Though Mississippi is a small Southern state facing constant criticism and condescension from the national media and coastal enclaves, our state’s congressional delegation is relevant and powerful, to say the least. Mississippi’s senators and congressman hold important committee chairmanships and facilitate...
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A ghost-like specter is haunting the United States: the specter of the “bad hombres.” Now political powers have entered an alliance to exorcise this specter, which they claim is bringing crime, taking away jobs and even interfering in the electoral process. But the “bad hombres” specter, just like all ghostly creatures, is a fiction intended to...
I want to join the many Americans who are applauding President Donald Trump’s pick of Neil Gorsuch for the United States Supreme Court. The court has been vacant one member for almost a year now since the sudden death of Antonin Scalia. The court has also been set back by the heated partisan debate over whether to confirm a new justice nominated by President...
Political discourse in the United States is a sham. The American people have devolved discussion on complex issues into 140 characters, fear-mongering and the most trivial of memes. People, both in the media and out, no longer pursue the truth. American discourse as a whole is an echo chamber of “alternative facts” that are sought out of convenience rather than...
