I was 15 years old. I walked into the rural library. My father was freshly dead. I was a middle-school dropout. We were poor. It was Christmastime.
I'm still not sure how Birmingham missed getting a major airport, but they did. Just like Muscle Shoals and Ford City, the story of Birmingham and the airlines is another head-scratcher worth considering.
Groups like Read Freely Alabama and other leftist groups claim the removal of books from libraries violates the First Amendment. This is simply an error based on a faulty interpretation of the First Amendment and a general ignorance of Constitutional Law.
I sincerely appreciate Tuberville’s willingness to take a stand on the border issue even if his Republican colleagues won’t. We need more leaders like him with an actual SPINE who are willing to speak out.
The ability to tolerate ideas different from one’s own is a virtue that each generation must learn. It does not come naturally. Unfortunately, today’s higher education establishments are failing to impart this skill.
Klaus Schwab isn’t the first, nor will he be the last, to play God.
More than just wins and losses, sports can teach us about winning with class and losing with grace.
The urgency of the situation demands swift corrective action to prevent the shackles of debt from transforming us, our children, and our grandchildren into unwitting slaves of a financial burden.
When the world would see fit to commercialize and up the value on materialistic things more and more each year, the Bible remains a strong voice of reason. The Word of God doesn’t change. It brings peace and gives meaning.
Santa Claus? Thank God he lives. And he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
When it comes to the LGBTQ community’s push to normalize drag queens, there is always an agenda afoot. Smaller Alabama communities should take note and prepare.
Many folks think that Christmas trees cannot be grown in Alabama; that it takes the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Well, here is my story of growing one of Alabama’s early Christmas tree farms – the Zeigler Christmas Tree Farm outside of Sylacauga.
Thanks in part to John Lennon, New Age ideas have made advances in our culture. But we should beware of the entire story, especially if we’re to resist the lure of the East.
Listen to 1819 News Editor-at-Large Erica Thomas on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss a few of Erica's recent stories including the shooting of an Alabama man featured in S-Town, the Alabama Democratic Party chair Randy Kelley's strange comments on "white folk media" and more.
Since 2020, over half of the states have passed legislation that will be in effect for 2024, some strengthening election integrity and some making even further expansions of mail-in voting and ballot harvesting.
In December 1941, the people of Alabama, and indeed of most of the then-48 states, did not know where Pearl Harbor was. They learned very quickly and have never forgotten.
In the quaint town of Maycomb, Ala., young Scout Finch embarked on a quest not just to light up her town with holiday joy, but to kindle a flame of educational revolution.
When the Republican candidates take the stage on the University of Alabama campus, they will find themselves standing within a beacon of free speech and honest debate, and they will enjoy a world class experience mixed with traditional Southern hospitality as the nation watches.
When shrewd prudence comes to rule the mind like a tyrant, it will destroy everything that it deems useless, admiring only itself in its attempts to conscript the entire world as a function of its cold discernment and machine mind.
For 200 years, the Monroe Doctrine has been a centerpiece of American foreign policy.
Government is not infallible. Problems often arise since government is steered by people who are fallible.
Turkey, ham, and homemade dressing are great, but seeing your family laughing together is such a comfort food for the soul.
The old man wiped damp eyes and said words I’ll never forget: “Who needs a bike when you have love?”
Can you imagine what Muscle Shoals would look like now if the government chose not to step in the way of free enterprise and daring ideas, but instead decided to encourage them?
Ridley Scott’s latest movie, “Napoleon,” is a dull, uninspired piece of claptrap, which does all it can to defame and belittle one of history’s most ambitious and influential characters.
Listen to 1819 News Editor-at-Large Erica Thomas on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss a few of Erica's recent stories including the death and police video of the death of Jawan Dallas.
The events in Ireland matter in America more than we might realize, as the freedom of speech is always the first on the chopping block of power-hungry regimes.