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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.

Alabama gun owners do not need another symbolic gesture. We need lawmakers to use the power voters gave them and pass a permanent repeal of state and local sales taxes on firearms, ammunition, magazines, suppressors, and related gear.

Freedom is loving God the Father, giving up a broken and contrite heart to Him – just as God the Son gave up his spotless heart to wash away all crimson sin.  And liberty is believing in what He, through Christ Jesus, has done for you and me, sealed by the Holy Spirit so that we may love one another in a thanksgiving of everlasting fraternity.

It’s time Congress made sure the price at the pump reflects that dominance, not the panic trades of people who never drilled a well, refined a drop, or ran the logistics. It’s time we take the power away from the Arab world.

It’s not the Alabama Supreme Court that lacks the standing to evaluate law schools. It’s the ABA that has forfeited, through decades of mission creep, cost inflation, and ideological adventurism, its claim to function as the disinterested guardian of American legal education.

A society can teach people how to make a living, but if it never teaches them how to live, we risk becoming soulless, one-dimensional servants to AI rather than thoughtful citizens of a free nation.  

The default mode of your face, according to research, is smiling.