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The president has inherent powers to control his subordinates and direct foreign policy. Thus, in his attempt to restore our republic, Trump is simply (and lawfully) flexing those powers.

Let’s be honest, Democrats are in complete disarray on an epic scale. There is no grand figure around which to rally their base. This should serve as a warning to Republicans.

President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs have brought the issue of global trade to the fore.

President Trump's 10 points for the UA graduates were stellar but not reported, much. He makes another address at West Point graduation.

Maybe she had begun to glimpse the truth that life is the greatest performance of all, and that her chosen and unchosen role was to become, alas, more fully herself. 

Let’s encourage mothers as they go through the daily grind, rather than lecturing them on how many children they have or asking when they’re going to get a real job. Because it’s those women who are raising one of the few hopes we have for the future.

We have been walking the Camino de Santiago for a long time now. I don’t even remember when we started. It seems like 600 years ago we set out. I don’t even remember why we’re out here.

Gen X is watching the generation that preceded it – the Baby Boomers – complain and demand their Social Security. Gen X could not care less.

Silence, it seems, isn’t always golden after all.

The Elder Care Tax Credit is a modest, reasonable way to shift the burden away from those who are already carrying more than their share.

Much like the Catholics, we Protestants are at a crossroads.

Whether or not Hollywood dies a slow natural death on its own – as it seems to currently be doing – or if it’s killed off by tariffs as many movie executives fear, it has accomplished a lot in terms of influence over the years … for better or for worse.

America’s economic future hinges on energy – its reliability, affordability and availability. Nowhere is that future being written more decisively than in Alabama. 

Eighty years ago on May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered to the United States and her Allies ending World War II in Europe.

In truth, if all a person watched was the mainstream media, they would think it was only the U.S. that engaged in tariffs.

The evidence is everywhere, and if we don’t act now, we’ll be handing our children a future where the Stars and Stripes bow to the crescent moon.

“BookTok,” a TikTok term that refers to a community of mostly women who read dark, sexually-explicit fantasy novels, is anything but a return to literacy. 

The principle is simple: Murdering anyone should be illegal for everyone.

Restricting vape sales to specialty 21+ smoke shops won’t curb demand – it will simply shift where these products are sold.

Montgomery Motor Speedway and Montgomery International Dragway can – and should – be central to a new strategy that blends economic development with community safety.

Real dreams, serious dreams, are never free. They come with a tremendous cost.

My vote is to abolish the Alabama Legislature. Of course, I know that won’t happen, so at least I can look forward to this latest legislative session finally coming to an end.

World War II ended in Europe 80 years ago, but without obtaining its stated objective.

The trick – which admittedly, I have yet to master myself – is to be always attuned to the danger posed by political obsessiveness, and to refuse to limit yourself to being a purely “political animal.”

There is an imbalance that must be corrected, an order that must be restored. We are a nation of laws, and the laws must be evenly applied. 

Kipling's funny little poem offers us hope that all the vain prattling about critical theory and relative truth will eventually be exposed, and people will return to the truth “That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four.”

If we want to see the next generation mature into successful, capable adults, then one of the most basic things we can do is teach them about past generations. And what better physical way can we do that than by teaching them to appreciate the architectural styles of the past?