7. An intellectual titan weighs in on 2022 midterms

• Alabama’s self-proclaimed, and not at all absurdly so, “premier political journalist and commentator” Steve Flowers predicts from high, on Sand Mountain’s highest peaks that Republicans will do well in the 2022 midterms. He uniquely notes, as no one else has anywhere, that Joe Biden’s awful approval ratings and the economy are the main drivers of GOP gains with immigration and social issues piling on, he missed the crime issue somehow.
• But what more would you expect from the guy whose columns are tagged with the fact that he is “considered the ultimate authority on Alabama politics”? In other news, Real Clear Politics is projecting that Republicans will control the U.S. Senate 52-48 after the 2022 midterms, as everyone expects Republicans to make massive gains.

6. A sleepover in Tuscaloosa ended in a police standoff

• The parents, one of a 9-year-old and another 10-year-old, allowed their children to have a sleepover with a 23-year-old woman and, the next morning, the grown woman would not let the children leave or come to the door leading to a standoff with local police.
• The troubling story ended peacefully at 3:05 p.m. and reports indicate that Dasha Bishop was barricaded in a back bedroom with the children and has now been charged with felony interference with custody and is being held on $15,000 bond.

5. Regime change in Russia called for as Putin ready to meet with his military 

• Former White House national security advisor John Bolton suggested that it was now time for regime change in Russia. This is a wildly unpopular position among Americans who seem to be more than willing to keep pumping money into Ukraine’s military and economy while using their citizens to test and weaken Russia’s war machine.
• Talk of nuclear war from Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps the world on edge and at bay with American military experts downplaying the likelihood of such action while President Joe Biden references “armageddon.” Putin is scheduled to meet with his military leaders after he appointed a new commander of the war effort and two days after a strategic bridge linking Crimea and Russia was severely damaged by explosions and leading to heavy vehicles having to travel by ferry.

4. It is almost as if the city of New York didn’t want to be a sanctuary city after all

• A state of emergency was declared because of an influx of illegal immigrants in New York City by Mayor Eric Adams who said, “We have not asked for this.” But the mayor of New York City is incorrect, as NYC and other stops for buses and planes sent from the border have regularly declared themselves cities of “sanctuary” for these illegal immigrants.
• Adams whined “there was never any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers” which is the exact argument Americans have made for years about the southern border’s impact on the country as a whole.

3. Alabama continues to roll while Auburn continues to struggle

• Nick Saban and his Alabama Crimson Tide won a close game with Texas A&M, they lost their No. 1 ranking, now 3, heading into a game with a cautiously optimistic 6th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers.
• Meanwhile, Brian Harsin’ Auburn Tigers seem to be heading in a different direction. The university has to be thinking about making a coaching change after another demoralizing loss when Georgia trounced them 42-10. Is a coaching change looming?

2. Tommy Tuberville’s comments are not racism but they aren’t smart, either

• A poor choice of words is being turned into a racist comment by the American media as they watch their chosen candidates being decimated by the issue of crime, so everyone is being called “racist.” U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) told a rally crowd in Nevada that Democrats are pro-crime, “They want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that! Bullshit!” “They” means Democrats, so the media and their Democrats hear “blacks,” so when he says “reparation,” they hear “reparations.” He did not say “reparations,” which is a different thing altogether, direct payments to African Americans, but the race hustle is off and running.
• The media and their Democrats heard a person talking about crime and immediately assumed that Tuberville was talking about black people. aldotcom even published an article suggesting that Tuberville was saying that only blacks and Democrats commit crime, he wasn’t, but those who always hear dog whistles are probably just a female dog tied up in the yard barking at nothing.

1. Democrats mad

• It’s not just the national media, sad local “journalists,” both part-time and unemployed, spent their weekend trying to find their best words to show their righteous anger. Alabama Political Reporter’s Josh Moon lamented the media’s inability to drag former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) to victory twice while Tim Lockette stopped grading papers to opine that Alabama should want reparations because black people would spend that money in Alabama.
• Former chairman of the Alabama Democrat Party, State Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa), expressed his defeated impotence by eloquently noting, “There is some bullshit here but it isn’t what (Tuberville) thinks it is. The bullshit is that this guy is a United States senator in the first place.” Tuberville’s words were poorly chosen, but this is all overblown, as usual.