Sound Off: December 10, 2025
Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.
Rules are rules
Whether you like Turning Point USA or not, Gulfport High School has very specific standards for the formulation of a club. If the student can meet those standards, then there is nothing that should prevent that club’s formation. Period.
Turning Point USA
Posting “Turning Point is being used to promote hateful racial ideas and theories” is the biggest lie the paper has ever printed.
Club America
If you want to promote bigotry and racism in Gulfport schools, by all means allow a Club America.
What fun
Along the Mississippi Coast, there are Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, atheists and agnostics, conservatives and liberals. It’s going to be a lot of fun if Turning Point USA, an ambitious conservative Christian group, establishes chapters in public schools on the Mississippi Coast, and all those other folks want a chapter, too. Will teachers still be able to get their students to focus on reading, writing, math, science, and history, rather than on ideology and eternity? I would pity the poor administrators as well as teachers who have to work in that situation.
What a game
Congratulations to Gulfport from an Ocean Springs fan. While I was disappointed in our loss to the Admirals this year, they proved to be the best team in the state. Well done.
Some ’dogs
I can’t wait to see how Cooper Crosby and the running back from Tupelo do for Mississippi State. They both put on a show Saturday night.
The South rises
This year it was Gulfport. Let’s hope there are even more state champions from the South next year.
Independent agencies
President Trump is now pushing the Supreme Court to allow the president to fire anyone in any Independent Government Agency. If the Republican Supreme Court permits this, contrary to precedent set by Roosevelt in the 1930s, you as well start calling him “The Supreme Leader” instead of president. There would never again be truly “independent” agencies representing all political parties and all people in an unbiased manner.
Serfs again?
We are drifting toward a kind of neo-feudal society. Not knights and drawbridges, but the same architecture: a narrow band of people holding real power and mobility, while the broad base keeps the system running yet owns very little of the foundations of its own life. Like any feudal order, it survives on a simple principle: give the serfs just enough to keep them productive and quiet. In earlier centuries that meant grain, grazing rights, or a priest’s blessing. Today it looks like subsidized conveniences, manageable debt, and medical care calibrated to keep the workforce upright, functional, and ready to clock in again tomorrow.
So much complaining
I’ll give the Democrats credit: They find something new to complain about every single day when it comes to our president.
Make it stop
When President Trump pardoned imprisoned former Representative Henry Cellular — a Democrat — I allowed myself a brief moment of hope. Maybe, just maybe, he wasn’t fully committed to tearing down every member of the opposing party. But that illusion evaporated quickly. It turns out Trump essentially sold the pardon, expecting Cellular to switch parties in return—a condition Cellular refused. And the most astonishing part? Trump openly admits it. Is there no limit to the shamelessness? How much longer are we expected to tolerate this kind of authoritarian behavior from someone who treats presidential power like a bargaining chip? This isn’t leadership. It’s coercion wrapped in arrogance.
Thief
You stole my umbrella from the Diamondhead Country Club on Saturday after lunchtime. It’s got hummingbirds and flowers printed on it, and it’s made by Anushka from India. Please bring it back to the Club, for lost and found
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