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This is a season to recommit ourselves to our faith, to love of our neighbor, and to the values that unite us as Alabamians and as Americans. If we do, I am confident that the days ahead will be brighter than those behind us.

This Christmas, gaze into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere in the assurance of things hoped for and unseen – that Christ Jesus is the only Star that could ever set men free!

One suspects that special interests – the defenders of CON laws, the education establishment, the AHSAA – will prove less accommodating than Kris Kringle. But then, serious policy reform was never supposed to be easy. It requires not the magic of Christmas morning, but the harder work of persuasion, legislation, and sustained political will. 

If the White House wants to claim the mantle of the most pro-life administration in history, it must be willing to act like it. That means confronting mifepristone directly, not regulating around it.

After all, the future of America is not decided only in elections, courts or classrooms. It is also decided at kitchen tables, during holidays, and in quiet talks between parents, grandparents, and children.

Imagine going to visit a relative in another country and discovering they had things that your own country did not.

At Christmastime, John was about as cheerful as the infamous storybook character who once purloined Yuletide from Whoville. But then he met the girl.

President Trump is back in office, which means that Democrats are working overtime to manufacture lies to try to make Republicans look bad.

This tragic shooting weighed the university in the balance, and they were found wanting. Ella Cook, Mukhammad Umurzokov, and Nuno Loureiro lost their lives because of it.

Alabama has always understood that freedom comes with responsibility. Applying that principle to the digital lives of children is not radical. It’s overdue.

Character may regulate behavior. Virtue forms citizens!

Much has been done economically in the first 10 months of Trump’s second tenure, and it has to do with tariffs. For it appears that the slowing of the current economy is nothing other than the decline of the old system – the pre-tariff one – before the new, post-tariff regime ramps up.

Alabama farmers, manufacturers, and energy producers rely on rail to move everything from grain and soy to steel and petrochemicals. If one operator gains outsized control over the routes feeding the Gulf Coast, our producers will be left with no leverage and no alternatives.

Were it not for Christmas, Good Friday could never have happened. But were it not for Good Friday, Christmas would be nothing more than a sweet story about a nice baby.

When construction wins, Alabama wins.

We are too trusting of our suspicions, too swift in our accusations, too flippant and too proud in our judgments – and much too distracted and bewildered by the churn of the digital deluge to connect it to something real or enduring. In this way, we have failed to find rest, day after restless day. 

This past August, many Alabama cities elected mayors to four-year terms in colorful and expensive contests. Interestingly, many state police chiefs ran for this coveted center seat in their cities and won, a fact not widely discussed.

Of this much I’m certain: Legislative oversight of the textbook process has become not merely advisable but necessary. Gov. Tommy Tuberville, when his apparent time comes, will surely bring a much-needed housecleaning to such affairs.

Don't get upset by leftist name calling. No Kings proponents are just the latest self-proclaimed defenders of democracy temporarily interrupting your day if you’re unfortunate enough to drive past one of their gaggles or read their name in a headline. Nothing more.

Maybe peace isn’t stillness. Maybe peace isn’t even something we “do” at all. Maybe peace simply “is.”

No longer the world’s policeman, punching bag, or fool, our Republic reclaims its mantle: a sovereign power, armed with doctrine, driven by destiny, and prepared to confront adversaries.

When you were in school, you hopefully learned that there are three branches of government: legislative, executive and judicial. But in a recent oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the quiet part out loud and unveiled a fourth: the administrative branch.

Young women are still buying into false propaganda whispering that the goal of a woman’s life is to prioritize herself, her career, and her whims, maintaining control over her life. That’s a lie from the pit of hell, designed to destroy the nuclear family and blind women to the fact that true liberation lies in serving others and raising families.

I am certain that concerned taxpayers and committed conservatives will continue keeping a watchful eye on the Acceptance Academy, sounding the alarm when it crosses the line between education and indoctrination.

Regardless of what the law says, if a substantial portion of the public disagrees with it, many will disobey the law. When law gets too far ahead of (or behind) public opinion, it loses the respect it needs to be effective. 

Protecting fair rail access isn’t just good for the South, it’s vital for our entire country’s economy and those who keep America moving. 

Watch a great film enough and it becomes more than just a film; it's a constellation that serves to watch, minister and guard us through the everchanging seasons of life.