Penny Thoughts: We Need Better
by Benjamin B. Ogden, Honors College, University of Southern Mississippi 2020 has been crazy so far, there’s no denying that.
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Opinion
Penny Thoughts: Campaign of Hate/Politics of Fear
In the midst of the infomercial, which is the current Democratic Party National Convention, taking the four hours to actually
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Penny Thoughts: Freedom Plagues America
Since the murder of George Floyd, we have witnessed the great destruction of many large cities in America through the
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Penny Thoughts: Considerations of a “New Normal”
The COVID-19 fiasco has given rise to a description of our culture which has been disconcerting from the onset of
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Penny Thoughts: The Good Teacher
Good teachers are born, not made! Having come from a family of educators and having spent my life as a
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Penny Thoughts: Are we Near the RIP for Our American Experiment
As the Ogden Horde enjoyed the festivities of this year’s celebration of our Nation’s independence from a tyrannical monarchy, I
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Penny Thoughts: Free Will Preserves the Republic
About ten days ago we celebrated the 244th declaration of our independence from Great Britain, which many nonchalantly call, “July Fourth”. It always presents a good time to recall one of the most elemental principles our Founders believed as they sought to establish a new Nation.
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Penny Thoughts: Life is a Constant Laboratory for Morality
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policy
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Opinion: In unsettling times, learn from history
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policy
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Penny Thoughts: Marriage Licenses and Government Excess
Did you ever wonder why couples could not be married without an official state sanction? That “sanction” came in the form of the vaunted “marriage license”, which, somehow, became not just a customary step for couples wishing to share their lives together forever – it became law.
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Penny Thoughts: Good Lessons Stand the Test of Time
Teachers often wonder if the lessons they so laboriously plan and skillfully deliver will render any tangible results. The end of this 2019-2020 school year was abruptly halted due to the COVID-19 scare. This fact prompted teachers to dig deeply into their folders and recollections of teaching tools to continue their craft with their students in far different delivery modes and platforms.
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Penny Thoughts: Props for Our Cops
It is probably our atmosphere and world view here in the Deep South but, as I was engaged in a phone discussion with a fraternity brother of mine a while ago about the attitudes some of the Yankees (Northeasterners) and Californians (West Coast Libs) express towards their policer officers, the profound differences of our two regions became more pronounced.
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Remembering Joey Browder
He never surprised me. In the very best of ways, he never surprised me. That’s probably the most surprising thing I can tell you about him. Typically, the longer you know someone, the higher the chance they’ll show you something about themselves that runs counter to what or who you thought they were. That never happened with Joey Browder.
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Penny Thoughts: Curious How Riots Have Cured COVID-19
For the past week, we have witnessed another great American tragedy, which began as a justified protest of the death of a black American citizen at the hands of a white police officer. This tragedy has devolved into a series of rampages commandeered by some violent anarchists most of whom it is thought have come from outside of the plagued cities and are youngsters in their late teens or early twenties.
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Penny Thoughts: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson—Part I
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under
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Penny Thoughts: The Numbers for COVID-19
Three points at the outset: 1) our knee-jerk reaction to the COVID-19 virus has been predicated on numbers given to
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Penny Thoughts: The Real Costs of COVID-19
We have been bombarded with all kinds of “statistics” during this COVID-19 panic. If we examine the real costs of this
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Tears & Laughter: Purple Martin People
Even before daybreak, you can hear them singing their happy-sounding songs from inside their swinging gourds. The purple martin song.
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