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Corinth, Miss.
Letter to the editor
Son discovers dad’s history in Corinth football magazine To the editor: I throughly enjoyed the Daily Corinthian’s “100 Years of Corinth High School Football” magazine, especially the account of the game in 1913 between Kossuth and Corinth (pages 7 and 29). My dad told me about that game. It was the first game ever played by Kossuth. They didn’t have any uniforms and played in overalls. He said other than their coach having seen one game, the Kossuth team had never seen a game. This accounted for the “trying out” before the game. Dad also said Kossuth did not know what was going on in the first quarter when Corinth scored 18 points. But they began to catch on in the second and third quarter where Corinth did not score. During the fourth quarter, Kossuth gave a good account of themselves and held Corinth scoreless. Kossuth scored seven points. What dad never told me was “Mills starred in the game.” You see, my dad’s name was Albert Mills. He was the Mills who starred in the game. He passed away in 1981. Thank you for giving me a great memory of my father. Bert Mills CR 512, Corinth (Editor’s Note: Kudos to Sports Editor H. Lee Smith II for his leadership in producing the special magazine.)
Keeping in touch State Sen. Rita Potts Parks Alcorn, Tishomingo, Tippah counties 662-287-6323 (H) 662-415-4793 (cell) rparks@senate.m.s.gov Rep. Nick Bain Alcorn county 662-287-1620 (H) 601-953-2994 (Capitol) nbain@house.ms.gov Rep. Lester “Bubba” Carpenter Alcorn, Tishoming counties 601-359-3374 (Capitol) 662-427-8281 (H) lcarpenter@huse.ms.gov Rep. William Tracy Arnold Alcorn, Prentiss counties 662-728-9951 (H) warnold@house.ms.gov
All state legislators can be reached via mail: c/o Capitol P.O. Box 1018 Jackson, Miss. 39215 Federal U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee 202-225-4306 (Washington D.C.) Fax: 202-225-3549 662-327-0748 (Columbus) Fax: 662-328-5982 U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran 202-224-5054 (Washington D.C.) Fax: 202-224-9450 601-965-4459 (Jackson) 662-236-1018 (Oxford) Sen. Roger Wicker 202- 224-6253 (Washington D.C.) Fax: 202-228-0378 601-965-4644 (Jackson) Fax: 601-965-4007
Prayer for today Father, let me always make it my goal to please You. So many goals I make reap rewards that last only a season, but when I set goals for righteous living the rewards last not only for this life, but for all of eternity. Amen.
A verse to share “And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.” — Jeremiah 18:4
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Obama in no-win situation with left/right coalition BY DICK MORRIS AND EILEEN MCGANN Opposition to American involvement in the war in Syria is uniting the far left and the far right in a new coalition for peace and the Constitution. The coalition made its debut when it lost by seven votes in its attempt to get the House to put limits on NSA surveillance. It is not just a conjunction of strange bedfellows. It may be the harbinger of a national partisan realignment in post-Obama America. The left and the right agree the twin issues of war and intelligence surveillance forming the basis for a new political movement. Their mutual distain and disgust for Wall Street speculators enriched through currency manipulation, crony capitalism and Fed policy makes it a trifecta. The most important thing both the left and the right have in common is that they are outsiders. If the Syria resolution comes to a vote in the House -- one doubts that President Obama is nutty enough to demand it in the face of Vladimir Putin’s proposed settlement
-- it will feature a sight not usually seen in Washington. On the one hand, the speaker of the house and the majority leader will be united in voting for a major piece of legislation, which the overwhelming majority of their party caucus opposes. On the other hand, the president and the floor leader of his own party in the House will be supporting the same measure against at least a third or even more of their party’s representatives in the chamber. Obama, Boehner, Cantor, McCain, Graham, Corker and Pelosi may appear to have nothing in common. But they do. They are the insiders who represent the military industrial complex on Capitol Hill. Their support of war and crony capitalist economic policy is anchored by the dependence on the goodwill and generosity of the K street lobbyists who feed the complex with daily massive helpings of public funding. If Obama pushes the war resolution to a vote and loses, he will be cast into the most dangerous place for a second term president to
be: irrelevance. Diplomacy takes place without him, led by Vladimir Putin. He can’t pass legislation and faces a growing revolt in his own party against the expanding IRS/CIA/NSA intelligence scandals. And his party’s members in Congress know they can vote against him with impunity. But it may not come to a vote. Vladimir Putin has pulled Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire. Putin’s proposal to place Bashar al-Assad’s gas weapons under U.N. supervision must have been vetted by Damascus. Assad wins anyway. He gets a pass on his past use of gas. He just has to not use it again. But he knows full well that he can’t anymore anyway. The world will go nuts and topple him from power if he attacked with gas after all this. So he is not really relinquishing anything. He doesn’t get bombed. He can play games with the U.N. inspectors for months. He acquires an international legitimacy through his acceptance of peace terms -- proving he is no Saddam Hussein. And his Syrian opposition looks
so bad, and so riddled with al-Qaida, that the American people probably won’t allow even their covert arming to proceed. Putin gets to be at the epicenter of diplomacy after Obama is consigned to the sidelines. Already he has gained the upper hand over us in Egypt and Saudi Arabia -- formerly our two strongest Middle Eastern Arab allies -- by supporting the military in Cairo while Obama bet on the Muslim Brotherhood. Syria makes it a trifecta. Obama has to say yes. He can’t bomb a country that is in the process of suing for peace. He has to know he would have lost the war resolution and be grateful that he can save face and not be put to the test. But everyone will know that he would have lost and that will change things mightily. (Daily Corinthian columnist Dick Morris, former advisor to the Clinton administration, is a commentator and writer. He is also a columnist for the New York Post and The Hill. His wife, Eileen McGann is an attorney and consultant.)
Some argue that drug dealers have higher calling Here’s the crime story of the week. New York City cops busted a heroin ring comprised of five religious Jews, all male. Prosecutors allege that the men sold a variety of hard drugs out of a Brooklyn apartment but would not provide the narcotics from Friday evening through Saturday morning because of Shabbat. The rest of the week, they would sell you all the heroin, cocaine and oxycodone you want. This might seem bizarre -- unless you think about it. Many on the left, including some in the media, are peddling the sick scenario that selling hard drugs is not a violent crime and should not be harshly punished. In New York State, liberals have been screaming for years to end tough mandatory prison sentences for hard drug dealers. In their opinion, the punishment does not fit the crime. Drug abuse, you see, is not a criminal act in their eyes. It’s a disease, and the pushers are only serving
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a demand. They are not doing anything immoral or destructive to society. Bill That is so O’Reilly wrongheaded it’s frightThe O’Reilly ening. Factor According to the latest statistics available from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, nearly 40,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2010. Between 1999 and 2010, the drug-related death rate rose by an astounding 102 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why? Because narcotics are more powerful than they used to be. In 2011, about 2.5 million people were treated in the nation’s emergency rooms for drug emergencies, including tens of thousands of children. That’s not a disease; it’s an epidemic. Making all of this death
and suffering possible is a small army of callous drug dealers who sell poison. They know that hard drugs can enslave and even kill human beings. They don’t care. They also know that once they sell the drugs, they could be used by children. They don’t care. When I was a teenager, drug dealers were pariahs in my Levittown neighborhood. Yes, that was in the suburbs, but it was a fairly tough place. Pushers were on the bottom rung. Nobody respected them, and few outside of junkies associated with them. Karma being what it is, many of those pushers wound up dead or in prison, breaking the hearts of their workingclass families. Now, drug dealing is acceptable in some quarters, and a segment of our society actually feels sorry for pushers. Editorials describe these parasites as committing “nonviolent” crimes: the kind of crimes that should be overlooked, the kind of crimes that al-
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low you to attend temple or church with no problem. Let me be clear about this. Anyone who sells drugs is a degenerate criminal, a person who should be shunned by decent people. There is no excuse. If you’re addicted, get help. If you need money, work for it. When liberals show sympathy for these devils, I ask them how they would feel if their young daughter or son was shooting up heroin. Are you OK with that? Blank stares usually follow. America is in decline, and one big reason is that we the people now often refuse to condemn destructive behavior. Many of us have lost perspective. Drug dealing is a violent crime. It harms human beings. That’s it. (Daily Corinthian columnist and veteran TV news anchor Bill O’Reilly is host of the Fox News show “The O’Reilly Factor” and author of the book “Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama.”)
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