Opinion — Page 81
Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and 256Today CEO Mecca Musick take you through Alabama’s biggest political stories, including: — Will the proposed television debate actually take place in the Alabama U.S. Senate race? — Did Governor Kay Ivey actually do anything on gambling this legislative session before declaring a failure to get new gambling […]
America is getting ready to see yet another massive wave of illegal immigration, not that we have ever seen it stop since President Donald Trump left office. The Biden White House is poised to roll out the welcome mat by ending rules that allowed illegal immigrants to be turned away. These developments at the border […]
7. Today is not the tax deadline The tax filing deadline is normally April 15 of each year, pandemic years excluded, but this year, the deadline has been pushed back until April 18 because of “Emancipation Day” in Washington, D.C., which has closed the offices of the Internal Revenue Service. On April 18 you can […]
Twitter may not be a public square, but the debate over the spirit of the First Amendment is alive and well — both on the platform and off. Billionaire Elon Musk is making a play to change the conversation on the platform by becoming the company’s largest shareholder. The employees of Twitter and the mainstream […]
7. Shooter in New York City subway attack was a career criminal racist The attacker in the New York City subway shooting that left 19 injured, Frank R. James, has been charged with a federal terrorism charge. The attack seems to fit the textbook definition of terrorism as James has a lengthy public record of […]
The way the media control language in the United States is pretty amazing. Sometimes they do it subtly, and sometimes they use brute force. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes decided to use brute force when he decided to accuse anyone who thinks allowing minors to transition between genders is a bad idea of child abuse. He also […]
7. Alabama principal on leave for threatening student The principal at Hazelwood Elementary School, Datie Priest, has been placed on administrative leave after it was alleged that she threatened and abused an autistic 3rd-grade student. There have also been complaints of Priest arriving up to an hour late almost daily and leaving before buses have completed […]
It seems obvious that many in the education profession are just playing dumb when it comes to understanding new legislation that tells them to stop talking about sexual-related topics with children in school between kindergarten and 5th grade. Astonishingly, State Superintendent Eric Mackey expressed his confusion publicly while both suggesting the situation never occurs and […]
7. NRA has endorsed Kay Ivey while Biden bans so-called ghost guns Governor Kay Ivey on Monday received the hefty endorsement of the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) in her reelection campaign. Ivey was called the “strongest candidate” in the race by chairman Jason Ouimet. In the announcement, Ouimet said, “Kay Ivey has […]
7. Blanchard: Ivey isn’t doing the right conservative things Gubernatorial candidate Lindy Blanchard released a new video from her campaign where she makes claims against Governor Kay Ivey being a “Fauci loving, never Trump liberal.” Ivey has maintained being the frontrunner in the race, while Blanchard is at a distant third. Blanchard says in the […]
Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and 256Today CEO Mecca Musick take you through Alabama’s biggest political stories, including: — Which race is more interesting right now, the U.S. Senate race or the gubernatorial race? — Didn’t LGBTQ activists nationwide bring this legislation they are calling “Don’t Say Gay” upon themselves by lying about what […]
The Alabama Legislature is the latest legislative body to take up for parents worried about the level of perverse indoctrination taking place in their children’s schools. To think, none of this would be happening if the media and their Democrats were not openly lying about Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill and giving ideas to […]
As the walls start to close in on Hunter Biden, the American media seem prepared to throw him under the bus to protect President Joe Biden. Now that they are ready to sacrifice Hunter, after sacrificing their credibility, the American media need to convince Americans that they never sought to suppress the story about his […]
7. More Second Amendment protections for Alabama passed The Alabama Legislature approved a bill meant to prevent any federal executive orders that would limit citizens’ Second Amendment rights from being enforced on the local level. The Alabama Second Amendment Protection Act was introduced by State Senator Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa). While there was Democratic criticism about […]
Last weekend, gubernatorial candidate Lindy Blanchard put out a campaign video calling Governor Kay Ivey a “Fauci loving, never Trump liberal.” This comes after the latest poll by Emerson College and The Hill in coordination with Nexstar’s WHNT News 19 showed Ivey leading the race with 48% support from likely Republican voters, followed by Tim […]
Only in a country where being offended is a virtue could an anti-religious organization in Wisconsin succeed in forcing a local school board to tell its constituents they can’t pray for the safety of their students. The debate isn’t over what is right and wrong. Instead, it is about our willingness to stand up against […]
7. Texas looking to ship illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C. While the pandemic is not over for student loan borrowers, it will soon be declared over at the U.S./Mexico border, and a flood of illegal immigrants is expected to flow into border states like Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that if illegal aliens are […]
The left has been attacking conservative Supreme Court nominees for decades, and now they seem confused as to why these hearings are so contentious and partisan. Even if you accept that these hearings are getting rough and political, remember that Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearings had nothing on the hearings of Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett […]
7. Student loan payments won’t restart until at least September Student loan payments were put on hold by the federal government during the pandemic and had been set to restart on May 1, but President Joe Biden’s administration is planning to extend the delay in payments until at least August 31, 2022. This delay impacts […]
Parents and politicians across the country have been galvanized by radicals pretending that laws limiting the sexual content teachers can talk about in the classroom are harming children. Alabama gubernatorial candidate Tim James is seizing on this by focusing on the state’s LGBTQ charter school and their drag queen show, highlighting the exact issues parents […]
7. There’s yet another variant There is another coronavirus variant that has emerged as a combination of variants BA.1 and BA.2, labeled the XE variant. The BA.2 variant is the current dominant strain in the United States, and it mimics symptoms of common seasonal allergies. So far, the World Health Organization has reported that the […]
This week was a big one for the media and their Democrats who love focusing on transgender issues. Passports, airports and minors who want to transition all got some time in the national spotlight while making up less than 1% of the population. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin took a silly step to make city-owned single-stall […]
7. Teachers now quitting over Florida’s new anti-indoctrination bill (not really) NBC News is reporting that teachers are now leaving the profession in Florida after Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed a controversial bill forbidding teachers from teaching gender and sexual orientation to young children. The reporting is questionable at best, highlights complaints of teachers about […]
Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and 256Today CEO Mecca Musick take you through Alabama’s biggest political stories, including: — Does new polling reflect where the GOP primary for U.S. Senate in Alabama is going? — Teacher pay raises appear to be a slam dunk. How will this impact retirement costs moving forward? — Can […]

