Our senior senator, Richard Shelby, has left an indelible legacy and imprint on our state. Every corner of the state has been the recipient of his prowess at bringing home the bacon to the Heart of Dixie. Every university has enjoyed a largesse of federal dollars. He has made the Huntsville Redstone Arsenal one of […]

In 2019, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Green New Deal, with a price tag estimated at trillions to possibly tens of trillions of dollars. When asked whether Washington could afford the Green New Deal, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) showed that we could. In recent years MMT has received considerable attention. The theory […]

Nothing happens without manufacturing. There are no planes, trains, nor automobiles to travel in; no homes to keep us safe and comfortable; no air conditioners nor furnaces; no food harvested, processed, brought to market, or delivered. You get the picture. There are more than 900,000 manufacturing jobs open across the country right now, and the […]

With the selection of its next president, Alabama A&M University (AAMU) is at a pivotal point in its history. In a few days, the Board of Trustees will select the 12th president of the largest historically black college and university in the state. As a business leader in Huntsville, a healthy and thriving AAMU is […]

For months now, I have been making the point that liberal politicians in Washington love creating crisis after crisis to distract the American people from what’s really happening. We’ve seen this time and time again with the Biden administration – each time something has gone wrong, the administration has stirred up a new crisis to […]

American family farms are under attack – both from within our very own country and from China. On top of the inherent uncertainty that they already have to deal with, our nation’s family farms are now being undercut by Chinese-owned farms located within our borders. Chinese agricultural investments abroad grew more than tenfold from 2009-2018, […]

The 2021 Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) rankings from Canada’s Fraser Institute show freedom essentially unchanged in the United States. But some important changes in the rankings will be coming soon. Economic freedom is based on “the concept of self-ownership.” We should have “a right to choose – to decide how to use [our] […]

Huntsville has rocketed past Birmingham as Alabama’s largest city. It is not named the Rocket City for nothing. The Census Bureau had been predicting this amazing boom in population in the Madison (Huntsville)/Limestone area, but the actual figures recently released reveal a bigger growth than expected. Huntsville grew by 20% or 35,000 people and is […]

The need to address Alabama’s longstanding prison infrastructure challenges is imperative. After many months of education and substantive discussions between the Governor’s Office and the Alabama Legislature, a bipartisan proposal has been put forth to deliver an “Alabama solution” to this very real Alabama problem. On Monday, the Alabama Legislature will convene in a special […]

When Johnny and I first married, times were tough. He was in school, and I was working a minimum-wage job. We had to watch every penny. We did without, and we made do, and we lived on what money we had at the time. Why can’t the federal government do the same? Now, we’re seeing […]

How many of you recently went to a local restaurant only to find a sign on the door that read, “sorry due to the current situation we are now closed on weekends.” Or went to the grocery store to find the item you need has gone up significantly in price, or not in stock. This […]

Since the earliest days of his campaign for the presidency, President Biden claimed he would raise taxes only on wealthy people, while not raising taxes on households earning under $400,000. Despite these claims, President Biden’s executive orders and Democrats’ bad policies have resulted in rising prices at the pump, rising prices at the grocery store, […]

As the pandemic continues around the nation, one highly effective medication for those that have already contracted COVID-19 is the monoclonal antibody treatment. Thousands of patients across Alabama have received this treatment, and it has proven to keep patients out of the hospital and prevent deaths by up to 70%. Yet, as infections and deaths […]

Experience is the practical scientific method. Some things succeed while other things fail; observing the reasons for success should help draft a blueprint for planning the future. It may be vogue to regard the past as nothing more than a sentimental embrace of the pre-modern world, but the laboratory of human conflict yields tangible results […]

Major automobile manufacturers are going all-in on the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). Like all Americans, Alabamians are hearing more about EVs, seeing more models they’d actually want to drive, and assessing what actual benefits EVs could offer. Just like the price of flat screen televisions fell dramatically as the technology improved and manufacturing capacity […]

The Alabama Association of Nurse Anesthetists (ALANA) stands with the Medical Association of the State of Alabama in objecting to the pause in the access to monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19 patients in Alabama. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) not only provide anesthesia care for COVID-19 patients, but as airway experts, intubate patients in Alabama […]

The United States is a relatively young country, but we have the oldest written national constitution. On this Constitution Day, we honor this incredible document, which has persisted for over two centuries and inspired a host of other constitutions around the world. Today marks the 234th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Our Constitution […]

It is obvious that someone in the White House needs to remind Joseph R. Biden that he is the President of the United States and not a third-world dictator. Like many Americans, I was outraged when President Biden mandated that companies with 100 or more employees require vaccination or subject unvaccinated employees to weekly testing. […]

To my own embarrassment, a recent event afforded me a few moments to do something I had not done in quite some time–contemplate the words and meaning of our National Anthem. Invited to sing our anthem at the Marion County School System teacher in-service event in August, I actually listened to the words for the […]

The notion that one cannot be an advocate for both women and unborn children is simply wrong. Those that pit women against their unborn babies are not advancing solutions, but instead making these children the unjustified scapegoats when we could be making real, meaningful progress, not only for the women of today but also of […]

This past weekend, countless people across the globe paused to remember and honor the lives lost in the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This day marked the deadliest attack on American soil in the history of our nation – nearly 3,000 innocent civilians and first responders lost their lives at the hands of […]

Local governments establish laws and codes to help structure our social interactions and penalize the rule breakers. The use of fines as a type of taxation should offend us all. The Institute for Justice (IJ) has long been concerned with abuse of government police power. IJ has led in research and litigation on civil asset […]

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the infamous 9/11 terrorist attacks on our nation. It was a day in your life where you remember where you were and what you were doing when you first heard of the attacks on the New York World Trade Center and Pentagon. It changed our world. Like most […]

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I remember my first-grade teacher telling us there had been a plane crash in New York City. After school, I went to a friend’s house where we watched the footage of the planes hitting the towers along with the smoke rising from the Pentagon and the final resting […]