Almost 20 years after Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the gravediggers of America now ensconced in the White House, Pentagon, CIA and State Department handed the United States and its allies an avoidable and crushing national security and diplomatic defeat. As quickly as American and British forces drove Al-Qaeda and […]

Electric vehicle announcements came fast and furious in the last year as major automobile manufacturers announced plans to accelerate electrification. Mercedes-Benz and Volvo are planning to phase out gas-powered vehicles by 2030, and General Motors is preparing to go fully electric by 2035. Honda targets 2040 as the date to be all-electric while Toyota has […]

Over the past few weeks, I have written about my role on the Appropriations Committee, covering two of the three subcommittees I serve on in Washington. First, I discussed defense and how important it is that we build up our armed forces for the future. Later, I talked about agriculture and rural development, which hits […]

You ever stop to think about what a miracle America is? Recently, 13 of my fellow countrymen I’ve never met gave their lives protecting me and you. I mourned their loss and cursed our political leaders on the drive from work. I’m a former Marine who served in Iraq so more than once I blinked […]

Every year, Congress passes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets the budget for the Department of Defense (DOD), nuclear weapons program of the Department of Energy, DOD elements of the intelligence community and other defense activities in other departments. It also offers defense policy and restrictions as well as addressing administrative issues in […]

The United States has long been seen as the Land of Opportunity. While unfortunately some Americans were excluded from these opportunities, ambitious and hard-working people from across the world came here for freedom and helped build our prosperous economy. Has our opportunity society decayed? Much of this concern stems from allegations of greater income inequality. […]

When many of us were growing up, Labor Day was the traditional end of summer, and we started back to school the next day. Back in those days, political campaigns did not really begin until Labor Day. I recall President Reagan kicking off his 1980 campaign on Labor Day with the Statue of Liberty behind […]

Former President Donald Trump paid a visit to the Heart of Dixie last week. Obviously, this is Trump Country. Alabama was one of Trump’s best states in the 2020 election. He got an amazing 65% of the vote in our state. If the turnout for his August 21 rally in rural Cullman County is any […]

Earlier this month, H.R.4 was introduced by Representative Terri Sewell who represents Alabama’s 7th Congressional District. H.R.4 is the latest attempt by Washington Democrats to nationalize our federal electoral system. In reality, H.R.4 is a solution in search of a problem. H.R.4’s advocates refuse to acknowledge the substantial progress our nation has made since the […]

Tuesday, August 31 marks Overdose Awareness Day across the globe. This annual international campaign brings much needed attention to a topic that is critical for Alabama, touching every community in our state regardless of zip code. This is a crisis that is personal for so many Alabama families; the victims are moms and daughters, sons […]

If you need something done right, then do it yourself, as the old saying goes. But when it comes to enforcing U.S. immigration laws, state and local enforcement are prevented from doing it themselves, even while federal law enforcement officers are directed not to take certain enforcement actions — a policy established by the Biden […]

Since the United States entered Afghanistan in 2001, there have been more than 2,300 U.S. military deaths, as well as civilian deaths, in the fight against the Taliban, ISIS and multiple other terrorist organizations. Last week, we saw this number grow by another 13 when American service members assisting in the Kabul evacuation efforts were […]

This past week will go down as one of, if not the worst, blunders by an American president in history. The ongoing withdrawal by President Joe Biden from Afghanistan has drawn worldwide scorn as Americans and allies have been stranded in the country surrounded by the Taliban, a group the United States had fought for […]

Can we learn economics from a pencil? We can, as one of the great contributions of economic education illustrates. America would be better off if our experts understood the pencil’s lesson. Leonard Read, the founder and long-time president of the Foundation for Economic Education, offered the tale of a humble pencil in his 1958 classic, […]

Thursday was not only a deeply somber day in recent American history, it’s an infuriating one. Joe Biden has displayed gross incompetence and an inability to effectively lead our nation as commander-in-chief. He has shown that he can’t protect us overseas. He can’t protect us at our southern border. And he can’t protect us in […]

During my remarks at the recent “Save America” rally that President Donald Trump held in Cullman, I called for the impeachment of Joe Biden, and liberal activists accused me of engaging in the over-the-top hyperbole that is often associated with campaign rhetoric. Let me be clear. Joe Biden MUST be impeached as soon as possible. Setting […]

I will say it again: What we are watching in Afghanistan is the greatest dereliction of duty by an American leader of my lifetime. It is now beyond obvious that this White House is not up to the moment; they have no plan in place to facilitate the evacuation after Biden’s arbitrary August 31 deadline. […]

It should be no surprise to anyone that Washington, D.C., has a spending problem – our national debt has been out of control for years, and nobody in Washington seems to care a lick about getting it under control. When I ran for office, I frequently made the point that Washington has a spending problem, […]

Imagine your football team is in the first quarter of a game, a couple of star players are sidelined and the opponent’s offense seems unstoppable. The score is already 28 – 0 when your head coach takes a time out. He lets his assistants coach up the team while he meets with an architect to […]

Alabama currently ranks last in fully vaccinated population percentage, according to the Mayo Clinic. The reluctance of many to take the free, highly effective COVID vaccines has led to calls for mandatory vaccination. Economics can offer perspective on vaccine hesitancy. As an economist, I will not pretend to possess expert insight on vaccine hesitancy. That millions of […]

This long hot and wet summer is coming to a close, and Labor Day is on the horizon. Labor Day weekend will not only mark the beginning of college football season, but also the traditional start of the 2022 political season. Most of the horses are in the chute for the May 24, 2022, primary […]

President Biden and Democrats in Congress want to spend three and a half trillion of your taxpayer dollars on a progressive wish list that would make President Obama blush. You read that right: $3,500,000,000,000. That’s a lot of zeroes on a price tag the American people can’t afford and on things they don’t want. To […]

I’m sure like me, you’ve seen the horrific photos, videos and reports from Afghanistan. The helicopter on the roof of our retreating embassy. Those desperately seeking refuge clinging onto a plane for dear life… and then falling from the sky. These tragic images are a direct result of the Biden administration’s lack of a plan […]

The COVID-19 pandemic arrived at the worst time for rural Alabamians. In the weeks leading up to our state’s first case of the unfamiliar and new virus, there were frequent warning signs that large numbers of hospitals in rural parts of the state were at risk of closing. Then, the epidemic brought those problems firmly […]