Opinion

As it does every year, Super Bowl mania is sweeping the nation. In a recent survey of Visa Inc. cardholders, more than 60 percent said they would be inviting family and friends over to watch […]

On Nov. 4, voters will cast ballots in one of the most important elections in our nation’s history. Mississippians are rightly focused on the race for President, as well as elections for two U.S. Senators, […]

Americans have been bombarded with the question of who among the presidential candidates would make the best Commander in Chief. Of course, the Commander in Chief, the President of the United States, is the head […]

The three year anniversary of Katrina passes and the threats of Gustav loom, I’m reminded of the immense horror, frustration, and powerlessness I felt as I watched my fellow Mississippians, my friends, my family, suffer […]

John McCain has just experienced a political Trifecta garnering the coveted conservative base that is absolutely necessary for any Republican to win an election. It is the very oxygen of the party in much the […]

Mississippi students are being neglected the powerfulness and fullness of their history. It is vitally important that the contours of our state be highly publicized. Many people living all across the nation have come from […]

Barack Obama embarks on a serious foreign policy initiative with his trip to Europe and the Middle East, to bolster his foreign policy credentials. To that end, he gave a major speech on his global […]

Many of us are still struggling to understand the difference bet-ween HIV and AIDS. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the virus that is contracted, mainly by exposure to blood, semen or vaginal fluids of an […]

In an effort to show that, if elected, he would be president of “all the people,” John McCain has visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the scene of one of the bloodiest civil […]

It is interesting. I recently had an opportunity to meet a gentleman who served as ‘Chaplain’ for a cancer treatment ward of a major Los Angeles hospital. He told me that he provided spiritual counsel […]