Opinion & Policy

If you have followed my thoughts here in this column, it should be obvious that I am extremely disappointed with BOTH the Republicans AND the Democrats who have together dragged our great nation down to our present circumstances. To quote the great George Carlin (1937-2008), “The word ‘bipartisan’ usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being…

  Have you ever heard of the Pareto principle? It is a principle/concept developed by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto in 1906. It is also known as the “80/20 rule” and the “law of the vital few.” It is based upon the theory that 80 percent of the consequences come from 20 percent of the causes.…

  I admit I got my days confused last week with the holiday on Monday so I didn’t get a column done in time to make the deadline. There were plenty of Independence Day celebrations scheduled so if you didn’t see at least one, you missed out! So many from around the country were televised,…

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” – Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963 Almost 250 years ago, the forefathers of these United States drew a line in the sand and refused to accept any further abuses of their rights,…

Dear Editor, My sons would ask me, “Mom, will you tell me about the good days?” I always smiled. I told them I would go to bed with the most beautiful sky and wake up with the sun glaring over fields of groceries. The corn fields were long, and the vegetables grew minute by minute.…

  Inflation, expensive gasoline, a bearish stock market, and product shortages have the American public worried about their financial future. Yet, despite all of the bad news nationally, Alabama actually has positive economic news to share and celebrate. The state of Alabama has now recorded the lowest employment rate in its history. At 2.7 percent, this…

  So the party primaries are over in Alabama, and Katie Britt is now the Republican nominee for the United States Senate. We could say this race was one for the history books, but candidly so have the last three U.S. Senate elections in Alabama. It used to be that Senate contest came along rarely in…

  What a week for the Constitution and states’ rights! I don’t think I ever expected to see the decisions that have been handed down in the last week – especially the decision on Roe v. Wade! I have written before about abortion “rights,” but I’ll stick to what I see is the most important…

“I solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” (A portion of the oath that I swore when I enlisted into the U.S. Army in 1985) When our federal Constitution was…

  “The world is run by those who show up.” This quote has been used to motivate everyone from athletes to business leaders, but it’s never been truer than when it comes to elections — especially elections with a low voter turnout. When only 13% of Alabamians turned out to vote in the June 21…