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There are moments when leadership means listening, studying the facts and proceeding carefully. Then there are moments when the facts have been studied, the opportunity is staring you in the face and continued hesitation becomes its own form of risk. Alabama has reached that moment with artificial intelligence and data centers. Senator Tommy "Coach" Tuberville is right. We should not be talking about putting Alabama's technology future on 3hold. We should be talking about how quickly and...
The Democrat Party Has Left Traditional Democrats without a Party For those Democrats who worked in factories, served in the military, attended church on Sunday, joined labor unions, supported the police, stood with Israel and believed that an honest day's work deserved an honest day's pay; uhey were the Democrats of Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy. They loved America, defended freedom and understood that socialism was the enemy our nation had spent decades defeating. Those traditional...
Montgomery has every right to dream big about its future. We should want a stronger downtown, thriving neighborhoods, new businesses, better schools, more young families choosing to stay, and a capital city worthy of leading Alabama into the next generation. But before Montgomery asks its citizens to embrace an ambitious vision for 2040, city leaders must confront a much more immediate question: Do the people who live here feel safe today? For too many Montgomery residents, the answer is no,...
The primary elections are behind us. The debates, disagreements, endorsements and hard-fought contests within our Republican family have had their day. Now comes something far more important. November is not about which Republican we supported in a primary. It is about whether conservatives in Alabama will stand together when the principles we have spent decades defending are being challenged as aggressively as at any time in my lifetime. I have been involved in Republican politics and the...
Friday night at the Alabama Republican Party Summer Dinner, I was reminded that some moments are bigger than the event itself. The speeches, the applause, and the fellowship were important, but they were not the real story. The real story was the unmistakable optimism in the room as Coach Tommy Tuberville, Senator Katie Britt, and Republican leaders from every corner of our state spoke not about managing decline, but about expanding opportunity. They spoke with confidence that America's best...
Sometimes your political opponents make your case better than you ever could. For months, Senator Tommy Tuberville has warned that Alabama Republicans should choose Republican nominees. His concern was straightforward: Democrats have been crossing over into Republican primaries to influence who will represent the Republican Party in November. Many dismissed Coach Tuberville's warning as politics. Then Alabama Democratic Party Vice Chair Tabitha Isner publicly encouraged Democrats to vote in the...
Professional sports have always depended on stars. The NBA had Michael Jordan. Golf had Tiger Woods. Tennis had Serena Williams. NASCAR had Dale Earnhardt. Today, the WNBA has Caitlin Clark. The remarkable thing is that Caitlin Clark never asked to become the face of the league. She simply showed up, worked harder than almost anyone else, treated fans with respect, elevated her teammates, and played basketball at a level that made millions of Americans suddenly care about a league they had large...
As Judy and I walked out of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival after seeing Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, we found ourselves saying something that surprised even us: we enjoyed this production more than the one we had seen on Broadway. That is not faint praise. The Broadway production was excellent, but the performance we saw in Montgomery felt more intimate, more heartfelt and, in many ways, more alive. The music was wonderful, the cast brought tremendous energy to the stage, and the story...
Justice is supposed to be blind. It is not supposed to be endlessly delayed. Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight. The images shocked America. A husband was stolen from his wife. A father was stolen from his children. A voice that inspired millions was silenced by violence. Yet while America remembers the horror of that day, Charlie's widow, Erika Kirk, is still waiting for the justice her family deserves. No one is arguing that the defendant should be denied his constitutional...
There are moments in American history when doing the right thing requires courage long before it receives applause. This is one of those moments. The United States Supreme Court has affirmed what millions of Americans have believed all along: states have the constitutional authority to protect women's sports and preserve the promise of Title IX. This is more than a legal victory. It is a victory for fairness, common sense, and every young girl who has spent countless hours training with the...
There are moments in history when a nation pauses, looks back with gratitude, and looks forward with confidence. America's 250th birthday is one of those moments. As hundreds of thousands of soccer fans from Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East have traveled across America for the World Cup, they have discovered something television cameras and international headlines could never show them. They have found welcoming communities, thriving downtowns, churches filled on Sunday,...
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance." — Psalm 33:12 History records the rise and fall of kingdoms, empires, and republics. Ancient Greece gave civilization democracy but could not preserve it. Rome built the greatest empire of the ancient world, yet eventually collapsed under the weight of its own excesses. Great powers have risen, flourished, and disappeared into history, leaving behind little more than monuments and memories. Yet t...
Jackson Hospital Must Not Be Allowed to Fail History will remember what the River Region does in this moment. Long after the bankruptcy filings have been archived and the court proceedings have ended, people will remember whether this community came together to save one of its most important institutions or stood by while it disappeared. Jackson Hospital is simply too important to fail. This is not merely another corporate restructuring. Jackson Hospital is one of the largest employers in...
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance." - Psalm 33:12 History records the rise and fall of kingdoms, empires, and republics. Ancient Greece gave civilization democracy but could not preserve it. Rome built the greatest empire of the ancient world, yet eventually collapsed under the weight of its own excesses. Great powers have risen, flourished, and disappeared into history, leaving behind little more than monuments and memories. Yet this...
The Alabama Republican Party did exactly what it was supposed to do. It examined the facts, applied the law, and dismissed the challenge to Senator Tommy Tuberville's candidacy, allowing Republicans to move forward and focus on what really matters-the future of Alabama. Chairman Scott Stadthagen and the members of the committee deserve credit for refusing to let the Party become a stage for political theater. They made a decision based on the evidence and prevented an unnecessary distraction...
Alabama Republican voters sent a message that no consultant, no pollster, and no establishment insider can spin away. President Donald J. Trump remains the most powerful force in Republican politics, and nowhere was that more obvious than in Alabama's runoff elections. In the Republican race for United States Senate, Barry Moore defeated Jared Hudson by a commanding margin. Moore had something every Republican candidate in America wants and very few can truly claim: the full confidence of...
There are moments in politics when the celebration after an election tells us far more than the election itself. Tuesday night in New York was one of those moments. As Democrat primary results came in cheers on the street were for the Democrat Socialists of America who led by their Socialist mayor Mondami were taking on the establishment Democrat machine. As the victories mounted, the streets filled with jubilant supporters chanting, "DSA! DSA! DSA!" Those three letters were more than a slogan....
President Donald J. Trump just celebrated his birthday the only way Donald Trump could: by projecting American strength at home and abroad, announcing a historic peace breakthrough, showcasing American confidence with a UFC event, and returning to the G7 not as a spectator, not as a supplicant, but as the true leader of the free world. What a contrast. Under Joe Biden, America was too often treated like an afterthought. At global summits, Biden looked like a back bencher, a man being handled by...
For decades Alabama conservatives have talked about transforming state government. Politicians have promised reform, accountability, efficiency, and bold leadership. Yet too often the result has been the same old Montgomery culture: move slowly, avoid hard decisions, protect the bureaucracy, study problems endlessly, and hope the public eventually stops paying attention. That era must end. Coach Tommy Tuberville will be the first Governor in a generation with the national relationships,...
There are moments in American history when political leaders are forced to choose between preserving tradition and preserving the nation. This is one of those moments. The SAVE Act is not some obscure procedural bill. It is not another Washington messaging exercise. It is one of the most important election-integrity measures Congress has considered in decades. At its core, the legislation requires documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, and directs states to...
Sometimes a controversy tells us more about the people who are offended than it does about the person who spoke. That is exactly what happened when Congressman Max Miller took to the House floor and delivered a blunt assessment of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and her repeated positions regarding America's enemies. Predictably, Washington's political class immediately shifted the conversation away from terrorism and toward outrage over Miller's words. But the real question is not what Max Miller...
The decision by the United States Supreme Court to allow Alabama to use the Legislature's 2023 congressional map for the 2026 elections is a victory for representative government, constitutional order, and the principle that elected lawmakers, not unelected judges, should draw the political boundaries under which our elections are conducted. For years, Alabama's congressional map has been at the center of a legal and political battle that extended far beyond our state's borders. What began as a...
The American people deserve transparency, especially in a case that has captured national attention and raised serious questions about political violence, public safety, and the integrity of our justice system. The judge's decision to allow cameras in the courtroom during the trial of the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk is the right call and should be commended. President Donald Trump called the assassination of Charlie Kirk "a dark moment for America," saying Kirk "inspired millions" and...
Americans recently watched grown men and women screaming, climbing on desks, waving signs, and acting as though democracy itself had collapsed because the United States Supreme Court refused to endorse race based congressional engineering. The entire spectacle looked less like constitutional debate and more like political theater completely disconnected from the real struggles facing everyday Americans. The truth is the Supreme Court was right, and Justice Clarence Thomas was right all along....
The silence over Arlington National Cemetery today spoke louder than politics, louder than television commentary, and louder than the endless noise of modern America. Row after row of white marble headstones stretched across the hills of Arlington as President Donald Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, joined by Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and General Dan Caine. Together they stood in solemn salute before the resting place of America's unknown...
