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November 14, 2025 - The new Blankenship Event Center was unveiled during a ribbon-cutting event at the M. Barnett Lawley Forever Wild Field Trial Area, much to the surprise of Chris Blankenship, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR), and his wife, Allyson. The new 5,000-square foot Blankenship Event Center is located on ADCNR's State Lands Division property at the Field Trial Area in Hale County, which has become the premier location for sporting...
November 14, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, applauded Senate passage of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (MilCon-VA) Appropriations Act and the FY26 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act as part of a package of three FY26 appropriations bills and a Continuing Resolution (CR) to reopen the...
November 8, 2025 - TUSCALOOSA, AL. - In a rivalry game defined by grit and defensive dominance, No. 4 Alabama defeated LSU 20–9 on Saturday night at Bryant-Denny Stadium, extending its win streak to eight games and solidifying its place atop the SEC standings. The Crimson Tide (8–1, 6–0 SEC) held the Tigers out of the end zone for the first time in over a decade, delivering their most complete defensive performance of the season. Crimson Tide Defense Shines Alabama's defense was relen...
November 1, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - In a move hailed as a major victory for public health and regulatory clarity, the U.S. Senate has voted to ban intoxicating hemp products as part of its latest government funding package. The decision drew swift praise from Alabama State Representative Andy Whitt (R–Harvest), who called the measure a "long-overdue step" and credited Alabama's early action as a catalyst for national reform. "The Senate's vote to ban intoxicating hemp products mirrors the i...
November 12, 2025 - WASHINTON, D.C. – Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL04) voted in favor of passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to end the Senate Democrats' government shutdown and fund the federal government through the end of January. The measure also provides full-year funding for the Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs (MilCon-VA); and Legislative Branch appropriations bills. "It's time to get the government back up a...
MONTGOMERY – As the United States of America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, Governor Kay Ivey on Monday shared a video message ahead of Veterans Day, honoring the generations of Americans, and especially the Alabamians, who have defended our nation's freedom. In her remarks, Governor Ivey honors the nearly 400,000 veterans and their families who call Alabama home and reflects on the personal meaning of the day, sharing how her father's World War II service taught her that freedom is n...
In a decisive moment for Congress and the American public, U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) announced the Senate's final passage of a Continuing Resolution (CR) and a package of Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) appropriations bills, marking a major breakthrough in ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The legislative package, which includes funding for Military Construction and Veterans Affairs (MilCon-VA), the Legislative Branch, and Agriculture, now heads to the House of...
November 11, 2025 – Today is Veterans Day. It is a state and federal holiday honoring the 41 million Americans who have served in our nation's armed forces from the Revolutionary War to the present both in times of peace and war. Veterans Day began as Armistice Day, observed annually on November 11 to commemorates the end of World War I and honors the sacrifices of those who served in the armed forces. The armistice that silenced the guns on the Western Front (at that time the bloodiest war i...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) paid tribute this week to two distinguished Alabamians in recognition of Veterans Day: America's oldest living Marine, Roy Drinkard of Cullman, and Army Master Sergeant Harvey Mathis of Enterprise. Speaking from the Senate floor, Tuberville reflected on Alabama's deep ties to patriotism and military service. He noted that the nation's first Veterans Day celebration was held in Birmingham in 1947, organized by World War II veteran R...
November 3, 2026 - MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) will vote later this month on a proposed amendment to the APLS Administrative Code addressing gender ideology in publicly funded libraries. Proponents of the amendment claim that it seeks to protect children from materials that promote or normalize gender ideology in youth sections and to ensure that Alabama's public libraries remain safe, family-centered environments. Opponents claim that the amendment would amount to cen...
November 11, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate voted for a bipartisan appropriations bill to fund the government and end the 40 day government shutdown. Part of that package was a provision heavily supported by the alcohol industry essentially outlawing all psychoactive hemp sales. The sweeping federal budget deal that passed the Senate includes a controversial provision that to ban the sale of most psychoactive hemp-derived products even in states where recreational marijuana is leg...
Do you know a lie of that the devil has whispered into my ear before? “God doesn't want your mess. And even if He did, it's beyond repair.” We often think that God only wants our best…the polished prayers, the victories, the good parts of our story. But the truth is, He invites us to bring Him everything…our mistakes, our shame, our doubts, even the messes that we create ourselves. The beautiful part is that so many myths and it's so hard to wrap our mind around is that God can take whateve...
Think of Dracula, think of Bram Stoker, whose 1897 horror novel Dracula has inspired hundreds of progressively inferior vampire movies. But Dracula was real – not the vampire, but Count Vlad III Dracula (A.D. c. 1428 - 1477) of Wallachia (now part of Romania). Known as Vlad III the Impaler but called Dracula (after the Order of the Dragon, a knightly order founded to defend Christendom against the Ottoman Empire and Islam), the Count’s brutality staggers the imagination. But as my personal phy...
Over the past six decades, Alabama’s Adult Education Programs have been transformed by a quiet revolution that has been extraordinarily successful. It was my honor to be able to speak to the Annual Adult Education Conference at the downtown Montgomery Renaissance Center in late June. When I accepted their invitation to speak, I thought there would be 50 to 60 attendees. However, when I walked in, I amazingly saw over 400 passionate, positive, energized educators and administrators that filled t...
Of course we have the huge holiday of Thanksgiving on November 27th. The grocery stores, department stores, the big box stores, will have much food and decorations to purchase for Thanksgiving. Fall leaves, corn, and pumpkins will adorn the shelves with much fanfare. Many will decorate their front doors, back doors, mailboxes and yards with Thanksgiving wreaths, ornaments and other stuff. But unfortunately, many seem to overlook that November celebrates another national holiday, Veterans Day,...
I remember discussing this in torts class in law school. A tort so to speak is “a wrong” in a civil sense (as opposed to criminal) and can be either an act or even an omission when there is a duty to act. With a tort there would also be a defense or multiple defenses for the defending (or offending) party. The lawyers that you see television and roadside ads for are mostly interested in representing someone (plaintiff) that has been wronged in things like car wrecks or maybe wronged in the...
October 6, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL – The government shutdown has now stretched for 37 days and lawmakers in D.C. are not optimistic that there will be a resolution anytime soon to the partisan impasse. Senate Democrats are refusing to consent to a routine continuing resolution (CR) that would give the parties more time to work on the 2026 budget – which was supposed to be finished by September 30 but now appears impossibly delayed. The number of Alabamians affected by the shutdown continue to gr...
Only in Washington can the government shut down and still send you a tax bill. There’s something downright absurd about Washington’s favorite circus, the so-called “government shutdown.” The lights go out, the bureaucrats go home, the national parks close, and the media act like civilization is ending. TSA workers go on half pay, veterans’ calls go unanswered, and families cancel long-planned trips because the parks are barricaded. But one thing never shuts down, the IRS. Somehow, through e...
I have hunted big game most of my adult life. I have written about my experiences over 20 years. Those experiences are not spectacular. Most of them have come in random places at random times, and without the resources to make them anything special. That is, I have only paid for one hunt but have relied on special friends for the opportunities I have been given. I have no trophies that would cause anyone to think I am some special or gifted hunter. I am a blue-collar, mediocre private land...
In the 1985 movie "Back to the Future," Michael J. Fox jumps into Christopher Lloyd's levitation-equipped Delorean and the two take off into the year 2015, ending up into a swarm of flying cars. The year 2015 has already passed a decade ago, and except for a few experimental examples, we still have no mass market flying cars. According to Wikipedia, a flying car must meet these specifications: "A flying car must be capable of safe and reliable operation both on public roads and in the air....
We are increasingly embroiled in an age in which the truth is an unwanted and uninvited guest. Leaders, especially in the body politic, have no desire to find the truth, because in finding it, they might have to change, resulting in dire consequences to the longevity of their public service, if not to their constituencies. The machinations of the United Nations is perhaps the best example of how truth becomes lost in the ideological shuffle. The U.N. was founded to promote peace among nations...
Recent headlines coming out of Auburn University chronicle the ongoing metastasis of President Roberts’ cancer destroying this once great school of higher learning and athletics if we fail to remove this pollutant and his minions; (re)read my 5/1/24 Gazette column https://www.alabamagazette.com/story/2024/05/01/opinion/prof-roberts-theres-a-cancer-on-the-presidency/3257.html]. These past months indicate historically unprecedented levels of failure in football and the wholesale violation of 1...
We have all heard the Good News Bad News jokes. One of my favorites is this one: Doctor: I have good news and bad news. Patient: Tell me the good news first. Doctor: You have 24 hours to live. Patient: What!?! How can that be good news? So, What is the bad news? Doctor: I forgot to tell you yesterday! My wife, Janeese, and I went on an exploratory trip to Uganda and Kenya several Summers ago with Compassion International. We learned so much about the current plight of children in various parts...
I will admit it. I have absolutely no respect for New York Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, AOC. Zero. That is nadda, nil. Why? That is easy. I do not like nor respect socialists. Especially socialists who swore an oath to our constitution yet every day, through their own words and actions, try to subvert that very oath. Let’s not forget, among the many stupid things she has uttered over the past several years, how back in December 2021, she argued before Congress that it is our ...
In a rare case of self-inflicted torture, I watched some of Maine Senator Angus King’s questioning of Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Defense (now War). Various topics were covered, including the renaming of bases. King falsely accused Robert E. Lee of committing treason by resigning from the U.S. Army and siding with his State in 1861. Since King was born in Virginia, one might ask if he really believes that nonsense or if he is just another historical dimwit. Much has been written about L...
