Sound Off: January 13, 2026

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

REAL ID

TSA: “Pay us $45 unless you have a REAL ID.” Mississippi: “No problem — just get one from the Driver’s License Bureau.” What a great idea. The DL Bureau is the same place where time stands still, paperwork goes to die, and hope slowly evaporates. Expanding incompetence is not a service. Only in Mississippi, right?

No favoritism

Looks like the White House administration does not discriminate who they will target. You are either with them or against them. Let’s hope they all go down together.

The problem

I know this is not politically correct, but I think the biggest threat to our country are crazy, delusional, and highly medicated, liberal White women.

No, thanks

Well, Cindy Hyde-Smith seeks reelection this year to the United States Senate. No one should vote for her. She voted to confirm the most incompetent buffoon imaginable, Robert Kennedy, Jr., to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

It’s really easy

If you would like to not get shot by an ICE officer, it is generally rather simple: Comply with their demands.

Not the same

So if police say a white lady in red-state Mississippi embezzled COVID subsidies for daycares, we applaud the authorities for going after normal corruption. But, if the exact same corruption is connected to Somali immigrants in a blue city and state, then all Black immigrants are criminals and the local officials are in on it? Yeah, that logic makes sense.

Minnesota

What in the world is going on in Minnesota? We’ve got people ignoring ICE commands and Somali immigrants stealing tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers. Is that right?

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