The border bill circus is the latest demonstration of a bedrock reality of today’s Republican Party: It does not exist to achieve political outcomes. Its chief function is fan service. The overriding concern of GOP voters, according to polls and to elected Republicans, is immigration. In the ranty precincts of the right, they believe that…
I’m teaching a class at Gulf Coast State entitled, “Will You Know Where You Are When You Get Where You’re Going.” I did not think up that moniker. I “borrowed” it from a guy taller, smarter, and funnier than I am. He explained his version to a laughing “Grand Ole Opry” crowd. There is a…
When you poke a hornet’s nest, you expect to get stung. If that hornet’s nest is filled with young girls in spangles and tutus — and their doting parents — you can expect to get skewered. That is exactly what happens if you criticize the social phenomenon known as Taylor Swift. It is a form…
One of the things I appreciated as a kid growing up in a small town in the 1950s was, I could understand the rules. Don’t lie, cheat, or steal, respect your elders, close the gate, and be home by supper. That was it. There was no secret handshake. You didn’t have any gosh awful bylaws…
The title of my 2003 book, “Useful Idiots,” was a reference to a perhaps apocryphal quote sometimes attributed to Lenin to the effect that gullible liberals in the West would prove useful idiots for the Soviet Union. I wrote about Democrats; 21 years later, the epithet belongs wholeheartedly to the GOP. Their choice to support…
Joe Biden spent his first three years in office telling everyone that “our southern border is secure.” He would squint into the cameras, looking like that banjo player from Deliverance, and say that. Yet we all knew he was not serious about it because he put Kamala Harris in charge. The only less genuine effort…
I live on St. Simons Island, Georgia and I have a subscription to the Apalachicola Times. You all have to be intelligent men in order to keep newspapers going. However, if I live to be a hundred I will not understand why you publish the articles written by Ron Hart and Mona Charen. They are…
Where were you? Volunteers stood ready to help you park and find your way around; local food and beverage trucks were ready to serve you. The band was ready to entertain you. The weather was perfect; the bugs were elsewhere. It was a special, fundraising event at the Crooked River Lighthouse last weekend. It was…
Hey everybody, there’s a new nonprofit in town! Keep Franklin County Beautiful (KFCB) is gearing up. In a few months, we’ll be an official Keep America Beautiful (KAB) affiliate – one of more than 650 affiliates across the county, and one of more than 40 affiliates in Florida. The three common goals are to end…
I’d like to give a shout-out to Ms. Jeannie Banks Walker for the beautiful person that she is. Jeannie is a kind-hearted person who is always hooking up delicious and tasty recipes. Last week I had the pleasure to taste one of them. Being a seafood and pasta lover, I had her crab spaghetti, something…
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