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7. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper won’t admit it, but he made the case for President Donald Trump revoking CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance — Clapper appeared on CNN Sunday morning to make the argument that the president was entering dangerous territory by revoking the clearances. Instead, he made the president’s point […]
Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Should President Donald Trump be threatening the security clearance of critical members of the intelligence community? — Why can’t the Alabama Democratic Party move on from the past? — If the media wants to be […]
7. Trump nails the media to the wall after they tout their editorials slamming him — Hundreds of newspapers attempted to coordinate an attack on the American president because he was mean to them, further proving they are an agenda-driven monolith. — After Trump called the media the “opposition party,” he accurately laid out the […]
Alabama native and Apple CEO Tim Cook does not appear to have a problem currying favor with President Donald Trump. Last Friday, Cook dined with the president and first lady at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, NJ, marking Cook’s sixth private meeting with POTUS or his family in the nineteen months he has been in office. […]
7. In a story that surprises no one, former White House staffer Omarosa lies about being interviewed by Robert Muller’s investigators — Omarosa already has some credibility issues but there is no evidence she has ever been interviewed in any capacity by the Mueller team. She claims she has and that she has new information for him. […]
7. Another scandal for the Catholic Church, this time in Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro says that over 300 priests molested over a thousand children and the Catholic churches knew about it and covered it up. — Shapiro says, “The cover-up was sophisticated. And all the while, shockingly, church leadership kept records of the […]
One of the hot-stove topics making its way around Alabama is the possibility of a new east-west Interstate highway through the center of Alabama. The proposal is what people are calling “Interstate 14,” which would run parallel with U.S. Highway 80, crossing into Alabama from the east in Phenix City and passing by Tuskegee, Montgomery, […]
7. A Mexican restaurant in Houston is under fire for daring to serve Attorney General Jeff Sessions — El Tiempo Cantina posted a photo of Sessions and its owner on social media. It was immediately attacked for serving the AG. Eventually, the restaurant apologized for posting the photo and shut down their social media accounts. — […]
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday provided the one-year progress report on her signature education initiative – Strong Start, Strong Finish (SSSF) – as the Democratic nominee for governor, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox continued to speak to thin air. This comes after Ivey recently launched her first television ad ahead of the November 6 general election, […]
7. The American media wants you to know they are a biased monolith by conspiring to publish 100 similar editorials on the same day — The “coordinated response” to President Donald Trump’s “enemy of the people” comments is being spearheaded by The Boston Globe, and is predicated on the premise that Trump hasn’t been clear […]
Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Is there anything we can learn about the midterms from OH-12’s special election? — Will sports gambling be discussed in this election or just debated in the 2019 legislative sesssion? — Who asked for former […]
7. NFL players are back to kneeling. Donald Trump is smiling — After a year of nonsense and political posturing over kneeling, NFL players started the preseason by taking knees, raising fists and standing in the tunnel to protest the National Anthem. They claim it is a sign of unity, and then tell everyone it is […]
Business is booming in Alabama and across the nation. According to a new poll released Tuesday by Gallup, American small-business owners are more optimistic now more than ever since the index was started 15 years ago. The new record is a considerable three-and-a-half percentage points better than the previous high point from 2006. The optimism is driven […]
7. Democrats’ Russia hysteria is based on nothing and being drummed up for political purposes in Alabama and other states — Florida Senator Bill Nelson is in the middle of a tough re-election campaign against GOP Governor Rick Scott and he is claiming Russians “have already penetrated certain counties in the state and they now […]
A provocative New York Times op-ed last week argued that political scientists oversimplify the great divide in American politics as an argument between rural denizens and urban residents. Actually, the author says, the country’s politics fracture 11 different ways, the result of historical and cultural differences that split the nation into 11 distinct “countries.” Portland […]
7. As social media and media distribution companies ban Infowars’ Alex Jones, Twitter’s CEO accurately describes why it is a bad idea — The CEO of the social media giant Jack Dorsey launched a tweet-storm explaining that Jones had not broke any of their rules and that Twitter would not cave to mob pressure. — […]
The latest polling published by Morning Consult shows more Alabama voters approve of Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) than disapprove. The numbers say that 45 percent approve, 28 percent disapprove, while 26 percent either do not know or have no opinion. These numbers are generous, to say the least, and will drastically change when voters view Sen. […]
7. No one in the media seems too upset that provocateur insane Alex Jones has been removed from major media platforms — Facebook, YouTube, Apple and other media distributors have ceased allowing Jones to distribute his podcasts and video-streams via their distributions channels, citing his content as the reason. — Jones is a much-maligned conspiracy theorist, […]
Last week, TIME magazine’s “The South Issue” hit newsstands with the goal of explaining this part of South’s “complicated story” to a readership that apparently views this region of the country as alien, strange and unfamiliar. The issue appears to be a tribute to Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, who is featured on the […]
Alabama has been stuck in what seems like one endless election cycle since 2015. And it’s not going to end anytime soon. As signaled by the start of Governor Ivey’s first television buy ahead of the November 6 General Election, the summer political lull – a seeming oasis of respite from wall-to-wall political advertising that […]
7. The people demanding you love the media and honor them as heroes don’t really care what anyone else thinks about their performance — After several days of complaints about Trump supporters and the president himself “attacking the free press,” the media paused to demand that a non-profit museum stop selling “fake news” t-shirts. — […]
With Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox still drumming up the liberal media’s faux outrage about debates, Governor Kay Ivey launched her first television ad ahead of the November 6 general election. The ad, which is now running statewide, seeks to highlight her success in preparing students for the jobs of tomorrow. “As a former teacher, I know […]
Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Can recent polling give Democrats any hope? — Democrat candidate for governor Walt Maddox’s position on the Second Amendment is contradictory and deceptive? — Is there anyone Trump won’t pick a fight with?
“Big Luther” might be out of office, but he hasn’t finished towering over environmental activists. The former United States Senator is known for his staunch opposition to job-killing Obama-era regulations and mandates as Alabama’s Attorney General and was a key ally to President Trump in Strange’s brief tenure on Capitol Hill. Now, back in the […]

