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Randy Tatano: How 9/11 answered a lifelong question

We all remember what we were doing on specific days of historical significance. The day JFK was assassinated. The day the space shuttle Challenger exploded. And September 11, 2001.

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Arthur Orr: Campus free speech is a matter of statewide importance, not politics

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.

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Sean of the South: The widower

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.

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Barry Moore: Next year, Republicans can’t take a knee deep in our own territory

The American people have a lot to say to their leaders in Washington, but too often no one is listening.

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Matt Clark: 'Equity' doesn’t mean what the left says it means

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. 

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1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith talks Biden administration desired Title IX changes on FM Talk 1065

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.

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1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver talks the Alabama State School Board Association on News Talk 93.1 News & Views

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.

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KCarl Smith: President Biden’s hate speech

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.

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Alabama Policy Institute: State government should enact at least $750 million in permanent tax relief for Alabamians

Thirty-two states have enacted some form of tax relief for citizens in 2022. Missouri is poised to become the 33rd. 

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Amie Beth Shaver: Blaming parents not an effective strategy

The Alabama Association of School Boards fall district meeting for District 5 was held on Tuesday, August 30, at Hoover High School. 

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1819 News Editor-at-Large Erica Thomas talks the Alabama Association of School Boards controversy on FM Talk 1065

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.

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1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith talks the Biden administration desire to profoundly change Title IX on News Talk 93.1 News & Views

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.

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Joey Clark: Truths told with bad intent

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."

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Stephanie Holden Smith: The real war on women

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.  

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Justin Bogie: Alabama lawmakers can look to Missouri for bold tax reforms

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?

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Phil Williams: Biden and the war of the worlds

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.

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Ashley Carter: I remember, but I think some of us forgot

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.

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Randy Tatano: My near-death experience

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

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Sean of the South: Old dudes

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.

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Matt Clark: The legal justification for vaccine mandates is disappearing

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.

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1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith talks the lawlessness of the Biden administration on FM Talk 1065

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.

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KCarl Smith: American history is a story of Democrat persecution

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.

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Justin Bogie: Colleges and universities must increase the value of an education

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?

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Emma Gibney: API survey reveals lack of transparency in local public schools

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.

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1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver talks the Biden administration's student loan ‘forgiveness’ program on News Talk 93.1 News & Views

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.

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Amie Beth Shaver: Don't rob Peter to pay student loans

It was freezing outside when the window on our '93 Toyota Camry refused to close.

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1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson talks the war on manhood on FM Talk 1065

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.

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