Explaining ‘Yardi Gras’ to a national audience
(Feb. 4) Not even a pandemic can contain the whimsically celebratory spirit of Mardi Gras. In Mobile, Alabama, where Mardi Gras in North America was born, and in New Orleans […]
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Remembering Hank Aaron’s home run chase
(Jan. 22) MOBILE, Alabama — For those too young to remember it, Hank Aaron’s pursuit of Babe Ruth’s all-time Major League Baseball home run record was one of the most […]
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Tribute to author Winston Groom, R.I.P.
(Sept. 17) MOBILE, Alabama — At the very end of the novel bearing his name, the character Forrest Gump says, “At least I ain’t lived no hum-drum life.” Gump’s creator, […]
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What Hurricane Sally was like, in almost real time
(Sept. 16) MOBILE, Alabama — Winston Churchill wrote in the late 1800s that “nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result,” and that’s what most […]
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Mobile, Al., Federalist Society helps refute liberal attack
(Jan. 23). Not content with stifling dissent at overwhelmingly leftist law schools, the progressive legal establishment is now threatening to trample conservative judges’ freedom of association. Their proposal should be […]
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USAID cheats a Mobile company, puts America last
Jan. 13. As Sunday was the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, and as Puerto Rico continues to suffer from a two-week-long series of temblors, a […]
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Anti-Semitism rises with bizarre perversity
(Oct. 14) Last weekend [Oct. 13] I was struck by a stark juxtaposition between the Old Testament reading in Sunday’s Episcopalian lectionary and sad news of yet another series of anti-Semitic […]
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Save Mobile’s Botanical Gardens! Now!
Please see below, which is pasted from the letter sent out by the Gardens. This must not stand. I hereby pledge $200 as a donation to the Gardens, and urge […]
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L’Arche founder Jean Vanier devoted his life to the disabled
(May 7): A remarkable man named Jean Vanier died Monday at age 90 in France, after spending a lifetime improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people with Down Syndrome and […]
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A Jeff Sessions Two-fer
Two columns by Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner; John Dowd swings and misses at former AG Jeff Sessions (April 4): Former Trump lawyer John Dowd gave a superbly informative interview, […]
