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The Wynlakes Country Club Ballroom was "buzzing" this past May 9th, as the Montgomery Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) Chapter 102 hosted a most memorable luncheon that honored six notable aviation and space legends, the "Eagles". These Eagles were selected by the 2024 Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) students. ACSC is the lead organization for the Gathering of Eagles (GOE) the program that selects and hosts the Eagles. The GOE idea began in 1980, when retired Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets...
On Friday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) announced the conviction of a Lauderdale County man on multiple counts of possession of child pornography. Kevin Prather, age 52, of Rogersville, pleaded guilty on Thursday in Lauderdale County Circuit Court to five counts of possession of obscene material depicting a person under the age of 17. Prather was sentenced to 10 years, which was split for him to serve one year in prison followed by a term of three years of supervised probation. Up...
Saturday, marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Allen v. Milligan, which sent Alabama's congressional districts back to the courts for review. Supporters of the decision claim that the court reinforced Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Opponents argue that it is simply gerrymandering based on arbitrary racial breakdowns. As a result, however Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia have been forced to draw new congressional representative maps with additional Black...
On Friday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 43 Senate colleagues, including U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) in introducing a bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to strike down the Biden administration's rule about unaccompanied minors crossing the border. Tuberville and the Republican warn that Biden's plan for unaccompanied minors is endangering the safety and wellbeing of the unaccompanied alien children. "The...
The adoptable pet of the week is Bunny. Bunny is a female, 3 1/2 yrs old, 40 lb medium sized dog. She was surrendered with three other dogs. Bunny is very friendly once she settled in and we were told is good with other dogs and cats. She is playful and affectionate – perfect size! The fee to adoption Bunny or any of the many other pets at the Elmore Humane Society is $100 for dogs and $50 for cats under one-year-old; cats over one-year-old can be adopted by approved adopters for a fee of t...
On Monday, Judicial Watch announced that it has received 54 pages of records from the Department of Justice in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit which they claim shows that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Office of Congressional Affairs (OCA) provided a Democrat staffer with information on FBI whistleblowers who testified in a May 18, 2023 hearing. The whistleblowers detailed the bureau's targeting of political opponents. Judicial Watch claims that a May 23, 2023, email from...
In a statement on social media, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) announced the passing of retired K-9 officer Mary Jane. ALEA wrote, "It is with great sadness that we share the passing of retired ALEA K-9 Mary Jane who passed away on Friday, June 7. A Belgian Malinois, who loved working. She took a medical retirement in 2022 after serving the Agency for almost ten years with Cpl. James Hendrix. Mary Janes loved to work and was responsible for hundreds of criminal charges, over $500,000...
Last week President Joseph R. Biden (D) issued an executive order that would impose restrictions on border crossings is certain limits were exceeded. Congressman Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) dismissed Biden's executive order as "election season spin." "Biden's "border security" executive order is nothing more than election season spin," Moore said on the social medial platform X. "He signed 94 executive orders to dismantle Trump's border policies. He could reinstate all of them right now - but he...
Clean Up Alabama on Tuesday released a statement claiming that the Autauga Prattville Public Library (APPL) is "under attack from left wing radicals for creating safeguards to protect children and needs your help!" "The ramifications of this federal lawsuit will set the precedent in the battle for the minds of our youth." Read Freely Alabama founder Angie Hayden and Alabama Library Association immediate past president Matthew Layne have sued the Library in federal court alleging that the...
This is an election year and not much gets done legislatively during presidential election years; but this is not your normal presidential election. On Thursday, May 30 a New York jury found the presumptive Republican nominee for President – former President Donald J. Trump – guilty on 34 counts. Republicans, including U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), are furious about the verdict and what they perceive as the Democrats weaponizing the legal system against Trump and the GOP. Tub...
On Tuesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) announces the conviction of a St. Clair County man on multiple counts of possession of child pornography with intent to disseminate and transmitting obscene matter. Terry DeWayne Herring is 28 years old and a native of Pell City. Herring pleaded guilty yesterday in St. Clair County Circuit Court to five counts of possession of obscene matter with intent to disseminate images and videos depicting a person under the age of 17 and one count...
On Tuesday, Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL03) strongly criticized President Joseph R. Biden (D) for opposing a significant pay increase for junior enlisted members of the armed forces. Rogers is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He released a statement on President Biden's objection to the 15% pay raise for junior enlisted servicemembers in the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act (the 2025 NDAA). "President Biden believes providing...
During the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) toured Omaha Beach, one of five beach landing sites for the Allied forces during World War II. "...80 years ago today, so many brave men came to protect freedom, freedom that we're enjoying now in America and across the globe," said Sen. Britt. "...we're the Land of the Free because of the Brave, and we got to see and celebrate the Brave today." "We hope that today, you will join us...
Alabama will receive $13.5 million for Alabama's portion of a $700 national settlement in allegations related to marketing of baby powder products that contained talc. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) and 42 state attorneys general announced that they have reached a $700 million nationwide settlement to resolve allegations related to the marketing of Johnson & Johnson's baby powder and body powder products that contained talc. As part of the settlement, which is pending judicial appro...
Pro-Life groups suffered a serious setback on Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it has upheld a Biden Administration rule allowing full access to the controversial abortion pill – mifepristone. Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) released a statement expressing his disappointment with the ruling. "I am disappointed to learn that the Supreme Court upheld full access to the dangerous abortion pill, mifepristone," said Rep. Aderholt in a statement. "While I fully r...
On Thursday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) joined officials with Coca-Cola UNITED in a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of their planned new headquarters and operations center in Birmingham. The new facility is being built on the site of the long abandoned Stockham Valve site on Richard Arrington Boulevard, near the Kingston and Woodlawn neighborhoods. "Today is a great day for the City of Birmingham and the entire City of Alabama," said Gov. Ivey. "Coca-Cola UNITED's new campus is a $330 mil...
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the ATF's rule making possession of bump stocks a crime is unenforceable. The decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas and passed the Court 6 to 3. Bump stocks had been legally sold across this country for years, until an assassin used them in a Los Vegas mass shooting to kill 60 people and wound a hundred more at an outdoors concert. Bump stocks allow a conventional semi-automatic rifle to achieve a much faster rate of fire. Following the...
On Friday, Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-Selma) voted against the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that passed the House of Representatives on Friday. Sewell voted for the NDAA when it came out of the House Armed Services Committee where she is a member. On Friday she voted against the bill after Republicans added a number of partisan amendments that Democrats opposed to the bill. "I am beyond disappointed that House Republican leadership has once again abandoned a...
On Friday, the Justice Department (DOJ) issued a determination that Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland committed no crime when he refused to honor the subpoena of Congress and hand over the of President Joseph R. Biden's (D) conversation with special counsel Robert Hur. Based on that conversation, Hur determined that while Biden "willfully" retained and disclosed highly classified materials from his vice presidency with a ghost writer when he was a private citizen; his memory was...
On Wednesday, U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) led all Republican Senators in a joint statement supporting continued nationwide access to in vitro fertilization. "Senate Democrats have embraced a Summer of Scare Tactics-a partisan campaign of false fearmongering intended to mislead and confuse the American people. In vitro fertilization is legal and available in every state across our nation. We strongly support continued nationwide access to IVF, which has allowed...
On Thursday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Sen. Katie Britt (R-Alabama), and 26 other Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland condemning the Biden's administration's weaponization of the American judicial process and the conviction of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan. "The Biden Administration is complicit in the destruction of due process of law," the Senators wrote in the letter. "The elusive crimes for...
Percy is looking for a home. Percy is a seven-year-old big boy whose owner loved him but due to circumstances was unable to keep him. Percy is a big dog. He weighs 140 pounds and needs to lose weight. He is house trained, crate trained and great with other dogs, cats and children, He likes to sleep on the couch and loves attention. Percy has one special need as he must take Thyroid Medication (1 1/2 tabs of 1.0 mg Thyroid medicine/once a day). This is not an expensive med and the pills are tiny...
On Tuesday the Montgomery County Commission will consider a proposal by a multi-national corporate conglomerate to turn thousands of acres of south Montgomery farmland into a massive solar farm. Local residents of the Snowden community are so concerned with this project that they held a community meeting to voice their concerns last week. There were concerns that the massive development will be unsightly, will lower property values, and will come with environmental consequences for the...
On Thursday, U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) and Katie Britt (R-Alabama) joined Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri), Senator Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania), and other colleagues in introducing the bipartisan Ensuring Nationwide Access to a Better Life Experience (ENABLE) Act. The ENABLE Act preserves the ability of people with disabilities and their families to save and invest through tax-free savings accounts while protecting eligibility to federal programs like Medicaid and Supplemental...
In 2020 Donald J. Trump (R) received more votes than any previous Presidential candidate in the nation's history. Trump received 74,223,975 votes in 2020. That is over 11 million voters more than the 62,984,828 votes he received in 2016 when he defeated former Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton (D). Trump won the electoral college vote in 2016 but lost the popular vote to Clinton. Trump's 2020 performance bested Hillary's 2016 numbers by over 8 million votes. Hillary R. Clinton received in...
