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It takes teamwork and partnership to make lasting change quickly, and I am grateful to have partners like the Hoover City Council. In a short time, we have accomplished a lot, and we are just getting started.

I must let those still lost know that they are not alone – and that the day is not too late to return home. Just look to the Word as a lamp shining in a dark place in your heart, thank God, and let your feet follow.

Power can accumulate gradually, even legitimately, through competence and effectiveness. A leader can become the “obvious choice” in a moment of national weakness, but legitimacy is not static. It must be renewed, not just through performance, but through participation and consent of the governed.

Perhaps that’s the real inheritance buried inside all those vanished birthdays: not forgetfulness at all, but a child who understood instinctively that love, genuine and lasting, is far too fragile a thing to stake on a single unwrapped moment. The people worth keeping in your life are those who already know you; they don’t require proof once a year in tissue paper and ribbon.

Apparently, in Fort Payne, having a mural on your building has become a crime.

America does not need more anger or hopelessness. America needs a rebirth of hope. And that hope begins with the timeless truth of Resurrection Sunday: the tomb is empty, and because of that, renewal is always possible.

Do you ever actively seek that kid out and tell them how much you like them? Do you ever tell that person how incredibly special they are? Because they are, you know. Just like all 8.3 billion of us.

A faith rooted in the risen Christ shapes our convictions, our character, and our courage. It calls us to live with purpose and to stand firmly in truth, even when our culture pulls us in another direction. Our faith influences our families, the values we pass down, and the example we set for generations after us.

This Easter, we’ve got a choice. We can keep going down this path – or we can get back to basics. Rebuild the foundation. Stand for our values. Raise strong respectful kids.

The left must violate your rights to get you to agree with them. Then they gaslight you by saying you are the one violating their rights, even while the law shows the exact opposite. The Constitution is on our side. Keep going!

Practicing situational awareness is key for anyone living in 2026. Developing these habits will increase alertness, confidence and safety in whatever environment you find yourself.

As Jesus looked upon Peter and saw right through him, Peter saw himself as he really was: full of bluster and bravado, but proud and cowardly at heart. When Peter hit rock bottom, the Lord took hold of his spirit and built him into the leader and bold witness that he would become.

Alabama’s economic future depends on one simple reality: opportunity must be accessible to every Alabamian, no matter where they live.

Our discord could be resolved in harmony – if only we would soften our hearts to hear the hymns of Holy Week.  The psalms sung for the Passover feast, the same sung by Jesus and his disciples before they went out to Gethsemane, the hymns of the new covenant the Apostle Paul would teach – what if all these rang out anew in our hearts this week?

Freedom, including and especially economic freedom, is not the natural condition of nations. It’s an achievement, fragile and contingent, requiring constant defense against the eternal human temptation to trade liberty for the false security of managed outcomes.

Contrary to what you (and the staff writer charged with curating the roundup) undoubtedly think, your including me in this roundup neither honors me nor my ethnicity, gymnastics career or womanhood.

With the passage of HB541, Alabama’s Safeguard Alabama Voter Engagement (SAVE) Act, the House has taken a decisive step toward restoring fairness and integrity to our elections. This didn’t happen by accident. It happened because conservative voters across this state spoke loudly, and because Speaker Ledbetter chose to listen and lead.

Liberal arts education is not opposed to job preparation – it strengthens it. Employers consistently say they need graduates who can think clearly, communicate effectively, analyze complex problems, and adapt to change. These abilities come from studying history, literature, philosophy, and the social sciences.

Parental rights and educational freedom are more than buzzwords. They are bigger than politics. Without alternative education options, countless students would be left behind.

We can, and should, get back to the basics of ensuring Alabama’s classrooms remain places where students come first. Our children deserve nothing less.

I think the greatest advice my mother ever gave me was to love my kids when they deserve it the least, because that’s when they need it the most. I think that applies to all human beings.

We need true Davids to take down Goliaths and make a difference. Sadly, we are offered cars full of clowns instead.

Machiavelli wrote that fortune favors the bold, not the hesitant. He warned that leaders who fail to act decisively when the moment demands lose the opportunity that fortune offers.

Our goal is simple: to make sure Stockton and Baldwin County benefit from what we bring – whether it’s the capital we invest, the taxes we pay, the charitable contributions we make, the jobs we create, the local businesses we support, the energy we produce, or the agricultural products we raise on our land.

It is Our Lord Himself who has united the low things (i.e., not only the donkey but also you and me) with the high things (the Holy Trinity of the Godhead), and it is to this that we can turn this Passion Week to find truth amidst counterrevolutionary falsehood.

The SAVE Act does not disenfranchise those legally entitled to vote. It only requires voter registrants to present proof that they are legally entitled to register. The Act makes it much more difficult to cancel out a person’s vote with the vote of an illegal voter, and therefore it preserves rather than violates the right to vote.  

When I was coaching, the players in my locker rooms were brothers. If someone needed help moving, they knew their teammates would show up to help. If someone had a death in the family, they could count on their brothers to be there for them. That type of bond between student-athletes requires time, trust and consistency. That kind of trust is hard to build if you’re worried that the person you share a locker room with isn’t going to show up the next day.