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March 10, 2025–Linda "Lindy" Blanchard has been nominated by President Trump to be America's Ambassador to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). On behalf of the Gazette, congratulations! Lindy is one of the earliest Ambassadors to be appointed by the administration-I think she's eight or ninth-which is a mark of distinction. Presidents have about 4000 positions they appoint, and it takes months and months for those slots to be filled. For Lindy to get the nod this early is truly i...
March 6, 2025–SB85 passed out of committee and now is headed to a vote on the Senate floor, and that’s a very good thing. Introduced by State Senator Orr and co-sponsored by State Sen. Chesteen, SB85 strengthens religious vaccine exemptions for both children in K-12 and adults in higher education. At present, religious exemptions for K-12 can only be issued by county health departments. Also, public institutions of higher learning are not required to acknowledge medical exemptions for imm...
March 4, 2025–notes written during the President’s Joint Address to Congress, with reactions as they happened. Some editing was done prior to publication but the shorthand format and comments were generally left as initially recorded. —The Cabinet is coming in now. You have NO idea how happy it makes me to see Bobby Jr, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi and all the rest coming in. The Republican side is ebulent, the Dem side looks like they’re at a funeral, right after somebody kicked their...
March 3, 2025–HOOVER, AL - There are a couple of things I’ve come to expect from the ALGOP Summer and Winter Meetings. They’re about as exciting as watching paint dry, and the food is good. The food is easy to understand. The Renaissance in Montgomery consistently does a great job, and any hotel in Foodie Birmingham that doesn’t have a good kitchen and catering staff risks bankruptcy and/or angry mobs with torches and pitchforks. The main Executive Committee meeting is also carefully scripted to...
March 13, 2025 - Bill would require DHR to notify parents when under investigation Author and investigative journalist Terri LaPoint has issued a Call To Action (CTA) on HB340, asking that it be put on the agenda for the Alabama House's Children and Senior Advocacy Committee. The Committee's next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 19th at 10:30 AM. At present, there are no uniform procedures requiring notification be given to parents or custodians who are under investigation by the...
Focus on America (FOA) will host Ann Eubank during their March meeting in Huntsville. The meeting will be Saturday, March 15 at The Livin' Room, 2820 Governors Drive SW, Huntsville, AL 35805 from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM. Eubank, the Chair of Alabama Legislative Watchdogs, will be discussing the United Nations' Agenda 2030 in Alabama. She will address issues surrounding the possible unknowingly implemented portions of this Agenda through economic development initiatives, its constitutionality,...
Eagle Forum groups in Mobile and Mountain Brook will be hosting Alabama Legislative Watchdogs Chair Ann Eubank at two meetings this week. The topic for both meetings will be "The Rise of Innovation Districts in Alabama and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act." The Mobile meeting will be Tuesday, March 18th at Hill Springs Baptist Church, 335 Eliza Jordan Rd. N, Mobile, AL at 1:00 PM. The Mountain Brook meeting will be Wednesday, March 19th at the O'Neal Library, 50 Oak Street, Mt....
March 17, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump has declared the pardons given by President Biden to the members and staff of the J6 Commission to be "VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by an Autopen." The President went on to say, "In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!" President Trump made this statement Sunday evening on Truth Social. He also said that the members of...
February 10, 2025–No, I didn’t watch the Superbowl yesterday. I was busy doing other things. Braiding my nose hair, polishing my spork collection, stuff like that. I don’t pay much attention to pro football. If it’s not SEC, I don’t much care, and since we Auburn faithful had very little to care about this last season…. Oh, well, even MeeMaw Ivey realizes that we’re a basketball state now. Back to the StuporBowl—I’ve been peripherally aware of the controversy around the questionable play...
February 5, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - HB 2, which requires written parental approval for any minor to receive a vaccine, passed out of the House Judiciary Committee on a unanimous vote Wednesday. The bill will now go to the House floor for a vote. Currently, Alabama's age of consent for medical treatment is 14. HB 2 removes the ability of an unemancipated minor to give consent for vaccine administration without the written consent of a parent or legal guardian. HB2 was introduced by Rep. Chip B...
February 7, 2025–If you asked the average American if they think these are good uses for their tax dollars, what would they say? Even better, ask the residents of Maui, or eastern North Carolina, or Pacific Palisades what they think about: -$969,821 for “development, democracy and innovation, inclusive development, hub programs, protecting the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex individuals“ -$1,999,900 to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender-a...
February 3, 2025–Yes, that's right, my friends! Fish farms will save us from the onrushing doom of anthropogenic climate change! At least that's what one group of researchers would like us to believe. Meanwhile, back in Realityville, we all know they won't. Even if human-caused climate change did exist, no amount of fish farming can possibly affect the global CO2 balance, no matter how much the climate scammers insist it's going to melt the polar caps any day now. That the fish and the ponds w...
February 4, 2025–Governor Kay Ivey-Alabama's MeeMaw-took the stage, recognized a few people and groups, touted her accomplishments, laid out her priorities for the upcoming legislative session, then left thirty minutes after she started. And another State of the State Address went into the history books Tuesday night. Politicians and pastors take note-you could learn a lot about how to give a good speech or sermon from Kay. Let some kids and a couple of worthy adults stand and be recognized, s...
February 11, 2025–It’s been a week since the story of Politico receiving millions from the federal government broke, and people are still talking about it. In our 24 second news cycle, that’s remarkable. The exact numbers Politico received have varied, from $8 million to over $30 million from the government as a whole. Nosy thing that I am, I went to USAspending.gov and did some poking around myself. In Fiscal Years 2021 through 2024, Politico received $31,619,832.04. The highest single quart...
RFK Jr. Sworn In As HHS Secretary February 14, 2025–Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday in the Oval Office. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsich administered the oath of office while President Trump and members of Kennedy's family looked on. Kennedy was confirmed earlier Thursday by a 52-48 vote by the Senate. Alabama Senators Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt both voted for Kennedy's confirmation. Mitch McConnell was the sole Republican w...
February 15, 2015–The U.S. Army has effectively banned transgender individuals from enlisting or actively transitioning while in service. Friday afternoon, the official Army X account, @USArmy, posted the following: "The #USArmy will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating procedures associated with gender transition for service members. "Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria a...
February 17, 2025–President Trump has signed an Executive Order (EO) designed to end COVID “vaccine” mandates in schools and universities. The Order, “Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools,” was signed February 14, 2025. “That solves that problem,” the President said at the signing. Here’s the kicker: “It is the policy of my Administration that discretionary Federal funds should not be used to directly or indirectly support or subsidize an educational se...
February 19, 2025– Governor Ivey’s FY 2026 General Fund budget is making its way through the Legislature. At just over $3.7 billion, it’s some $340 million more than last year, and the largest budget she’s ever sent across the street. There are winners and losers, as there always are, but at a glance it seems pretty reasonable. The budget even contains some $40 million in Corrections Capital Improvement Funds IF certain “conditions” are met. No, I don’t know what the “conditions...
February 21, 2021–I kicked an anthill a couple of days ago here in The Gazette with my article “An Alabama DOGE? YES!” Shortly after it appeared, my phone started blowing up with people supporting it. Several of them said they’d had the same idea, and everyone had an example of waste, fraud, abuse or just plain stupid spending that could be cut. On Thursday, I even heard API’s Stephanie Smith talking on the radio about their ALDOGE project, which she said they started back in December. Apparentl...
February 24, 2025–Hooray! We can all rejoice and rest easy! Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has been eradicated, destroyed, shredded and stamped out across the land! Now we never have to worry about it again! And if you truly believe that, I’ve got a bridge across Mobile Bay to sell you. Yes, there’s been significant progress made against DEI. From the landmark SCOTUS ruling in Students for Fair Admissions vs Harvard to Alabama’s own anti-DEI law (SB129), to President Trump’s Day 1 Exe...
February 25, 2025–HB229–The Best Interest of the Child Protection Act 2025–is an awesome bill that would be great for Alabama kids. It’d be great for Alabama families dealing with the strain of divorce. It would be a good thing for the entire population of our State. Naturally, you probably haven’t heard about it. You haven’t heard about it because it doesn’t come with a price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s not a hot-button issue for the Big Mules or social conservative gr...
February 27, 2025–The Mobile County Health Department (MCHD) has begun issuing refund checks to clients who previously paid a documentation fee for vaccine religious exemption forms. The $30 fee had been charged to clients who had requested a record of religious exemption from otherwise-required vaccinations. Clients who received vaccinations at MCHD were reportedly charged no fee for a vaccination record, while those who received shots from their own physician were charged $10 for an updated r...
February 1, 2025 - CULLMAN, AL - Health Freedom Alabama (HFA) held a Legislative Update in preparation for the new legislative session which will begin next week. The event was hosted by Dr. Nathan Lewis and Align Alabama on Saturday. Stephanie Durnin, Director of Health Freedom Alabama was the featured speaker. Director Durnin discussed the organization's history, their past accomplishments and their goals in this session and beyond. HFA was part of the grassroots coalition that worked to have...
January 31, 2025–Alabama Eagle Forum hosted their annual Policy Conference at First Baptist Church of Birmingham on Friday, January 30th. National and local leaders addressed a crowd of about 140 attendees. The Conference focused on bills and issues of importance to Eagle Forum members during the upcoming legislative session. National Eagle Forum President Kris Ullman discussed the pro-life, pro-family Executive Orders issued by President Trump in his first two weeks in office. She emphasized t...
January 30, 2025–Not ‘should’ we, but ‘could’ we deport Vivek Ramaswamy? Short answer: no, not as things now stand. But, as a child of H1B parents, looking at his situation can help us understand issues that are bound to arise with birthright citizenship of all types. As to whether or not we SHOULD deport him? That’s a separate issue we’ll get to later. On his first day in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO), “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” T...
