Has there been an earthquake in Alabama that the news didn’t cover? Or, a terrorist bombing of bridges and overpasses on our highways? Or, a mega tornado that ripped up roadways?
Your editorial, “The stench of white nationalism,” in last Saturday’s (March 16) paper was well-written and timely, discussing and citing examples of the various hate crimes around the world in the recent past. Hopefully, it helps us all to identify and recognize the absurd prejudices that e…
Dear Bernie Sanders, I recently came upon a Facebook post you made in which you blamed climate change for the deadly tornadoes in Lee County, Alabama.
For years, I’ve resisted the urge to declare Anniston a lost cause, and here’s why: It’s reactionary, it’s unfair, it’s a simplistic stance and it’s wrong. That’s what I’ve thought.
Alabama Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, is right. Spot-on right. “If we don’t address this education issue, it’s going to catch up with us,” he said this week while pointing to the state’s abysmal K-12 national rankings in math and reading. “This is the wrong path.”
I don’t think we need a prison in or around Anniston. Anniston has always been “The Model City.” That would be an insult for the city.
Anthony Cook, in “Nations race relations spiraling downward … to our shame” (March 10), encourages us to look at the last 50 days to see racism. Cook mentions quite a few incidents that deserve denouncement, but he missed two obvious ones.
Thanks to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other Democrats already sniffing around the edges of the 2020 presidential election, the national discussion about the Electoral College is all the rage this week. We've been here before, of course.
I applaud the Alabama House for banning drivers from holding cell phones in their hands while driving. Secondly, and more importantly, I commend those who are trying to get Common Core out of this state’s educational process.
Now that lottery bills have again entered the Alabama Legislature, let’s talk the truth about our state and state-run lotteries.
Bernie Sanders, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other socialist experts have devised versions of a Green New Deal. Free stuff for all! I like that. What I don’t like is this -- free stuff costs money. Somebody pays for everything. Let me explain to these dreamers what a trillion is. A…
A “Speak Out” in Friday’s (March 8) Star tells that “Socialism would threaten end of America.” If the only two factors that we look at are socialism or capitalism, we tend to vilify Socialism and sanctify capitalism. The traditional argument to justify capitalism is to say that the market wi…
As we wait to see if Alabama Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, decides to run for Congress -- Yes! No! Maybe! -- he isn't wasting his time this month in Montgomery.
Alabama politicians are keen on blaming the state’s fiscal deficiencies for their reluctance to support improvements that aren’t free. It’s embedded in legislators’ DNA.
We are living in the last days. What purpose is your church at this time? Have you fulfilled or are you staying in the path that God wants you to go? The main goal of a church is to reach lost people. Preachers don’t preach about sin anymore because it might make people uncomfortable and the…
The Distant Leftist Inquisition scrapes all of the guilt from human nature as a whole and loads it on the backs of the pale male Anglo race leaving no escape route to unload (Kathleen Parker, 1 March), faith over facts soothed by the lullaby of “progress.” No single race or culture has a pat…
The Pew Research Center has updated its survey results about President Trump's support from the various religious groups and denominations in the United States. The results are interesting, to say the least.
On Tuesday, it will have been one year since an EF-3 tornado struck the city of Jacksonville and the campus of Jacksonville State University, leaving hundreds of trees decapitated, thousands of residents without power, houses with no mailboxes and mailboxes with no houses.
The next Something To Do Sunday is this Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Aquatic Center at McClellan.
Last September, the United States Commission on Civil Rights told President Trump the brutal truth about voting rights. Alabama’s role in that truth was prominent. And U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, is again trying to turn that prominence into a victory for those who value equal acces…
The Star reported on an inmate of the Calhoun County Jail being charged with making a “terrorist threat” for murderous comments he allegedly made about a rehab director when speaking to his mother on a phone from within the jail. The charge brought with it a $1 million bond.
The latest effort to spread “freedom” in Venezuela one bullet at a time seems to contradict our ballyhooed love of “democracy.” God's Self-Anointed Ones, Donald Trump and Mike Pence, have determined that Venezuelan voters made a mistake electing Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela. Invo…
Remember Robert Bentley? Alabama's former governor? The Luv Guv, as he's called. (Oh, yeah. There's that.)
I have not been a member of the Elks Lodge in many years, but I was active in the bingo games while being a member for the following reasons.
