Public colleges and universities should be free and open to the exchange of ideas—places where our future teachers, lawyers, doctors, judges, community leaders and voters can exercise their constitutionally-protected freedom of speech.
The first thing you should know about Joseph is that he isn’t an optimist. In fact, he has no faith in this world. And he has even less faith in people.
The American people have a lot to say to their leaders in Washington, but too often no one is listening.
In the fight to control words, another unfortunate casualty has been the word “equity.” From the founding of our nation until now, equity has had a very different meaning than how the left is using it nowadays.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the Biden administration's desired changes to Title IX that would allow school administrators to help children transition to transgender without parental consent.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the controversy surrounding the Alabama State School Board Association and their accusation that grassroots parent organization LOCAL Alabama spreads misinformation, while LOCAL Alabama accuses the Association of not wanting to know if CRT and SEL are illegally being taught in schools.
Hearing Joe Biden speak is frightening and concerning since we know he is only speaking the words of a speechwriter hired by George Soros or other Marxist-liberal Democrat elites who are working to destroy our freedom.
Thirty-two states have enacted some form of tax relief for citizens in 2022. Missouri is poised to become the 33rd.
The Alabama Association of School Boards fall district meeting for District 5 was held on Tuesday, August 30, at Hoover High School.
Listen to 1819 News Editor-at-Large Erica Thomas on The Jeff Poor Show as they discuss the controversy over the Alabama Association of School Boards and its criticism of LOCAL Alabama, a grassroots parent organization, and her ALEA Marine Patrol ridealong over the weekend.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the changes desired to Title IX by the Biden administration, including that schools could transition children to transgender without parental consent and that religious institutions would be forced to hire those whose morality doesn't align with that institution.
Each election season, I find it all so beautiful, horrifying, and absurd — beautiful to see people become wary of power upon having to give it up, horrifying to see people once wary of power trivialize its hazards now that it is in their hands, and absurd to see how dominant political personalities have become for a supposed "government of laws and not men."
On day one of the Biden administration, he signed a sweeping executive order, “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” That order unleashed an assault on Title IX, the federal law prohibiting discrimination in educational programs and activities, including athletics, on the basis of sex.
Why, at a time when Alabama’s state government has its largest surplus in state history, is our legislature not acting more like Missouri and so many other states?
Last week’s speech by the sitting President of the United States was one of the worst examples of fear-mongering that I’ve seen.
As a little girl, I can remember looking forward to the summertime. The smell of breakfast being cooked in the kitchen by my grandmother, or “Nanny” as I called her. She was up around 5 in the morning to fix a full spread for PawPaw to eat before he left for work. I remember it was ready right before he sat down to eat.
I did not see Elvis. I did not find out who killed JFK. Nor did I learn the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa. It wasn’t one of those near-death experiences
Somewhere in Alabama. It’s an old cafe. The coffee cups are bottomless. The waitress wears jeans. On the walls are mounted bass and a few buck heads.
This week, I had the honor of representing one of our nation’s finest heroes, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Jerry Boykin, in a key religious liberty case. Thirty-five Navy SEALs had religious objections to President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate, and I submitted a brief for Gen. Boykin in their defense.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the lawlessness of the Biden administration regarding their vote-buying efforts with student loan forgiveness.
The richest, most powerful elites in the United States founded the Democratic Party to defeat equal freedom and rights under the U.S. Constitution, starting with Black Americans, who were slaves at our founding.
The annual cost of a college education has increased by 182% in the past 40 years. But are college graduates getting more for their money?
Seventy-four percent of school board members who responded to a survey conducted by the Alabama Policy Institute oppose school choice. This is in stark contrast to the overwhelming number of Alabamians, 80%, who desire state-wide school choice expansion.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the Biden administration's student loan "forgiveness" program, how it's clearly an election year ploy, and how the gigantic endowments at universities could help reduce tuition costs and thereby reduce student debt.
It was freezing outside when the window on our '93 Toyota Camry refused to close.
Listen to 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson on The Jeff Poor Show as they discuss the war on manhood, that men and women have innate differences, that the Left doesn't reproduce in the bedroom but in the classroom and that government incentivizes poverty as long as a woman doesn't have a man in her life.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss her recent article opining that government is not a piggybank and is not God, and Biden's college loan "forgiveness" is likely unconstitutional and certainly regressive.