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It's no secret that Social Security is going bankrupt. We've all known it for years. But politicians like Doug Jones didn't care to fix it. They just kept kicking the can down the road.

The SPLC did not merely fail to fight hatred. It may have tended it, watered it, kept it alive in a lawn chair on Dexter Avenue for the cameras. The map isn’t the territory. But in America, the most profitable business has always been selling the map – and making sure the territory never quite heals. 

Alabama owes DeMaio far more than back pay. We owe him public restitution, restored honor, and the resignation of every political hack who signed off on this disgrace.

The future of our communities will depend not on how much government does – but on how much it is willing to stop doing.

Fear is not in your head. There are no thoughts you can think to get rid of it. Because fear is not a head problem. Fear starts in your soul.

I do not see voting for term limits in Alabama as a way to end the entrenched politician problem; indeed, it will only become more pronounced. History is showing that term limits produce the exact opposite of their intent and are even being used effectively to turn the voting population of the state in a particular direction.

Writing is one of the last acts of sustained thought most people engage in. If writers hand even that over to the keyboard – and then, gradually, to AI – something structural is lost. Not just a skill. A habit of mind.

Post-Cold War Marxism has returned as a theoretical paradise, complete with catchy t-shirts and slogans proving one is part of the group. A recent survey suggests 62% of American adults under age 30 have a “favorable” view of socialism. Let that sink in. Only 33 years after the Cold War, the majority of young Americans polled had a “favorable” view of socialism.

In another stunning move, our supermajority, Republican-led, Alabama Legislature passed HB605 on the last day of the session giving exceptional monopolistic power to healthcare entities.

It just goes to show you how right the scriptures are when it says of our Lord that everything holds together in, by and through him, so that, even in something so random as a car show, a person can still be led back to the Creator of the Universe, because, as St. Paul said of the Father in his Mars Hill disputation, He is actually much closer than we realize.”

Unfortunately, something I’ve noticed during my time in D.C. is that the swamp seems much more interested in preserving their own power than doing what’s right for the American people. In fact, too many politicians go on TV and say the right things, but behind the curtain, all they really care about is getting re-elected.

Hopefully, the courts will discard the simplistic notion that a law, or a display like the 10 Commandments, must be either 100% religious or 100% nonreligious.

Turn away from apathy. Stand up. Be counted. Be part of the solution for Alabama. 

For too long, I have felt like a stranger in my own hometown, a sojourner in the place of my birth. 

The Halifax Resolves were a pivotal moment, when the idea of independence moved from possibility to policy, and the path toward a new nation became irreversible.  

Defense contractors who prioritize pigmentation over performance are making a strategic, not merely a philosophical, error.

We’re finding places where the state can ease the burden on working people and doing so in a responsible, sustainable way.

SB155 is built on a simple principle: when Alabama receives revenue from coal produced on federal lands, those dollars should go back to the hardworking people and communities that made that production possible.

Alabama does not always get the national credit it deserves. But in the story of space, the proof is written in the sky. The rocket that carried humans back toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years was made in Alabama.

Alabamians deserve to have a statesman represent them, not just another politician.

When someone loves you it makes God seem real.

Alabama doesn’t need gambling. We shouldn’t legalize another addiction just because someone found a way to profit from it. And if we do, we won’t just be funding government – we’ll be funding the slow breakdown of the very families we claim to protect.

I’m not writing this because I suddenly developed an interest in politics. I’m writing this because I’ve seen what happens when people entrusted with power operate without real accountability and the cost of doing wrong isn’t carried by the wrongdoer.

In a pair of 2005 10 Commandments cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, the key takeaway was that the chances of the 10 Commandments surviving a legal challenge were better if they were displayed as part of history. That’s exactly what Alabama's new law does.

There are no self-made men or women. Intellect, athleticism, wisdom, strength and wealth – all are God-given so that no one should boast. We would do well to remember that and so would world leaders.

The American people have invested hundreds of millions in these F-35s. They deserve to know their premier combat aircraft are not left exposed on a commercial tarmac, vulnerable to the next perimeter breach or drone swarm that succeeds despite the warnings from previous exercises.

Beware the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent but outwardly benevolent administrative state.