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If Alabama lobbyists want to represent our enemies, they can hold their noses and do so. But legislators and taxpayers deserve to know who is pushing policy and whose interests are truly at stake.

Unfortunately, there are obvious parallels between the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution and the past two decades in America. But luckily, we didn’t suffer as much as the Chinese because our representative republic held together, continuing to reject the cultural Marxism peddled by modern Democrats.

Don’t shoot the messenger. But in America, one third of children have never handwritten a letter.

If Alabama taxpayers invest approximately $15,000 per child, who should decide how that investment is used? If we believe parents have the primary right to direct the education of their child, should funding reflect that belief?

Based on how yesterday went, I believe my initial impression was wrong and that the University of Montevallo meant what they said because they went to extraordinary lengths to secure the campus so the event could continue.

The policies allowing schools to transition children without telling parents are almost over. They’re about to be deader than disco. Things aren’t there yet, but based on this opinion, we have every reason to believe they will be.

The recent conversation between Carlson and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee may be the best example of Carlson opening a door to many who don’t know much about Huckabee and his personal convictions.

May the young women in America learn from their toxic elder sisters and avoid their paths. Refuse to bend the knee to progressivism. Study history. Reject socialism. Find a nice young man to marry. Start a family. Go back to church. Build a happier future than liberalism will ever provide. 

The “heckler’s veto” is a legal term for allowing a hostile crowd to shout down a speaker or, by threatening violence, cause authorities to shut down a speaker to keep the peace.

A closed primary isn’t some fancy political theory cooked up in Montgomery. It’s common sense: Republicans ought to choose Republican nominees. Period.

The War Powers Resolution is one of the most misrepresented statutes in modern American politics.

The wicked game the devil plays is to pretend he is the morning star most high, that his legions will forever torment the world, and that the best a man can hope for is to see his enemies, himself, and the world die. But the true Morning Star Most High teaches us neither indifference nor despair – but to love and pray for all, even our enemies, caught in the devil’s snares....

Strength is not measured in numbers, but in the will to stand fast when all logic says to flee. 

Moses does not belong to 1956, to Hollywood, or even to the screen. He belongs to the long-unbroken thread of people who needed to believe that the hopeless could be delivered – and who, to their astonishment, found that they were right.

If Alabama wants stronger families, churches, and civic life, it will need stronger institutions of higher learning, including private colleges. 

Remove unfair barriers, apply equal laws, and people will rise based on their own effort and merit.

I’d say the biggest problem facing this country is typos. Typos are cropping up everywhere. In advertisements, in emails, and even within the very words you're reading now.

For too many women in Alabama, what follows cancer surgery brings a second battle, not against disease, but against their own health insurer.

If districts are formally asserting that digital platforms harm children, why are elements of that same ecosystem embedded into the mandatory structure of the school day?

This is the time to give greater scrutiny to who is responsible for education administration in our schools. With each cultural shift, it becomes evident that administrations often have no intestinal fortitude or direction.

HB347 recognizes that our legal framework must evolve alongside technology. The bill strengthens consumer protections related to illicit material, clarifies enforcement mechanisms, and ensures meaningful consequences for those who profit from or facilitate this kind of harm.

A little over a week ago, I was running as a Republican in State Senate District 10 and was told by multiple sources that I was winning in the polls against incumbent Andrew Jones. That was before the Alabama Republican Party Steering Committee kicked me off the ballot.

As I reflected on the past six and half years since Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, I couldn’t help but ask: where have these people been? Where were they when we were going to see “Sound of Freedom,” a movie that was generally panned by the mainstream critics as a QAnon conspiracy theory? Or when we surmised quite rationally that – since he was involved with such high-level people – Epstein might not have killed himself at all?

Trump continues to demonstrate his commitment to law enforcement and working Americans, as he highlighted in this week’s State of the Union Address. We proudly stand behind him.

The rules matter. Integrity matters. And protecting the Republican primary process matters.

But cyberspace, coupled with artificial intelligence (AI), presents new threats and raises new issues in protecting children from porn. ... All pornographers need to do is find a photo of an innocent person, generate a nude body to go with it, and they’re in business.

To suggest SB298 is simply an attempt to take power away from a black mayor is laughable.