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State delegation responds to State of the Union

Mississippi representatives and senators weighed in after President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address ... Read more

Columns

NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: Biden is already writing his legacy 

An educated guess: Joe Biden is not doing what every first-year president starts doing around Day 200 of ... Read more

Columns

DONALD LAMBRO: After John Bolton’s departure, who will save Trump from himself?

  WASHINGTON – National Security Adviser John Bolton, a foreign policy hawk, resigned this week in protest over President ... Read more

Elections

Kemper County Judicial

KEMPER COUNTY SHERIFF Steven Dewan Jackson Residence: DeKalb, from the Preston community. Party: Independent. Office sought: Sheriff, Kemper County. Education: ... Read more

Columns

GEORGIE ANNE GEYER: Endless wars demand notice among presidential candidates

  WASHINGTON – In his State of the Union address, President Trump, who is admittedly not given to eloquent ... Read more

Columns

INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: Journalists being killed, jailed or threatened — and that’s no joke

Ten journalists were killed in a series of attacks Monday in Afghanistan. The week prior, 14 journalists from ... Read more

Columns

GEORGE WILL: A war without an objective, 6,000 days in

“The war is over.” –Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Afghanistan (April 2002) “I believe victory is closer ... Read more

Columns

GEORGIE ANNE GEYER: Correspondents get story right – in Vietnam and Afghanistan

  WASHINGTON – Ken Burns’ brilliant television exposition “The Vietnam War” not surprisingly brought forth in me, as with ... Read more

Columns

GEORGIE ANNE GEYER: Realistic choices must be made in Afghanistan

  WASHINGTON – When summer ends and autumn begins, one tends to feel instinctively, if foolishly, that other things ... Read more

Columns

BILL CRAWFORD: Does generals’ coup put warbringers in charge?  

Seven Days in May, written by Fletcher Kneble and Charles Bailey and published in 1962, portrays a tense, ... Read more