In a surprise overtime victory in the finals of the Olympic men’s hockey tournament, the Russians defeated Germany, 4-3. But the Russians were not permitted to have their national anthem played or flag raised, due to a past doping scandal. So, the team ignored the prohibition and sang out the Russian national anthem over the […]

What started as an idea to honor the greatest sacrifice a conservation enforcement officer can make blossomed into a capacity-crowd commemoration of 12 game wardens who gave their lives in the line of duty during the 110-year history of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). Governor Kay Ivey, Conservation Commissioner Chris Blankenship […]

Mobile-based AeroStar unveiled plans March 1 to more than double its workforce and nearly triple its footprint at Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley by year’s end. “We have some potential major maintenance awards coming our way and just need the warehouse space to accommodate,” said AeroStar President and Managing Partner Greg Guzman. The $2 million investment includes land, construction costs, […]

Vatican officials announced a class to train new exorcists in the face of a crisis in Italy, where church leaders say alleged possessions have tripled. The church in Italy is woefully under-equipped to deal with what Catholic exorcists in Italy say is an exponential increase in demand for exorcisms seen in recent years, according to Catholic […]

  Could Alabama become home to a major new industry centered on bamboo farming and product manufacturing? Southern Research and its Prosperity Fund initiative are teaming up with Resource Fiber, a bamboo fiber products company, to help realize the commercial potential of bamboo in a state known for thick pine forests. Marsha Folsom, Resource Fiber’s Chief Development Officer/Governmental […]

    Lawmakers in North Carolina are calling for a statue of Rev. Billy Graham to be displayed in the U.S. Capitol Building. Republican Gov. Roy Cooper and other state lawmakers have been working to get a statue of Graham placed inside the Capitol, the Raleigh News & Observer reported Wednesday. Every state has the right to place […]

(CNSNews.com) – President Trump’s suggestion on Wednesday that law enforcement should “take the guns first, go through due process second” is not sitting well with the National Rifle Association. “Well, the NRA is going to, first off…push for action on protecting children,” Dana Loesch told Fox News’s Martha McCallum Wednesday night. “But the NRA is […]

    Open government isn’t just good government. It’s the public’s right. In Florida, the Broward County Sheriff’s office and Broward County school district are fighting to keep exterior surveillance video from the day of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School hidden from view. As journalists and citizens who’ve waged uphill battles […]

  The president reportedly refers to Attorney General Jeff Sessions as “Mr. Magoo,” according to a Wednesday report. President Donald Trump has given Sessions his own nickname, “Mr. Magoo,” after a short, white cartoon character best known for his nearsightedness, The Washington Post reported after speaking with people close to the president. The president has also […]

    President Trump is not a particularly popular president. His job approval rating has not crossed 50 percent for a single day of his presidency. He’s currently riding as high as he ever has in the RealClearPolitics poll average — and that’s 41 percent. Statistics guru Nate Silver estimates that “the approval rating at […]

  One day after Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he will ask the Justice Department inspector general to investigate alleged FISA surveillance abuse, Donald Trump erupted with a Wednesday morning tweet: “Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already […]

  New research from the Parents Television Council (PTC) has found that television violence, and gun violence in particular – that is rated appropriate for children – has increased on primetime broadcast television shows in the five years since the shooting in Newtown, CT. PTC compared TV-PG and TV-14 programs from one month after the 2017 mass […]

    Sunday, Hollywood sycophants give out Oscars. But they will miss some of the better performances of the year because Academy Awards just go to movie actors. They leave out political actors. That’s not right. Politicians deceive and manipulate people just as much as actors do. Some of their performances deserve recognition. So, I […]

  Professors at the University of North Carolina are threatening to destroy a Confederate monument if it is not taken down before Thursday, according to a Sunday report. Seventeen senior UNC Chapel Hill faculty members demand the university take down a “Silent Sam” statue before Thursday, or else they will tear it down themselves, reported The […]

  A liberal-created failure that goes entirely ignored is the left’s harmful agenda for society’s most vulnerable people — the mentally ill. Eastern State Hospital, built in 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first public hospital in America for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Many more followed. Much of the motivation to […]

    In days gone by, a massacre of students like the atrocity at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would have brought us together. But like so many atrocities before it, this mass murder is tearing us apart. The perpetrator, the sick and evil 19-year-old who killed 17 innocents with a gun is said to […]

  President Donald Trump told the CPAC conference last week in America we do not worship government, we worship God. Trump made this remark shortly before he talked about the death of the Rev. Billy Graham. “Above all else, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are at the center of American life,” […]

  The Alabama State House of Representatives recently passed a “Stand Your Ground” bill for churches partly in response to the Florida school shooting. The bill will extend coverage of Alabama’s 2006 Stand Your Ground Law not only to houses of worship but also grounds on which church or other religious institution activities are held, […]

    Transgender activists, medical professionals and civilians should treat gender dysphoria with compassion and respect, but everyone experiences a bad outcome when encouraging surgical or hormonal treatment for transgender individuals, a public policy expert explained Wednesday. Transgender activists and treatment opponents agree there’s great pain for gender-confused folks, however, they disagree on the best practice for […]

  As the Alabama legislature considers reforming its civil asset forfeiture policy, state police are becoming more and more insistent that they keep the power. Alabama’s legislation would make two major changes to civil forfeiture: It would require police to criminally convict a property owner before forfeiting his property, and would prevent law enforcement from […]

    I happened onto a piece by Bill Kristol in The Weekly Standard, wherein he links to “a short, powerful piece in National Review” by Rick Brookhiser, who “concludes that ‘the conservative movement is no more. Its destroyers are Donald Trump and his admirers.'” I somewhat get the sentiment — or at least I […]

  (Opinion) An important front-page story at Al.com could easily become lost in the barrage of major national stories erupting over the past week. This story involves the all-important issue of academic freedom for an Advanced Placement American Government (AP) teacher in Spanish Fort, Alabama. According to the article by John Sharp, the teacher is […]

    According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls favored Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and Donald […]

  With confirmation of the first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in west-central Mississippi, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) and the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries have quickly responded to the news. ADCNR’s Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division added Mississippi to the list of states where the importation […]