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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.

Social workers play a vital role in every Alabama community, connecting adults, seniors and children to resources such as after-school programs, community centers, and in-home care.

Confining speech to an area in which there are few if any listeners is akin to prohibiting speech entirely.

I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear that my money is “backed by the full faith and credit of the federal government,” I can’t help but roll my eyes and laugh.

Left to their own devices, men always fall short. Left to justify their own freedom by means of their freedom alone, men find only false dilemmas they always fail to answer. 

The federal government has crossed a line, and it makes Watergate look like a parking ticket.

Politicians need to stop crying wolf. A civil society emerges from truth.

If we truly want microschools to thrive, we must start funding them as serious enterprises, not side projects.

This capacity for indignation over minor inconveniences is perhaps our greatest luxury. To come from a place so organized, so systematized, so relentlessly functional that a gate change feels like chaos? That’s not a character flaw. It’s extraordinary fortune.

Loving kindness is not dead. Sometimes it is only sleeping.

Crime disenfranchises EVERYONE, whether you live in the vicinity of it or not. Huntsville, Vestavia Hills, Mobile, and every smaller community in between pays for Montgomery’s issues; therefore, it should be a state-level concern.

This shutdown is not a failure of bipartisan cooperation; it is the result of one party refusing to govern responsibly. It’s time for Democrats to stop holding the country hostage and put the American people first.

It's past time to remove these antiquated, special-interest laws that keep needed care out of Alabama communities.

Whether we’re talking about Covid lockdowns or digital ID, politicians prey upon the gullible and delegitimize critical thinkers – because we’re dangerous. Questioning what we’re being “forced” to do is unacceptable to totalitarians.

The solution to our economic strain isn’t another bailout or rebate – it’s restraint. We should be cutting spending before cutting checks, focusing on real productivity rather than political optics, and letting the markets, not Washington, determine winners and losers.

Quantico wasn’t just a meeting; it was a manifesto. A clarion call to purge the poison, reclaim our edge, and remind every single American in uniform that the softness of recent administrations kills. 

Military veterans deserve more than simple words of gratitude – they deserve timely, effective care, especially when it comes to mental health.