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If Jackson Hospital closes, patients will go to Baptist where they will encounter the chaos of an overburdened hospital and where BCBS will pay the higher rates anyway. So why not pay those rates to Jackson and prevent what will be a local and regional healthcare calamity?

Congressional districts should be drawn around geography, population and community – not race – where every party must show up and earn every vote.

God takes us into situations we cannot handle on our own so we learn to trust Him alone. And not just for the moment, but for all that lies ahead.

It’s weird. Being back in America again. For one thing, they don’t call it “America” over in Europe. It’s bad form. They call it “the U.S.”

State Rep. Juandalynn Givan needs to stop crying about how black and brown voters are being suppressed when she wants to suppress the votes which upended her quest for power.

The recent challenge to Tommy Tuberville’s eligibility for governor turns on one word in the Alabama Constitution: “resident.” Article V, Section 117 requires a governor to have been a resident citizen of Alabama for at least seven years before the election. So what does “resident” mean?

Defining boundaries makes flourishing possible. Enforcing them makes liberty a reality.

Will this recent congressional rebuke stop President Trump in Iran? Or is there a bigger issue at hand?

In 1999 there were approximately 12.6 billion board feet of hardwood lumber produced in the U.S., while last year, this number was down to 4.1 billion. Based on conversations with industry insiders, this number isn’t expected to go anywhere but down in 2026. I’m not one for government assistance, but it seems that, in this case, the laws of laissez fair economics must give way to the greater law of morality.

But when we ask whether the Declaration of Independence was a biblical document, what matters is not what men like Adams believed in 1820, but what they believed in 1776 and 1787.

Each time something new comes out of the same old tales. It’s as though some stories are so true that they never die. They begin and end with the same types and characters, but there is always something new to find each time I sit with them – as though each character is alive and active in a way that defies time. 

The silent majority must awaken. Joe Six-Pack cannot remain content with mere existence while the republic he indirectly sustains crumbles under the weight of unchecked power and moral decay. Our forebears did not endure hardship and forge a new order so that their descendants might slumber in apathy.

Divorce is a wound. I will not prettify it into something fashionable or therapeutic. Some losses remain losses forever. The best you can do is refuse to let them become the only story your children inherit.

When viewed from the basic level, our educators power every part of our society.

The debate is no longer about whether we should legalize gambling. It’s about whether a deep red state like Alabama will be complicit in building a system that begins with children’s data and ultimately benefits industries that profit from human weakness.

At the outset of Isaiah’s ministry, he was granted a vision of God in all His majesty, seated upon His throne, surrounded by seraphim crying out in ceaseless worship.

Cab drivers, I have discovered, have a lot to teach us.

As we reflect on the impressive 250 years of our American experiment, let us also examine the virtue that makes that experiment possible. God-willing, we can extend our years by returning to that virtue.

Immigration can strengthen America – and has many times before. But it does so only under certain conditions: when borders are enforced, when entry is governed by law, and when those who come here to build a life are expected to assimilate to American culture. 

Medical tyranny isn’t an issue we typically experience in the “red” states. But denying perfectly capable young adults from completing clinicals because additional shots will endanger THEIR health is medical tyranny and the definition of insanity.

The true depth of a man’s faith shows up when the cameras are not around.

[T]he Ninth Amendment stands as a bulwark against tyranny, warning tyrants that we, the American people, have never surrendered our ancient, God-given rights.  

We cannot deny the economic realities of a strong defense base, especially here in Alabama.

What a shame that even shared good faith can be reduced to a profane weapon in the political game! Comparison in a political contest is always a double-edged sword, where too much held in common – even a shared faith – sows division and discord.

The United States went to great lengths and immense cost to bring our heroes home, yet we are also a nation whose military cemeteries remain a "silent sentinel" in foreign lands: honored, respected, and never forgotten.

And there it is, the thing about raising children that nobody warns you about sufficiently: the milestones that matter most arrive without fanfare, tucked inside ordinary afternoons.

Why would the Alabama State Bar Association disbar this retired, 83-year-old attorney?