Though it may be true that “politics is downstream from culture,” politics can also pollute the river of culture. Power tends to corrupt...
This session, one of the hottest debates on Goat Hill is whether Alabama should pass “constitutional carry,” which would allow the...
Several weeks ago, my fifth grader was given a research assignment on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. As I helped her search for...
I hope that you are tracking the current dynamic brewing in Montgomery. There is a major fight brewing between the usual suspects of...
Sen. Del Marsh filed and moved his school choice bill, dubbed the PCA (Parental Choice Act) last week. Unfortunately, the educational...
Eighty years ago this month, with the stroke of a pen, President Franklin Roosevelt, in Executive Order 9066, effectively relegated...
The great political philosopher Edmund Burke made this insightful observation over 200 years ago: “Freedom without wisdom or responsibility...
It’s that time of year again. With Spring Break just a couple of months away and summer vacation planning in full swing, consumers...
As the Alabama Legislature gets set to resume the 2022 regular session this week, legislation to take less from Alabamians by cutting...
There is no greater concern or priority for parents than the health and welfare of their children. This must be one of our nation’s...
There are so many problems in the education system these days that I started to think many people had just thrown up their hands and...
It is a startling statistic: one out of every 10 students would leave public school for an alternative manner of education, given the...
Some people assume incorrectly the name Frederick Douglass Republicans refers to a minority sub-group of the GOP or that it is a name...
By Caleb Crosby, Phil Williams, Carl Jones, Parker Snider, and Justin Bogie For over 18 months now, we’ve watched as states around...
By Rep. Shane Stringer (R-HD102) and John R. Lott, Jr. Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed...
Stop regarding man, of what account is he? “I can't speak out. It wouldn't be nice." Or, "I can't argue. They're the authority. That's...
As employees resign from jobs at record rates as part of “The Great Resignation,” many are looking for more meaning from their work...
126-1. That’s how the Alabama Legislature voted last week on a bill to allocate the remaining $772 million from the first half of Alabama’s...
In the last days of my academic career, a final college course delivered the punchline to a long, drawn-out joke. By that time, I was...
As a nation, we recently mourned on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday the almost sixty-two million babies of all races killed by abortion...
In Army slang, I am a ground-pounder. My personal background in the military includes time in the Infantry, both straight-leg and airborne....
A number of years ago, Forbes Magazine celebrated 75 years as a publication. They issued a special edition that you would have thought...
When that federal three-judge panel ruled that Alabama’s redistricting plan passed by the legislature in a 2021 special session violated...
A response to an Op-ed by Rep Debbie Wood (District 38) on the Waterford Upstart pilot program in schools.
It’s a new year, a new semester, and young people are generally back in person at colleges. But what demographics are represented these...
The 2022 Primary Election season is in full swing. With the Alabama Primaries scheduled for May 24, Republican candidates are committing...
On January 24th, a three federal judge panel ruled that the Congressional District map approved by the Alabama Legislature in 2021...