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With the college basketball tournament in full throttle, numerous people have reached out for my expertise on March Madness selections.
Anyone who has visited China in the past decade knows why President Joe Biden is pushing so hard to overhaul U.S. infrastructure.
When the NFL decided not to punish players who kneeled during the pre-game national anthem, some fans reacted by refusing to attend games, buy league merchandise, or watch games on TV.
The redwood is arguably America’s greatest and most famous tree.
Mainstream media are trying to make President Joe Biden look good, according to conservative critics who want to make him look bad. Nothing new about that in our polarized times in which it is easier to find news that agrees with your views than to challenge them.
Fawzia Koofi’s arm still aches from the fractures sustained when an assassin’s bullets ripped through her car six months ago, as she drove home with one of her daughters in Kabul.
We must protect our sacred vote, exhausting our civic due diligence, ensuring that who we send to Washington is proven, tried and tested.
At his news conference last Thursday, President Joe Biden said of Georgia's new voting law, "It makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle."
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden regularly promised to raise taxes. Here are quotes candidate Biden made between his convention acceptance speech and election day on how and why he would raise taxes if he became president.
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With the college basketball tournament in full throttle, numerous people have reached out for my expertise on March Madness selections.
When he was running for president in 2016, Donald Trump said he was going to build a 1,000-mile concrete wall, maybe 30 feet high, on the southern border, and that Mexico would pay for it. The idea, meant to halt gobs of illegal immigration, was outlandish, empty-headed and abandoned.
Dangerous driving should be punished. Living in poverty should not.
West Virginia is unique among America’s 50 states. At a convention in Wheeling, Virginia, in 1861, delegates from Virginia’s northwest counties, which were loyal to the Union, voted to break away from that state over the issue of slavery and their refusal to be part of the Confederate states.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
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Recently, an 8-year-old Nova Scotia, Canada, boy came upon a message in a bottle that had been tossed into the water 25 years ago.
When government fails, it’s the rare public official who says, “Oops. My fault.”
When a politician promises to “tell the truth,” as President Joe Biden did in his nationally televised address last Thursday, you can add that statement to familiar ones lacking the ring of sincerity. They include: “The gun isn’t loaded;” “the microphone is off;” “if you like your doctor, yo…
“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy
Open government is good government or, at the very least, it is better government.
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I'm certain you've heard by now that Kangaroo Jack has been captured.
Few things are as intellectually thrilling as watching an idea spring to life, capturing more and more minds until it becomes conventional wisdom. And there are few areas of law where this has been as pronounced as antitrust.
Dr. Seuss and Potato Head may not seem the same.
For centuries, one of the great pastimes of the English landed gentry was foxhunting. Part of that fun involved the occasional need to distract the hounds away from the scent they’d been following, which was accomplished by dragging a red herring — a real fish on a string — across the trail …
In recent weeks, large portions of the South, including Alabama, were hit with unseasonably cold weather that brought cold temperatures, snow and ice to the region.
He walked out on the stage and the crowd was cheering, the music was blasting “I’m proud to be an American,” and former President Donald Trump did look proud, very proud. This was despite a lost election he says he won, a Capitol riot he says he did not start and a furious but failed impeach…
Former president Donald Trump emerged from 38 days of self-enforced silence for a lengthy speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, that was frequently interrupted with boisterous applause and chants from an adoring, mostly white and older crowd.
Why do we put locks on exterior glass doors? Why would a business extend credit to a customer with merely an illegible signature on a purchase ticket? Why do we make promises to customers based on the future performance of vendors?
President Biden has challenged those who oppose the Democrats' $1.9 trillion bill disingenuously dubbed "COVID relief," or the more deceitful "American Rescue Plan."
There is no more competitive endeavor than economic development. The competition for projects that will create well-paying jobs in all Alabama communities has never been more fierce.
President Joe Biden says he’s ready to resuscitate the Iran deal former President Barack Obama disastrously gave us if Iran quits its advanced uranium enrichment, the kind that could ultimately deliver nuclear bombs. Bullying Iran says in reply that it will do no such thing unless Biden firs…
I wasn’t going to write a second column on the passing of Rush Limbaugh but given the reaction from hostile and snarky individuals — even from a few self-styled conservatives — explaining his influence is key to understanding him and more importantly the movement for which he was such a powe…
Almost a half-century ago, a list of rules really caught on. Without the benefit of the Internet, email or social media, but with no less an endorsement than syndicated newspaper oracle, Ann Landers, "Ten Rules For Being Human” quickly circulated around the globe.
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My father was from Illinois, and I have a ton of family up there.
Social workers empower people, comfort them, and help navigate life’s most difficult moments; yet as helpful as we are, our profession often remains misunderstood.
The people who hand out Emmy Awards should ask New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return the one they gave him.
Arguably our first primordial tool, humans owe a lot to blunt instruments. Indeed, the world could not have been built without hammers and such.
Talking about race, I have long observed, is like talking about sex: We know it’s important, we like to think we know all about it, and yet we’re reluctant to talk about it in mixed company or in front of the children.
Most Alabamians remember the “poop train” well. In 2018 it was revealed that 10 million pounds of human waste was being shipped from New York to a landfill in Adamsville. When Alabama residents became aware of this exploitation, they fought back. Within weeks, New York’s contract to send its…
When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of state of the last half-century, the usual choices are Henry A. Kissinger, the brilliant but amoral strategist who arranged Richard M. Nixon’s opening to China, and James A. Baker III, the deft tactician who helped George H.W. Bush com…
The problem with free money is that it leads to an addiction much like an addiction to drugs. In the case of the $1.9 trillion “relief” bill that has no Republican support, Congress is the supplier, while those on the receiving end become increasingly addicted to government and less self-reliant.
One of the most interesting relationships in the Main Street economy is the one between business owners and their banks. It is at once powerful and essential. Let me tell you a short story about where this dynamic has been in order to explain where it’s going.
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I remember reading a comic strip in which Bigfoot is trying to make a withdrawal from a bank and the teller is checking his identification.
For anyone who doubts why it is vital to move forward with the Senate impeachment trial, take a look at what’s going on this week in a Moscow courtroom.
If a company quadrupled sales while simultaneously reducing all expenses to levels from 30 years ago, it would be celebrated from Main Street to Wall Street. Books would be written about such performance and that model would be taught in schools as a clinic on operating excellence.
President Joe Biden and his press secretary, Jen Psaki, have assured us he is a "devout Catholic" who "attends church regularly." The question is not new but should be asked again and a credible answer demanded. How can one be devout about one's faith and not comport with Scripture and the t…
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If you can’t be a king, goes an old nugget of political wisdom, be a kingmaker. Former President Donald Trump is taking that advice to heart, shifting his post-presidency to endorsements of some and condemnations of others.
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A great deal of people have asked me to explain this whole GameStop/Wall Street deal that's going on.
At March of Dimes, we know the health of a community is reflected by the health and well-being of its babies, and in Alabama, one in eight babies is born too sick, too soon. That is nearly 7,000 babies a year.
Conspiracy theories have always played a role in American politics. The Know Nothing Party of the 1850s was founded entirely on belief that si…
The Dothan Eagle on whether Gov. Kay Ivey will seek re-election:
In many ways, human brains are hardwired for pessimism. It’s a handy defense mechanism that helps us avoid dangerous situations, but it can al…
On April 9, the state mask mandate ends. Does that mean that you no longer have to wear a mask? Depends.
The big lie was no lie at all
I sometimes wonder why my ancestors in South Carolina owned slaves before the Civil War.
There is no need to worry about billions that’s going overseas. I’m 82 years old and its been going on ever since I’ve been in the world.
If you have never seen the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” now might be the right time. I think Aunt Nancy Pelosi has assumed the rol…
It is understandable why every December the mail doesn’t come until 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. It is also understandable during the COVID crisis, the ma…
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