Millions of Americans engage in do it yourself (DIY) home improvements. Each summer I choose a project, and about half of the time I actually do it. This year’s project is painting our house’s exterior windows and trim. And yet DIY produces professional angst for me as an economist, because core economic principles imply that […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript:         ALAN DERSHOWITZ OSTRACIZED FOR NOT CONDEMNING TRUMP TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you to an article out of Fox News. We referenced this in a program we did a few days ago. Harvard law professor emeritus, Alan Dershowitz, recently came out in an […]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old New York Democrat, seems to have taken the reigns of the Democrat party. This could get pretty ugly unless we do something about it now. For those of you who do not already know, Ocasio-Cortez unseated Democratic Caucus Chair Joseph Crowley in the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th congressional district. […]

2018 has already been an amazingly embarrassing election cycle for desperate politicians in Alabama. We have already seen Troy King, who was/is a wholly owned subsidiary of gambling interests, accuse AG Steve Marshall of being a recipient of gambling dollars for accepting money from the Republican Attorney General Association, when King was a member of […]

It’s bumper-to-bumper on I-565 headed into Huntsville. Somewhere in downtown Birmingham, a truck driver is cussing how no one will let him merge as I-65 narrows with construction underway at the I-20/59 malfunction junction. A driver of an SUV speeding east on I-10 headed to Gulf Shores with his family has to slam on the […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: PUBLIC SCHOOLS DENY PARENTS RIGHTS TO APPROVE — OR EVEN VIEW –SEX EDUCATION MATERIALS TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I’d like to take you to two separate stories, one out of World Magazine and the other out of The Daily Wire but both, however, have the same theme. […]

1. President Trump continues to bang on NATO as he arrives for a summit — As Trump arrives in Brussels for his latest meeting with our allies, he launched an old-school attack about how they don’t pay their agreed upon GDP percentage for national security. He also hit Germany for making deals with Russia while portraying […]

Every person – and more so, if we’re absorbing campaign advertising, every politician – has transgressed. As we all know, some transgressions are easy to atone for and others are not so easy. Political transgressions are, by all accounts, among the most difficult to atone for, but we will see about that in next Tuesday’s […]

During the 2017 special election, the Alabama media was hell-bent on telling Alabama voters that Sen. Doug Jones was a moderate. You could justify not voting for Roy Moore because Jones wasn’t for “full term abortion” (because the phrase doesn’t exist or something). It was a sham and we all knew it, including his enablers in the […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript:                         UNION MANDATE STRUCK DOWN BY SUPREME COURT TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, one of the final decisions of the latest term of the Supreme Court came out about a week ago. It ruled that government workers cannot be compelled to contribute to labor unions. The 5-4 decision […]

Negative advertising. You know it, you hate it, but it works. For many years in this country, negative advertisements have been splashed across the pages of newspapers, the screens of televisions and radio airwaves. These types of advertisements have become indispensable in the political realm and often lead a candidate to success. As a millennial, […]

Political commentator Jim Hightower wrote a book about politically wishy-washy folks entitled “There’s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos“. If you were writing that book in 2018, you might add Alabama Senator Doug Jones to that title, although it would be a bit wordy. Jones still can’t put […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: PEDOPHILE ADOPTION RULES FOR SEX OFFENDERS TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, today, I’d like to take you to an article out of the U.K. Telegraph. An individual who’s in academia in England at the London School of Economics, one Helen Reece, had a personal encounter with Theresa May […]

PBS published a poignant report last Saturday about poverty in Lowndes County, Alabama, following a recent visit and ensuing report on the same by a Professor Philip Alston of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Alston came to examine poverty in America, and his visit prodded mixed responses. Among the most notable was U.N. Ambassador […]

A lot of us have done dumb things while we were in college — rarely do they end up in political attack ads. In the race for Lieutenant Governor, Twinkle Cavanaugh has dug up a series of attacks that are utterly laughable if you have all the information. The attacks are creative, but appear incredibly […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: WHY IS TRUMP CHOOSING SO MANY MARINES FOR LEADERSHIP POSITIONS? TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, today, I’d like to talk about leadership. I’d like to take you to a blog written by Chris Bollinger. Chris is a military air defense professional, retired Marine and he’s also a screenplay […]

Federal judge William Alsup recently dismissed a lawsuit by Oakland and San Francisco against oil companies for costs related to global warming. The decision is wise, regardless of whether global warming threatens humanity’s future. The lawsuit sought billions for the cities’ future costs from the use of fossil fuels, specifically infrastructure to protect against rising […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: JEFF SESSIONS CITES ROMANS, CALLING BELIEVERS TO OBEY GOVERNMENT — DOES HE HAVE A POINT? TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, recently, Jeff Sessions was asked to come and address the Southern Baptist Convention. When he did, he quoted the apostle Paul, Roman 13:1-7, which overall instructs Christians to […]

If there are three things that Alabamians take pride in most, it is their faith, their family, and their food. Not all food, however, is prepared at home. In a shocking study from DataFiniti, it was revealed that Alabama is the state with the most fast food restaurants per capita. Alabama came in first place […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: APPRECIATING OUR INDEPENDENCE AND ITS AUTHORS TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, today is Independence Day, Fourth of July. It is our nation’s 242nd birthday. Harry, the providence of God established this great nation and, obviously, the providence of God will take us forward. Give us your thoughts on […]

When most of us think about the Fourth of July, we think about pool parties, cooking out, fireworks, and spending time with friends and family. Others think about our love for America. Some of us even wait all year for an occasion to wear a t-shirt that has the Declaration of Independence printed on it. […]

With a population totaling a little more than 13,000, Clay County has been ranked the “nicest” place in Alabama, according to a recent finding from Reader’s Digest. Unlike the usual cliché lists you see about the best food in America or best places to live in America, this one is going off of the complete […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: NEWS OF JUSTICE KENNEDY’S RETIREMENT: WHAT IT MEANS TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, last week, big news broke on the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Anthony Kennedy announced that he’d be retiring July 31st, 2018. Harry, as many people will review the career of Justice Kennedy on the Supreme […]

Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) recently told the Associated Press that Alabama’s gubernatorial race is “probably the most competitive race that we’ve seen in a couple of decades.” What informs his judgment, Jones leaves unclear. Perhaps it is self-confidence, born out of his own victory last December. It doesn’t come from Ivey vs. Maddox polling […]