7. After more than a week of controversy, boycotts, a media love affair with biological male Dylan Mulvaney, and a $5 billion loss in value lost on paper, Bud Light is reportedly pausing all of its influencer sponsorships in order to figure out why this happened and why “no one at the senior level” was aware this was going on.

6. The Biden administration’s desire to drive the percentage of electric cars on the road by punishing car manufacturers with emissions standards and consumers with high prices for gas-powered vehicles faces a lot of hurdles. The goals are generally unreachable, as consumers are not interested in this yet and the required raw materials are unavailable. This will surely be overturned by a sane administration.

5. A financial literacy act is a good piece of legislation and its driving force was the Alabama College Republicans. Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth is on board, too.

4. A Huntsville police officer who shot a suicidal man in the face seconds after arriving on the scene of a call for assistance is now free on bond after his conviction was overturned.

3. The four pieces of the state’s economic “Game Plan” are moving closer to completion in the Legislature after passing the House. Two of the bills cover extensions and modifications of existing economic incentives, another bill puts Alabama in the business of site development to prepare land for developers, and the last bill offers more transparency.

2. One of the more insidious lies about the bill banning the teaching of divisive concepts is that there will be a ban on teaching history. This, of course, is not true. Embarrassingly, State Rep. Prince Chestnut (D-Selma) accurately believes that slavery was “divisive” so it could not be taught – that is simplistic and false.

1. Ukraine IS NOT winning the war with Russia and we are, in fact, in the middle of this war, it will not be over in 2023, and Russia’s leadership is fighting while its elite forces are being depleted, according to documents that have been released by a leaker, Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who has now been arrested. Whether he is a hero or a villain is being debated from the bowels of Internet to the halls of Congress.

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Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and on Talk 99.5 from 10 a.m. to noon.