Scott Stantis lives in Birmingham and is currently the editorial cartoonist for The Chicago Tribune and USA Today. He previously was...
Hot in the legislature this week: House Bill 272, which would allow adult citizens in good standing to conceal their firearms without...
The backdrop for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union lecture may have been the House chamber, but it occurred in an alternate...
Wednesday, the Alabama House Ways and Means Education committee approved a bill to provide an additional $1.3 billion in funding for...
Despite the best efforts to exercise appropriate vigilance and provide guidance, my firstborn son yielded to the enticement of marijuana...
This is part 1 of a 3-part series on the successful strategy of Frederick Douglass, our country’s greatest American Dream Story. These...
As the Gipper quipped, “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps...
On Friday, President Joe Biden announced his pick for the United States Supreme Court: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the D.C. Circuit....
What's going on with our kids? And with schools? And with the mental health push coming from our state capital? Is it terrifying that...
Though I see it as a moral responsibility to respect the dignity and rights of all people, I cannot deny I have developed a simmering...
Over the last year, the American people have watched as our country transformed from thriving to pathetic under a Democratic administration....
I recently had breakfast with a guy with whom I am very like-minded. We talked about our kids, our jobs, and inevitably the conversation...
You are probably not familiar with the name William Kingdon Clifford. He was a philosopher who lived in England 150 years ago. He was...
A few weeks back, a convoy of trucks left the west coast of Canada, bound for the nation’s capital of Ottawa. The convoy’s express...
Drug overdose deaths have reached another record high. In the 12-month period ending in September 2021, it is estimated that 104,288...
Why doesn’t the youth care about foreign policy? Why didn’t we weep over the horrors in Afghanistan and why is our blood not boiling,...
Right now, nearly every American is feeling the effects of out-of-control inflation and other economic problems. My guess is that most...
I found myself doing something strange as I was listening to the House debate recently on HB 2, better known as the “anti-riot bill;”...
This opinion piece is a follow-up to my editorial which was published on January 27 about diversity outreach. That piece was entitled,...
It is hard to fault the Alabama Education Association (AEA) when it comes to representing its constituents. If only, when it came to...
“Oops! I did it again.” Most anyone living over the past two decades probably recognizes the lyric from the Britney Spears song of...
We came upon the accident in the middle of that recent weather event that hit the country in January, the result of what is known as...
Last week the legislature began touting the fact that lawmakers expect to pass $100 million in targeted tax cuts this session. Combined...
Imbeciles are always and everywhere. Nitwits are pervasive among us no matter the school of thought or political stripe. They have...
I’ve had some very interesting conversations lately with key people in the State House about the current situation with pending legislation...
The great American author, Flannery O’Connor once made the assertion that “Christianity is worthless if it is not true.” Though I...
Virginia has turned Red from the top to the bottom. They recently elected a Republican governor, Republican lieutenant governor, and...