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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.
world news
German Catholics to investigate abuse charges (AP)

The spokesman of the diocese Regensburg Clemens Neck is seen in front of a painting showing Pope John Paul II in Regensburg, southern Germany, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The Roman Catholic diocese of Regensburg in southern Germany said it appointed an independent investigator to examine the allegations of physical and sexual abuse that have engulfed the prestigious Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir, which was led by the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the pope's older brother, from 1964 until 1994. So far, the sexual abuse allegations predate Ratzinger's term. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)AP - Catholic authorities in Germany announced two major abuse investigations Wednesday — one into the renowned choir once led by Pope Benedict XVI's brother and another more general look into what everyone, including the pope, knew about the sexual and physical abuse of students.


Wed Mar 10 12:22:29 -0600 2010
Italy, FBI raids crack down on Mafia in US, Sicily (AP)
AP - The FBI arrested a reputed Gambino solider Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian mobster operating in Florida — part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob.
Wed Mar 10 12:45:41 -0600 2010
Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from elections (AP)

Members of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party read state-run newspapers carrying military government's announcement on election laws at the party's headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, March. 9, 2010. Myanmar's ruling junta will appoint the commission that will have final say over the country's first elections in two decades, state-run newspapers announced Tuesday as the country's military rulers began unveiling the laws that will govern this year's balloting. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - Myanmar's military regime took yet another step to expunge Aung San Suu Kyi from the political scene Wednesday by effectively barring her from the first elections in 20 years and pressuring her opposition party to expel her from its ranks.


Wed Mar 10 11:59:58 -0600 2010
US aid group attacked in NW Pakistan; 6 dead (AP)

Map locates Mansehra, Pakistan, where a suicide bomber struck World Vision, a large Christian humanitarian groupAP - Suspected militants armed with assault rifles and a homemade bomb attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani employees, police and the organization said.


Wed Mar 10 11:52:53 -0600 2010