Just about everyone who wants a job in most parts of Alabama should have one by now with unemployment at 2.9 percent.

The GOP Primary is less than two weeks away on May 24. It has been an interesting and expensive race to fill the seat of our venerable and powerful senior Senator Richard Shelby.

The leaked first draft opinion of the Supreme Court’s majority view to overturn Roe v. Wade may or may not be the justices’ final decision.

Progressives claim no judge should have the power to tell them they can or cannot have an abortion. They do not want to admit it, but they are agreeing with Justice Samuel Alito’s point in the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health. The Court should never have…

Our iconic senior United States Senator, Richard Shelby, turns 88 this week. Shelby is in the waning months of his monumental career in the Senate. He will end his tenure at the end of this year after 36 years in the U.S. Senate.

If you ever read the novel or saw the movie “Lord of the Flies” you’d be right to conclude that people left without a “veneer of civilization” are mean-spirited, cruel and even hateful unto murder. In that story, a group of English school boys find themselves stranded on an island. After a s…

I don’t know if this column will ever be published. Or, better put, if I’ll have the nerve to publish it.

Every day there is a new dawn. My eyes open to reveal a world without my loved one. It’s not simply that he is missed or is gone. My entire world has been altered and shifted. It’s out of my control.

Fighting Republican authoritarianism means sometimes delaying political gratification.

Alabama’s Caleb Hicks was invited to the White House earlier this month to participate in the president’s annual Easter Egg Roll.

Tucker Carlson’s foray is only the latest (and possibly most amusing) example of the right wing’s masculinity obsession. The manliness theme keeps reappearing. Trump’s strutting tough talk was imbibed greedily by fans eager for affirmation of the manly virtues.

My flights these days are often sad. I sit on tree limbs and watch televisions through windows with my other bird friends. We see decayed, murdered civilians, their hands tied behind their backs, laying on streets in Bucha, a town in Ukraine. Close-range gunshots have blasted heads open. A R…

Today, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of gratitude. This isn’t a given for me, at this point in my life. Sometimes I feel the opposite of gratitude; for that I am sorry.

It didn’t matter the number of columns saved into my hard drive this week, because none of them evoked any creativity from me. There is one thing on my mind and only one — grief.

I really am flummoxed by the ineptitude of President Joe Biden and his chief of staff, Ron Klain. Biden has been a Washington politician for half a century, including eight years as vice president and before that a senior senator. Klain is a consummate Washington insider, having worked for J…

There is honor, of a sordid sort, in the Biden administration’s showing more gratitude to a major donor than concern for the needs of millions of children, disproportionately minorities. The administration prefers the donor, a government-employees union, over the children, even though this t…

Many of you have asked the question, “Have you ever seen anyone simply run a media only campaign and avoid campaigning like Mike Durant has done in this year’s U.S. Senate campaign.” Surprisingly my answer for many of you is, “Yes, I have.”

We can never get enough “funny” in our lives. Take, for instance, a family I flew over recently who came to a wedding here in our little part of Alabama. I landed in the branches of a nearby pine tree and overheard this story. Mom and dad said they took their 6-year-old son and 10-year-old d…

There is probably no easy cure for the Marjorie Taylor Greene phenomenon. She’s a repellent clown whose presence on the national stage has yielded nothing but degradation — except for the guffaw she afforded us when denouncing Nancy Pelosi’s “Gazpacho police.”

Sometime slightly less than 2,000 years ago on a Friday, a carpenter’s son stood silent before the fifth Roman governor of the Roman province of Judea, Pontius Pilate. The local leaders in Jerusalem had plotted to kill the man, named Jesus. The plot sped with unchecked momentum when gossip b…

For several years leading up to the 2010 Census count, the national projections were that Alabama would lose one of our seven congressional districts and drop to six. When the count was taken, we surprised ourselves and the nation and kept our seven seats in the United States Congress.

The legislative session just concluded and coincided with the release of VOICES for Alabama’s Children’s annual data book. The VOICES report indicated we have many more issues ahead that need attention. The research results provided by VOICES are not good. (But keep reading, help is on the way.)