The people's voice of reason
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July 25, 2025 – RAINBOW CITY, AL – Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry spoke to the Etowah County Republican breakfast about his campaign for Public Service Commission. Gentry is retiring from law enforcement and is seeking a new challenge. "I am a Marine veteran and three-time Sheriff," said Gentry. "I am running for the Public Service Commission Place 1." Gentry has been married to his wife Suzie for 22 years. "Our deputies were involved in a shooting this morning," said Gentry. "I would ask...
August 6, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - The Alabama Republican Party has held a commanding supermajority in both Houses of the Alabama Legislature since the red wave election of 2010, which ended 135 years of Democratic Party domination of the Alabama House and Senate. The 2026 election is still 15 months away; but there has been no sign that Democrats are mounting a credible challenge to the GOP's commanding supermajority in recent campaign finance reports detailing the efforts of the two parties i...
July 16, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) has raised over $406,000 in the first month of his 2026 U.S. Senate campaign – more than both of his GOP rivals combined according to his FEC filing. Marshall has raised $391,318 from individual contributions. He also raised $15,000 from three PACs. Marshall reports $23,364 in total spending, with $13,364 going towards his campaign's operating expenses. Marshall's campaign emphasized that 87% of his donations came...
July 17, 2025 – CULLMAN, AL – In House District 12 third place finisher Heather Doyle has endorsed first place finisher Cindy Myrex in the special Republican primary runoff against Clint Hollingsworth. Myrex finished just a handful of votes shy of winning the HD12 GOP primary outright on Tuesday. Heather Doyle received 150 votes - 3.51%. Hollingsworth had 1,848 votes - 43.24%. Dan McWhorter received 147 votes - 3.44%. Cindy Myrex got 2,090 votes - 49.81%. Heather Doyle's campaign released the...
July 15, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Armed Services Committee passed a bipartisan version of H.R. 3838, the Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26 SPEED and NDAA). Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Saks) is the chairman of the committee. He released a statement praising the bipartisan vote. or decades, American deterrence has protected our homeland and been a powerful force for peace," said Chairman R...
July 15, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) applauded the Senate for passing the Illegal Red Snapper and Tuna Enforcement Act, bipartisan legislation she led with Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). The bill would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a standard methodology for identifying the...
It was a number of years ago when I was in the book signing line to meet former first lady Laura Bush. I fell into conversation with a nice gentleman just behind me when, suddenly, two big men in suits came to him, identifying themselves as federal agents and asked him to come with them. When he returned he was ashen. He said the two agents told him he had a pocketknife, and they were going to confiscate it until the event was done. We puzzled over this since there wasn’t a magnetometer that we...
June 19, 2025 – Lieutenant Governor candidate Dean Odle joined the Heart of Dixie Podcast with Brandon Moseley and Harry Still III to discuss his campaign for the Republican nomination for Alabama Lieutenant Governor and other topics. Odle is a pastor and school master in Lee County. He has garnered a lot of publicity in this race. We asked him about his biblical views from which he bases his alternative takes on subjects like astronomy, history, and astrophysics. "There is figurative and s...
June 28, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - Beginning on Tuesday psychoactive hemp products will become heavily regulated by the state of Alabama. July 1 is the date that House Bill 445 goes into effect. Chey Garrigan is the founder and President of the Alabama Cannabis Industry Association. She joined the Brandon and Christopher Show Podcast. HB445 taxes and regulates psychoactive cannabinoids derived from hemp – which had previously has been an entirely unregulated market since its legalization by Con...
July 17, 2025 - U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) has been an outspoken critic of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Tuberville wrote a column in the Daily Caller in which he outlined his concern with Powell's refusal to lower interest rates. Tuberville believe this decision is hurting hardworking American families. "After four years of disastrous open-border policies, skyrocketing inflation, and woke bureaucrats running wild, the tide is finally turning," said Senator Tuberville....
July 15,2025 – CULLMAN, AL – Republican voters in Cullman County went to the polls today in the Special Republican Primary in Alabama House District 12. Cindy Myrex came within a handful of votes of winning the four candidate primary outright Instead it appears in unofficial results that she will face Clint Hollingsworth in a special Republican primary runoff election. Heather Doyle received 150 votes - 3.51%. Hollingsworth had 1,848 votes - 43.24%. Dan McWhorter received 147 votes - 3.44%. Cin...
July 17, 1936 – Spain - General Francisco Franco launched his revolt against the Spanish government from the Canary Islands, where he was stationed at the time. This military uprising quickly spread from Spanish Morocco to mainland Spain, marking the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Franco's rebellion was part of a broader coup by conservative military officers who opposed the leftist Popular Front government which had recently been elected. Within days, Franco emerged as the leading figure a...
July 18, 1863, during the American Civil War, the Battle of Fort Wagner was fought. The assault on Fort Wagner on Morris Island ended as a crushing victory for the Confederacy; but the role that the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment played in the assault was so heralded in the northern press that the battle ultimately helped secure a Union victory in the Civil War. The 54th was the first formal African American regiment raised in the North. Most White Americans, even many who staunc...
July 18, 2-25 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) have introduced legislation in response to the Biden Administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalizing its 1071 Small Business Lending Data Collection rule last year. "The CFPB under the last Administration operated virtually unchecked-with no real Congressional oversight-and in an authoritarian manner, creating a regulatory nightmare for the very people and businesses it was...
George W. Bush famously said, “When I was young and foolish, I was young and foolish.” Me, too, Mr. President. We used the Revised Standard Version of the Bible in the classroom at the seminary I attended, and I used it also in my weekend preaching in rural Indiana. The parishioners never questioned this. Since they had a steady contingent of student preachers from Louisville, I’m sure they were accustomed to this particular translation. We moved back to Alabama after graduation. I conti...
July 21, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) joined The Will Cain Show on Fox to defend her decision to pass the $9 billion recissions package. Britt said that it is not Washington's money; but the American people's money. "Look, we have to answer the call of the American people," said Senator Britt. "They know that spending is out of control. Donald Trump has found some of the most egregious things out there, packaged that together and said, let's get started. Now is...
July 22, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - As the race for the United States Senate begins to take shape, newly released polling data has placed Steve Marshall firmly in the spotlight, positioning him as the early frontrunner in the early field of contenders. With voters across the state beginning to pay closer attention to the upcoming election, Marshall's campaign appears to be resonating with a broad coalition, at least in these initial stages. Political analysts caution that early leads are just...
July 23, 2025 - WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) attended a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled 'Securing the Skies: Law Enforcement, Drones, and Public Safety.' Witnesses included Michael Torphy, Unit Chief and Supervisory Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) and Counter-UAS at Redstone Arsenal, and Steven Willoughby, Director of Counter-UAS Program Management at the Department of Homeland Security. Senator Britt...
July 23, 2025 – OPELIKA, AL - The Alabama Cannabis Coalition announced that we have endorsed Democrat Dr. Will Boyd for Governor of the state of Alabama. "We are so grateful to finally have a voice of reason for the freedom of the citizens of Alabama to have "legal" access to Hemp/Cannabis in Alabama," the grassroots cannabis groups said in a statement. "We have a long road to 600 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, AL but we are inspired , committed and we hope to inspire the citizens of Alabama to f...
Our denominational publishing house contacted me last year after a writer had to drop out of an assignment. The editor asked if I could write guidelines for teachers to go along with the curriculum. Since the three lessons were from the Gospel of John, I relished this study and found it rewarding. One of the lessons was about the healing at the Pool of Siloam. Jesus spat in the dust, made a pasty poultice, covered the eyes of the blind man and asked him to wash in the nearby pool. So why did...
July 29, 2025 – BESSEMER, AL - As of now, no arrest has been made in the case involving the Alabama Department of Human Resources contract worker who left 3-year-old Ke'Torrius "KJ" Starkes Jr. in a hot car in Birmingham on July 22. The worker, employed by Covenant Services, was terminated following the incident. According to police, she picked up KJ for a supervised visit with his father, then ran personal errands-including stopping for food and visiting a tobacco store-before going home and l...
June 15, 2025 – Alabama leaders released statements expressing condolences to the two Minnesota legislators – who along with their spouses – were shot early Saturday morning. They also condemned political violence. Speaker of the Alabama House Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) said on his X social media account, "Heartbroken to hear that former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were murdered earlier today," said Speaker Ledbetter. "Violence of any kind has no place...
June 18, 2025 – Republican State Auditor candidate Dadeville businessman Robert McCollum has been taking fire on and off social media for angry social media posts that he made in which he compared the College Republican Federation of Alabama to the Nazi Party. "The College Republican Federation of Alabama Chair can be compared to Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin," Robert L. McCollum posted on his X social media account. That was followed by, "The College Republican Federation of Alabama can be c...
Washington, D.C. – June 26, 2025 - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a sweeping decision that reshapes the balance of judicial power in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on Wednesday that federal district judges may not issue nationwide injunctions. Liberal attorney generals and activist groups had been judge shopping for liberal district judges to issue injunctions blocking President Donald J. Trump's policies across the country. The court's ruling ends the judicial usurpation of ex...
A denominational organization just endured a time of testing. Critics said it was “woke” and took money from a liberal icon whose name is anathema to conservatives. An independent researcher found that 98 percent of funding came from the denomination, and the remaining two percent from individuals, not including this icon. The charge couldn’t be proven, yet the charge was oft repeated. Of course, the accusation implied that contributions meant control. This episode brings up the age-old quest...
