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He wrote short stories for magazines but had an idea for a novel. He wrote a few pages and trashed it when growing weary with it. However, his wife dug it out of the trash. “I want to know what happens next,” she said. He then revisited the project and published it as his first novel in 1974. “Carrie” was the first step in the $500 million fortune Stephen King enjoys today. I propose there are several lessons here. One is that we often fail to ascertain our own abilities. And sometimes we’re d...
October 15, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a solemn and symbolic ceremony held in the Rose Garden of the White House on October 14, President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, marking what would have been his 32nd birthday. The event served as both a tribute to Kirk's legacy and a moment of national reflection, following his assassination last month at a Turning Point USA event in Utah. Kirk, the founder of Turning Point U...
October 21, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - The Alabama Public Library Service Board will convene on Tuesday for a public hearing to consider proposed rule changes aimed at protecting minors from the promotion of gender ideology in publicly funded libraries. The meeting will be held Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at APLS Headquarters in Montgomery. The APLS Board has already opened a public comment period on this issue in early September. Written comments were accepted through October 14. Today is the o...
October 12, 2025 – BIRMINGHAM, AL – The University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) has parted ways with head football Coach Trent Dilfer. The university released a statement from UAB Director of Athletics Mark Ingram on Sunday. "We have made a decision to part ways with Head Football Coach Trent Dilfer. We agree that - unfortunately - our on-field performance has not lived up to the standard of winning we have for the program. This decision will allow us to move forward in the best long-term int...
October 3, 2025 – Pastor Will Boyd joined the Brandon and Christopher Show Podcast to discuss the status of his campaign and his platform if he is elected governor. Boyd has multiple degrees in a variety of subject areas. He has worked extensively in the private sector. He is also a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Boyd was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 2022 and the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 2018. "My whole goal has always been to make sure I...
I attended a hobby club meeting in Georgia lately and enjoyed a beautiful weekend. We political items collectors/historians are a unique bunch, though I suppose this is true of every collector and every hobby since I’ve known some who collect bottle caps, Christmas ornaments, soda cans and matchbooks. One collector I met had hair samples from barbers who attended famous people! We had a good banquet and learned a lot from a member of the White House Communication Agency who had worked for f...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined National Report on Newsmax on the first day of a Democrat-led government shutdown. The Senator also discussed a recent Judiciary hearing which addressed blue-city crime rates and urged for stronger crime policies. On Democrats being out of touch with reality and the American people: “[W]elcome to day one of the Schumer Shutdown. There is no doubt we are in this position because Democrats care more about politics than they do about the...
I don’t often get to visit other churches on Sundays, but did so recently. I’d heard the pastor had two more weeks of service, but it turned out that particular Sunday was the final one. She (yes, unusual for a Baptist church) said it with a smile, but in plain language said she was done with local church ministry. I’m not sure what she’ll be doing, nor did she seem to know, but I wish her well. Karen Carpenter sang haunting words in 1971: “Sometimes I’d like to quit / nothin’ ever seems to...
October 6, 2025 - Documents have surfaced showing that President Joseph R. Biden (R) secretly order the FBI to tap the phones of Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) and other prominent Republican members of Congress. This FBI surveillance was reportedly authorized by President Biden – though who was actually giving orders at the White House using Biden's name is still debated as is President Biden's competency in the second half of his administration. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino told a S...
Today, October 13, 2025, is Columbus Day. It is a federal and state holiday celebrating the achievements of the great Italian Admiral Christopher Columbus. Columbus, who was born in Genoa, Italy, is celebrated for his 1492 discovery of the Americas on behalf of the Spanish crown. Courthouses, banks, government offices, most schools, and some businesses are closed today in honor of Columbus and his discovery of North and South America. Sometimes Columbus is credited with proving that the Earth is...
October 17, 2025 – AUBURN, AL – To say the first half of the 2025 football season has been "a disappointment" would be an understatement. Auburn has played three SEC opponents and Auburn has lost to all three. For Auburn head Coach Hugh Freeze (now in his third season on the Plains) the situation is getting precarious. To say that he is a coach on the hot seat would also be an understatement. There used to be a time when coaches were given 4 or 5 years to build a program before judgements wer...
October 5, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL- Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed rejected calls to bring in the National Guard to regain control of the streets in the wake of what Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys called "a mass shooting event" at the corner of Bibb and Commerce Streets. "As it relates to conversations about militarizing our streets, I am firmly against that, 100%," Mayor Reed told reporters. The gun battle involving multiple shooters drawing weapons in a crowded area following a carnival i...
September 28, 2025 – Retired U.S. Army Major Patrick Bishop is one of a half dozen candidates running for Lieutenant Governor. Bishop in addition to being a veteran is a law enforcement officer who currently serves as a Cullman County Sheriff's Deputy. Bishop launched his campaign for lieutenant governor in May 2025. His campaign focuses on law enforcement, criminal justice reform, addressing the opioid crisis, education, and improving mental healthcare. Bishop's specific proposals for a...
September 24, 2025 - BIRMINGHAM, AL. - Gubernatorial candidate Yolanda Flowers joined the Brandon and Christopher Show (BCS) podcast to discuss her campaign and her vision for the state of Alabama. Flowers was the 2022 Democratic nominee for Governor. Flowers is running again in 2026. Flowers said that she is running to be Alabama's next Governor because she is tired of the state of Alabama, "being called backwards." "Alabama has not changed in terms of and it's just so many inequalities....
September 29, 2025 – BAY MINETTE, AL. – Prosecutors have dismissed charges that Baldwin County Attorney Harry Still III assaulted By Minett e city councilman Matt. Still is not out of legal jeopardy though. Still's defense attorney Christine Hernandez made a motion that the charges be dropped with prejudice – meaning that Still could not be charged again. Bay Minette City Attorney Liam Sculley said that he intends to bring the charges back inserting the word "reckless" in the new filing. The j...
September 24, 2026 – Yolanda Flowers announced that she is running for the Democratic nominee for Governor in 2026. Yolanda was the 2022 nominee for Governor falling to incumbent Governor Kay Ivey (R) in the general election. Yolanda Rochelle Flowers is a career educator and rehabilitation services expert in Tennessee. In 2022 she defeated State Sen. Malika Sanders Fortier of Selma in the Democratic run-off election. Flowers won 55.15% (32,416) of the votes cast. Sen. Sanders Fortier received 4...
October 8, 2025 - WASHINGTON. D.C. - A newly released FBI memo has ignited a political firestorm in Washington, revealing that federal investigators monitored phone metadata of nine Republican lawmakers. The memo suggests that operation 'Arctic Frost' was designed to map communications among lawmakers who were allegedly involved in efforts to delay or overturn the 2020 election results. The Biden administration apparently believed that there were MAGA lawmakers who were a threat to attempt to...
September 29, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and Andy Kim (D-N.J.) today introduced the Small Entity Update Act to modernize the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC) regulatory framework to provide relief for small businesses and entrepreneurs. This bipartisan legislation would direct the SEC to update its outdated definition of "small entity" and assess the costs of regulatory compliance for these small and growing businesses. This would ensure current and...
September 29, 2025 – JASPER, AL – Republican voters in Alabama's House District 13 will head to the polls Tuesday, September 30, for a special Republican primary election to fill the seat vacated earlier this year by Matt Woods's election to the Alabama Senate. The race has drawn attention across Walker and Winston counties, where local issues and party dynamics are shaping a closely watched contest. Why the Election Matters House District 13 has long been a Republican stronghold. Democrats hav...
It was my idea but maybe it wasn’t the best. I spent the night in the local hospital after surgery in 2023 and had, shall we say, a “device” attached to me for the next several days. Every movement was painful. Our home was only about five miles away, and I suggested we take the back road where, I reasoned, there would be less traffic than on the state highway. I convinced my wife to drive slowly, about 30 mph, but soon we had a parade of traffic behind us. A truck-driver was about five vehicles...
September 28, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – the Republican controlled House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution that would have kept the government funded for another thirty days; but Senate Democrats rejected that plan. The Republican plan failed to clear a 60-vote filibuster in the Senate. It includes largely extending current funding levels through Nov. 21 to allow appropriators more time to finish a bipartisan annual budget. A Democratic counterproposal would provide funding thr...
September 27, 2025 - College Station, TX – The Auburn University Tigers football team lost to Texas A&M by the score of 10 to 16. The Tigers' offensive struggles continued for the second straight week. The defense kept getting stops and giving the offense possessions. They just couldn't do anything with the opportunities. Texas A&M ran the ball hard. Running back Le'Veon Moss had an impressive 139 yards rushing for the Aggies and a touchdown including a 38-yard burst to set up the opening s...
September 20, 2025 – BUFFALO, NY – Troy University fans who cut the game off after three quarters of play were pleasantly surprised when they woke up the next day as Troy mounted an incredible fourth-quarter comeback to defeat Buffalo 21 to 17. Troy had been shut out of the end zone for three quarters 0 to 14. After giving up a fourth quarter field goal that appeared to be the dagger, The Troy Trojans erupted with 21 unanswered points in the fourth. "We didn't flinch," said Troy Coach Gerad Par...
September 20, 2025 – KNOXVILLE, TN – The UAB football team went to Tennessee to play the number 15 ranked Volunteers. The Blazers were mismatched from the start. Tennessee jumped out to a 21 to 0 lead in the first quarter, then followed that up with 21 more points in the second quarter to close out the half 42 to 7. UAB was more competitive in the second half outscoring Tennessee 17 to 14 while Tennessee rested many of its starters. The game finished with a Tennessee win of 24 to 56. UAB Coa...
September 29, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) said on X that Democrats are forcing a government shutdown in order to hinder President Donald J. Trump's efforts to restore order to America's cities. "Antifa terrorists are burning our cities, attacking ICE facilities, and murdering people at church," said Sen. Tuberville on X. "Meanwhile, the Radical Democrats want to shut down our government and stop funding law enforcement. Make no mistake – this is an attem...
