Can you imagine what Muscle Shoals would look like now if the government chose not to step in the way of free enterprise and daring ideas, but instead decided to encourage them?
When did it become our government's job to assure health equity – an illogical and unattainable term?
It's hard to unsee the cancerous mass the health care system has become.
Getting history right matters. Borders, land, and boundaries matter. It matters there. And it matters here.
We’re held back by a withering fear of speaking out and then getting canceled, of losing friends and of being deserted by family. Or even fear over our government coming for us. So terror shuts our mouths and kills our resolve.
Even though THEY still salivate at the chance to map out and control every aspect of our lives – including getting us to eat bugs – the winds of change, slight though they may be, are upon us.
Recently, adults gave the green light to blue material. It's happened repeatedly in Alabama, but Prattville is the only place elected officials have shaken hands with what's wicked.
Oliver Anthony’s lyrics about the “Rich Men North of Richmond” made me think about COVID and the lies we were told. Because right now, the rich men north of Richmond are banking on us believing them all over again.
Will Trump follow in Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill’s footsteps? Those two men failed significantly before sustained success, but both learned that failure is a peerless teacher.
YOU, privileged turd, are evil. But they, whoever they are, are good.
Whether you’re post-op or pummeled by something else – work, life – all the things will be here when you return. Please. Take a break while you still have a chance.
Perhaps you've considered your mothers and fathers on the weekend that leads to July 4, and what service means. How many families still give their lives to these United States?
An actual year without abortion would take a Herculean effort to overcome. But it’s a battle, one that hundreds of thousands of people are already fighting.
Road trips are in our family's DNA. It is what we do. But that Saturday marked the first time I saw three wrecks in six hours.
Our legislators seemed to panic and go mute this session when they saw snakes beneath their feet.
Today’s culture is out of order. But how do we set things right? The answer comes down to worldview.
We can't count on our leaders. So it's a good thing we can count on the husbands and fathers and good men beyond the halls of the legislature.
Instead of pretending everything was fine, and instead of offering the middle finger salute, I wish I would've told myself that the grief I felt, which many of us experience, was real. But also that it doesn’t last.
As we head south toward death and destruction of our own making, Anna Essinger's example is a remarkable reminder. What if we were people who did what was irrational, and seemingly impossible, but what was right?
The most important thing is to equip our students and teach them how to think, so that when they’re in a Women’s Studies class, they’re not blindsided or too afraid to speak up.
Lying liars don't just live in D.C. They live in Montgomery, AL, too. And they're already lined up, hands out, to work for lobbyists, not you.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the Alabama Department of Public Health's determination to include controversial COVID shots in childhood immunizations.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on iHeart Radio with JT as they discuss the Alabama GOP's resolution to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion from public institutions.
Why do they insist that children get vaxxed and boosted, and their pregnant moms, too, when a flood of information suggests it's dangerous and ill-advised?
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the upcoming legislative session and the hope that legislators will courageously fight for Alabamians and not lobbyists.
From Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed’s hot mic moment, to Mac McCutcheon and his suspicious business relations, to the issues with Prattville schools, it feels like the people we elect to serve our communities are only in office to serve themselves.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss Margaret Court, who won 66 tennis Grand Slams and won 3 Grand Slams in one year, yet the left is trying to "cancel" her because of her Christian beliefs.