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America spent 20 years and trillions of dollars containing radical Islam abroad. Importing it now would render that sacrifice pointless.

At Christmastime, we watch “The Sound of Music” because we need to believe that these small rebellions matter, that Maria and the Captain and those seven children made it over the mountains to freedom, that somewhere in the darkness, edelweiss still blooms, small and white and impossibly brave.

Progressive theological drift rarely announces itself with a label. It borrows the vocabulary of justice, love and compassion, while quietly rewiring the moral scaffolding beneath.

“The first rule of knitting is understanding patience, this takes a lifetime. The rest can be learned in only a few minutes.”

To deliberately plant seeds of doubt in the minds of our warriors is not only seditious in spirit but treasonous in temperance. Those responsible must be made examples of for their dalliances and destruction of good order and discipline.

My dad’s senior living residence is comprised of men who have fought in wars, women who have raised families, people who have had successful careers, and those who lived active lives before the devastation of dementia began to take over. These people deserve to be remembered in their sunset years.

Thanksgiving is more than a tradition – it is a moment for the American people to come together with one heart, one voice, and one grateful spirit.

This Thanksgiving we have every reason to be grateful and to invite God back to our table, acknowledging all the micro-blessings we take for granted and attributing them to His care and loving kindness. 

Perhaps we would all be smart to follow Britt’s example at the Thanksgiving table this year. Instead of arguing, yelling and feuding with family members whose politics are different than ours, try simply talking to them while seeking common bonds. 

Have you ever closed your Thanksgiving festival with a gnawing feeling of disappointment, as though something was missing? Observing the five “Fs” formula of the first Thanksgiving in 1621 may remedy that disappointment. 

The Main Street Depositor Protection Act is a misnomer. Instead of protecting Main Street, it’s a Trojan horse for more regulation, increased moral hazard in the banking sector, government guarantees, and taxpayer-funded bailouts.

I can’t help but think that part of gratitude is remembering things forgotten – things big and small taken for granted only to be lost in the troubles of the day to day. 

When European governments approach us, hands extended, seeking aid or additional funds for Ukraine, we should politely note that one cannot simultaneously sanction and supplicate.

Fortunately for us, the majority of the world’s workers rejected Marx and chose not to fight for the false utopia peddled by the communists. Unfortunately for us, empirical failures haven’t dissuaded contemporary Marxists from selling and reselling disproven snake oil.

There's an ever-growing list of things you can’t do anymore.

The trend of “trans children” and so-called gender affirming care appears to be falling out of favor – and not a moment too soon.

If we are to reclaim our culture, we must do more than win court cases. We must reassert the truth in every arena – education, medicine, media, technology, economics, and a myriad of other societal elements. We must teach our children that they are not accidents or abstractions, but embodied souls made male or female by divine design.

Too many accidents are happening because of non-English speaking drivers who should have never received their licenses in the first place. I’ll never stop fighting to make sure Alabamians feel safe when they call an Uber or get on the road.

Trump alone can heal the fracture currently tearing our movement apart. He did it in the Middle East, so why not within his own movement? 

True loyalty, the kind that builds schools and saves students, can’t be demanded. It’s earned.

AI or artificial intelligence can do some amazing things, but it is also dangerous. Lawyers are cautioned not to rely on AI information, and at least one Alabama attorney has been disciplined for citing a non-existent case given to him by AI.  

Though some churches will inevitably fade, whether in spirit or literal decay, the Church lives through its many members, all one body in Christ. 

Lee had that rarest of gifts: an ear for authentic Southern idioms and an eye for telling details. Even in these earlier efforts, she wrestles with how to render a setting that was simultaneously her home and her subject of critique. She loved the South – one cannot read her work and doubt that – but she loved it clear-eyed, without the sentimentality that has ruined lesser fiction.

Socialism may promise equality, but history shows that its ultimate outcome is control, not liberty. The stakes are high. New York City has chosen its path. Now it is up to the rest of America to decide: Will we protect freedom, or will we allow dependence and government control to take root?

Even after his retirement, he still preached. He preached in a country church, way out in the sticks. Sepulga Baptist, it was called. A place so far from town they had to mail order sunshine from Sears, Roebuck & Co.

The First Amendment protects free expression, but does not guarantee unrestricted access for minors. For more than half a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that protecting children from harmful or obscene content is not only permissible but also a compelling government interest.

When a teachers’ union compares its relationship with conservatives to Donald Trump’s diplomacy with Kim Jong Un, you know Alabama politics are shifting in strange ways.