For the political and social activists who gathered at UA’s Bryant Conference Center Thursday, there is a bigger political issue facing the state than bingo and health care. Alabama Citizens for Constitutional...

The most important thing I’ve learned from writing about politics on this page for the past two years is that you have to make your point clear, concise and memorable. Lengthy explanations are great...

Josh Veazey’s column on Wednesday defended an Our View from last week against a comment posted on The Crimson White’s website. The Our View was a criticism of the Catholic Church for its handling of...

You may be suffering when you fill up your gas tank, but Sarah Palin evidently has it far worse. Even “drill, baby, drill” isn’t good enough for her now that Democrats are talking about it. President...

The media gets a lot of criticism for having a left-wing bias, and maybe they (we) do, at least a little bit. One thing that is indisputable, however, is that the right is driving debate. Talk about health...

If there’s one phrase I got sick of during this year’s SGA campaign, it was “perception is reality.” The problem with hating that phrase is that it’s too true to ignore. Perception really is...

This November, when I mail my ballot back home to Ohio, the circle I fill in next to “For U.S. Senate” won’t matter as much as a vote for or against Republican Sen. Richard Shelby here in Alabama....

I could never call $35 billion a “small amount of money,” seeing as I still find paying an extra quarter for a Dr. Pepper from a soda machine egregious. For our federal government, however, $35 billion...

“I don’t get paid enough to put up with this.” We’ve all heard this before. Most of us have probably said it. I know I have. It makes sense that many people would see pay as compensation for abuse...

The most powerful unions left in America protect the very skilled workers of a few highly specialized fields, and when they strike, America notices. They don’t represent industrial workers, teachers,...

Talking about seceding from the United States from one side of your mouth while touting your patriotism with the other side is like calling for bipartisanship after saying, “Either you are with us, or...

There are two ways to lose. In our culture, one way is immortalized. The other is vilified. One way is to go down swinging. The idea of valor in defeat is everywhere in American culture. In “To Kill...