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Talmadge Butts: The Biden administration’s Ministry of Truth

The Biden administration hasn’t allowed a trivial impediment such as a law prevent them from shaping the public discourse.

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Joey Clark: Vote for me or my opponent will kill this dog

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem may or may not have made a mistake when she killed her failed hunting dog, Cricket, but Noem definitely made a mistake telling the political world about it.  

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Allen Harris: Hankering for accountability on student loans

Is President Biden’s regurgitated plan to eliminate student loan repayments for real? Ostensibly so. 

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Phil Williams: The surveillance state

Renewal of FISA for two more years gives U.S. intelligence agencies the means to surveil Americans without a warrant.

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Ashley Carter: Taylor Swift – second verse, same as the first

Listening to Taylor Swift's new album only strengthened my opinion that Swift is not a role model for our young girls.

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Charles Kiplinger: Are our elected officials truly representing us?

The elected legislator is supposed to be the voice of the people, but what if you can't get in touch with that elected voice?

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Kaitlyn Smith: Tornadoes in The Valley – remembering April 27, 2011

Those of us residing in the Deep South learned what a tornado outbreak meant: 63 tornadoes on the ground, many simultaneously with others, causing the loss of 252 lives.

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Sean of the South: A walk in the dog park

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dogs.

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Jennifer Oliver O'Connell: Shouting for life during Abortion Recovery Awareness Month

The Democrats have glitzy ads and media buys telling lies about Alabama and its stance for life. It is up to Wahl, our elected officials, and others with a media presence to combat those lies and tout the resources and outreach done through the pro-life movement.

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Laura Clark: What’s the difference between your faith and your personal preference?

What is the difference between the modern church and a community center with a shared mission? If you’re the average American, the answer is, sadly, nothing.

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House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter: A history lesson on the UAW

The UAW's leadership wants us to believe it has a legacy of fighting for auto workers. The truth is it has a legacy of corruption, destruction and usury. 

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Kristin Landers: Trading liberty for security

It's time for our congressional representatives and the Biden administration to stop selling the American people down the river.

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Col. John Eidsmoe: Is criminal justice reform an issue for conservative Christians?

Christian conservative constitutionalists support law and order, believing government has a duty to punish crime. But law and order also means the government must follow the law, and the rights of innocent and guilty defendants must be zealously defended.

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Jessica Taylor: Women should be furious about Biden’s Title IX changes

We cannot stand by and watch liberal Democrats and this joke of an administration continue to mock, ridicule, disrespect, and put women in harm’s way.

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State Rep. Arnold Mooney: Labor unions replace hope with hopelessness, jobs with joblessness and opportunities with abandonment

In the next few weeks, employees at the Mercedes-Benz automotive manufacturing plant in Vance, Alabama, will vote on whether to join forces with Detroit’s United Auto Workers union and bring organized labor into the facility or reject the bogus snake-oil hokum that union leaders have repeatedly attempted to sell them.

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Joey Clark: 'Momma, I’ve been shot'; 'I love you like no other, Mama'

Two different mothers, two different communities, two different tragedies that nonetheless remind us of how unspeakably fragile life can be.  

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Phil Williams: The right side of history

What are we to think as we watch the current happenings in the Middle East? How does an administration get so much so wrong in so short a time?

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KCarl Smith: The threat of political weaponization

The role of a prosecuting attorney is essential in protecting the inherent freedoms and rights granted to all Americans.

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Ashley Carter: The power to choose

Thanks to the passage of the CHOOSE Act, families have the option to place their children in a school other than their local district school.

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Linda Chastain: From advocacy to action — Hoover's path to cultural enrichment

Now is the time for Hoover to reaffirm its commitment to the arts and invest in the future of our community.

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Sean of the South: Houseguests

My nieces have enough energy to power an average suburban electrical grid. They arrived in our driveway last night after spending upwards of six hours in the car. By the time they got here, they were not unlike compressed atomic matter contained in a jar, just waiting to explode.

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Amie Beth Shaver: Our rescue

Have you heard about the Bielski brothers or what they built deep in the forest? Because they managed to pull off a magnificent resistance.

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Nick Treglia: Today’s dissident political thought is not what you think

What happens when the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s become the establishment?

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Kyle Shideler: Arrest of suspected Alabama bomber shows Antifa is not just a ‘Portland’ problem

The arrest of a 26-year-old Alabama man on charges of detonating an explosive outside the office of the Alabama Attorney General in Montgomery shows that the threat of the anarcho-communist network known as Antifa isn’t limited to any region of the country.

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Allen Keller: Bill Maher and the decline of the American conscience

The characters in "Blood Meridian" began movement in a certain wrong direction on a moral paradigm, a direction toward which they continued with tragic consequences. It’s a lesson to which we’d do well to adhere in our own time.

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U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl: The UAW has no place in Alabama

Allowing the UAW to gain a foothold in Alabama would undermine this principle, putting the prosperity that our state has worked so hard to achieve in jeopardy.

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Secretary of State Wes Allen: Banning Ranked Choice Voting is the next step in ensuring Alabama elections are the most secure in the country

The next step in ensuring Alabama elections are the most secure elections in the country is the outlawing of ranked-choice voting.

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