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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.

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.