Opinion

Who needs a debt commission when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is on the case? He wants to allow federal agencies to redirect half of any un...

As the 2010 gubernatorial contest began to formulate almost two years ago, the premier face card in the mix was Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. He was expecte...

As I walked along the beach at Gulf Shores Saturday morning I couldn’t totally avoid the tar clumps but I walked anyway...and I cried. It took me ten ...

Who says you can’t teach an old dad new twists? All across the nation this Father’s Day month, people are telling their fathers, grandfathers, and oth...

The superstars emerging from the June 1 primaries were Ron Sparks and Dr. Robert Bentley. There were a lot of undecided voters in both parties leading...

As we observed Memorial Day this past Monday it occurred to me that I didn’t know much about its origin. Here’s what I found: Memorial Day was officia...

The Arizona immigration law has become the occasion for a sorry exercise in national self-abasement. When Mexican President Felipe Calderon addressed ...

You have an advantage on me as the results from Tuesday’s primaries are known to you as you read this column because the column was sent to your newsp...

As black gold spews from the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico turning the worth of our beaches, fishing waters and wetlands into black pennies it is ...

How often does the Office of Policy Planning and Research, United States Department of Labor produce anything worth reading, let alone a report that r...