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The problem is not the dollars, it’s the utilization of the dollars.

As a nation of immigrants, if race and ethnicity don’t bind us together, what does?

In Alabama, the Republican establishment seems determined to cling to the old ways. Case in point: the unfolding special election in Cullman County’s House District 11, where a suspicious chain of events suggests the GOP elite might be stacking the deck.

There’s a place for everyone on this work crew rehabbing the house of Western civilization.

An investment in our charter schools is an investment in Alabama’s future.

The victories will fade into data and figures, but the echoes of these moments – the flashes of brilliance, camaraderie, and fight – will live on in the hearts of those who watched and cheered, who, years from now, will tell their own grandchildren stories of this unique team. War Eagle! 

What then, is the real fix, the formula for building a decent society? Kirk names the following four things: religious instruction, family life, private responsibilities, rewards for good character.

The Alabama Republican Party stands strong for tax cuts. We will keep fighting to ensure that every Alabamian – whether a small business owner, a hardworking family member, or a retired citizen – can thrive in a state that values liberty, hard work, and fiscal responsibility.

I know this: our debt is over $36 trillion, and, going by last year’s numbers, growing at the rate of nearly $2.5 trillion a year. And, as far as I can tell, there is no other real option on the table than the one the current administration has to handle this.

Are our cities truly beautiful, places where artists set up their easels to capture a beautiful building or skyline with architecture so magnificent that it moves one? Not necessarily, and that’s a tragedy, for beautiful buildings are places which awe, inspire, calm, and bring a sense of repose to our lives.

We are officially over 50 days into the Trump 2.0 White House, and I can confidently say the Swamp is draining more and more by the second.

Alabama Sens. Arthur Orr and Donnie Chesteen are rendering a great service to our state in offering SB 85, a bill providing exemptions for students and their parents who hold religious objections to vaccination.

The right labor performed in the right spirit becomes a form of worship.

When a customer swipes, inserts or taps a credit card at a store in Alabama, the small business is charged a fee that amounts to between two and four percent of the transaction amount – a total that includes more than just the cost of the item.

The most artistic aspect of that mess of a mural around Montgomery’s Court Square Fountain lies with time – sold as temporary only to still stain the street with the dirty rotten propaganda of years gone by.

Alabama programs will be just fine during the pruning of federal spending by Elon Musk and DOGE.

Love and gratitude make for a good life and a good death.

In the opening remarks of his confirmation hearing, Jay Bhattacharya stated that “a culture of coverup, obfuscation, and a lack of tolerance for ideas that differed from theirs” characterized the official federal COVID response.

A good speech is far more than just words. A good speech is about delivery as much as content. It rhetorically moves the hearts and minds with tones that invite listeners in, stories that identify with the audience, and timing that hits the mark at the right moment.

Today’s difficulties don’t mean we should throw marriage away. In fact, life shows that it’s the toughest goals that are usually the most worth pursuing.

In an age where every meal is an occasion for social media documentation, the fried bologna sandwich stands as a monument to the idea that good food need not announce itself with pretense.

A revolution is taking place in Alabama education, and at the heart of this transformation is the rise of microschools.

I’m left holding my instrument. But I have warmth inside. An overwhelming feeling that our kids are going to be okay if we can just get the phones out of their hands for a few minutes.

This prompts a question for Alabama and our ecosystem of publicly subsidized universities: What administrative, constitutional or legislative means might replicate Florida’s nascent academic renaissance?

When we confuse or ignore the “hierarchy of obligations,” which is a hierarchy of love, we wind up like Mrs. Jellyby, a hypocritical do-gooder gone bad.

May a school transition a child and not inform the parent?

How would the federal government function if Republicans held 77 of the 100 U.S. Senate seats in Washington, D.C.?