Pastor Reeder picks the top 11 headlines of 2017 and discusses how the news happenings affected our country and culture.

    There are talkers and doers, sowers of dissatisfaction seeds and agents of lasting change. Much of my column work over the year is dedicated to exposing the worst crapweasels in politics, pop culture, media and the policy arena. But to ring out 2017, I’m raising a toast to some of my favorite bulldogs […]

You don't have to admire this president, or even like him, to acknowledge the obvious: that more than a few journalists won't rest until he's out of office.

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, John Stonestreet recently addressed the fact that America is shrinking. He said, “I don’t mean we’re getting shorter.” What he was referring to is the latest official estimates taken from two years of data that puts the U.S. […]

    We frequently wish for a happy and prosperous New Year. As an economist, I know more about prosperity than happiness. Because economic freedom is closely related to prosperity, 2017 closed with some good news for Alabama. The Economic Freedom of North America report, published by Canada’s Fraser Institute, measures the freedom of markets […]

The United Nations is an outmoded organization that's outlived whatever small usefulness it once had. There's no reason for us to continue funding it.

Reckon is just another lefty journalistic endeavor, but this one has the backing of three of Alabama’s major newspapers with combined centuries of serving as the state’s papers of record.

It’s now been a week since the election of Doug Jones prompted Al.com’s editorial board to breathlessly declare that the “voice of justice” had spoken for a “burning movement” of “black voters, LGBT activists, women and young voters” who represent the future of our state. Their words crackled with confidence and jubilation because, in their […]

It’s time to come together, y’all. Conservatives have been at each other’s throats in recent years, and nowhere is that more evident than in Alabama, and nowhere have the results of that infighting been more damaging than in Alabama. Consider the last few years alone. After taking control of the State Legislature in 2010 for […]

Even in an age when security cameras catch us and DNA samples condemn us, the Weinstein – Franken – Conyers – Lauer – (etc. and so on) roll out of #pervnado allegations, denials, half-truths and firings should remind us we’re a society still dependent upon an old-fashioned concept: our word.  We depend upon accusers to tell […]

I’m an Auburn fan. My husband and kids are Alabama fans. I’ve taken my share of defeats during our 13-year marriage and I’ve witnessed some glorious wins like Saturday’s. But I’d rather lose to Alabama than put up with a type of tomfoolery that runs rampant in our state and that I refuse to put […]

I promised on this site last week to be patient, thoughtful and deliberate before reaching any conclusions about the allegations against Roy Moore. I kept that promise, and hit the mainstream media again and again for what I believe is a political hit job on our election process. But I also came to an uncomfortable […]

Among the roughly 75,000 Americans who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in the largest amphibious invasion in history was a 33-year-old Selma, Alabama, native named Ralph Jordan. Before the war, “Shug,” as he was known, was already beloved at Auburn University for starring in three sports and then becoming the school’s head basketball […]