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President Trump, please stay the course to keep faith with your base

Guest Contributor - January 14, 2018

It would behoove President Trump to keep faith with his base and remain hardcore on his signature issue, immigration, both because it's the right...

Why America lost much of the near-universal admiration and respect she enjoyed at the close of the Cold War

Guest Contributor - January 13, 2018

Informing Iran, "The U.S. is watching what you do," Amb. Nikki Haley called an emergency meeting Friday of the Security Council regarding the riots in Iran....

When it comes to President Trump, the media lies, the president lies, and you have no one to trust

Dale Jackson - January 12, 2018

(Opinion) What do you do when the subject of a story and the narrator are both pathological liars? You choose your own adventure, you...

Iranian Christians fleeing persecution should get U.S. care and refuge

Dr. Harry L. Reeder III - January 12, 2018

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I want to give you two stories that made the news this week and...

Time’s up for ‘temporary’ alien protection

Guest Contributor - January 12, 2018

Se acabó el tiempo. Seventeen years after granting "temporary protected status" to nearly 200,000 Salvadoran citizens who had fled earthquakes in 2001 or who were...

Dale Jackson’s 7 Things: The president insults entire nations, incentives pile up for Toyota-Mazda, Alabama legislators eye additional tax cuts, and more …

Dale Jackson - January 12, 2018

The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. The President of the United States reportedly referred to other countries as "s***holes", outrage commences ---...

Tired of incentives for big manufacturers and nothing for the little guy? OK, Senator Brewbaker, do something about it.

Dale Jackson - January 11, 2018

(Opinion) Most Alabamians are excited about the new $1.6 billion Toyota Mazda plant coming to Alabama. However not everyone is thrilled with how this...

Lessons about happiness from lottery jackpots

Dr. Daniel Sutter - January 11, 2018

Did you win the recent Mega Millions or Powerball $400 million jackpots? If not, perhaps you are lucky, since big jackpots often make people...

What we can learn from the Alabama & Georgia quarterbacks’ post-game responses

Dr. Harry L. Reeder III - January 11, 2018

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S BIG NIGHT AND BIG PRAISE FOR GOD TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, last Monday night, Alabama was heard...

Anti-virtue Hollywood’s faux bravery is too little far too late

Guest Contributor - January 11, 2018

Imagine it's late 2011. The world just found out about Jerry Sandusky, former assistant Penn State football coach who would be convicted of repeatedly...

‘Spanking’ without consequences — University of Alabama sticks with leftist Anniston Star amid sexual harassment scandal

Jeff Poor - January 11, 2018

(Opinion) Last week, The Tuscaloosa News’ Drew Taylor reported the University of Alabama would continue its community journalism program at The Anniston Star, a...

What is it about Alabama Democrats and standing in schoolhouse doors?

Dale Jackson - January 10, 2018

Alabama Democrats have a sordid history on school attendance. We all know about then-Governor George Wallace famously standing in the doorway at the University...

Millennials, though largely to blame for their own economic plight, live better than any generation — ever

Jeremy Beaman - January 10, 2018

Zac Davis of America magazine addressed those who proceeded us in a recent article entitled “Please stop blaming millennials for the economy you created,”...

How city council meddlers punish poor people and small businesses

Guest Contributor - January 10, 2018

Store owner Kamal Saleh was just hit with thousands of dollars in fines. His crime? He sold three cigars for $8.89. "Too cheap!" say New...

Do you know the frivolous programs your tax dollars fund?

Dr. Harry L. Reeder III - January 9, 2018

Listen to the 10-min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, last week, it was reported that the National Endowment for the Humanities spent nearly...

Dirty college secrets about free speech and academic rigor

Guest Contributor - January 9, 2018

A frequent point I have made in past columns has been about the educational travesty happening on many college campuses. Some people have labeled...

Is the president mentally competent? The answer, sadly, doesn’t matter.

Dale Jackson - January 8, 2018

During the 2016 election, mental competency was an issue, but Hillary Clinton was the target. The media scolded conservative commentators as "conspiracy theorists" for...

Kirby Smart supposedly took a picture that might put a damper on his friendship with Nick Saban

Jeremy Beaman - January 8, 2018

The national championship matchup has a lot of people speculating about the publicly cordial relationship between Nick Saban and his former Tide coaching colleague...

Blaring Bannon coverage begs question: What’s happened to journalism?

Dr. Harry L. Reeder III - January 8, 2018

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: BANNON TOPS HEADLINES BUT WHY? TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I want to take a look at a story...

Protests in Iran are a fire bell in the night for the Ayatollah

Guest Contributor - January 8, 2018

As tens of thousands marched in the streets of Tehran on Wednesday in support of the regime, the head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps assured Iranians...

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

Jeff Poor - January 8, 2018

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

Guest Contributor - January 7, 2018

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

Guest Contributor - January 6, 2018

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

Guest Contributor - January 5, 2018

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" --...

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