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Companion AI does not encourage repentance, challenge sin, teach self-denial, or model sacrificial love. Instead, it mirrors feelings and reinforces emotional impulses – precisely the opposite of Christian formation.

"What about the First Amendment right of these protesters?” the left asks. “What of the rights of the press of Don Lemon?” Interestingly, no one is asking about the First Amendment right to worship, which protesters violated. But let’s look at it.

Passage of HB12 ensures the medical freedom that people need to make decisions for their own bodies without societal retribution for refusing to follow the herd.  

When examined closely, property taxation lacks a sound moral foundation and is economically structured to grow more burdensome over time.

Navigating the high seas is dangerous, and we naturally look for easy solutions. But when “LOST” at sea, we must not turn to the Sirens of Homer’s Odyssey, the bird-like enchantresses whose beautiful voices lured sailors to shipwreck and death on rocky shores.

It’s been one year since President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated for a second term, launching America on a long overdue course correction.

Through confusion and doubt, we must tread new routes, yet for all the nimble and practical steps we take, we must first remember to humble ourselves, or be humbled, by a test of faith.

In 1776 – 250 years ago – General George Washington made a pragmatic and radical decision when he integrated the Continental Army, allowing free black men – and later some formerly enslaved men – to serve alongside white soldiers. 

The question is not whether the ABA should exist, but whether its accreditation regime should continue to enjoy compulsory status. Texas and Florida have answered that question sensibly. Alabama would do well to consider the same course. 

Nothing overcooks my grits more than the cheap iterations and representations of Our Lord. Just as ancient civilizations would chisel desired features into idols made of rocks and wood, modern-day false believers carve out the modern god named My Jesus.  

The next state auditor must ensure that a complete and total ban on all Chinese-made drones and their component parts are banned from Alabama's property inventory.

Americans were forced into Obamacare under threat of a financial penalty, promised affordable care in return, and told the system would protect working families. Now the subsidies are gone, the real costs exposed, and the bills have arrived. ... When Washington replaces freedom with control and responsibility with dependency, working families always pay the price.

“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.