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PATSY BRUMFIELD: Fingers crossed on Ole Miss mascot
So, now the big question becomes: What will the mascot be?
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BOBBY HARRISON: Soft drink and tobacco tax comparisons are flawed
A movement is growing in this country, and in this state, to tax soft drinks.
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PUL Alliance: We stand with Toyota
The following statement was unanimously adopted on Feb. 10 by the PUL Alliance.
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Ken Priest OPINION: Parcels of quiet refreshment bloom in ‘pocket’ parks
One of the perils of tough economic times is the effect on our quality of life.
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OPINION: Roe v. Wade still leaves a lot of unanswered questions
It was this date in 1973 that seven men on the Supreme Court magically discovered an unwritten guarantee in the U.S. Constitution of a right to kill unborn children.
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OPINION: ‘Easy’ charity could be a home thing
With a few clicks on your cell phone, you can send money to help people in Haiti.
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OPINION: Looking back, it's been a good year
The end of the year is upon us and now is the time to reflect on what this year has held for us and what the new year will bring to us.
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OPINION: Here’s to a better decade
Whew! Glad that one is over.
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OPINION: Farewell 00s; hello 10s
by Sheena Barnett/NEMS Daily Journal
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Those "Best of the Decade" lists that started popping up in October were like a wake-up call.
OPINION: Christians should avoid obstinacy and misinformation
by Galen Holley/NEMS Daily Journal
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When debating “irrational” religious people, philosopher Antony Flew used to give the example of two explorers who come across a manicured plot in the jungle.
OPINION: In the end, it’s how you lived, helped that matter most
by Juanita Gambrell Floyd
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Entering the holiday season, thoughts are turned to events of joy. However, every now and then there are times of sorrow.
HEARERS OF THE WORD: Finding things to be thankful for along the drive
by Galen Holley/NEMS Daily Journal
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Last week a series of sights along my route made me stop and think of all the reasons I should be thankful.
Letter to the Editor
by NEMS Daily Journal
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Merge Ole Miss with MSU, in Starkville, solving issues.
'Tea Party' Patroits' have woken up sleeping giant
by Tom Lucas
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Letter to the Pontotoc Progress editor.
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A riot police officer tries try to avoid a petrol bomb, during clashes in central Athens, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Savage street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens as more than 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures. Hundreds of masked and hooded youths punched and kicked motorcycle police, knocking several off their bikes, as riot police fired volleys of tear has and stun grenades to disperse the rioters. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - Savage street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as more than 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures.


Thu Mar 11 07:26:36 -0600 2010

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden gestures after giving a speech at the Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday implored Israelis and Palestinians to move beyond a diplomatic spat that has marred his trip to the region, urging the sides to waste no time in resolving their decades-old conflict despite daunting obstacles.


Thu Mar 11 07:11:45 -0600 2010

Men detained by police after violence around Jos, Nigeria, file past reporters, at police headquarters Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Witnesses say soldiers opened fire on angry youths who surrounded a cattle truck in Jos, the latest violence in a region where more than 200 people died in religious fighting earlier this week. (AP Photos/Jon Gambrell)AP - Christians and Muslims once shared their lives together in Nigeria's fertile central belt, buying each other's goods in mixed neighborhoods and cultivating each other's farms across a sun-baked plateau.


Thu Mar 11 06:08:03 -0600 2010
AP - Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is barred from running in upcoming elections and won't even be allowed to vote, according to laws published Thursday.
Thu Mar 11 07:24:43 -0600 2010