To describe the life of Ed Perry without mentioning his delivery of what would go on to be known as the “Whiskey Speech” is to miss one of the greatest moments in his legacy in public service. Delivered on the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Mississippi Capitol, Perry recanted a fiery defense of […]
Nearly two weeks ago, while precincts across the country were beginning to conclude their election of those who would represent their districts in the coming years, I had the distinct privilege of traveling to Laurel to witness the conclusion of a political campaign that I have proudly been a part of for the past eight […]
Shawn O’Hara ran in every Hattiesburg election since 1989. He ran for Mississippi’s 3rd congressional district religiously, for Governor of Mississippi twice in the 90s and and in 2011 and 2015 and for U.S. Senate in a 2002 challenge to the then U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in which he received his highest electoral margin, 15.42 […]
How much would you pay for the opportunity of a lifetime? If you’re New York or Virginia, the price for a ticket to the top will start around $4 billion in taxpayer-guaranteed incentives with state tax breaks for Amazon’s new North American offices. With the promise of an estimated 50,000 new jobs between Long Island […]
In the three years since Chancellor Vitter took control of the leadership at our university, we have declined in various positive metrics as well as witnessed our university become exceptionally divided. A majority of conservatives have felt alienated by Vitter’s leadership since the beginning, with his support of those who pushed to remove the flag […]
On Oct. 7, the People’s Bank of China announced it would slash its previously established reserve ratios required for its financial institutions by an astonishing 1 percent, in an effort to inject $109 billion to stimulate a Chinese economy which has seen the slowest rate of investment in its history. With experts predicting an additional […]
Yesterday the Mississippi State Legislature convened for a final special session to discuss — among other issues pertaining to the allocation of funds from the Deepwater Horizon settlement — the failing condition of the roads they rode to work on. After a chaotic set of deliberations, the Mississippi Republican establishment came to the conclusion that […]
Two weeks ago, Ole Miss Athletics unveiled the official design for the university’s long-awaited new mascot, Landshark Tony. Upon Tony’s reveal, media outlets across Oxford feverishly rushed to the defense of the peculiar humanoid shark, insisting that Tony was a wild success among both students and alumni and citing last year’s student vote — orchestrated […]
Since his election to the Mississippi state Senate in 2008, Chris McDaniel has proven himself as one of the nation’s most valiant defenders of constitutional liberties and God-given freedoms at the state level. As recipient of the American Conservative Union’s Award for Conservative Excellence in 2016 and two 100 percent scores from that organization’s independent […]
The great American philosopher Thomas Sowell once said, “The next time some academics tell you how important ‘diversity’ is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.” If you were to select your average student and place him or her in any one of the administrative halls here at the university, it would […]
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