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“We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.” Maybe we ought to put that in our dictionary.

In Alabama, we try not to burn our communities and allow them to be given over to criminality and destruction. Yes, there is more work to be done on many levels, but what we are doing right is allowing our law enforcement and ICE to perform their work – not throwing protests and putting lives in danger because we have issues with the president.

Why is the Danish social Democrat prime minister determined to undermine a good relationship with the United States over an island in the Northern Hemisphere that’s inhabited by a population that doesn’t want to be Danish?

Why state lawmakers must act against a type of abuse threatening girls in Alabama.

Protecting kids online is too important to rush. Alabama has an opportunity to lead by slowing down, asking hard questions and focusing on real accountability from social media companies like Meta.

As most people know by now, Curt Cignetti, Indiana’s head coach, is a former Nick Saban assistant, and seems to have made his former boss’ approach something of his own.

Fairhope deserves a library accountable to its residents and respectful of children, not one that survives by outsourcing funding and values to outside organizations.

Did Trump do the right thing by going into Venezuela to arrest Maduro?

2025 topped them all in stiffing the state’s military veterans.

Maybe I should just put the phone down and pick up the Good Book instead.

Capturing Maduro shows the world that America still stands ready to defend our interests, protect our people and rise against tyranny when it directly threatens our security. 

When central bankers presume to fine-tune economic growth through monetary manipulation, when politicians promise prosperity through fiscal profligacy, and when commentators dismiss millennia of economic wisdom as relics of a benighted past, gold stands as a rebuke to hubris.

Upholding the White House’s vision for a pro-innovation America means pushing back against big bank lobbyists.

If we ignore teachers when they raise the alarm, we will pay the cost for decades. It is time to listen, act and rebuild classrooms where learning, not crisis management, is the priority.

I decided to approach the marriage crisis by asking random people to give their opinions and advice on the institution of matrimony.

The PRIME Act offers Alabama a choice: continue outsourcing food policy to federal standards designed for corporate consolidation, or reclaim authority and rebuild local food systems from the ground up.

Who knew that God’s idea of how to fuel the body He created is what is truly best? 

To autocrats, proxies and terror‑sponsoring regimes who imagine sanctuary or immunity, understand this fact: American real power is patient, precise and prepared.

The “warmth of collectivism” is a recycled, Marxist policy that will continue to result in the death and destruction of the people.

A sovereign nation cannot function under competing legal systems.

So what do we say to MTG-"Good riddance," or "We'll miss you?"

While the White House is critical, Alabama conservatives cannot afford to treat our state primaries – where the future of Alabama is actually chosen – like a side show. 

As we head into 2026, a few questions come to mind regarding the great state of Alabama.

We are all assemblages, all cobbled together from what remains after loss, all performing wholeness with whatever materials we can find.

Stop waiting for permission. You already have God-given rights. Instead, start taking ownership. If your life isn't where you want it to be, look in the mirror. That is the only person who can fix it.

Football is just a game. A game of running the ball. Running the ball is key. You have to run the ball. Too bad we didn’t.

It seems lawmakers, judges, and corrections officials actively attack and prosecute symptoms in the incarceration system, while the root causes are rarely addressed and left to fester and grow worse.