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Trump remains overwhelmingly popular with Alabama Republicans. His approval rating sits at 88% in our survey. But popularity doesn't automatically transfer. Voters can love Trump and still make their own judgments about individual candidates.

For too long, oversight of our corrections system has been fragmented, informal, or housed too close to the very institutions it is meant to examine. That is not a criticism of individual employees; it is a recognition of a structural weakness.

Next time you hear someone say Trump is Hitler running an authoritarian regime, that ICE is the Gestapo, and that Trump’s followers are Nazis, just walk away. The person is either given over to the delusion served by the media … or they know they already lost.

A competitive freight rail system is essential to keeping agriculture moving, prices stable and rural economies strong.

America will find it’s way back to marriage and families if the younger generations are simply willing to embrace sacrificial love. Aside from the Biblical truth that marriage is a covenant made before God, sanctioned by God, and blessed by God, marriage also enables two selfish human beings to become more selfless.

Let Canada serve as a lesson. The government we elect must continue to fight for our way of life. If we let down our guard, someone will try to destroy everything we’ve built in our great state and country.

If Congress and the Supreme Court followed Madison’s interpretation of the General Welfare Clause, America would have much lower taxes, lower spending, and lower debt.

Republicans are currently underwater, but not out of line with historical data, while predictions of a “Blue Wave” are not yet substantiated by polling. But looking further and examining the presidential map in just under three years, a few themes become clear.

The global elite say they love the stranger, but their true love has always been estrangement. Put simply, estranged people are much easier to control than those with deep roots and long memories.

For Presidents Day, we deserve an honest reckoning with the presidents we excuse and what our selective conscience reveals about our values and moral judgment of our leaders. 

The Southern Gentleman ... aimed higher – not from snobbery (which is itself another closed form, another mirror), but from the conviction that standards are meant to be kept, that culture is not an ornament but a discipline, practiced as one practices prayer, citizenship or love.

In the midst of change and upheaval, who will teach our children?

Trump knows the media will chase outrage. He knows the left cannot resist racial controversy. And he knows that while journalists believe they are damaging him, they are often helping him stay relevant.

Canned music. It’s everywhere. You cannot get away from it. It is always playing in public spaces. Grocery stores, hotel lobbies, airplanes, colonoscopy exam rooms.

Those who have traveled to the Midwest or West have seen the wind turbine farms peppering the landscape. These “Skynet”-like structures are not only a blight to the skyline, but they kill birds and affect the ecosystem of the land. Solar panels present similar issues, not only destroying once-rich soil, but affecting wildlife and the surrounding areas.

Sports gambling is a growing threat to our children that too many adults still underestimate.

There’s criticism that CHOOSE applicants are overwhelmingly white or overwhelmingly from higher-income areas, leaving lower-income, minority students stranded in a failing system. But once the CHOOSE application opens to families of any income, there will be no barrier – except parents.

The Alabama Legislature has recently and commendably passed legislation shielding minors from exposure to inappropriate content. How about taking steps to ensure minors are exposed to highly appropriate content about our nation’s founding?

The East came to our rescue at least once before. Will our own Western leaders, by following these examples, allow it to do so again?    

Alabama’s hunting and fishing industry supports more than 25,000 jobs in our state. Yet it seems our politicians would rather see economic growth from the highest bidder instead of working to protect our environment and focus on our 3-billion-dollar hunting and fishing industry.

The greatest presidents, in my opinion, are those who respected the limits the Constitution places upon government and especially upon the executive branch, those who refrained from social engineering, and those who, insofar as possible, kept the nation out of wars.

During Super Bowl weekend, two very different performances played out before millions of viewers.

Woe to the nation that falls under the yoke of those who wield the Bible – not to teach men to observe and obey all that Christ Jesus commands – but as a weapon of shameless self-promotion to usurp authority and power simply for authority and power’s sake. 

We must be clear that Sharia law has no place in a nation built on Christian moral foundations, constitutional rights, and the rule of law.

What separates Melania from Donald is not a matter of personality but of category. He remains legible, conversational, and available. She occupies a register altogether different: remote, stylized, untouchable. The disparity is not incidental. Democratic authority performs accessibility; divinity depends on distance.

A proposed solar farm in Stockton, Ala., has sparked debate among residents and officials.

Non-interventionism is not isolationism. It is recognition that a republic cannot survive while attempting to subsidize and police the world indefinitely.