When announcing his support for same-sex marriage, President Obama defended his position by saying that his thinking has evolved on the issue. Given that there is little chance that Congress will approve same-sex marriage in the immediate future, the ...
One of the memorable things about the 2012 legislative session is the absolute fiasco created by the Republican-controlled Alabama State Senate when they passed a charter school bill that is far worse than if they had simply passed nothing. In a pre ...
Budgetary issues continue to demand the attention of Alabama’s state government; you don’t have to look any further than the pages of nearly every newspaper in the state to know that fear sells newspapers and protects political turf. They have been l ...
As if an economy struggling to recover were not enough, Alabamians are truly starting to feel the financial pinch of trips to the gas pump and higher monthly electric bills. The cost increases impact more than just travel and utility bills; they ...
By now practically everyone in Alabama has seen, heard or read something about public charter schools. Incredibly, most of what is out there is actually deliberate “misinformation” targeting what can be best described as simply increasing educational ...
If you wonder how much difference there is in the Alabama State Legislature between the old Democrat majority and the new Republican majority that was elected in 2010, take a look at the bills that are on the agenda. From the early 1990s through the ...
When Nancy Pelosi famously stated, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,” who knew that the Obama Administration would find a new constitutional right to “free” contraception? And who knew when the Democrat-controlled Cong ...
February 6th would have been Ronald Reagan’s 101st birthday. Considering the current condition of America and the world, I tried to imagine what he would say if he were still with us. Here are some of my thoughts. First of all, I believe Reagan woul ...
With the shipwreck of the luxury cruise ship the Costa Concordia, one of the most honored codes of seamanship, indeed of Western manhood, was violated … the code of “women and children first.” Most of the coverage has focused on the cowardice o ...
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to spread the wealth around by using “government power to balance the scale between America’s rich and the rest of the public ….” But the truth is the policies of this Admi ...
