Alabama GOP pushes big government agenda disguised as freedom
The Alabama GOP’s agenda claims to champion small government. But on closer examination, it reads more like a blueprint for centralized control.
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America has entered a new era — one in which being awful to others is celebrated and government is judged not on what it does for you, but what it does to someone else.
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Meaningful legislation in Alabama doesn’t fail because it lacks merit — it fails because it gets swallowed by small thinking, partisan pettiness, and political hesitation.
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Margaret Thatcher started a movement of limited government, freedom of the individual and private ownership.
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In Alabama, 20 percent of new mothers experience PPD, a rate significantly higher than the national average.
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With elections a year away, there's no better time than now to let lawmakers know what you want.
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In all of human history, vaccines have arguably saved more lives than any other intervention.
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See recent postsRevisiting the Alabama Child Protection Act: Our children are safer today
As technology advances, our laws must keep pace.
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A survey found that 90 percent support a minimum social media age of 13, and 87 percent oppose personalized algorithms targeting children.
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It is clear that Alabama’s gaming stalemate has been fueled by political corruption, arrogance, greed, and hubris.