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Alabama lawmakers back Trump, prove they’ve learned nothing from recent scandals

Why do our people never learn? You would think that in a state where at least eight lawmakers and multiple politicos have been indicted or convicted in recent years of public corruption that we would take from that a few lessons on how to behave. You’d think our lawmakers would, at the very least, learn … Continued

Josh Moon

February 28, 2019

Opinion

Let’s put a wall around petty Donald Trump

How can one quantify how petty our infant-acting president, Donald J. Trump, really is? Trump is so dim, he actually may be an unwitting tool of Russia. Hard to believe somebody as thin-skinned and brain-challenged as Trump could be working for the Russians intentionally. Yet, he may be doing that, too. Evidence looks strong. Trump … Continued

Joey Kennedy

January 18, 2019

Opinion

Trump’s con game is almost over

It’s all true. All of the rumors. All of the speculation. All of the oh-my-God-have-you-heard-about whispers. All of it is true. All of the things that Donald Trump and his administration and family have been accused of doing … they actually did them. All of them. Even the really dumb ones. Even the really awful … Continued

Josh Moon

December 14, 2018

Opinion

“Once in a lifetime” is happening far too often in our lives

Earlier this week, I listened to Dr. James B. McClintock speak to students in the University Honors Program at UAB. McClintock, the renowned Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the university, once again showed, with ample evidence, what climate change is doing to polar ice in both the Arctic (Northern Hemisphere) and … Continued

Joey Kennedy

September 13, 2018

Opinion

The media is the enemy

We are the enemy. That’s what the president said of “the media” — and really, if nothing else, we need to discuss the all-encompassing idiocy of that label sometime. But now isn’t the time, because right now we need to discuss the continued attacks from the highest office in the country on the profession that … Continued

Josh Moon

June 29, 2018

Opinion

The Republican Party has a problem

Greed is consuming the Republican Party. From top to bottom, state and national, today’s GOP is filled with men and women who will shirk any ideal, sell out any person or group and subvert any ethics laws to enrich themselves and their friends. If you doubt this, do me one favor: Read the New York … Continued

Josh Moon

April 23, 2018

Opinion

There’s nothing left to matter

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter Nothing matters anymore. Evidence. Facts. Credible allegations. Actual arrests and guilty pleas. Nope. Negative. Lies. Fake news. This is America’s motto in 2017: We believe what we want to believe, and dammit, that’s our right. Which is true, I guess. Stupid, but true. Over the last few weeks, I … Continued

Josh Moon

December 5, 2017

$10,000 reward offered in murder of Crenshaw County man

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter A year ago, 78-year-old Earl Cosby was murdered in his office. The family man and used car dealer was well known across Rutledge Alabama. The entire rural community was shocked by his sudden and tragic death. A year later and there still has not been an arrest. Cosby’s family … Continued

Brandon Moseley

June 20, 2017

Opinion

There really is no alternative to the facts

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter “Alternative facts”? Really? What are those things? Facts are facts, right? Facts are the truth, regardless of what others may wish they were. Just wishing the facts aren’t what one would hope doesn’t make them “alternative facts.” I had a discussion with my older sister and her husband, Fox … Continued

Joey Kennedy

January 25, 2017

Justice Moore’s Future Rests With Politically Appointed Court

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—The fate of Chief Justice Roy S. Moore now rests with the Court of the Judiciary, an appointed body consisting of judges, lawyers, and private citizens. Those nine political appointees are Moore’s judge and jury and will return its verdict within ten days. But perhaps Justice Moore’s indictment and … Continued

Bill Britt

September 29, 2016