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Phil Williams: Free speech – come and take it

The British government is cracking down on its citizens – not for crimes, but for thoughts and opinions. Are we next in line for this biggest of big government pressure? 

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Conner Hayes: Birmingham-Southern College, shuttered and searching for a buyer

What we have hoped for all along – for The Hilltop to remain a site of higher education – appears to be another betrayed dream doomed to become another waking nightmare for the BSC faithful. 

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Linda Baker: Shining your light in dark times

There will be times when it’s appropriate to be bold. There will be times when nothing works, and we offend even when we try not to. But our job is to keep our light shining.

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Sean of the South: What the bag boy said

I could not understand what he was saying, per the impediment. The cashiers had decided, apparently, to ignore him. This had to be embarrassing, but it never stopped the kid from trying.

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Amie Beth Shaver: Malice aforethought?

Remember that Tuskegee, with her exquisite cruelties, wasn't a one-off. It was a warm-up. 

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Stewart Tankersley: Jacqueline Parks, an unsung American hero

With leadership comes responsibilities, and with responsibility comes duty. Unfortunately, those in leadership positions in our culture (from parents to those in the pulpits or podiums) have forgotten their primary duty all too often.

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Laura Clark: ‘Our Democracy’ means our oligarchy

We aren't living under a Democracy or a Republic; instead, we live in an oligarchy.

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Talmadge Butts: On the West’s rivers of blood and mass immigration

While Americans struggle with the disastrous effects of an effectively non-existent border under the Biden administration, our friends across the pond in the United Kingdom are struggling with their own immigration woes.

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Kristin Landers: Why we can't have nice things

When you ponder the upcoming election, instead of perseverating on personalities, consider policies. We are down to gut-level questions.

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Joey Clark: How to legally vote for both candidates in 2024

If you’re an individualist willing to enjoy the spectacle of folly arising every election season, but still find your conscience troubled by your electoral choices, allow me to give advice on how to vote for both presidential nominees, legally. 

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Justice Will Sellers: The freedom of discovery

An Englishman named Joseph Priestley made a discovery 250 years ago that marked the beginning of modern chemistry. It continues to have important ramifications today.

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Phil Williams: Division is the devil's game

Division is the devil’s game. It’s what he does. It’s who he is. We are not that.

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Jennifer Wolverton: A call for professionals to enter the microschool movement

All microschools are facing unique challenges when interviewing potential professionals. The traditional professionals serving schools or daycare centers don’t quite fit because our industry is an amalgamation of various educational models.

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Ashley Carter: Defending our freedoms for future generations

Let us rise to the challenge and safeguard the freedoms that define us as a nation. Stand up, and Fight, Fight, Fight!

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KCarl Smith: Lessons from the Apostle Paul for conservative engagement

The presidential race doesn't have to be tight if conservatives rebrand themselves.

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Sean of the South: An American controversy

If you ask me, I think we all need to start treating people with a little sugar instead of behaving like a bunch of giant aspartames.

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Jennifer Oliver O'Connell: This election will be the difference between protecting our daughters or destroying them

That our federal government no longer works to protect our treasured heritage of girlhood and womanhood is a travesty. But this election will reflect just how much the American people accept this mentality or reject it outright.

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Jim Zeigler: Why were U.S. prisoners not released until just before the election?

On Aug. 1, 2024, just before the U.S. elections, a deal is brokered by the previously weak Biden-Harris administration. How convenient.

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Andrew Hodges: We didn't know

As we shield our eyes from the atrocities of a culture that treats children of early development as political bargaining pieces, will history look back on us like the people of Weimar who said, “We didn’t know?"

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Hannah Sorrell: Boycotting the Olympics for the sake of our families

I’m going to boycott the Olympics not for some greater movement, but for the sake of my own family.  

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Allen Keller: The West needs more Apollo, less Dionysus

If we live in an Apollonian-Dionysian world, then the Dionysian side is winning, and this isn’t good.

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Col. John Eidsmoe: All I really needed to know about the Constitution, I learned in fourth grade

Congress could amend Title IX, but they have not done so. The Biden administration effectively amended Title IX by adding what Congress in 1972 did not enact and did not intend. In so doing, the Biden administration exceeded its powers under the Constitution, usurping the powers of Congress. 

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John T. Mooresmith: Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission showing blatant disregard for law

The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission has operated above the law since its inception. 

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Joey Clark: About that naked blue man at the Olympics drag show...

The naked blue man wasn’t just present at this unholy, androgyny feast; he was presented as the feast for the drag parodies of Christ and his apostles to consume.

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Phil Williams: God will not be mocked

“A Paris party on a Friday night.” Is that what it was? Or was it a dystopian pagan nightmare on the Seine?

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Charles Davis: Try this if you want to fix university speech problems

Intolerance and ignorance of First Amendment rights are deeply ingrained in university culture. No single measure will change that. A comprehensive approach focused on changing incentives for key university decision-makers is needed.

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Bryan Dawson: Young Boozer was right, and it's time we admit it

Is it possible the Alabama Legislature knew the loan would never be approved, but wanted to shift the blame to the treasurer instead of taking the heat themselves? 

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