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Gun control laws continue to fail. And where gun control laws make the least amount of sense are on U.S. military installations.

Summer break, once designed for agrarian calendars, now feels like an outdated relic.

I miss the newspaper. Before the internet. I’m talking physical newspapers. The kind you unfold.

If banks are going to enjoy the immense privileges that come with government backing, they must also accept that they cannot operate as if they are entirely free of accountability.

Having served as county commissioner in one of the state’s larger counties, and a current commissioner in a smaller, struggling, Black Belt county, it is my belief that there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the SSUT system.

Let us hold the education system accountable, because they are ultimately accountable to the parents. In the last decade, they have become drunk with power. It’s high time we sober them up.

Patients and independent pharmacies across the state are still paying the price due to deceptive PBM influences.

A revolution began in this country way back in 2008 when then-candidate Obama promised to “fundamentally change” the American system.

We must pray and act to do battle against the evil of child sexual abuse. Confronting and preventing these atrocities requires a full range of the legal tools available to the state.

Schumer recently expressed outrage that President Trump is spending $200 million to build a new ballroom onto the White House.

The people of Alabama must confront an undeniable truth: the horrific events in Bibb County are not an anomaly. This isn’t a 100-year flood. Child sexual abuse is a persistent crisis affecting every county in our state. 

I still resent rote memorization. Yet, I resent myself more for treating my memory like that of a machine, swift to learn techniques that helped me forget soon after the momentary need. 

Three hundred years ago this month, in a dockside community in the East End of London, John Newton was born.

We’ve seen this playbook before: Cut rates when it benefits Democrats before an election. Stall when a Republican candidate surges in the polls. That’s not monetary policy; it’s political manipulation.

Last September, Mountain Brook residents found themselves in a fight for their future against a developer secretly planning to build a 55-unit high-density rental development in the center of their community. That developer is now running for Mountain Brook City Council.

More often than not, good governance is just the enactment of common sense which, unfortunately, is all too uncommon. 

Federal judges – unelected, black-robed oligarchs with personal agendas and political manifestos – are seditiously launching a frontal assault on President Donald Trump’s America-First policies.

To live under the rule of unelected officials – those we never chose, whose power lacks our consent – is slavery disguised as government.

For all of the ship’s majesty and greatness, the plight of the ship has not been a "cause celebre" in the media or the greater public, and at this very moment, the demolition of the ship continues without ceasing and will soon reach a point where the ship’s character-defining features are lost.

We cannot keep rewarding the politicians who speak our language but sell out our principles.

When Mom and son reach the stairs of the slide, they are shouting in make-believe voices. Making more explosion sounds. But the boy breaks character for a brief moment. And in a voice that is small and sincere, he says, “I love you so much, Mom.”

Shield laws have become a hot topic since the abortion pill Mifepristone became the major means for women, particularly in abortion-restricted states, to terminate their pregnancies.

 We are asking Trump to save America’s domestic cabinet industry and impose a 100% targeted tariff rate on all foreign cabinet imports so we can truly Make Alabama Great Again.

If we are serious about building safer workplaces and more successful companies, we need to stop asking how diverse our teams look and start asking how well our people work.

After spending the last two years on the House Judiciary Committee battling Biden’s border crisis, I cannot stay silent while Members of Congress bring forward the so-called “DIGNITY Act.”

With DHR caseworkers in different counties being overwhelmed and overloaded with children in detrimental home situations, it is way past time to think outside the box and try something more effective.

I can’t wait to see what else we can get done for the great people of Alabama.