Afghanistan: Don’t blame the soldiers, blame entrenched D.C. elites

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…

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SGI ‘skinny dipping’ led to FBI agent’s arrest

A “skinny dipping” incident on St. George Island two summers ago figures into a multi-state, multi-jurisdictional case being made against a former FBI supervisory special agent on charges of indecent exposure in front of juveniles. In an Aug. 22 news release, Sheriff AJ Smith said a warrant for the arrest of David Lee Harris, 51,…

Chestnut Cemetery among state’s finest

Apalachicola’s Chestnut Cemetery has a collection of some of the finest hand-carved headstones in the state, worthy of preservation and presentation. In an April talk as part of the Apalachicola Area Historical Society’s speaker series, Margo Stringfield, an expert from Pensacola’s University of West Florida on the state’s historic cemeteries, engaged the audience at the…