Listen to 1819 News Reporter Will Blakely on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss environmental, social and governance (ESG), where the yield on investment of a security takes a backseat to the "wokeness" of the security.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss 1954's murdered Attorney General Democratic nominee Albert Patterson, his bravery in taking on corruption in 1950s Phenix City, and the lessons we should learn from that bravery.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss taxation in Alabama and how Stephanie has reluctantly come to the conclusion that such a statement as "there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats" is sadly true in Alabama with regard to taxing and spending.
While most of the corporate press continues to squash our collective brains in a partisan vise of sound and fury signifying nothing this election season, the 117th Congress continues to exhibit the greatest vice afflicting modern American politics — moderation.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss extreme comprehensive sex education which aims at children as young as four years old.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss school choice and the puzzling pride that school administrators have, wanting control over homeschool and religious school students when state test scores are at or near the worst of all the states.
Power delights in its own effectual evils but does so while claiming to rejoice with the good of its aims. Power’s desired ends always justify any possible means.
Listen to 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss Landen Williams and his battle with macro and micro blood clots resulting from COVID-19, and Landen's thankfulness that he didn't get the COVID jabs which would have made his condition worse.
Listen to 1819 News Editor-at-Large Erica Thomas on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the "death notebook" revealed to the public one year after it was discovered by school officials, but only after the student made more threats.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the proper understanding of the separation of church and state: to protect the church from state overreach.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss lockdown learning loss in children and recent FOIA revelations that teacher unions heavily influenced CDC school lockdown and masking policies.
State power is little more than a scourge sapping the people’s peace and prosperity and has been manifest in many cruel and unusual forms time immemorial. “Babel” has been built and scattered over the face of the whole earth many times before.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss social and emotional learning (SEL), which is a means to enforce CRT, which has its roots in Marxism.
Listen to 1819 News Reporter Craig Monger on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss Alabama's 375 regulatory boards and some legislators' desire to modify the state's abortion law.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss overbearing federal power with its threats and investigations, as well as the self-censorship that federal power demands.
War does have a way of changing the ordinary meaning of words and the content of men’s character — transforming what was once regarded as unspeakable vice into hallowed virtue.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the controversy surrounding the Alabama State School Board Association and their accusation that grassroots parent organization LOCAL Alabama spreads misinformation, while LOCAL Alabama accuses the Association of not wanting to know if CRT and SEL are illegally being taught in schools.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the changes desired to Title IX by the Biden administration, including that schools could transition children to transgender without parental consent and that religious institutions would be forced to hire those whose morality doesn't align with that institution.
Each election season, I find it all so beautiful, horrifying, and absurd — beautiful to see people become wary of power upon having to give it up, horrifying to see people once wary of power trivialize its hazards now that it is in their hands, and absurd to see how dominant political personalities have become for a supposed "government of laws and not men."
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the Biden administration's student loan "forgiveness" program, how it's clearly an election year ploy, and how the gigantic endowments at universities could help reduce tuition costs and thereby reduce student debt.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss her recent article opining that government is not a piggybank and is not God, and Biden's college loan "forgiveness" is likely unconstitutional and certainly regressive.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the effects of abortion on women and the California transplant to Muscle Shoals who appreciates that Alabama enforces its laws.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss her recent Op-Ed that government can't produce money, taxpayers do, as well as how Alabama stacks up to neighboring states in terms of tax cuts over the past few years.
What if the revolutionaries of the past failed to understand what they had torn down? What if the progressive builders of yesteryear never wished to understand what they had destroyed in the first place? What if they were so intoxicated by their sublime vision of ‘the new thing’ — a new day, a new man, a new human nature, a new science, a new religion — that they destroyed many things worth saving?
Listen to 1819 News Reporter Will Blakely on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the drama surrounding the University of Alabama sorority rush and accusations that a pledge was wearing a wire for a news organization.
There are few things a reclusive introvert and political malcontent (such as I am) loathes more than attending a large political fundraiser dinner party. Alas, there I was at the center of the Alabama GOP’s Summer Dinner, feeling like a distraught stranger in a strange land.
Last week, 1819 News spoke to libertarians in Alabama about what a libertarian is, the history of the libertarian movement and where libertarians stand on the issues. But where is the libertarian movement headed?