David Cameron, the British prime minister who flew to Washington, D.C. on a commercial flight last week for a meeting with President Obama, offers more lessons for our politics than can be analyzed in...
The Alabama Education Association (AEA), the state teacher’s union, is understandably giddy about Robert Bentley’s defeat of Bradley Byrne in the Republican primary runoff last week. They should proceed...
A sign in Gulf Shores last weekend read “What would Jimmy Buffett do? Throw a party at the oil slick.” Since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico first absorbed the nation’s attention two months...
Perhaps the worst thing about President Obama’s failing economic policy is that it has distracted attention from his disastrous foreign policy, which might make the United States more vulnerable over...
In a letter to the leaders of the world’s 20 most economically developed nations last week, President Obama called on the group to “reaffirm our unity of purpose to provide the policy support necessary...
When I was a kid vacationing in Florida amusement parks with my parents, I was always amazed by the exotic images emblazoned on the arms, legs, backs, necks and even the shaved heads of some of the other...
Online retailer Zazzle now sells T-shirts that read, “Plug the hole with BP executives.” That suggestion—however implausible—is significant in that it captures the public’s frustration over the...
June 24, 2010, will be a big day in Atmore, Al. That is when the Escambia County Board of Education is scheduled to select a new principal for the troubled Escambia County High School. Their choice will...
Twenty years from now, when Alabama Democrats look back and ask when, exactly, they became irrelevant in Alabama politics, they will find their answer in Tuesday’s primary results. Given the choice between...
Around this time in 1982, an unassuming Camden native named Jo Bonner graduated from The University of Alabama with an eye on getting into politics. The field has suited him well. Bonner now represents...
“May I have your attention please, May I have your attention please, Will the Real Slim Shady please stand up? We’re going to have a problem here…” ~ Eminem Indeed,...
Nancy Pelosi stood on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Sunday night, prior to the looming passage of the president’s health care reform plan, and encouraged her colleagues to vote yes,...
