Opinion

By: Jim Brown Like most of you, I’ve had my fill of political ads and trial lawyer solicitations that seem to be constantly appearing on TV. But you know what bothers me even more? I’m sick of seeing that goofy commercial of some dumb and disheveled looking guy talking to an ostrich. “You only pay for what you need,” so …

By: Tuffy Fields It is amazing how time goes by for us and we are sitting at the coffee table asking ourselves, “Where has all the time gone”.  On August 1st, 1990, I went to be in my apartment in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia. As usual I fell asleep as the BBC signed off. The next day was the beginning of …

By: Sallie Rose Hollis The Enigma Explorer has been falling down on the job lately. In fact, she’s been so lackadaisical you may have forgotten she exists.  Well, I’m here to tell you: She’s still alive and well, pondering and musing, day in and day out.  Just to refresh your memory, the EE (who also goes by the initials srh) …

By: Tuffy Fields “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from …

By: Jim Brown Bayou State residents are well aware that Louisiana is a pleasant place to live. Some would sarcastically say that we are fat, dumb, and happy down here in the deepest of the deep southern states. The state motto is, after all, Laissez les bons temps rouler. For you out of staters, that’s pronounced Lay say lay bohn …

By: Tuffy Fields This past weekend I experienced an event I first witnessed 63 years ago, The Farmerville Watermelon Festival. It has grown from a festival that began with two semi-trucks loaded with watermelons drive through town accompanied by political speeches to a festival spanning over a weeklong period with a two-mile parade, over a hundred vendors selling everything from …

By: Sallie Rose Hollis Parents’ Day was Sunday.  It’s been around since 1994, when Congress unanimously passed “The Parents’ Day Resolution,” establishing the fourth Sunday of July as a perennial day of commemoration. Through all those years, I’ve mostly been ignorant of it.  Even without my help, though, on that day each year, Americans have recognized outstanding parents, celebrated the …

By: Tuffy Fields In the early 1950s America and the UnitedNations went to the aid of South Korea. Thiswar, the Korean War, had am added participantas China went to the aid of North Korea andAmerica fought the soldiers of the Peoples Republicof China. Ten years later Chinasent their forces to Biet Nam and againfought our noble country with the intentto …

By: Jim Brown Our friends up north need to let it go. Accordingto a cross section of northern commentators,the Second Reconstruction may beover, but they think a third one may be necessary.The first came with the demise ofthe South following the Civil War. Thesecond began a century later when theVoting Rights Act was enacted in 1965.But this is no longer …

By: Tuffy Fields Our country relies on a workforce of individuals that are dedicated to building a nation while improving a community and family. This dedication is noted within the family as the family unit provides for the members of the group while at the same time looking outside to support the community. The level of volunteerism in America is …