Opinion — Page 143
7. 2020 is now — With 2018 in the books, all attention turns towards the 2020 presidential elections. Every decision made by our new divided government will be seen through that lens. — The 2020 Senate map looks better for Democrats, with the exception of Alabama’s Doug Jones, but both parties hold two seats in […]
They tried. They tried to tell you voter suppression is real five days before the election. They lied. They tried to tell you again on Election Day. They lied. They tried to tell you that Steve Marshall took illegal contributions. They lied. They told you Governor Kay Ivey was deathly ill. They lied.
7. Alabama Democrats are running a candidate that may not be able to hold office in Florence — Caroline Self, the Democratic Party nominee for Alabama State Senate District 1 in Lauderdale, Limestone and Madison Counties, claimed she moved back to Alabama in 2017 in order to “make the stories of Alabamians better.” — But […]
Misinformation is all the rage in every election, but rarely is a state’s leading media outlet as guilty as Alabama Media Group is for spreading it. The inaccurate reporting about voter suppression was just another black-eye for the beleaguered “journalists” at the state’s leading sports blog with a liberal bias. The reporting on that issue was so bad […]
7. Voting issues bubble up before the election — not just made up stories like in Alabama — Georgia’s secretary of state, and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, is alleging that Georgia’s Democratic Party had launched a “failed attempt to hack the state’s voter registration system.” A spokesperson says they are under investigation for “possible cybercrimes.” — Last […]
Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Is the issue of illegal immigration a strong one for the president of the United States to close with for the 2018 midterms? — Who is to blame for the tone of our political debate, President […]
7. Alabama Media Group’s fake news masquerading as an important news story is a nakedly political ploy — The report claimed “hurdles” were put in place by the state of Alabama to keep African-American students from being able to vote. It also repeated claims that hundreds were disenfranchised in 2016. — Alabama Secretary of State […]
If the media wants the president to stop calling them “fake news,” they should stop reporting news that is fake. This usually applies to a battle of tweets between the president and his allies versus the media that populates the elite-media bubble in Washington D.C. and New York City. Occasionally, but more often than it […]
7. Democrat campaigns have been busted attempting to mislead people in Missouri, Tennessee, Arizona and now Florida — An undercover video from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas exposed another Democrat campaign full of deception. Staffers for Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum let their guard down and told an undercover journalist the truth, saying, “Gillum is a […]
Flashback early 2017: The Resistance was underway. Women took the city streets with hats appearing to be cat ears or female anatomy. Outrage at town halls. People came from miles away to express their frustrations at people like Bradley Byrne. Would it last? Could it be sustained? Later that year, Doug Jones pulled off a […]
The cowardly caretaker junior senator from the great state of Alabama in an ill-fitting suit is at it again. Doug Jones is dishonestly taking credit for bringing a $1.6 billion dollar investment and thousands of jobs to North Alabama. He claimed last week at a Democratic campaign rally, “Clearly if you get down to the […]
7. In Alabama, predators can still give out candy on Halloween, but don’t worry -scary Halloween stories are overblown — In some areas of the country, law enforcement is working to stop sex offenders from interacting with kids on Halloween. Alabama is not one of those places because it’s not illegal for them to participate. — There […]
7. A good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun in a Birmingham McDonald’s — A father and his two sons walked into a Birmingham McDonald’s this weekend and right into a gunfight after a masked man busted in and opened fire. It is unknown whether this was a robbery or […]
Congressional candidate Lee Auman joined WVNN’s “The Dale Jackson Show” Monday to discuss his campaign for Congress against incumbent Congressman Robert Aderholt. Auman’s appearance further highlighted the problem Alabama Democrats have in the state. The liberal views of the national Democratic Party continue to hang like an anchor on their Alabama candidates. Some try to distance […]
7. Most prognosticators believe Democrats are poised to take the House — A political betting site has Republicans keeping control — Nate Silver’s prediction site gives Democrats an 84.8 percent chance of winning the House and a less than one percent chance of picking up any net seats. — The betting odds site MyBookie.com favor Republicans keeping control of the […]
In every election since Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) was first elected to Congress, he has won his general election by a minimum of 15 percentage points. In 2014, as an incumbent, he expanded that winning margin to a whopping 50 points. Given these massive spreads over various Democratic challengers, one would assume the people of […]
Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — What impact will the mail bombs have on the midterms, if any? — Will Walt Maddox, his campaign and their media allies find something that damages the governor? — Are there any surprises in Alabama’s […]
The press and the president of the United States have a terrible relationship. This relationship is made worse every day because the media realizes it helped create the Donald Trump presidency by treating it as a joke and believing he would be the easiest of all the Republicans for Hillary Clinton to beat in 2016. […]
7. Montgomery County Schools joins Baldwin County in wanting to keep kids from transferring out of failing schools — The AEA wants to help — Board members passed the resolution by a 5-1 margin, asking lawmakers to repeal the Alabama Accountability Act, which the Alabama Education Association says has cost the district $5.8 million since 2013 […]
When political violence, vandalism or chaos takes place two things usually happen: the left blames the right and the right blames the left. It doesn’t matter who the target is, the other side is responsible. When congressmen were targeted by a liberal socialist Bernie Sanders supporter, liberals blamed the right’s failure to implement gun control, […]
7. Two sentenced to prison in the scheme to stop the cleanup of an EPA Superfund site — Joel Gilbert, a former partner at Balch & Bingham, got five years in a federal prison for his conviction on six criminal charges. He also received two years of supervised release, 100 community service hours per year and was […]
People will often point to promises of Supreme Court justices as the reason Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, but that is convoluted and off-base. Trump’s winning issue was immigration. The media misplayed this in 2016 and they are misplaying now. How many times did we see videos of Trump riding down an escalator and then […]
7. The fight over transgender bathrooms and other petty silliness is back — The Trump administration is attempting to define sex as the gender with which one was born with and would not be changed by the desire of the individual to do so. — #WontBeErased was trending on Twitter as people declared their support for […]
Did you know today is the last day to register to vote in Alabama? No? Well, turn on your TV, radio, computer, cell phone or open a newspaper if you can find one and you will probably find some disingenuous hack proclaiming how important it is for you to register to vote. It’s not hard to register […]

