I’ve been delaying working on this for a few days.  Sometimes, what I have to say makes me uncomfortable. My father had eight children. Four...

 In 1978 I was fifteen years old.  It was the first year I ever fully experienced the darkness inside me.  My family fought through an extra...

 The genius of the Citizens Council, the thing that made them both the most effective and the most evil, was that they equated segregation w...

Our mom's generation tells us about how they would put on starched cotton dresses with half a dozen petticoats and white kidd gloves and...

 The governor came to church today.  It’s good for the church when he comes, and it’s good for him when he comes, and I don’t mean political...

 Here on the front end of sixty, here is the tally on my experience with guns: A few dead deer.  Several dead ducks and doves.  A few dead s...

 Wayne LaPierre and the NRA are big fans of the idea that a "good guy with a gun" is all you need to solve the problem of "ba...

 In Lee: The Last Years, Flood quotes one of the "KA Five" as saying of Lee that "We likened him unto Agamemnon."  I alw...

Civil Rights, Culture Wars: The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook by Charles W. Eagles I've just been made aware of this book, but I...

A lot of people find things they don't understand are intimidating.  It's a natural reaction.  If you don't know what's in a...

 1985.  Ruben Anderson is appointed to the Mississippi State Supreme Court.  My dad decided to have a dinner party in his honor.  My dad was...

Ok, here's another tough one.  Before you get mad, hear me out.  These are just my observations and ideas.  Maybe they have merit, perha...

Recently I wrote about how conservatives in these troubled times are returning to their roots and re-reading Ayn Rand . In the interest of ...

Although we disagree on religion, I usually find myself agreeing with Penn Jillette most of the time. Penn says he never tried drugs. Consi...

This is one of my favorite performances in the history of cinema. If you've never seen Network , I encourage you to see it as soon as y...

It's probably not possible, but part of me would like federal authorities to put off Frank Melton's retrial until after we elect a n...

Even though they've issued an apology, people are still simmering over the New York Post's Obama-Chimp cartoon. It's offensive, ...

What the hell is a "progressive"? As best I can tell, it's some sort of modern liberal, only they don't use that word lest...

I'm beginning to worry that we're losing faith in everything, especially ourselves. From politics to the economy to culture and rel...

It's looking more and more like Frank Melton's second trial may end in a hung jury. I really thought both juries would find his acti...