If criminologists have the guts to even talk about a race-crime connection, it's behind closed doors and in guarded language.
We are expected to lose a seat after the 2020 census. Most observers expect this second district to merge into a portion of the third congressional district.
While there are no statewide elections this fall, candidates are already preparing for the March 3, 2020, primary elections.
MONTGOMERY — As we say goodbye to the summer of 2019, allow me to reminisce with you and indeed commemorate more than likely a summer exactly 50 years ago that was undoubtedly the most momentous summer in American history – the summer of 1969.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: What is the real motive behind Trump's debt forgiveness for disabled veterans?
It was hard to miss the splashy news story this past week where President Trump announced unconditional "forgiveness" of student loan debt for all disabled veterans. On the surface for the non-military public, this would seem to be a noble humane gesture. But, is it?
I find it reprehensible that as the citizens of Hong Kong protest in the streets for freedom and liberty, America has members of the Democratic Socialist Party demonstrating in our streets to force America to be just like Communist China.
MONTGOMERY — It has been a long hot summer in Montgomery, and I do not mean at the Capitol or Statehouse, but in the city of Montgomery itself.
Any list of the most influential media outlets in the United States would have to include The New York Times. Some might argue, with good reason, that it should be No. 1 on that list.
Now that students across the state are returning back to the classroom, it is a good time to think about an upcoming vote in Alabama that will happen in a little over six months.
MONTGOMERY — One of the legendary figures in Alabama political lore is Floyd Mann.
What about safety? In 2017, St. Louis had the nation’s highest murder rate, at 66.1 homicides per 100,000 residents. Baltimore came in second, with 55.8 murders per 100,000 people.
If there were true Jeffersonian Democrats around and running for political office today, I would be eager to vote for them. There might be some at the local level or state level somewhere, however, they are overshadowed by the Democrats at the national level running for president and some in…
CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday morning took a moment during his show “State of the Union” to list all the elected Republicans who had received invitations but declined to appear and discuss the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
Trump has recently tweeted that Sessions appointment as attorney general was the most regrettable appointment that he has made. You can more than likely ascertain that Jeff Sessions feels the same way ...
When is the mainstream media going to stop enabling and upholding the circus clowns that call themselves the Democratic Party? They offer no new solutions to any of this country’s problems and issues. The best they can do is place blame and find fault with everything Trump and the Republican…
Alabama has been in the news lately for passing the nation’s strongest anti-abortion law, but it also just enacted what is being hailed by one expert as “one of the most comprehensive and effective campus free-speech laws in the country.”
I was a big fan of the TV series “The West Wing,” which aired on NBC from 1999-2006.
I read your article on security in the Pell City courthouse and as it referred to all the violence. Well, if you ask me, it's mostly due to boredom and not being taught right from wrong or the difference between reality and fantasy for the youth.
“You took something from me that wasn’t yours to take: my innocence.”
Our elected officials have failed spectacularly in closing our borders and in their oath to protect and defend America. It is time for the people to march on Washington.
Socialism promises a utopia that sounds good, but those promises are never realized. It most often results in massive human suffering.
Under the U.S. Constitution, Alabama and the other 49 states are sovereign states. All authority given to the federal government by these states was supposed to be limited to the State Department (the president’s cabinet) and our self-defense, the military. Everything else was supposed to be…
Free speech zones are meant to move certain discussions away from where they could offend listeners, or be heard at all.
Alabama has a treasure in Richard Shelby. He is not only the longest-serving U.S. senator in Alabama history, he is also the most successful.
