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Matt Murphy: Afraid of Kay Ivey? Why?

Why does everybody seem so afraid of Kay Ivey? I mean this question seriously. Has anyone else noticed a suspicious absence of elected...

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Phil Williams: The legislative tightrope

I heard the story once of a famous tightrope walker who strung a line across Niagara Falls. The crowd watched expectantly and fearfully...

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Richard E. Simmons: What has happened to Harvard?

Back in August of this year, Harvard announced that they had hired a new chaplain who happens to be an atheist. That does not seem...

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Matt Murphy: They tell us we're unhappy. Don't believe them

Given that I talk on the radio for a living, you might imagine I get my fair share of emails. Boy oh boy, do I get some doozies. Some...

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KCarl Smith: How to Defeat the Left’s Anti-God and Anti-Liberty Agenda

In 2013, RedState described me as, “… one of the most influential people in America you have never heard of…until now. Most certainly,...

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Krissie Allen: The Last Hope for Public Education

There is a Tennessee Williams quote that haunts me whenever the world feels upside down: “Mendacity is a system that we live in … Liquor...

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Amie Beth Shaver: Where Did I Go?

It woke me up. That tremendous sense of self-loathing. Why would you even try this? Who do you think you are? You're much too old for...

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Will Sellers: Churchill, the perpetual winner

In the blood sport of electoral politics losers are forgotten and rarely rewarded; in British politics even winners experiencing their...

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Matt Murphy: Alabama is a conservative state … sorta. Kinda. Hmmm

I have had the privilege of talking and living with the incredible people of Alabama since 1999. I came to the state sort of by accident,...

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Ray Melick: A return to honest journalism

There is an old saying that every old journalist knows that goes, "Get it first, but first get it right." That saying summed up the...

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Phil Williams: Start with freedom

I’m a conservative. But what is that? It is very common to have a true belief that is rooted deep in your core: like the fact that...

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Bryan Dawson: The problem and solution are hidden in plain sight; Why 1819 News was created

If you are anything like me, you have never paid that much attention to state level politics.   That changed for me recently after...

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Attorney General Steve Marshall: Sgt. Risner and the Costliness of 'Reform'

With the death of Sergeant Nick Risner, our state has lost 10 law enforcement officers in ten months and twenty-four officers in five...

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