Amazon launched its first convenience store in Seattle, Wash., last week without a single cashier throughout the store. A few employees drift around the aisles, restocking shelves and directing customers. Amazon has tried to automate as much of the process of grocery shopping as reasonably possible, though, The Associated Press reports. Seattleites lined up outside the store […]

Another drug epidemic is set to hit the United States, but has been overshadowed by the opioid crisis. Anti-anxiety medications, or benzodiazepines, have been increasingly prescribed by physicians for decades and the damage is finally starting to show. “Opioids tend to grab the front page headlines, but all along there has been this silent epidemic […]

“The Western democratic system is hailed by the developed world as near perfect and the most superior political system to run a country,” mocked China’s official new agency. “However, what’s happening in the United States today will make more people worldwide reflect on the viability and legitimacy of such a chaotic political system.” There is […]

  Every hunter at the 2018 Buckmasters Life Hunt at Sedgefields Plantation went home with great memories. And with a snowstorm approaching, each hunter bagged a buck before the three-day event was complete. Going into the final afternoon hunt, David Powell of South Carolina had taken a doe earlier in the hunt but was the […]

    It’s elementary. Education control freaks will use any excuse to crack down on competition. With two million K-12 students now educated at home (including our 9th grade son), the temptation to exploit the most marginal cases of alleged child abuse by home-schoolers has proven irresistible to statist politicians and government apologists. Take the […]

    Private property rights are one of the fundamental tenets of our Republic. Enshrined in the Fifth and 14th Amendments are clear protections for private property, banning the government from seizing property from private citizens without due process of law. Unfortunately, in many states, including Alabama, the laws governing seizure have been crafted in […]

    On Monday, Democrats caved on their manufactured government shutdown. In an attempt to generate a groundswell of support for a legislative re-enshrinement of former President Obama’s executive amnesty, Democrats filibustered a continuing resolution to fund the government. That tough stance lasted precisely three days. Then, Democrats voted overwhelmingly with Republicans to fund the […]

  Calling him “Crying Chuck,” President Donald Trump tweeted this week that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “fully understands” that “if there is no wall, there is no DACA.” “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fully understands, especially after his humiliating defeat, that if there is no Wall, there is no DACA. We must have safety and […]

John Zimmerman IV is decades removed from being an aspiring figure skater living in Homewood. But the journey that took him to three United States pairs championships and a recent induction to the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame is never far from his mind. “All day every day, man,” said Zimmerman, now a coach, when asked […]

    The government is open again. That’s too bad. One day, one of these shutdowns should be permanent. We would still have far more government than the Founding Fathers envisioned. That’s because even during so-called shutdowns, a third of federal employees — nearly a million people — remain on the job, declared “essential” government […]

  Every community, inevitably, has a value or set of values that it considers fundamental, some basic good which positions every other claim to goodness. For most of the modern liberal democracies, for example, freedom and equality play this determining role in the moral discourse. In Communist societies, economic justice, construed as the elimination of […]

    President Donald Trump said, “We are going to take a strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts.” The president was responding to statements made in Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and […]

  A cake-decorating hobby gone awry. Mandi Buckalew said that’s how her studio, Cakeapotamus LLC, got its start. She creates custom cakes for weddings, birthday parties and corporate and community events, specializing in odd, unusual and often geeky designs. Buckalew, who was a certified special-education teacher at a middle school in those days, said baking started […]

    The Senate passed a bill to keep the government funded through early February early Monday afternoon, putting a swift end to a three-day shutdown that left hundreds of thousands of government employees without pay. The bill keeps the government funded through Feb. 8 and provides a 6-years of funding for roughly 9 million […]

    The war for dominance in the Middle East, following the crushing of ISIS, appears about to commence in Syria — with NATO allies America and Turkey on opposing sides. Turkey is moving armor and troops south to Syria’s border enclave of Afrin, occupied by Kurds, to drive them out, and then drive the […]

  Florida lawmakers are voting on whether the state should declare pornography a public health risk, according to a resolution which passed a House committee Thursday. The resolution, sponsored by Republican Rep. Ross Spano, would require education, research and policy changes in order to keep Floridians away from the potential risks of pornography, Fox 13 […]

At the risk of sending the left into a state of apoplexy, a monolithic, biased, renegade, politicized press is a far greater threat to liberty than a president criticizing the media. Like their First Amendment counterparts — the freedom of religion, the freedom of assembly and the right to petition the government — the freedoms […]

    Salt water. Seagulls. Striped bass. My fondest childhood memories come from fishing with my dad on the creaky piers and slick jetties of the Jersey shore. The Atlantic Ocean is in my blood. So when fishing families in New England reached out to me for help spreading word about their economic and regulatory […]

  President Trump “said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. … I cannot believe … any president has ever spoken the words that I … heard our president speak yesterday.” So wailed Sen. Dick Durbin after departing the White House. And what caused the minority leader to almost faint dead away? Trump called Haiti […]

    A group of five scored what might be considered the lottery for hunters who want to pursue white-tailed deer in the Black Belt of Alabama. Those lucky hunters were selected in a random drawing to participate in the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division’s Adult Mentored Hunt Program. Before the weekend was […]

  (Opinion) When I began attending Birmingham School of Law in early 2013, my wife was pregnant with our youngest son, Jaxson, and she utterly refused to move to Alabama. Let’s be honest, Alabama has a dirty past when it comes to the treatment of African-Americans. We both are northerners. I’m from Chicago, she’s from New […]

    There’s a word that has become popular in feminist circles these days: “mansplaining.” The word is a mashup of “man” and “explaining” and refers to men who condescendingly explain the facts of life to women. So, for example, if a man believes a woman doesn’t understand directions and slowly repeats those directions to […]

    As the father of three beautiful children and a Christian man, I fully understand how precious the gift of life is.  Throughout my almost 60 years on earth, I have found fatherhood to be the greatest accomplishment of my lifetime. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court decision […]

    The Southern Poverty Law Center claims it protects us from "hate groups". But it's a scam… a money grabbing slander machine: pic.twitter.com/mqLjYfB1sT — John Stossel (@JohnStossel) January 16, 2018   Who will warn Americans about hate groups? The media know: the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC, based in Alabama, calls itself “the premier” […]