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It’s election year in Mississippi, and for the first time in a long while, we have a gubernatorial candidate who appeals to Democrats, independents and centrist Republicans. He even has a famous last name that strikes a sweet chord in every Mississippi heart: Presley. Brandon Presley. On Nov. 7, Elvis’s second cousin hopes to unseat GOP Gov. Tate Reeves. I first became aware of Presley when he responded to Reeves’s January State of the State address, which featured the standard chest thumping, calling 2022 “the best year in Mississippi’s history” and railing against “the expansion of ObamaCare.” Presley spoke from...

My friend Bob Sacamano has long been convinced that the Second Coming of Jesus will take place somewhere in New Jersey. He was kind of confused when I wrote him on Christmas Eve saying that Jesus had returned to the Woodlands, Texas. Apparently, he didn't read a column I wrote for Town Hall last January. You can read it here if you'd like. In that column, I criticized a highly secularized 2012 Christmas Eve service at the Woodlands Church, led by Pastor Kerri Shook and his wife, Chris. The event was more than just highly secularized. It was downright disrespectful....

UN official under investigation for alleged improper behavior loses Kosovo job 2007-12-18 17:12:40 - PRISTINA, Serbia (AP) - A top U.N. official who is being investigated for his ties with Kosovo leaders left the province on Tuesday after being told his contract would not be renewed, a U.N. official told The Associated Press. Retired U.S. Army General Steven Schook's, whose term as deputy head of the U.N.'s Kosovo mission officially ends Dec. 31, will not be invited back to serve in the mission, a U.N. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity as the case was still pending. The official...

Something exploded in the distance, I can see fire in smoke.

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