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Alabama taxpayers will pay to defend Trump administration rollback of Endangered Species Act

Alabama taxpayers will pay as much as $30,000 to a Los Angeles law firm to defend President Donald Trump’s substantial weakening of the Endangered Species Act, according to state records.  Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall led a coalition of 13 states in the Dec. 9 filing in a California district court in defense of the … Continued
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January 9, 2020
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Trump’s leadership – one is a majority

As a young 20 year old budding entrepreneur, I vigorously studied leadership.  I was attracted to the vogue readings of the day on leadership, managing and goal setting.  I learned that if you put 100 people in the room, 15 would emerge as leaders and only 3 will set goals and measure their success. My … Continued
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January 7, 2020
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There are good reasons to be concerned about the killing of Suleimani

No one cares about the terrorist.  Let me be crystal clear about that. Qassim Suleimani was an evil guy who seemed dead set on killing Americans and American allies, and I don’t much care that he’s dead.  I felt the same way about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last year. And the same way about Osama bin … Continued
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January 6, 2020

Sessions denounces Jones’ support for Pelosi’s withholding articles of impeachment

Friday, U.S. Senate candidate former Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R) denounced statements by Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, supporting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, position that she will hold up delivering articles of impeachment to the Senate until the Republican Senate majority gives Senate Democrats more favorable terms on the pending impeachment trial of … Continued
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January 6, 2020
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Alabama lawmakers continue to defend an indefensible president

Donald Trump was impeached Wednesday night, because he deserved to be impeached.  Oh, I know that’s news to a lot of people in Alabama, where a conservative information bubble deflects away facts that are inconvenient to the conservative way of thinking. But it’s true.  Trump deserved to be impeached. More so than any other president.  … Continued
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December 19, 2019
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Unchallenged awfulness has ruled Alabama politics for too long

Maybe, just maybe, Tommy Tuberville is our fault.  The fault of the sane people. The fault of the non-crazies.   Because we’re not harsh people. We don’t like to try and force our beliefs and thoughts on others. We prefer rational conversations and honest debate. And God bless us, we still, after all this time and … Continued
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December 10, 2019
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National frustrations hit high water mark

When I was first officially assigned a role in the public sector, Governor Guy Hunt appointed me in 1989, as Alabama State Small Business Advocate.  I was thirty-five years old, a team player, easy to work with, friendly to everyone in government and the private sector, yet mission oriented to advance the cause of the … Continued
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December 6, 2019
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A guide for dealing with your conservative relatives this holiday season

The holiday gathering season is upon us, and with that brings the inevitable confrontations and arguments and snippy, under-your-breath comments with the annoying family members that you purposely avoid for the rest of the year.  No such luck starting now though. All across Alabama, we will be tucked up tight at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner … Continued
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November 27, 2019
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Serious about corruption? Investigate the Bidens

Speaker Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and their Democratic colleagues have spent countless hours and taxpayer dollars to find evidence that President Trump was involved in corruption.  At the same time, Democrats refuse to even consider the fundamental issue at hand – was President Trump right to question the activities of Hunter Biden in Ukraine?  Months ago, … Continued
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November 12, 2019