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February 17, 2025–President Trump has signed an Executive Order (EO) designed to end COVID “vaccine” mandates in schools and universities. The Order, “Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools,” was signed February 14, 2025. “That solves that problem,” the President said at the signing. Here’s the kicker: “It is the policy of my Administration that discretionary Federal funds should not be used to directly or indirectly support or subsidize an educational se...
February 19, 2025– Governor Ivey’s FY 2026 General Fund budget is making its way through the Legislature. At just over $3.7 billion, it’s some $340 million more than last year, and the largest budget she’s ever sent across the street. There are winners and losers, as there always are, but at a glance it seems pretty reasonable. The budget even contains some $40 million in Corrections Capital Improvement Funds IF certain “conditions” are met. No, I don’t know what the “conditions...
February 21, 2021–I kicked an anthill a couple of days ago here in The Gazette with my article “An Alabama DOGE? YES!” Shortly after it appeared, my phone started blowing up with people supporting it. Several of them said they’d had the same idea, and everyone had an example of waste, fraud, abuse or just plain stupid spending that could be cut. On Thursday, I even heard API’s Stephanie Smith talking on the radio about their ALDOGE project, which she said they started back in December. Apparentl...
February 24, 2025–Hooray! We can all rejoice and rest easy! Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has been eradicated, destroyed, shredded and stamped out across the land! Now we never have to worry about it again! And if you truly believe that, I’ve got a bridge across Mobile Bay to sell you. Yes, there’s been significant progress made against DEI. From the landmark SCOTUS ruling in Students for Fair Admissions vs Harvard to Alabama’s own anti-DEI law (SB129), to President Trump’s Day 1 Exe...
February 25, 2025–HB229–The Best Interest of the Child Protection Act 2025–is an awesome bill that would be great for Alabama kids. It’d be great for Alabama families dealing with the strain of divorce. It would be a good thing for the entire population of our State. Naturally, you probably haven’t heard about it. You haven’t heard about it because it doesn’t come with a price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s not a hot-button issue for the Big Mules or social conservative gr...
February 27, 2025–The Mobile County Health Department (MCHD) has begun issuing refund checks to clients who previously paid a documentation fee for vaccine religious exemption forms. The $30 fee had been charged to clients who had requested a record of religious exemption from otherwise-required vaccinations. Clients who received vaccinations at MCHD were reportedly charged no fee for a vaccination record, while those who received shots from their own physician were charged $10 for an updated r...
February 1, 2025 - CULLMAN, AL - Health Freedom Alabama (HFA) held a Legislative Update in preparation for the new legislative session which will begin next week. The event was hosted by Dr. Nathan Lewis and Align Alabama on Saturday. Stephanie Durnin, Director of Health Freedom Alabama was the featured speaker. Director Durnin discussed the organization's history, their past accomplishments and their goals in this session and beyond. HFA was part of the grassroots coalition that worked to have...
January 31, 2025–Alabama Eagle Forum hosted their annual Policy Conference at First Baptist Church of Birmingham on Friday, January 30th. National and local leaders addressed a crowd of about 140 attendees. The Conference focused on bills and issues of importance to Eagle Forum members during the upcoming legislative session. National Eagle Forum President Kris Ullman discussed the pro-life, pro-family Executive Orders issued by President Trump in his first two weeks in office. She emphasized t...
January 30, 2025–Not ‘should’ we, but ‘could’ we deport Vivek Ramaswamy? Short answer: no, not as things now stand. But, as a child of H1B parents, looking at his situation can help us understand issues that are bound to arise with birthright citizenship of all types. As to whether or not we SHOULD deport him? That’s a separate issue we’ll get to later. On his first day in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO), “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” T...
December 9, 2024–Last week’s SCOTUS oral arguments in United States v Skrmetti (the case involving Tennessee’s ban on gender-altering therapies for minors) have people wondering if we’ve reached Peak Trans, and the answer is…no. Not yet, at least. While the Court seems to be leaning towards upholding the Tennessee law, the Justices aren’t expected to rule until next June. The federal government claims that denying transgender minors gender-affirming care violates the equal protection...
December 7, 2024–Regardless of what happens next in the Daniel Penny case, the damage has already been done. The message has gone out to all men, especially White men, and it’s been received: Do nothing. Don’t step up or step in. Do NOT intervene. Do NOT get involved. Regardless of the situation, you will be held at fault. Your life will be destroyed. You will be charged, prosecuted and sued. It’s just not worth it. Better to stand back, better still to ignore the situation completely until y...
December 16, 2024–ABC News has settled President-elect Trump’s defamation suit against them. Now, who’s next? The Judge in the original case? Liberal social influencers? Other media outlets? Zillions of Democrats who were desperate to parrot the talking point that Trump was a “convicted rapist?” FYI: he’s neither, according to New York law and a New York jury. Here’s what happened: on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024, host George Stephanopoulos Was interviewing Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-S...
December 20, 2024–Thursday afternoon Speaker Mike Johnson’s Plan B Continuing Resolution, leaving us facing the very real possibility of a government shutdown. *yawn* Seriously, Johnson’s Plan B spending bill going down in flames didn’t even make my top 5 most interesting things that happened Thursday. The Senate passed the (always horrible) NDAA, which stripped out federal funding for transgender care for dependents of military personnel. It looks like “Lady G” Lindsey Graham is going to be...
December 23, 2024 - The Wall Street Journal's timing was nigh-perfect. Imagine you’re The Editor at a Respected News Organization (the Caps are Important!). You have an explosive report that confirms the President has been incompetent for months, if not years. It implicates many influential people in power in an active coverup of this sad state of affairs. It all but confirms what those crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists have been saying—that the 2020 election was stolen to install a sen...
It's remarkable how many people hate green bean casserole. Or maybe not, because so many people don't know how to make a good one. Too many of them are mushy, soggy and bland. They taste like they've been made with ditch water and wallpaper paste, and are always the holiday leftovers that sit in the back of the fridge until May or June, when they finally get thrown out. Here's a few simple tricks to use to make a green bean casserole that's not only tasty, but won't last long enough to begin...
December 27, 2024–Somebody at The Hill is desperate for clicks. Why else would they be fomenting insurrection the day after Christmas? Boxing Day—December 26th—is a slow news day. People are still recovering from Christmas, or making the rounds of friends, or finishing their Christmas shopping at the After-Christmas sales (admit it—you’ve done it) or returning the gifts that don’t fit or are too weird to keep in the closet for next year’s white elephant gifts. News organizations realize this,...
January 1, 2025–Alabama Eagle Forum has extended the early bird registration discount rate for their Jan. 31 Policy Conference through January 3rd. Previously, the early bird rate was set to expire December 31st. Those who register through January 3rd can do so for $50. From Jan 4th onward, the regular rate of $70 will apply. The one day conference will be held on Friday, January 31st from 8:30 AM-4:30 PM at Birmingham First Baptist Church, 2209 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL. Registration a...
January 1, 2025–A pickup flying an ISIS flag plows into a New Year’s crowd on Bourbon Street. A Cybertruck driver locks himself in and detonates a cache of flammables in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas. In a Queens nightclub, at least eleven people are shot and wounded. 2025 is literally starting with a bang. Of the three major incidents that happened Wednesday, as of this writing (in the wee hours Thursday morning) we know the least about the Queens nightclub shooting. The story literally bro...
December 9, 2025–Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg posted a video on Facebook and Instagram promising to reduce censorship and “return to our roots” of free expression on the platforms. He stated that Facebook would be ditching their Fact Checkers, instituting a system of Community Notes (like rival X now has), lift restrictions on some topics, focus more on policing illegal and high-severity violations, and changing the way political content is handled so that people who want to see more of it on their...
January 11, 2025–“Spring forward, Fall back.” It’s the mantra of Daylight Savings Time (DST)—an idea that was presented in the most wonderful, glowing terms but in practice turned out to be inefficient, counterproductive, annoying and deadly. Once enacted, it quickly proved to give few to none of the promised benefits but a plethora of drawbacks and problems. Nonetheless, it has resisted all attempts to do away with it for decades. In other words, it’s the quintessential government program. Al...
December 14, 2025–We’ve known for some time that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a DEIsaster. Bad puns aside, common sense and the evidence of our own eyes has been telling us that for years. DEI policies were touted as the answer to all manner of ills both real and imagined, usually tied to some vague notion of “social,” “environmental,” “climate” or some other modifier-word “justice.” I say vague notion because I’ve never been able to pin down a formal definition of these not-regular-...
January 19, 2025– I love it when a stupid plan falls apart. I love it even more when a stupid, asinine, unconstitutional plan, crafted by and for special interest groups and sold to the American people with a pack of lies, gaslighting and fear mongering by our Cash & Carry Congress backfires spectacularly. That’s exactly what the TikTok ban is doing. TikTok is now officially banned in these United States, contrary to the wishes of 170 million Americans. The app went down Saturday night, and reg...
January 22, 2025–I have a new life goal: I want a blanket, preemptive Presidential Pardon for everything I may or may not have done, or for anything I may or may not do, from birth until death. That’s not too much to ask for, is it? It wouldn’t even be much of a stretch, given the pardons Joe Biden handed out during the final hours of his Presidency. Literally on his way out the door, old Joe pardoned several members of his family, the J6 Committee and staffers, General Milley and Dr. Antho...
January 25, 2025–What an interesting week we’ve had! Joe Biden left office with the lowest approval rating on record, and his final pardons finished trashing his legacy. He left his party not just defeated but embarrassed. They’ll never forgive him for that! General Milley‘s portrait has been removed from the Pentagon. His name is irrevocably besmirched, and he now joins the pantheon of traitors alongside Benedict Arnold. He will be remembered only as an example of what NOT to do. Someone...
November 8, 2024–Have you felt the 2016 vibe these last three days? No, those flashbacks are not your PTSD acting up. The Left are collectively melting down harder than they did in 2016, and it’s even more hilarious now than it was back then. There are a number of things that are virtually identical, of course—the celebrities threatening to leave the country, for instance—but the Left turned it up to eleven and twisted off the knob this time around. Eight years ago we laughed as the special...
