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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...
State Representative Rhett Marques voted to raise your taxes while failing to pay his. Documents given to the Alabama Political Contributor yesterday revealed a serious concern relating to Representative Marques paying his taxes. We are not talking about small amounts of money here; these represent substantial financial sums accrued through multiple years of liens. Tax liens were filed against his properties across the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2011. These liabilities accumulated...
PART SIX: The Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin Apparatus & The Political Network: Next Generation PAC, Blueprint Alabama PAC, & Iron City Communications When public accountability rules are enforced as written, money moving through municipal politics leaves a clear paper trail. But under the Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin apparatus, when campaign operations merge with official city business, that trail fractures into an intricate web of Political Action Committees, undisclosed consulting firms...
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...
August 08, 2026 - Benjamin Franklin famously wrote in his 1758 essay The Way to Wealth that it would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth. When examining the record of Republican-in-name-only House District 91 Representative Rhett Marques, Alabama citizens already know the sting of a hard government. Now, he asks the voters of Alabama's second congressional district to send him to Washington. If Marques exports his fiscal policies to the federal level, the nation faces a...
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...
The leader of the West Shelby County Action Group for Eagle Forum, a national conservative organization, stated in a letter that was passed out at the Action Group's meeting, yesterday, that hyperscale data centers are, "a bipartisan issue that concerns the future of our state." Marilyn Simpler noted in her letter that since she has been voicing her opposition to the massive hyperscale Artificial Intelligence data centers, "being pushed into Alabama", she has been called every pejorative...
In the last two years, an unimaginable amount of fraud has been uncovered all over the United States. This issue came to light last year when Nick Shirley, an independent journalist, single-handedly exposed MASSIVE fraud in the childcare system in Minnesota when he showed up at one of the Somali-run, taxpayer-funded daycare facilities only to find it closed in the middle of the day. His work set off alarms across the country. Further investigations revealed that there have been more than $300...
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...
The lead singer of the country music group, "Alabama", is the subject of a documentary entitled, "My Home's In Alabama The Randy Owen Story" that will be premiering on Alabama Public Television on Saturday, August 08th, at seven o'clock in the evening. The title of the documentary derives from the title of Alabama's fourth studio album which was released on May 20th, 1980. Randy Owen was the lead singer for the song on that album, "My Home's In Alabama", with Randy Owen also co-writing the song...
Willie Nelson and Tanya Tucker, both of whom are big names in country music and both of whom hail from Texas, have come out publicly against the massive construction of hyperscale data centers. As Texas is experiencing a massive surge in the construction of the water consuming and energy sapping hyperscale data centers due to a similar reason that Alabama is experiencing an upsurge in hyperscale data centers: cheap and plentiful land. Right now an analysis by the Texas Tribune has identified...
Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey' has already grossed over $727 million this year at the box office. The story of King Odysseus and his epic deeds during the Trojan War and the legendary adventures he had making it back home were immortalized by the Greek poet Homer. Nolan, while leaving the cyclops, the sirens, and other mythical elements to the Odyssey is a modern take by Nolan on the epic poem. Most of us read Homer's epics – the Iliad (about the Trojan War between Greece and Troy) and the O...
My March SoPrep Report promised future dispatches I pray would do justice w.r.t. past graduates and former cadets of the Academy who served, sacrificed and died serving in our nation's military. This is the first on SFC James Leslie Moreland. Southern Preparatory Academy, one of a dozen remaining prep schools in the nation with a Corps of Cadets (military) program, sits at Camp Hill just off US Hwy 280 in East Central Alabama... on the same hallowed grounds bearing Lyman Ward Military Academy [L...
I'm compelled to begin with how dear I hold my country [Alabama] and the Constitution it voluntarily joined, as did my former countries [Maryland and South Carolina] after succeeding from the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union which followed our Declaration of Independence defying King George's asserted 'Divine Right.' I love what we were designed to be and evolving into the more perfect Union promised until forced into a coalition proffering despair observing what we are today. In fa...
In my first report, I highlighted the foundation of a contracting pipeline through which the Magic City mayor's office funnels municipal revenue by outsourcing city projects to private firms. But how does this translate into political capital? The answer lies within a special-interest group called the North Alabama PAC. The Circular System We are not viewing isolated instances of mismanagement; we are watching a self-sustaining cycle that appears to circumvent several core protections in...
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...
Perfect for The Fourth of July, the feature film, "Young Washington", is now showing in movie theaters nationwide. It is a compellingly good movie. While the film does have some French and Indian War era violence which gives it its PG-13 rating, it is overall suited for family viewing. As one young lad of 13 years of age put it while holding up his large cup of Coca Cola in the movie theater, "Young Washington" is a good movie, "even better than this Coke". "Young Washington" focuses on the expe...
July 4, 2026 marks an extraordinary milestone: the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The United States Semi quincentennial serves as an opportunity to reflect on the principles that have shaped the American experiment: self-government, individual liberty, the rule of law, and the role each state, including Alabama, carries to preserve them. Our history has not been without challenges or imperfections, but it has been marked by a continual effort to strengthen our...
Key was a lawyer and obviously had other talents as well. Key was born in 1779; his father was a lawyer and a judge. Though Frances considered becoming an Episcopal priest, he decided to go into law instead. He “read” law under his brother-in-law and Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase. He passed the Bar in 1801. He was considered a good lawyer, practicing in Frederick, Maryland and Washington, D.C. His law practice was successful and was involved in several important cases, appearing even before the...
Happy 250th Birthday, USA!!! As we commemorate this historic milestone, it’s a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the values that unite us as Americans. Our nation’s journey has been shaped by the courage, resilience, and hope of generations who have come before us. Let’s take a moment to appreciate the freedoms we cherish and remember the importance of coming together as a community, not just in celebration, but in support of one another. "You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free....
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...
Today, just about everybody understands that Elon Musk’s greatest dream is to establish a permanent human colony on the planet Mars. Obviously, it is a gargantuan proposal, and many people are claiming that it is utterly impossible. For starters, Musk can’t just jump in and attempt it immediately. Right now, we are in an intense race with China to send American astronauts to the Moon’s south pole to claim the limited strategic high spots with 24/7 daylight for power generation and ice-b...
This Robservation is actually special to me. Not only is it a celebration of the birthday for what I consider to be the greatest country on Earth, but this is also my 200th Robservation. I just wanted to thank Mrs. Grant and say what an honor it has been for me to write for her. During the 250th birthday bash for this great country of ours, emotions are swimming wildly in my head. For me, in my mind at least, my service to this country started long before I even knew it. How? Well, I absolutely...
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,...
