It’s easy to feel depressed and scared these days. News about the impact and death toll of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, is constant. Government responses have been chaotic, ranging from near-indifference to suddenly shutting down the economy, with politicians offering to pay for everything.

To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq.

I quoted Maj. Gen. George S. Patton in my column last week: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

I have a special affinity for underdogs. Maybe that’s because I have been one myself. So my interest was piqued when I heard that a political novice from Baxley (pop. 4,400) by the name of Dr. Kandiss Taylor is running for the United States Senate seat vacated by Johnny Isakson.

It really is true. What goes around comes around. Please note that this Murphy Center piece is co-authored, a first for this column. Cliff Sowell and I have been friends for years, meeting as graduate students in the economics department at the University of Georgia. While we went our separa…