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A virtual robot will never replace the human companionship. But a “relationship” with a perfect AI boyfriend or girlfriend or friend is much easier to maintain, making the lure of such hollow companionship all the more dangerous.

The U.S. Supreme Court's divided opinion on a Catholic charter school appears to kick the can down the road on the question of religious charter schools.

As governor, I will bring Trump’s commonsense policies to Montgomery and put Alabama First. Our state needs a CEO, and I am ready for the job.

Love is not the absence of breaking but the promise to keep building and believing that something can be made whole even after it has shattered.

Is Alabama now too late to the Bitcoin space?

When it comes to children, we're quick to acknowledge screens are detrimental. But when it comes to screens and adults, we’re less willing to acknowledge our problems. 

Across the ages, young boys and men have looked to glory in war. Audie Murphy, like me, was a boy without a father (his deserted him, mine died). His story resonated.

They bought you a gift. They paid handsomely for it. A gift that many in the world view with covetous jealousy. A gift called freedom.

America and Alabama have three different honors days for our military. What are the differences? Have a blessed Memorial Day.

What do our kids miss when we give them a digital childhood rather than a screen-free one? Here are a few observations I gleaned from the kids in my classroom over the years.

Now that the school year has receded into the hazy distance, our household has turned its attention to the languid pleasures of baseball, particularly the Atlanta Braves.

Representative Debbie Wood carried the brunt of the work on HB30 with clarity and conviction.

But just when I couldn’t feel any less important, or any more ridiculous, or foul smelling, I see the gates to a Santiago are wide open. Open to me. A pilgrim who has been humbled greatly by his journey. 

Memorials themselves – the graveyards, the monuments – are of vital importance for the rest of us far beyond individual names. 

With national elections behind us for a couple of years, it’s time to focus on the local and statewide elections.

If there is no God, there is no basis for morality.

The study lists the stereotypical masculine characteristics – “competitive, daring, adventurous, dominant, aggressive, courageous and standing up to pressure” – as positive traits, and fathers who demonstrated these were “rated as showing good parenting behavior.”

We cannot assume that someone is working in our best interest simply because they have an “R” beside their name.

Father Robinson’s travails reveal the difficulties of an orthodox priest struggling to navigate through the complexities of a Church that has failed to live up to the fundamentals as they were set down by the Apostles and Scriptures.

Montgomery doesn’t need more ribbon-cuttings. It needs real results. We need leadership that delivers, not just demolishes. We need courageous governance, not guarded spin.

The Instagram trends must be treated as an aesthetic in service of a traditional lifestyle, not a traditional lifestyle in service of an aesthetic. 

Who is more depraved – fire ants, or people?

As the first time a global conflict caused death to U.S. citizens on mainland American soil, this incident serves as a reminder that even 80 years later, our nation remains vulnerable to indiscriminate attack by hostile powers. 

The family is a small nation, and the more we have of these tiny nations, functioning properly and refusing to break apart, the more we as a large nation are able to resist tyranny, government overreach, and other breaches of our freedom.

Why do certain stories last through the twists and turns of time? Because, despite the passage of thousands of years – throwing men off course through the promise of this or that something perfect and new – certain stories sometimes capture imperfect things eternally true. 

From the golden days of AM radio to today’s streaming boom, one thing remains constant in radio: its fear of change.

As our society inevitably becomes ever more the captive of technology, let’s fight for our humanity by embracing and practicing the useless things.