By Randy Tatano This time of year, the chance of snow on Christmas Day in Alabama is pretty much a long shot. Sure, we’ve had an occasional...
Listen to 1819 News Editor-in-Chief Ray Melick on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the capture of two former U.S. military Alabamians in Ukraine, the Trump endorsement of Katie Britt and the upcoming runoff elections.
Listen to 1819 News Editor-in-Chief Ray Melick on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the closed primary proposals, Trump's endorsement of Katie Britt and the Secretary of State race.
I grew up in a very staunch Christian and Democratic home. If you had asked me 20 years ago why I was a Democrat, my answer would have...
Moose, one of our bullmastiffs, got a bath the other day. Emmy scrubbed. I held the door. Moose saw me, a.k.a., “the lady who gives...
My hat is off to a great American, Lee Greenwood. During the middle of the very busy preparations for his All-Star Salute Concert honoring...
Despite the triumphant march of America’s leviathan government throughout the 20th century to this day, individualism and political...
It was an uplifting sight last week to see a video of a Las Vegas elementary school erupting with cheers, squeals and dance in response...
And just like that, football season is over. Of course, there is no “just like that” like the Super Bowl, that truly American spectacle...
AT THE ROOT OF THE FREEDOM FIGHT You’re likely keenly aware of the fact that progressive liberals have little respect and place little...
We live in a time where people are truly perplexed over what has gone wrong with our world. There seems to be so much instability in...
The anti-Alabama letters keep coming in. “I read that you’re moving to Alabama, Sean,” the email began, “and I’m not trying to talk...
Those of us of a certain age remember when flying was actually fun. I know that seems hard to believe in an era in which you get half-undressed...
Today, I bring you a report on the latest gender battle. Date: 2/7/22 Location: the fields of Twitter Casualties: human decency, sanity,...
I saw a new internet/social media abbreviation (or maybe it's an acronym) that I had not seen before, that cracked me up. “JABA.” I...
On Nov. 17, 1864, Frederick Douglass spoke to a majority Black, standing room only audience at Bethel A.M.E. Church in Baltimore, Maryland....
“It’s kind of late.” That was the message from Alabama House Majority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainseville) when asked about the...
Last Friday, President Joe Biden signed yet another executive order that will soon become a monkey wrench in the gears of economic...
Remember your mother's vanity? The wonder that it was? The cotton balls, q-tips, and beauty products? Did she keep a cup right by the...
Several weeks ago, my fifth grader was given a research assignment on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. As I helped her search for...
This session, one of the hottest debates on Goat Hill is whether Alabama should pass “constitutional carry,” which would allow the...
Though it may be true that “politics is downstream from culture,” politics can also pollute the river of culture. Power tends to corrupt...
While the spike in violent crime nationwide last year has rightfully grabbed headlines, one heinous crime wave continues to go relatively...
Eighty years ago this month, with the stroke of a pen, President Franklin Roosevelt, in Executive Order 9066, effectively relegated...
Sen. Del Marsh filed and moved his school choice bill, dubbed the PCA (Parental Choice Act) last week. Unfortunately, the educational...
I hope that you are tracking the current dynamic brewing in Montgomery. There is a major fight brewing between the usual suspects of...
The great political philosopher Edmund Burke made this insightful observation over 200 years ago: “Freedom without wisdom or responsibility...