Opinion — Page 156

Where do you turn when your church strays from your faith?

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHURCH STRAYS FROM YOUR FAITH? TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I’d like to do a lightning round with you today. I’ve got three different stories. The first story is out of The National Catholic Reporter. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, Maine is […]

Trump's historic gamble

President Donald Trump appears to belong to what might be called the Benjamin Disraeli school of diplomacy. The British prime minister once counseled, “Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.” At his Singapore summit, Trump smartly saluted a North Korean general and then lavished praise […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: MEDICAL SCHOOL NOW TEACHING HOW TO COUNSEL CHRISTIAN WOMEN THAT ABORTION IS OKAY TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you to an article out of The College Fix. The University of California-San Francisco has come out with a training book for medical students which teaches […]

It goes without saying that Democrats would view President Trump’s North Korean negotiations quite differently than Republicans, but I was honestly surprised by the strong negative reaction of Trump critics on the right. Don’t get me wrong; some Trump critics on the right reflexively oppose everything he does or says, but my gut reaction when […]

Remembering RFK

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: WHAT DO WE SAY ABOUT RFK AND THE ‘60s FIFTY YEARS LATER? TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, Tuesday, we were talking about pop culture. We mentioned that it was 50 years ago that the Broadway musical, “Hair,” hit the stage. It was known not only for its music, […]

Behind Trump's exasperation

At the G-7 summit in Canada, President Donald Trump described America as “the piggy bank that everybody is robbing.” After he left Quebec, his director of Trade and Industrial Policy, Peter Navarro, added a few parting words for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in […]

The amount of personal and political separation between President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has increased since yesterday, though no more directed swipes have been taken. Both responded to the much-anticipated Department of Justice’s Inspector General report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation with criticism of the bureau, but their […]

All of Governor Kay Ivey’s Republican primary opponents wanted the governor to participate in a debate, but it did not matter. Now, two weeks into the general election, Democrat candidate Walt Maddox has had two separate news cycles where he asked for a debate. It is not happening. Ivey can be as coy about this […]

I love the game of Monopoly. The hope that I will land on expensive properties first, the poker-esque bluffing, and the art of deal-making with unsuspecting friends makes for a great game night. Even though I love Monopoly, I don’t always enjoy it. When I’ve missed out on important properties and am mortgaging the few […]

Liberal America's war on academic excellence

“I also have a dream.” This rallying cry, handwritten on a simple white placard held up by an Asian-American mom at a protest this week against liberal New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to radically transform New York City’s public schools, says it all. A new civil rights struggle in education has exploded […]

Kilauea on the island of Hawaii began erupting on May 3, and has to date destroyed about 600 homes. The terrifying pictures led me to wonder why anyone would build a home on one of the world’s most active volcanoes. Hawaii’s regulation of property insurance provides part of the explanation, and Kilauea’s eruption offers a […]

Rep. Martha Roby has found herself in muddy water as she seeks to serve the people of Alabama through another term in Congress. Last week, Rep. Roby was forced into a runoff after failing to garner more than 50 percent of the votes from her district. She now faces Bobby Bright, a former Democrat, in […]

Trump's triumph or Kim's coup?

This week, President Trump went to Singapore to meet with the most repressive dictator on the planet, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jung Un. Kim presides over a slave state of 25 million people, with gulags stacked with hundreds of thousands of political dissidents. He has diligently pursued nuclear weapons and long-range missile tests. He […]

The ever-progressive Seattle City Council yesterday repealed a head tax that it unanimously passed just a month ago tomorrow. The tax would have cost Seattle’s largest corporations $275 per full-time employee, revenue which would be utilized to combat the city’s homelessness issues. I was in Seattle when the council voted on May 14 to approve […]

We get it: It is STILL Trump's party

The media loves to tell Republicans that President Donald Trump is the leader of their party. Everyone already knows this and 90 percent of Republicans agree with most of what Trump is doing. The argument, apparently, is that everyone hates Trump and Republicans will have to begrudgingly wear the Trump anchor around their neck. It […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: POP CULTURE EXPRESSION OF ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY   TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you to an article out of The Jewish Voice. The Museum of Pop Culture is looking to expand, adding a second location in New York City. The Museum of Pop Culture opened […]

“Shame on you! Shame on you!” chanted protestors after psychology professor Jordan Peterson said he’d refuse to obey a law that would require everyone to call people by the pronoun they prefer — pronouns like “ze” instead of “he” or “she.” It wasn’t just radical college kids protesting. Hundreds of Peterson’s academic colleagues signed a […]

Last night, South Carolina State Rep. Katie Arrington pulled off what a lot of candidates in Alabama have attempted but haven’t entirely pulled off: She ran a race for and about President Donald Trump against an incumbent Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), who apparently wasn’t sufficiently onboard with the so-called “Make America Great Again” agenda. Then […]

My favorite research of the past ten years – mainly because it, at least to some degree, defends my verbal reaction to spilling hot coffee – is the finding that using foul language has health benefits. “The words themselves don’t help us to better tolerate pain – but the emotional and physical reaction that we […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you back about 20 years ago to a story involving Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year-old intern at the White House, and President Bill Clinton. We know that story, but it recently came up again in an interview by NBC reporter, […]

In conversations with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians and race hustlers, it’s not long before the magical words “diversity” and “inclusiveness” drop from their lips. Racial minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women are included, as well. This obsession with diversity and inclusion is in the process of leading […]

1. The unlikely meeting of President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un finally happens — After the meet and great and photos, Trump tells Kim Jong Un, “We will solve it”— an agreement to denuclearize is in its infancy. — As the people who screamed about Trump’s bellicose “fire and fury” comments now […]

In a little more than three years, a single man has altered the dynamics of Republican politics drastically enough to change the scale by which candidates and voters determine the viability of their potential GOP representatives. Republicans’ fidelity to conservatism is no longer framed in terms of how conservatively they vote, but by how little […]

Alabama already has “bingo”, horse racing, greyhound racing, and according to The New York Times, we are ready for more gambling any second now. Maybe it will be a lottery — both candidates for governor support a vote on that. Maybe it will be sports gaming, because there will probably be some folks yelling “Roll […]