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If "credit card processing fees" were an employee at Prevail, they would be the highest paid employee on our payroll.

But in high-level government actions, we must look to the long-term consequences, remembering that constitutional decisions are two-edged swords that can cut both directions.

Too many Democrats truly believe the politics of racial identity are the gods that brought them up out of Egypt instead of the Word of God. They build statues to it. They hold festivals. They eat and drink, dance and sing in revelry to commemorate past sacrifices and political victories. And they are uncharitably swift to say all who disagree with their politics are on the wrong side of history.

Critics of school choice are always quick to point out the “dismantling” of public education that comes with newer educational models. Often lost in this outcry is the fact that thousands of Alabama students feel trapped in a system that may not serve them best. 

Hot water is one of those gifts so constant and quiet that gratitude never quite finds its footing – until an ice-cold shower reminds you that someone, somewhere, made a decision that made your morning possible.

Religious liberty is not a selective principle. It does not apply only to those who believe exactly as we do. It is a foundational American value that protects all of us or protects none of us.

When our plane finally lands, all passengers stand to deboard. But we are told we must wait. The first to leave our plane will be the boy.

The concept of majority-minority, racially-drawn districts has always been a house of cards, and like the flick of a finger, Callais has knocked it down. It’s time we move beyond this unconstitutional model to representation that embraces all voters in every district.

District Court may not attract the same attention as higher courts, but its impact is immediate and deeply personal. Choosing a judge with the right experience helps ensure that impact is fair and just.

Repetitive, politically-motivated funding to horribly ineffective programs and agencies is not the answer to taking care of our veterans, nor for any taxpayer spending. 

Few events have shaped Hoover’s identity like the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Baseball Tournament. What began in 1998 as a new opportunity for our city has become a staple event throughout the South.

Sometimes, when you really want fish from this old world, try as you might, toil as you must, in the end all it’s going to give you is a crawdad … and you’d better be ready for it.

Winning a favorable verdict does not necessarily establish a solid long-lasting constitutional precedent. That’s why the Foundation for Moral Law, when writing amicus briefs, is skeptical about seeking quick wins that might compromise principles. In our briefs, we try to make a unique contribution to the case by stressing the Bible, solid history, and the plain meaning of the Constitution as understood by its framers. 

Alabama’s path forward is simple. The state submits its waiver, leans on the groundwork already laid by states ahead of it, and puts a nutrition program back on a course that reflects what Alabamians expect, where their tax dollars go to food that helps families, not food that hurts them.

Man was made to scale mountains whose summits remain beyond his reach, believing in a truth he himself could not have conceived. Yet, by striving for a peak he cannot achieve by his own steam, man comes to rely on God in the breach between the seen and unseen.

A hundred years after his birth, Davis remains not just a towering figure in jazz, but a symbol of creative evolution itself. Miles Davis and jazz are synonymous. 

America is now the world’s largest LNG exporter. We have the resource, the infrastructure, and the comparative advantage. The only serious obstacle to full energy independence has been a regulatory environment so burdened by environmental restrictions that it has, at times, made it easier to import energy than to produce it at home.

We have an election coming up, so show up and vote, and take time to encourage those who desire true change to do the same thing.

Alabama loves to talk about freedom and opportunity. But a system that forces people to get permission from their future competitors just to earn a living isn't freedom, it's a roadblock.

There is a U.S. law stipulating that whenever you’re having a good day a pharmaceutical commercial must appear.

We already know what gambling does to families. Now we’re being told to rely on it to fund our schools. That’s not a solution. That’s a tradeoff – and it’s one Alabama shouldn’t make. You don’t build strong schools by betting against your own people.

The Americans First Immigration Act restores fairness, reinforces order, and ensures our immigration system finally works for the American people - not against them.

When you build your entire business model on fighting racism and you find out that racism is so minor that you can’t make much money fighting it, there’s only one money-making option: create racism. That is exactly what the SPLC did according to a recent federal indictment.

The SPLC sits in Montgomery. The violations alleged, if true, occurred here. Alabama’s laws are implicated. Silence from either attorney general candidate on this subject should itself be considered a kind of answer. 

Using the 25th Amendment the way the left would like to do violates both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, invites reprisals next time Republicans are in the majority, and signals an end to legitimate constitutional process.    

If Republicans don’t act now while we hold the White House, the Senate, the House, and a conservative Supreme Court majority we risk being voted back into the minority for a decade or more.

Perhaps, those who fear being healed of their sickness of sin should look to the witness of those who did nothing to bring their sickness upon themselves – yet embrace the light in spite of the cross they bear.