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Five years ago I was in Huntsville when the world shut down. Five years.

Our legislators would be well-advised to advance SB248, which represents a reassertion of constitutional principles that have become attenuated through decades of bureaucratic accretion.

Men were once criticized for upside-down priorities, for putting career and advancement ahead of their wives and families. In copycatting them, these liberal women have taken an extra step and eradicated husbands and children altogether. 

Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette spent nine days in Alabama traveling across the midwestern portion of the state from Georgia to Montgomery, then to Selma, the Capitol at Cahawba, and downriver to Mobile. 

Gov. Kay Ivey is beating the anti-China drum loudly and acting tough by raising more hell than 20 Baptist ministers at a tent revival prayer meeting.

From career politicians who’ve overstayed their welcome to a governor who acts more Democrat than Republican, the ALGOP is failing its base.

If one distills the main thrust of Social Justice, one comes to understand that it is the belief that a just society cannot exist until all identity groups have parity with the others.

April is officially Autism Acceptance Month. But for parents of a child on the Autism spectrum, every day provides ample Autism awareness.

Want to see our free culture continue? Then start raising an intelligent kid … and rest assured that it doesn’t take a genius to do it.

Liberals give lip service to free exercise of religion, but when peoples’ heads are on the chopping block for preaching their convictions, liberals are generally nowhere to be found.

Poems can help us savor and appreciate life when it’s good and act as a bulwark and booster when it goes bad.

As DOGE walks the tightrope – cutting and canceling government contracts across Alabama and America – certain political truths hang in the air for all Americans to judge. 

Young people who do not read books or know their history will one day become more easily manipulated and lied to by demagogues.

The closure of Flat Rock could mark the beginning of something new – not just for Jackson County, but for Alabama as a whole.

The sooner the race-baiters and charlatans realize we will not be cowed down by their endless frenzies the better off we will all be.

While we’ve been working, paying down our mortgages, and dealing with crazy Uncle Joe, many of us have unknowingly accepted something harmful to our children believing it to be beneficial. 

This type of civil disobedience can’t be done in one short little protest. It’s a long march that requires patience and commitment, but one that offers great rewards not only for yourself but for your children.

As a customer, I’m very disappointed in what I’m experiencing in customer service as a patron of several fast-food franchises. Maybe you’ve experienced the same.

Her classroom was out of control. Had been for a while. The kids in her “at-risk” fourth-grade class were about as organized as a prison riot.

We have no idea what is up with the keffiyeh-wearing masses hijacking university property, fomenting ethnic hate, and seeking to malign and destroy America, while feeding off its benefits and blessings.

Market liberty is not a luxury; it is the very oxygen of prosperity.

For better and for worse, America has spent the last 50 years replacing a patriarchy with a matriarchy. The “oppressors” have become the oppressed. 

The proposed raise for Education Superintendent Eric Mackey seems a bit unreasonable.

Think DEI programs are on their way out the door? Think again. They seem to be alive and well, but not for women and minorities. This time they’re for men and boys.

Those on Goat Hill are acting like a bunch of blue-state bureaucrats, and it’s high time we call these so-called conservatives what they are: RINOs with better accents.

The question remains whether we will pay the modest price of vigilance today or the exorbitant cost of failure tomorrow. 

Last week, I filed a bill aimed at reining this issue in and protecting Alabama’s children from Delta-8.