If Doug Jones is going to be a moderate, he will have to work with Republicans. An immediate insult to Shelby and Senate traditions won't endear him to his colleagues.

    The Alabama Bicentennial Foundation has extended its application deadline for teachers of grades 3 through 5 who want to be a part of its Bicentennial Summer Institutes. Until January 10, teachers can apply to one of 12 different Institutes being held all over the state this summer, from Huntsville to Mobile. About the […]

  President Trump is up 3 percent! I refer to the betting odds. Gamblers (mostly in Europe because political bets are legal there) now give the president a 53 percent chance of finishing his first term. That’s it — they barely think he’ll complete four years. This must seem wrong to Trump supporters, but when […]

We need to spend time with people carefully who are going through gender dysphoria, but what we also are dealing with here is society descending into insanity and imbecility.

    For well over a hundred years, southwest Alabamians have grappled with getting from Mobile across the Mobile Bay to Baldwin County and back, and that is a problem that predates the founding of the state. If you have made that journey recently, you would know there are a number of ways to cross […]

  By Lauren Naumcheff (Sponsored) Owning a business in a fluctuating economy is a daunting endeavor. Business owners not only face the pressure of generating enough profits to remain viable, but also fear the consequences of an employee becoming injured on the job. As health care costs continue to rise, providing adequate insurance coverage for […]

  As a society, many parents are failing. Not only are they failing themselves, they are also failing their children. This “failing” has a lot to do with the techniques they use in raising and teaching their children. Children must be taught to love while abiding the law and others. It seems as though more […]

  The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. Trump taunts North Korea, North Korea talks to South Korea hours later — After North Korea’s leader referenced a “nuclear button” on his desk, Trump responded by telling him that his nuclear button is bigger and it actually works. — Hours later North Korea […]

  Don’t expect the Legislature to tackle big, long-simmering problems in the legislative session that begins this month. As is typical during years when members of the state House of Representative and Senate are up for re-election, each lawmaker will have an eye on the looming fall campaign. That means the session that begins Tuesday […]

  Sexual misconduct has been exposed at a breath-taking rate in America over the last few months and no industry is immune. Entertainment, tech and media companies are being rocked by allegations and admissions, some going back decades. Alabama’s media is no longer immune to this movement, in fact, The Anniston Star’s current publisher H. […]

The Yellowhammer state can be proud of Hernandez Stroud, a Huntsville-native and graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham who made Forbes’ 2018 30 Under 30: Law and Policy list. About Stroud: — He earned a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science, graduating in 2010. — “Until I graduated from college, no […]

Trump made ten basic campaign promises and he has either accomplished them or initiated their accomplishment.

All of this wanton viewing of live-action pornography has produced, many are arguing, an army of young men who are incapable of normal and satisfying sexual activity with real human beings.

There are seven unelected people who have life-and-death control over our economy and hence our lives.

  The five richest counties in the United States when measured by median household income are all suburbs of Washington, D.C., according to the American Community Survey data released by the Census Bureau last month. According to the American Community Survey’s new five-year estimates (2012-2016), the five richest counties in the country are: Loudoun County, […]

  The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. Alabama newspaper editor spanked female employees for decades, other journalists stayed silent — Former Anniston Star Publisher H. Brandt Ayers spanked some of his women employees over the years. — This was apparently known by multiple journalists, including former Huntsville Times’ reporter Bob Lowry and […]

    Former President Barack Obama’s Press Secretary Josh Earnest expects more “Roy Moores” to be on the ballot for Republicans in 2018, and referred to other potential GOP candidates as “crazy,” on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday. “Morning Joe” Co-host Willie Geist asked if GOP Senate candidate Moore’s special election loss in Alabama was a […]

    California’s law legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes has made liberals and libertarians very happy. But the move does not come without some potential negative outcomes for some unborn children. Turns out, according to a report published on JAMAnetwork.com, as marijuana laws have become relaxed, pregnant mothers are starting to partake at a higher […]

  (Opinion) Like him or not, I think we all can agree that President Donald Trump, for whatever reason, continuously grasped the attention of many different media outlets in 2017. Each morning, Trump would set the tone for daily news coverage by tweeting. CNN, Fox News, CBS, MSNBC, etc. would foam at the mouth in […]

Media fail, sometimes simply because its people make mistakes, but more often because so many have biases.They also get a lot of things right.

            Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, one thing’s for sure:We never run out of material on Today in Perspective as we try to give a commentary on the news through the lens of Scripture. Today, I’d like to look ahead to 2018 but, […]

  In this week’s episode of Executive Lion’s “Living Life on Purpose”: — Matt Wilson and Andrew Wells interview Jay Johnson, the CEO of College Prep U, an educational company that empowers high school students and prepares them in all aspects of life prior to college placement. Jay is a successful entrepreneur, a husband, father, and […]

Whatever one may think of Trump, he is a leader and a fighter, not a quitter. How many politicians could have sustained the beatings Trump has taken, and remained as cocky and confident?

I’ve read that it would be “empowering” not to have to do the texting equivalent of emotional labor, but still I love — nay, I NEED —those little perfectly nuanced pictures of smiling, happy, sometimes crying, round yellow things.