Rittenhouse and clear self-defense: He should be found not guilty

ByRon Hart

Now 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for fatally shooting two men and wounding a third. He and a friend traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin to protect local business owners and provide medical aid after two nights of businesses being looted and set on fire there. Rittenhouse, who was trained in emergency care, brought a medical…

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Capital Chordsmen to perform holiday concert

ByThe Times

The Capital Chordsmen return to bring their classic barbershop harmonies back to Apalachicola with a holiday concert at Trinity Episcopal Church on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 5 p.m. The performance is free to the public as their way of giving back to the community following the COVID restrictions. The concert features a mix of classic…

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Buck O’Neil talk set for Saturday morning

ByThe Times

The Carrabelle History Museum is presenting a fascinating history program entitled, “Right On Time: Buck O’Neil and Black Baseball” this Saturday morning, Nov. 20 at C-Quarters Marina, 501 St. James Ave. (U.S. 98) in Carrabelle, This program, featuring author Wes Singletary and baseball aficionado Josh Weaver and will be held from 10 a.m. to noon…

Build Back Better BS

ByRon Hart

The Democrats’ lobbyist-driven “Infrastructure Bill” recently passed, but the Build Back Better plan (“Human Infrastructure”) plan is meeting resistance even though they named it something alliterative, which made it sound adorable. I studied it, and the Build Back Better plan is a three-step process. First, the Dems take the money from us via taxes, then they…

Critical Race Theory further devalues college education

ByRon Hart

Campuses were once places where ideas were debated. Today they are places where any right-of-center opposition speech is labeled “hate” and is shut down. Liberal schools like Emory, Middlebury and Brown fight to keep right-of-center voices off campus. They do not educate, they indoctrinate. And our country is paying the price. College kids are so…

Buckhead: Come for the shopping, stay to fill out police report

ByRon Hart

My friend, Tucker Carlson, recently did a masterful piece on what has happened in Atlanta and, more specifically, in Buckhead. For symbolism, I suggested that the Peachtree Road Race this year should have the winner breaking through yellow crime scene tape. My fear is that when the official signals the start of the race with…

Alec Baldwin and actors who play in areas they should not

ByRon Hart

Beware of actors with guns. The first to realize this, too late, was President Abraham Lincoln. According to the Los Angeles Times, “Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of ‘Rust’ with a prop gun, a half-dozen camera crew workers walked off the set to protest working conditions….