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What remains of Christmas past is this: the feeling of those weeks, compressed now into something both smaller and larger than they were. How the waiting itself became the thing we waited for. How we rushed toward events that we also wanted never to arrive, because arrival meant ending, and ending meant the long, ordinary months that followed.

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success.

Any candidate who openly violates the Constitution or tries to circumvent it should not only be barred from running but, if already in office, must be impeached immediately. The law must act swiftly to remove leaders who threaten the document that secures our liberties.

We arrived at the Christmas tree lot after dark. My wife and I walked the long aisles of pinery, scrutinizing each tree as though it were asking for our kid’s hand in marriage.

If the issue is UA preserving its federal funding and opening up the discourse to more viewpoints, then private funding would be the logical answer. Then Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six would have to survive in a new model where they would be required to compete in the arena of ideas that should exist on all college campuses.

Alabama’s future is bright. You can see it in the jobs we are landing, the workers we are training, and the confidence employers are showing in every corner of the state.

It's time to say what too many of us have already known for some time – Alabama's electricity rates are too high. That is not acceptable. 

This latest attack in D.C. isn’t an anomaly. It’s the plan unfolding exactly as designed. That’s why U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is absolutely right to go for the jugular. Outlaw Sharia in America. Period.

The Alabama Public Service Commission’s recent decision to approve a two-year freeze on Alabama Power rates is welcome news for manufacturers across our state.

Trump did not veer too far to the left or right in dealing with Iran, but in a very practical way took care of the job at hand. In so doing Trump revealed himself as an Israeli realist, and I think we should be, as well.

I believe it is God’s will that we be loyal and patriotic Americans, just as it is His will that everyone be loyal to his or her own country. That’s why God confounded the building of the Tower by confusing the languages of the people. 

Whether a rising political leader or a lowly gadfly, we all have a role to play in God’s plan for the welfare of this world. Let us pray, no matter how much our roles may seem to be opposed, that we do His will, not our own.

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.