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Phil Williams: Eyes everywhere

Invasive technology sounds really cool until some bureaucrat realizes that they can use it for their agenda.

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Ashley Carter: Fearfully and wonderfully made

Remembering the anniversary of Roe v. Wade two years later.

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Conner Hayes: Negligence that kills — The destruction of Alabama’s most important college

The State of Alabama could not provide a loan to financially distressed Birmingham-Southern College (BSC), but they have made it clear they can buy. 

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Sean of the South: Willie Mays

The Say Hey Kid’s first season in the bigs was shaping up to be an awful one. He’d gotten no hits. He was a rookie with the worst record in the league. Period. After 26 plate appearances he’d hit the ball only once.

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Jennifer Oliver O'Connell: The body positivity movement lost the point and people are losing their lives

Ten years ago, the body positivity movement was about crafting a fitness lifestyle that was not dictated by one’s body size or type.

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Conner Hayes: Birmingham-Southern College's fatal fire sale

BSC has already failed. It isn’t coming back. What is selling off the physical remnants of the place going to do for anyone? 

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Allen Keller: A Father's Day message from the father of our country

The 10 Commandments tell us to honor our fathers and mothers. If it’s beneficial to honor our parents, then it surely must also be so to grant such respect to the father of our nation?

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Dr. Stewart Tankersley: More truths emerge to erode COVID lies

The hubris of those in charge the past four-plus years has been epic, and we continue to exist in the deadly game they created. Thankfully, recent weeks have seen their seemingly impenetrable barricade of lies erode.

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Talmadge Butts: Bump stocks may be legal again, but the ATF has declared open season on gun hobbyists

If you are a Second Amendment supporter and gun enthusiast, you may feel some whiplash from recent news.

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Joey Clark: Seven ways politicians avoid responsibility

Politicians are more than happy to take credit for anything good under the sun, but they eschew any responsibility when their name is to blame.

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Phil Williams: Entrapment on the rainbow road

Every so-called “progressive” city that paints a rainbow in the street knows exactly what will happen. They expect it. They want it. They need it.

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Riley McArdle: Where’s the outrage as major colleges ban DEI?

Alabama's DEI bill for universities was met with great outrage. But now that schools like Harvard and MIT are dropping DEI policies the outrage seems to have disappeared.

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KCarl Smith: You won't believe what I heard

How can these black conservatives assert that slavery wasn't bad when they never experienced it themselves?

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Jim Zeigler: Fathers' lives matter

Dads matter — to the family and to society.

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Ashley Carter: Expressing gratitude to the patriarchs of my family

Dad, “thank you” will never be enough!

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John Rice: Broken promises and the Inflation Reduction Act's impact on Alabama's seniors

In 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), promising it would lower Medicare costs for seniors. But for Alabama's seniors, the reality has been far different.

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Jim Zeigler: Two Alabama Democrat cities in national top 5 for crime

Bessemer and Birmingham are in the top five cities in crime.

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Sean of the South: O, brother

Dan Lovette became an usher at the Baptist church on Easter Sunday, March 26th, 1961. He stood at the door shaking hands, passing out bulletins. Nobody knew Dan.

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Amie Beth Shaver: Wielding the sword

The job of the state is to establish order and security, wield the sword and protect her residents' safety.

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Jim Zeigler: Middle East expert warns we are in World War III — Islamic Jihad vs. Western world

Mideast expert Aaron Fruh told GOP women: We are in WWIII. Radical Islamics vs the rest of the world.

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Pro Tem Reed: Alabama Senate delivered on conservative priorities in 2024 legislative session

The Alabama Senate focused on delivering actual results that would continue to make Alabama the best state in the country to live, work and raise a family. 

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Jim Zeigler: Flag Day, the almost forgotten holiday

June 14 is Flag Day, an almost forgotten holiday.

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Laura Clark: All's fair in law and politics

The solution for political opponents today is to attack each other for things unrelated to political stance in order to take them out of the public discourse.

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Kristin Landers: June is Celebrate Life month

June is now officially “Life Month.” And all the glory goes to God.

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Col. John Eidsmoe: A reflection on Ukraine

I had high hopes for Ukraine. And I still do.

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Joey Clark: It was never just ‘Whitey on the Moon’

It was never just whitey on the moon. The efforts of the Apollo space program helped clear the way for all to join in the impossible dream of becoming a spacefaring species by braving the unknown.  

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Phil Williams: Day of Days

D-Day. The day they saved the world.

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