr. Jeffcoat has been on the active staff of Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb since 1979 and is a former Chief of Staff of the hospital. He is currently serving as Medical Director of the Kings Daughters Wound Care Clinic and is a consulting staff member for Kings Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven.
on July 1, 2010, 12:27 pm
A Sad Day
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> The flap about General Stanley McChrystal's "resignation" was nobody's
> finest hour. But there are some painful lessons in all this that go beyond
> any of the individuals involved-- the general, the president or any of the
> officials at the Pentagon or the State Department.
> What is far more important than all these individuals put together are the
> lives of the tens of thousands of Americans fighting in Afghanistan. What
> is even more important is the national security of this country.
> It is certainly not politic for a general or his staff to express their
by Thomas Sowell
on July 1, 2010, 11:51 am
Many of the people who followed Jesus as He walked the dusty roads of the earth could not handle the freedom of responsibility that Jesus gave them. Most people would rather be dominated by the status quo of culture than make any statements that would rock its boat.
by Rev. W. Lamar Massingill
on July 1, 2010, 11:44 am
As the clock ticked by, I wondered if Wyatt would be one of the few teenagers whose attitude couldn’t be adjusted by a CMT “World Strictest’s Parents” host family. In an earlier episode Brian had left before the week was over, and he obviously wasn’t helped. But Wyatt wasn’t talking about leaving. He was simply difficult.
The host parents had their hands full. Wyatt was determined to break them, but as his stay progressed, he seemed more and more despondent. His flat, dead eyes said it all.
by Allyn M. Evans
on July 1, 2010, 11:39 am
Lesson of the purple nose
“I have olive skin, so if I get pale,
I look green. I have to tan.” ~ Nicole Richie
When are we going to decide it’s okay to quit burning our skin? Recent articles in medical journals are shouting at us again this summer, warning about the dangers of skin cancer and urging us to stay out of the hot sun during mid-day, wear sunscreen and hats, and forego tanning beds.
by Beth Jacks
on July 1, 2010, 11:36 am
In The New York Times' profile on the family of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, her aunt was quoted as saying: "There was thinking, always thinking" at the family's dinner table. "Nothing was sacrosanct."
Really? Nothing was sacrosanct? Because in my experience, on a scale of 1-to-infinity, the range of acceptable opinion among New York liberals goes from 1-to-1.001.
by Ann Coulter
on July 1, 2010, 11:32 am
