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With less than a month left before a New Hampshire commission is due to put forward a plan for how to legalize adult-use marijuana sales through a system of state-controlled stores, members were visibly frustrated at a Thursday meeting with the group’s slow, meandering progress through a draft bill circulated last month by the group’s […]

For a time, the press lord William Randolph Hearst did everything in his vast powers to keep the film “Citizen Kane” from finding an audience. He intimidated theater owners, refused to let ads run in his newspapers, and even pressured studio sycophants to destroy the negative. At first, the titan of San Simeon had his…

Posts about Egypt written by Jerry

On Nov. 30, 1996, Ole Miss lost to Mississippi State 17-0 in one of the oldest football rivalry games in America. It was a home game for Ole Miss, in

“A Fever in the Heartland” vividly explains many things about our past. It makes our present feel like a predictable continuum of the same awfulness. The book’s subtitle, “The Ku

Liberal New York Times reporter, now far-left Times columnist Timothy Egan ludicrously diagnoses a national squelching of debate on gun control in Thursday's post, "The Great Gun Gag." Along the way he claimed that "Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin "are to reasoned argument what salt is to a slug."

More than 175 authors and 25,000 visitors will make it to Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park this weekend for the 35th annual Southern Festival of Books.

Every week, we go out and ask people a question related to the week’s paper. We call them “Peeps,” short for “Person on the Street.”...

Burning books = bad. Books about burning = almost inevitably good.