OPINION: Religious freedom is under attack in the US

“The dogma lives loudly within you” said U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, as she looked down upon Amy Barrett, who was seated in the center of the Senate Judiciary Committee room in 2017. Barrett, at the time a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, was in the midst of an intense Senate confirmation hearing […]

Opinion: This week, America should vote Republican

Tomorrow, Americans across the country will go to the polls to vote in the 2018 midterm election. With all U.S. House of Representatives seats up for re-election, along with 35 Senate seats, the stakes for both parties are extremely high, as intense campaigning has been in full swing for months now. Republicans, who currently maintain […]

Opinion: Ole Miss professor’s tweet is an embarrassment

“Don’t just interrupt a Senator’s meal, y’all. Put your whole damn fingers in their salads. Take their apps and distribute them to the other diners. Bring boxes and take their food home with you on the way out. They don’t deserve your civility.” Those are the words of a tweet sent on Oct. 6 by […]

Opinion: Taxation is a moral issue

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to permanently extend the individual tax cuts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, sending the bill to the Senate for further consideration. The 2017 bill, which was the largest reform to the federal tax code in over 30 years, provided tax cuts for over […]

Opinion: The anniversary of 9/11 should unify us

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, 19 Islamic extremists boarded four separate commercial planes along with 246 other unsuspecting passengers. Midair, a group of al-Qaeda affiliated extremists then hijacked the planes — flying them into the two largest World Trade Center towers as well as the Pentagon and crashing one into a field in […]

Opinion: Kavanaugh will make an Excellent Supreme Court Justice

This past Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice. Kennedy, who was nominated by President Reagan in 1987 and has served on the court ever since, announced this June that he intends to retire. Two weeks after Kennedy’s announcement […]

Opinion: Xi’s authoritarianism is a global threat

Last week, China’s Shekou Museum of Reform and Opening was reopened to the public after closing for two months to undergo renovations. The state-run museum, which commemorates China’s vast economic reforms that transformed the country into a global economic powerhouse, originally greeted visitors at its entrance with a sculpture of the late Chinese leader Deng […]

Opinion: State of our union strong again

President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address late Tuesday night on Capitol Hill. The president used his nearly 90-minute speech to celebrate his administration’s legislative achievements of 2017 and went on to detail an ambitious outline for further progress in 2018. Soon after taking the podium, the president proclaimed that “the […]

Opinion: Wicker the clear choice for Mississippi

This guest column is in response to Will Hall’s column “Elect McDaniel, oppose establishment” published Oct. 16. As our country’s two major parties begin preparations for the 2018 midterm elections, Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race has already received attention on the national scale. In what is expected to be a highly competitive race, state senator and […]

Opinion: Debating the NFL national anthem protests

It’s an American’s moral duty to stand for the national anthem It has been nearly one year since NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick made headlines by refusing to stand during the national anthem at a 49ers preseason game. Citing mass oppression of African-Americans and institutional racism throughout the police system as the reasons for his protest, […]