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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.

Two hundred fifty years ago on January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense.” In today’s word, its publication went “viral” as it was re-printed and distributed throughout the American Colonies.

This revival of the Monroe Doctrine isn’t about domination; it’s about decided deterrence and dominant defense. It’s leadership that safeguards American security, promotes regional prosperity, and upholds sovereignty for all nations in the hemisphere which shares our values.

I’m not calling for forced conversions or a new military crusade. I am calling for resolve, for the courage to believe in ourselves and our own history, to choose one thing over another, and to decide ultimately that the West is worth saving.

Serving you remains one of the greatest blessings of my life, and I will continue to give you everything I have.

Remember this before accepting government subsidies: With shekels come shackles.

Perhaps no New Year resolutions could ever free us from our yesterdays. Perhaps instead of looking to a new year, we should consider the time we have been given as the last of days.

In the end, that may be how intellectual history actually happens – not by invention alone, but by the stubborn, imperfect transmission of seriousness from one restless mind to another. 

After decades of poor EU policies, and in line with America's revised national security strategy and trade policies, Alabama should make every effort to attract additional European businesses.

After Smokey Bear, historic lookout towers are the most recognized symbols of the forest service, and at one time, over 200 of these artifacts dotted Alabama.

If you’re brave enough to shake hands with your fear, that fear will disappear forever. Don’t you ever forget that.

In an age of drones and satellites, of cyber warfare and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the most decisive battlefield remains the human heart. Chaplains are the generals of that battlefield.

Read good books of value and decency. Read with interest and to fit your needs. Read to exercise your mind. Read it all and challenge yourself to read more.    

Authentic peace is found in Jesus Christ alone. As I “mature” (i.e. age), I find that it is not the absence of trouble that provides peace – though I prefer trouble to stay away. It is the presence of Christ that gives us peace in circumstances that otherwise seem unbearable.

The Pilgrims’ first Christmas in the New World was remarkable, but not for the reasons you’d think. On December...

The birth of Jesus is a frontal assault of cosmic proportions, but it is also a covert operation. Who would suspect that this tiny baby is the Word made flesh, the second person of the Trinity incarnate in Jesus the Christ? In all the history of military warfare, never has there been an operation more covert than this.