7. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) executed her cunning plan to attempt to remove Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) from his position, citing various “transgressions” that include working with Democrats on aid for Ukraine and on budgetary matters. Despite her efforts, Democrats and Republicans (and former President Donald Trump) rejected Greene’s motion, with an overwhelming majority voting to keep Johnson in his role.
6. The anti-religion “Freedom From Religion Foundation” has called on the Birmingham Police Department to stop having officers pray for a safe shift because it deems that vicious act as a an unconstitutional religious ceremony funded by the department. The sad group also claims the department regularly hosts religious activities during mandatory staff roll calls, including prayers, bible readings, and devotionals led by a local Baptist pastor and demands they stop all of this right now.
5. Alabama lawmakers have passed a bill that is seen by Democrats as “anti-union” and they are clearly right. This is a bill that is being pushed amidst unionization efforts, notably at a Mercedes Benz plant in Vance, to protect the state’s reputation as a place for foreign auto manufactures to locate. The bill reaffirms Alabama’s “right-to-work” status by ending economic incentives for companies that choose to recognize unions or fail to conduct secret ballot union elections.
4. Pro-Hamas protesters could get a one-way ticket to Gaza to serve a minimum six-month community service sentence if they keep up the violent campus chaos, if lawmakers get their way. Like the protestors demanding ceasefire and an end to the war in Gaza, the lawmakers offering up this penalty have not checked with Hamas about whether they want a bunch of obese, blue-haired, septum-pierced, non-binary theys/thems with giant nose rings and hideous tattoos in their ever-shrinking territory; so this seems like a less-than-serious measure.
3. Citing some property tax increases of 40%, Alabama lawmakers have now passed a bill capping property tax increases in the state at 7%. Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth reacted to the laws passage by saying, “Unexpected double-digit property tax increases are no longer a threat to home and business owners thanks to passage of our tax cap legislation.”
2. Infighting over gambling is dumb but as the 2024 legislative session in Alabama limps to the finish line, the gambling bill is still very dead and some Alabama State House members wanted to make the Alabama Farmers Federation pay for not supporting it by holding up a bill they had interest in. The Alabama Farm Center bill, which would provide tax and regulatory incentives (think Disney in Florida) for a project in Jefferson County to create a venue for rodeos, livestock shows, and agricultural events was held up over this fight by State Reps. Sam Jones (D-Mobile) and Andy Whitt (R-Harvest) but eventually it moved out of committee.
1. Hamas has to love seeing American President Joe Biden declaring publicly that if Israel continues trying to kill them by chasing them to where they are hiding, America will stop giving/selling them weaponry, with our money, to fight the war in Gaza. Even some Democrats, like U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) says that this move “makes a mockery of our credibility as an ally,” adding “I suspect it’s pandering to the far left,” and Democrats impeached then-President Donald Trump for allegedly mixing politics with national security.
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and from 10-11 a.m. on Talk 99.5 and News Radio 1440, with a rebroadcast Talk Radio 103.9 FM/730AM WUMP from 3-4 p.m.
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