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Hi Y’all, The 20th anniversary of 9/11 was honored more privately than remembrances in the past years. It was mostly because of COVID, our enemy for the last couple of years. I am sure that we all felt remembrance, honor and pain in our own way. The American Legion had planned to have a ceremony…

Is America imploding? Is there any hope for our divided nation? Immediately following 9/11, I cringed every time I heard a plane fly overhead. Like so many others, I prayed for our nation’s survival. That frightful event’s only bright spot was that it brought our nation together – for a short while. Twenty years have…

These are troubling times, and politics are not the only blood sport. We are seeing the surging forces of a regime that forces girls to cover their faces in public, does not let kids go to school, and stifles free speech. And that is the Biden Administration. I understand that the Taliban and ISIS are…

America cowers and runs from yet another country in which we should never have had a military presence. What is it going to take for us to limit the power of Washington in all matters of importance? The chaotic images of our botched evacuation of Afghanistan should further enforce what we all should know by…

I don’t think Congress has passed a meaningful law since the beginning of the year. That’s eight months! Good gracious alive, I know what we should be thinking, “Why are we paying them?” Has the world come to a stop? Are all the good laws already on the books? Can this group not think of…

I was against the wars of choice in Afghanistan and Iraq from the outset. I said then that we no longer have theaters of war, we have suburban, mall-size, multiplexes of wars, none of which we should be in. And we never know when we are done because we have no clear objective. Yet again,…

Aw man, this could be really bad. I’m talking Sing Sing. Or maybe Leavenworth. They might reopen Alcatraz just for me. I don’t believe they’re going to let me off with just a few nights in the Starkville City Jail. I got a letter from the IRS. The first page laid out the purported crime….

What if our faith was never tested? Would we grow? Probably not. Consider James 1:2-4 (ESV): “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” It would be easy to…

Once upon a time, Democrats and Republicans worked together for the betterment of the country. Yes, I know it sounds crazy. Nowadays they act like they are trying to co-parent a teenager while going through a bitter divorce. The Democrat party has no discernible agenda. Their petty “resist” mindset has become transparent now that they…

We left the house and drove up to North Carolina. The mountains were spectacular, the cooler temperatures refreshing and the folks we met along the way were most friendly. Next time I’m going in a U-Haul truck. I saw a washing machine sitting out by the road just south of Clyde that looked better than…