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A walk through history with The Anniston Star’s H. Brandt Ayers: Democrat activist, wannabe foreign correspondent, sexual deviant

  Last week, The Anniston Star announced it was severing ties with long-time editor H. Brandt Ayers after a number of sexual misconduct allegations against...

Why I now believe most Trump grass-roots supporters are patriotic Americans — not bigots, not political illiterates, not overreacting zealots

    It is disheartening to see the ongoing rift between those conservatives supporting President Donald Trump and those opposing him -- a rift that began...

The New York Times rides to Mueller’s rescue

    What caused the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016, which evolved into the criminal investigation that is...

An unfond farewell to un-statesman Orrin Hatch

    The longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history announced this week that he will finally, finally, finally, finally, finally, finally, finally retire. That's seven "finallys" --...

Call to Christians: Engage in politics & evangelism out of love for neighbor

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: REPUBLICAN COMEBACK? TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I remember back when it was 2008 – President Obama had just won...

The left’s delusional comparison of Trump administration to Iran’s regime is insulting and counterproductive

    President Trump is unpopular. He's unpopular because he's boorish, crude and silly; he's unpopular because he has a unique capacity to turn winning news...

Actually, Doug Jones’ snub of Richard Shelby is a pretty big blunder

    In the race for the U.S. Senate, Doug Jones cast himself as a moderate Democrat who would work across the aisle and get things...

New York City votes to fine Biblical counselors for gender dysphoria therapy

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: NEW YORK BANS AND FINES CONVERSION THERAPY TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I’d like to take you to a headline...

Parents, please teach your kids respect of country, flag and president

  As a society, many parents are failing. Not only are they failing themselves, they are also failing their children. This “failing” has a lot...

10 campaign promises Donald Trump kept — or attempted to keep — in his first year

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: MEASURING TRUMP AGAINST HIS PROMISES IN FIRST YEAR TOM LAMPRECHT: Today, specifically, I’d like to take a look...

Deep State? The 7 unelected people with life-and-death control over our economy and lives

  We are a nation of 325 million people. We have a bit of control over the behavior of our 535 elected representatives in Congress,...

Mistakes and biases exist, but conservatives should root for news media’s success in 2018

(Opinion) Many national news media made many mistakes in covering President Trump and Republicans in his first year. Too many mistakes, in fact, to...

How Paul Finebaum paved the road for Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate

  Saturday morning, the Montgomery Advertiser's Brian Lyman made a tenuous argument that current U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) could be blamed for the election...

That time Nick Saban chewed me out at a press conference

Looks like I have a new and improved excuse to stand firm as the only non-Crimson Tide fan in my family: Nick Saban is my trigger. I’ve...

The top 11 news, faith and culture headlines of 2017

        Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, today is our last In Perspective of 2017. We look down through the years...

Alabama-based writer makes Michelle Malkin’s ‘Bulldog Awards’ list

    There are talkers and doers, sowers of dissatisfaction seeds and agents of lasting change. Much of my column work over the year is dedicated...

You don’t have to like this President to acknowledge the obvious

    OPINION The stock market is booming. Consumer confidence is soaring. The unemployment rate is falling. The economy is getting more robust every day. And President...

American attitudes about children contribute to our shrinking birth rate

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, John Stonestreet recently addressed the fact that America is shrinking. He said, “I don’t...

How Alabama ranks in economic freedom … and whether prosperity, fairness and happiness correlate

    We frequently wish for a happy and prosperous New Year. As an economist, I know more about prosperity than happiness. Because economic freedom is...

United Nations is ‘hive of scum and villainy’ and it’s time to defund it

    Last week, Democrats and many in the mainstream media became highly perturbed by the Trump administration's suggestion that the United States might tie continued...

AL.com’s Reckon: Left-wing ideology posing as journalism, with Southern-style branding and big-money liberal backing

    OPINION |reckon|: A new media endeavor branded with a folksy, down-home name that promotes regurgitated left-of-center tripe. Intended to make an Alabama readership think a...

Sorry AL.com, there’s no ‘burning’ progressive movement in Alabama just because we rejected Roy Moore

It’s now been a week since the election of Doug Jones prompted Al.com’s editorial board to breathlessly declare that the “voice of justice” had...

The conservative movement in Alabama must unite, or die

It’s time to come together, y’all. Conservatives have been at each other’s throats in recent years, and nowhere is that more evident than in Alabama,...

What the #pervnado sexual denials have shown me about parenting

Even in an age when security cameras catch us and DNA samples condemn us, the Weinstein – Franken – Conyers – Lauer – (etc....