When the state legislature voted 30 years ago to vastly improve Mississippi’s highways, they passed an 18 cent gas tax. It was the most logical way to fund the program.
As a result, Mississippi has had some of the best roads in the nation, a boon for economic development and public safety and convenience.
Matthew 22:21 says, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.” Save for the Doctrine of the Separation of Church and State, it might be suggested that “There ought to be a law:” The solemnity of Easter and the irreverence of April Fool’s Day are sufficiently incompatible that the two sh
After watching "The Masters" recently, I realized how much professional golf is like the free market.
Most any other spring, Southern Miss ace pitcher Nick Sandlin would be a shoe-in to win the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, which goes to the most outstanding college baseball player in Mississippi.
February 14, 2018. This day of love hadn’t started out too well. My old lady dog sleeps with me, her head pressing the bend of my knees.
This morning when I got out of bed, she made sharp yelping noises, as if she were having a bad dream. I had a hard time waking her up.
“I need you, June Cleaver.”
Two hundred and twenty-six years ago, the Federalists were having trouble getting the states to ratify the new Constitution of the United States. The anti-Federalists, led by Samuel Adams, John Hancock and Patrick Henry, feared the proposed constitution did not adequately protect the individual rights of the common man.
While American farmers, carmakers and others worry about the prospect of an escalating trade war between China and the United States, an industry that I know much more about is already feeling the effects of protectionist tariffs.
While American farmers, carmakers and others worry about the prospect of an escalating trade war between China and the United States, an industry that I know much more about is already feeling the effects of protectionist tariffs.
The MS River – Winning
At the height of the nuclear arms race, the U.S. and the old USSR reached stalemate. Mutually Assured Destruction. Each side could destroy the other. So, neither launched the first missile. Both eventually reduced their arsenals. No nuclear disasters so far. (“Dr. Strangelove” was fiction.)
More and more Americans are joining the chorus that Facebook’s hoarding of data about its users, which has fueled its phenomenal growth, is not a good thing for us individually or as a nation. And it’s music to my ears.
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