Remember when Trump wanted to kill drug dealers and people applauded? (I did). Now he is letting them out of prison. Depending on who you listen to, President Donald Trump’s commutation is either a powerful statement about prison reform, an outreach to black voters, or a signal to his collusion co-conspirators that he will get them […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: LAW PROPOSED FOR NEW BIRTH CERTIFICATES WITH “X” AS GENDER  TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I want to take you to a couple of news stories, one out of Fox News and the other out of World Magazine. The Fox News story reports that a New York City […]

This week, the Supreme Court ruled on the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. That case involved a religious Christian man, Jack Phillips, who decorates cakes for a living. Two men came into his shop one day and demanded that Phillips decorate a cake for their same-sex wedding. Phillips refused. For this grave breach of civic duty, the […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: A VISIT TO THE HOLY LAND AFTER THE U.S. EMBASSY DECISION TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I’d like to review with you something that you’ve been involved with personally — you do this every other year — that is your latest trip to Israel. You’ve been over there […]

You almost start to feel bad for Alabama Democrats — the election of Sen. Doug Jones in 2017 has fried their brains. They truly seem to believe that Alabama is a purple state. They believe that Gov. Kay Ivey’s re-election is in doubt because Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox is a candidate who can lead them […]

“Are you on the take?” When I tried to get Edgewater, New Jersey, politicians to answer that question, the mayor wouldn’t discuss it, ultimately telling me, “You may sit down.” The town of Edgewater is right across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Anyone fortunate enough to live there gets a spectacular view of New York […]

Conventional wisdom in the era of Trump is just out the window. Trump has the ability to take the media’s chosen narrative and destroy it with the world’s most powerful Twitter account. We can pretend that this whole story is “Trump vs. the NFL”, but it’s not. Americans view this as “Trump/Americans/the military/the flag/the anthem/apple […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I would like to take you to a new Barna study that was just released. As the average pastor grows older in America, churches say they are struggling to find young Christians who want to become future pastors.  Today, half of American pastors […]

The US Supreme Court yesterday ruled 7-2 in favor of a Denver small business owner who has been threatened, sanctioned, and ultimately driven out of business by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The controversy arose when the cake shop owner, Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop, refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding, claiming […]

Having enjoyed my 82nd birthday, I am part of a group of about 50 million Americans who are 65 years of age or older. Those who are 90 or older were in school during the 1930s. My age cohort was in school during the 1940s. Baby boomers approaching their 70s were in school during the […]

You probably have heard about the latest attack ad that is getting heavy play across the state of Alabama. The ad hits Attorney General Steve Marshall for having a cousin who works for the Poarch Creek Indians, and it makes the accusation that Marshall himself might be an Indian. Is the attack here that Marshall […]

For Roseanne Barr, star of ABC’s hit show “Roseanne,” there would be no appeal. When her tweet hit, she was gone. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement, is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” declaimed Channing Dungey, the black president of ABC Entertainment. Targeting Valerie Jarrett, a confidante and […]

Roseanne Barr posted what many are convinced was a racist tweet, and ABC summarily canceled her sitcom. As Roseanne is considered a Donald Trump supporter and Trump is widely accused of racism, people are loosely smearing Trump as responsible for her, however indirectly. Maybe I’m defensive about loose charges of racism, but if so, I’ve […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: EXAMINING CHRISTIAN LIBERTY TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you to an article written recently by Sinclair Ferguson entitled “Four Principles for the Exercise of Christian Liberty.” — Christian liberty must never be flaunted. — Christian liberty does not mean that you welcome fellow Christians […]

After being sworn in for a fourth term, Vladimir Putin departed the Kremlin for Annunciation Cathedral to receive the televised blessing of Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. The patriarch and his priests in sacred vestments surrounded Putin, who, standing alone, made the sign of the cross. Meanwhile, sacred vestments from the Sistine Chapel […]

“Who am I?” We are all, at some point, faced with this question. Some, more than others, have a considerably difficult time determining an answer (see Hugh Jackman’s character struggle with this question in Les Misérables). Although typically reserved for personal wrestling, this is a question Alabamians should be asking regularly, albeit in a different […]

Enough! I have had it with politicians pussyfooting around the fact that schools need greater safety measures. This isn’t rocket science. Believe me, it isn’t. While I vehemently oppose gun control or legislation that limits a citizen to exercise their second amendment right, I am certainly in favor of increasing safety measures in American schools.

When you read the budget message President Donald Trump sent Congress earlier this year, you soon come across a concession that Washington insiders have been making for years — just before they vote for bills they know will massively increase the federal debt. “The current fiscal path is unsustainable,” Trump said, “and future generations deserve […]

Plato’s greatest contribution to western civilization was not his ruminations on the soul, nor his analogy of the cave, but his idea of the philosopher king. Don’t tune out yet. The concept basically argues that the best ruler is a philosopher, or “lover of wisdom,” in the original Greek. It’s to say that society benefits […]

Yesterday, days before a primary election,  Governor Kay Ivey announced that she is launching the Alabama Sentry Program. Most of the political media in Alabama took the easy out on this story implying Ivey was arming people at school. The thought is that this is insane and Kay Ivey will lose votes for this crazy […]

Have you ever heard of Cara McClure? Odds are that after this Tuesday’s election you will become very familiar with her name. While most of the attention about the election of Public Service Commission (PSC) Place 1 has been focused on the lewd comments and actions of candidate Jim Bonner, the real winner in all […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: SURPRISING POLL RESULTS TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you to two polls. One, a rather scientific poll out of Gallup, which says 55 percent of Americans still believe religion can answer today’s problems. According to the recent Gallup poll, 55 percent of Americans agree […]

On Friday, the British police arrested Tommy Robinson, founder and former leader of the English Defence League, a far-right anti-Islam group. Robinson is a controversial character, to be sure, a sort of Milo Yiannopoulos lite. His chief focus is on the threat of radical Islam, which he believes threatens the integrity of the British system. […]

On June 5, Alabama voters will go to the polls to elect an attorney general — a race that by all accounts is very tight — that includes current Alabama AG Steve Marshall, a former Alabama AG Troy King, former federal prosecutor Alice Martin and former criminal court judge Chess Bedsole. Two of these men […]