No place like home in Sweet Home Alabama?
Will Alabama citizens see their leaders champion a brighter, more hopeful tomorrow? It's difficult to tell from the campaign ads.
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See recent postsOn medical marijuana, listen to doctors, not Steve Marshall
Deaths from opioid overdoses in 2018: 47,600. Deaths from marijuana overdoses in all recorded history: 0. These are fairly important numbers if you’re making an argument that medical marijuana shouldn’t be legalized because opioids are also used for pain and they’ve been a big problem. I know that sounds a really dumb argument to make, … Continued
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See recent postsALGOP’s biggest fear: Roy Moore running again
It’s such a shame to see racist pandering go wasted. But such is life for Tommy Tuberville and Bradley Byrne, it appears. Two reasonable, educated men, who chose not to raise the level of discourse in their bids for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat but instead sank quickly to the bottom of the scum-filled swamp to … Continued
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See recent postsGot to get rid of this Democratic Party of Alabama
The problem is the Democratic Party of Alabama. An awful mess looks better. In Tuesday’s elections, Republicans won top to bottom in statewide and congressional races that had credible Democratic Party challengers. And across those races, the Democrats were clearly, unquestionably, more qualified than their stale, same-as-always, mostly race-baiting, health care-hating, fear-mongering Republican incumbents. Gov.-elect … Continued
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See recent postsThe yoga ban in Alabama schools explains so much
Yoga is illegal in Alabama public schools. If you ever wanted to sum up this state, that sentence — and the explanation behind it — should more than suffice. In a nutshell, it’s this: Alabama lawmakers were, in the early 1990s, so concerned with the spread of the Hindu religion, by way of strenuous stretching, … Continued
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See recent postsAlabama deserves Roy Moore
By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter Apparently, this needs to be said again: Alabama does not deserve better than Roy Moore. Back when former Gov. Robert Bentley was first rumored to have misused taxpayer money to facilitate an affair with his top advisor, there was this crazy idea among many around the state that somehow … Continued