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We’re not talking about your grandparents’ marijuana. Comparing today’s high-THC marijuana to the “weed” of the ‘60s is like comparing dynamite to a firecracker! 

Today’s students receive degrees rather than a true education. And unfortunately, a large number of these students are unaware of the difference.

Montgomery deserves better. And we, its citizens, must demand it.

Those who infamously fall from public grace may still possess some private grace all the same.

In the ongoing debate over feminism, let’s remember that feminine virtues are not confined to motherhood, nor are they inhibited by it either.

Words matter. Actions speak. Freedom is contagious. 

Remembrance is not only about the past. It’s also about the values we carry forward: what we choose to see, what we decide to question, and how we recognize our place in the larger American story.

What used to be a sweet, intimate celebration of life has turned into an over-the-top production full of pressure, cost, and sky-high expectations.

When I was a young man I was anti-morning-people. Morning people were insane. No longer.

Whatever your stage in the graduation process, here are three bits of advice from a slow learner to help you along your way, plus a piece of fantastic news you’ll never hear on CNN or FOX.  

Make no mistake: This Alabama Library War must be fought and won locally, or the decision may well be taken out of our hands.

"Adolescence" blames the manosphere for the knife crime of a young teen. But is the rise of screens and technology the real culprit?

The North Central Alabama Republican Assembly (NCALRA) strongly opposes House Bill 498 (HB498), a dangerous overreach by Montgomery elites that threatens Alabama’s local schools, educators, and citizens’ rights.

On April 22, the U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor. As I listened to it, I realized this case reveals the left’s playbook for indoctrinating our children in the public-school arena.

Our combined efforts and partnerships are positioning Alabama to overcome an epidemic that has claimed the lives of thousands and helping ensure that more do not suffer the same fate.

Under the Renewing Alabama’s Investment in Student Excellence Act (RAISE Act), schools will receive additional funding based on the number of enrolled students in specific categories, such as low-income, special education, English language learners, gifted students, and those attending charter schools.

Powerful individuals like Randi Weingarten like to tell us that teaching diversity and acceptance is the be-all-end-all of education, and that things like American values will only disrupt such lessons. That may be true. But then, such lessons were never the original goal of schooling in America anyway.

What are the things of God, and how are we to know when we see them?

Portable benefits will remove barriers, spark job growth, and help more Alabamians take control of their future.

Resist the spirit of the age, and you just may raise the leaders of the next generation.

We need not fear death, because we know that, as Christ rose, we too will rise from the dead and, as believers, live eternally with Him. 

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg's audacious rulings against the Trump administration’s foreign policy are eviscerating the constitutional bedrock of our Republic.

There’s something about a son feeding and watering a chicken that the dad butchers and the mom cooks that’s about more than aesthetic farmhouse photos on Instagram. It’s about each member of the family having a direct stake in the economic collaboration of home life. 

 If money and means were of no concern, how should the state of Alabama enshrine its history and the hopes for where its story might lead? 

The time has come for decisive reform of the Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB). For the purpose of accomplishing such reform the undersigned have prepared and are sponsoring in the Alabama Legislature Senate Bill 330.

Love him or loathe him, Americans would agree that President Donald Trump delivers bombshell policies and critiques like no one else, yet on April 13th he sent a message to the American people that left me speechless. 

One of America’s most famous combat correspondents, Ernie Pyle, was killed 80 years ago on the island of Ie Shima in Japan.