Among the 15 Medal of Honor recipients who will participate in the Super Bowl’s opening coin toss ceremony will be Opelika resident and retired Army Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie Adkins, who showed extraordinary heroism in the Vietnam War. Adkins’ full Medal of Honor citation can be read here, and includes this stunning detail: […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: POLITICIANS DEFYING THEIR CHURCHES BECOMING COMMONPLACE TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to continue on the subject of the sanctity of life. KSTX radio out of San Antonio recently did interviews with two Democrats that are running for governor in the state […]

    UPDATE: President Trump announced the declassification of the memo in a Friday briefing, Politico reports. Watch the video here:   Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (AL-03) is not a bomb thrower. He quietly toils away in Washington D.C. and in his district while the more outspoken members of the Alabama delegation, Mo Brooks and […]

  Xinran Ji, 24, had big dreams. But demons demolished them. The bright hopes of young Xinran Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old “Dreamer” and his thug pals. Mexican illegal alien Jonathan DelCarmen, who first jumped the southern border at age […]

  Mack Butler, a small businessman and state legislator from Rainbow City, qualified to run in the Republican Primary for District 10 of the Alabama State Senate. “Our community has been blessed for the past seven years to have conservative leadership in the Alabama Senate,” Rep. Butler said, “Because I’ve been encouraged by so many […]

The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. #ReleaseTheMemo drama continues; lots of questions remain  — Democrats have argued it is an attack on the government, an exposure of collection tactics, and that it is untrue, while Republicans believe the probe is tainted by evidence linked to Clinton. — Rep. Mike Rogers (AL-03) […]

  Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. The Legislature on Thursday moved closer to passing a law subjecting unlicensed day care centers to more regulation, adding to the list of circumstances that can elevate murder to a capital offense and encourage the development of high-speed internet. A powerful […]

“All the News That’s Fit to Print” proclaims the masthead of The New York Times. “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” echoes The Washington Post. “The people have a right to know,” the professors at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hammered into us in 1962. “Trust the people,” we were admonished. Explain then this hysteria, this […]

  Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is among the most popular governors in the country, according to a Thursday poll that surveyed voters in all 50 states. The poll by Morning Consult, which included 253,393 registered voters nationwide from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, shows 64 percent of Alabama voters approve of the job Ivey is […]

    For some reason Democrats and the media are hell-bent on suppressing a memo written by Rep. Devin Nunes that may show malfeasance on the part of the FBI/DOJ regarding FISA courts. The arguments, of course, are that the information in this memo is so secretive that putting it out will destroy the FBI’s […]

    Like many of my fellow Alabamians, I was angered and disappointed this week when the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill banning abortions from being performed after 20 weeks, which President Trump has promised to sign if it arrives on his desk. For those who missed the votes of Alabama’s two U.S. […]

  The Boeing Co. in Huntsville, Alabama, just had its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) development and sustainment contract (DSC) modified to include another $6.56 billion for the program. The details: — The Department of Defense announced the contract modification on Wednesday. — “The scope of work under the current DSC includes development, fielding, test, systems […]

  In her “state of the district” address posted to Facebook earlier this week, Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) boasted of her party’s effort that led to the defeat of congressional GOP-led legislation to roll back parts of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Sewell declared she believed that health care should be […]

We now have the distinct honor of being numbered with only seven other countries in the world that have abortions beyond the 20-plus weeks of a pregnancy.

    Civil asset forfeiture involves the government taking assets allegedly used in or the proceeds of criminal activity. The practice has long angered libertarians and produced many injustices. A reform bill has been introduced in the state legislature this session. First a little history. Civil asset forfeiture in the U.S. dates to the early […]

Trump's list of accomplishments should seemingly answer a question with which conservatives have been struggling: Can a bad man make a good president?

    American Veterans (AMVETS) has produced a 30-second public service announcement elaborating on a print ad the NFL refused to run in its Super Bowl program because of the simple, two-word message – “#PleaseStand.” Both the new PSA and the originally rejected print ad can be viewed and downloaded on AMVETS’s multimedia page here. […]

  The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. The FBI is angry about the memo Rep. Devin Nunes wrote; media demands secrecy; could be released tomorrow — Rep. Adam Schiff says that House Republicans have changed the memo and therefore it should not be released because of that. — Rep. Nunes hammers […]

  Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. It’s an election year, and Alabama House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) said before the start of this year’s legislative session that he did not anticipate any tax hikes. But that hasn’t stopped one of the Legislature’s most powerful Republicans from proposing […]

  Congressional Democrats and other groups have been quick to blame President Trump for his actions in response to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe concerning potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives. In light of a report published last week by The New York Times claiming that President Trump had tried […]

    President Donald Trump spent a good portion of his State of the Union talking up the economy and economic development. In his list of positive developments he touted the recently-announced Toyota-Mazda deal in north Alabama, stating “Toyota and Mazda are opening a plant in Alabama and it’s a big one.” Democrats used this […]

    Media reports about a proposed bill in the Legislature called the Alabama Jobs Enhancement Act are creating a false picture about what this important piece of legislation will do and obscures why it’s needed to maintain Alabama’s momentum in economic development. First of all, HB317, as it’s known, will not open the flood gates and allow […]

(Opinion) On Monday, the Senate debated the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and then voted against it. Among the various arguments that Democrats offered against the legislation was that it would prevent women from electing to abort in cases of fetal abnormalities.Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) shared stories of some of her constituents who have made […]

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