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Alabama parents need to wake up. We were promised opt-in protections – not workarounds, not footnotes, not policy tricks. And certainly not a counseling model that embeds ideology under the cover of state standards.

Jenny has managed to bottle something more than mere jelly. She’s captured a certain quality – call it care, call it craft – that has become increasingly rare in our expedient age.

Certainly, the world needs more gentleness, kindness and love. But sometimes force must be met with force. Sometimes God uses strong, even brutal men to fight brutality and accomplish His will.

Though it is difficult to deny Trump’s uncanny ability to rise from the political arena battered and bloodied, my guess is Trump’s ticket to heaven relies on whether he falls to the devil’s deal or accepts that there is no way, not even for TRUMP, to deal his way into Heaven.

Roe v. Wade is gone, but the killing hasn’t stopped.

Public discourse is only a conversation if it goes two ways. It is actually possible to have a solid, conservative, well-intentioned, cogent, thoughtful, authoritative voice without resorting to the crimes and crazy antics we see on the left. Those of us on the right cannot be silent.

Those who openly support abortion have no hesitation in ending innocent lives to achieve their goals, whether winning Golden Globes or getting promoted at work.

Parents leave when their child’s potential is ignored or their values are dismissed. They stay when education feels like a shared investment and when it delivers results.

The little girl flagged the older man over. By now, Mom was thinking to herself, it was too late to roll up the windows, the guy was already coming this way. She didn’t want to be THAT rude.

Just as the crime in Montgomery reverberates throughout the state, so does the fallout from criminal illegal aliens, affecting all Alabamians regardless of where they live.

The SPLC has, in my view, spent decades inflicting harm upon this country, weaponizing the language of civil rights to silence legitimate dissent and stigmatize conventional conservatism. That injury will not be quickly undone.

Don't be fooled. Montgomery really IS that bad.

Pray for this generation – that they will know the love and encouragement of Christ. We must remind our children that they are so much more than their successes or failures.

In Alabama, we have some of the strongest election integrity laws in the nation. But having good laws on the books is only one part of the equation.

In the five years I have served in the Senate, making DST permanent is the number one issue I hear about.

Regardless of who had it first, Halloween today is drenched in occultism if not outright Satanism. Witches, ghosts, vampires, goblins, ghouls, and the like have no place in any celebration fit for a Christian.

Better to hire a loyal and cunning fox ready to lay and recognize traps rather than some dutiful guard dog who only knows to bark “justice” when a hen goes missing. After all, in politics, sometimes hens need to go missing. 

It would be easy to quit the United Nations, recall our troops, and embrace the adage of fortress America. But we cannot disengage from the world no matter how much we are disliked, abused and misunderstood.

Rhetoric without responsibility is dangerous … just ask ICE.

One of the most important issues facing our country right now is the rise in violent crime. The tragic shooting in Montgomery earlier this month is a heartbreaking reminder of this issue’s urgency.

It is time to send a message as clear as the crimes we see on film: if you murder in cold blood, justice will be swift, certain and final. Protect life. Honor God-given rights. End the delays. Restore justice.

The main reason I’m writing is because the world is going to go nuts someday. And I mean totally, flipping nuts.

We routinely find our beloved state ranked among the worst in the nation by external studies. Yet even our own Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services (ACES) releases well-researched reports showing problems in Alabama’s Department of Mental Health (ADMH). 

The state that once sent Hugo Black to the Supreme Court and produced towering figures in America’s constitutional drama now languishes in civic educational mediocrity, trailing states we should regard as intellectual inferiors.

The shutdown needs to end now – before more families suffer and our defenses weaken.

From his first term to his second, President Trump has proven that “peace through strength” isn’t just a slogan, it’s a strategy that works.

The peace deal in the Middle East, so comprehensive in scope, so inclusive regarding its participants, could not have been secured without an alpha male at the helm of the ship.