The people's voice of reason
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The eight-day election prayer guide written by the granddaughter of the highly regarded Billy Graham, Cissie Graham Lynch, is now available for free from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Known for her "Fearless" series in which Cissie Graham Lynch tackles important modern day social issues from an evangelical Biblical perspective head on, the prayer guide implores readers to research the candidates, to pray fervently, and exercise their privilege to vote. Opening with a verse from 1 Ti...
Anybody Running This Country? America is in chaos. Our economy is faltering. Our borders are in shambles, and the world is laughing at us. You know it, I know it, and yet the people in power act like everything is fine. But let’s face it, we don’t even know who’s running the country anymore. Joe Biden is barely coherent, and Kamala Harris is nowhere to be found. This is a crisis—one that demands action and fast. If we don't put Donald Trump back in the White House, we might not have a country...
September 27, 2024 – Tuscaloosa - For our final class of the Citizens Academy, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff gave us the grand tour of what they call "Tuscaloosa's finest gated community" - the County Jail. All of us participants in the Citizens Academy looked forward to the occasion with both trepidation and anticipation. And as we stood outside of the entrance to the jail waiting for class to begin, more than one of us made a list of who we'd call to bail us out, should we be detained for a...
Communication has always been critical to international growth, development and understanding, but we take the ability of people to communicate for granted as most everyone has immediate access to phones, email, and text messaging. While instant communication is new, not too long ago, the main source of communication was the written word, transmitted primarily by letters. As each country developed, the need to communicate increased exponentially. Private couriers worked great for the...
Three companies (Black Rock, State Street, and Vanguard) currently own controlling interest in 95% of the publicly traded companies in the United States and on track, within the next five years, to own 60% of all our single family homes. The three companies are really one company as they own each other's stock however. How is it possible for one firm to basically own the richest country in history? One theory makes sense. In 1913 Congress ceded its constitutional authority to "coin money" to a...
The No. 2 Debate October 2, 2024–I expected the Vice Presidential debate to be a big, stinking pile of No. 2. I was only mildly disappointed. I can say two good things about it: it's over, and we won’t have to endure another one. Okay, three things: it wasn’t as badly biased as the Trump/Harris debate. Tiny props to CBS for that. It was amusing to watch J.D. Vance fact check the fact checkers on the CBP One app. That made me giggle. Then, I dozed off halfway through because BORING, until right...
Tuesday night, we witnessed an absolute thrashing on the debate stage. J.D. Vance came out laser focused and didn’t stop until Tim Walz was left in shambles. You couldn’t ask for a more clear-cut example of why Vance is presidential material, while Walz? Well, let’s just say I wouldn’t trust him to coach a mediocre high school football team. Vance was everything you’d want in a leader—confident, calm, sharp, and completely unshakable. His rise from a tough upbringing in Appalachia to becoming...
For the last two months, the mainstream media has attempted to plant a false image in the minds of voters. Like an oasis in the desert, the Democratic faithful looked at Vice President Harris as if they thirsted for water. Although the aggregate numbers show the race as tied in the battlegrounds, a pattern has emerged in a few key states. The outcome is far from certain, but this is a troubling sign for the Harris supporters. In Georgia, Trump leads Harris by 1.4% in the aggregate poll average,...
The Biden administration has issued 535 executive orders on immigration since taking office, leading to a significant increase in the influx of Haitian immigrants into the United States. As of September 24, 2024, an estimated 852,000 Haitians reside in the country, with this number continuing to rise each month due to various immigration programs. One significant program is the Humanity Parole Program for Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Venezuelans, announced by the President in January...
October 1, 2024 - Today marks a milestone for an iconic figure in American history. President Jimmy Carter turns 100. Only a fraction of people reach this age. Let us take a moment to reflect on his life and pay homage to the former President. Jimmy Carter entered this world on October 1st ,1924, becoming the first American president born in a hospital. While attending Georgia Tech, he participated in naval ROTC and secured an appointment to Annapolis in 1943. Graduating in 1946, Carter served...
Before the Democratic National Convention, a Reuters poll revealed that over 25% of young Black men are considering supporting Republican candidate Donald Trump in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. This information was disclosed in an NAACP poll released earlier in the month. While Black voters have traditionally been a loyal Democratic constituency, there has been a decline in confidence among some younger Black voters and Black men of all ages during President Joe Biden’s term. D...
October 4, 2024 - Michigan - More bad news out of Michigan for the Harris campaign. The same day, Trafalgar, the second most accurate polling organization from 2020 according to 538, released a poll showing Kamala Harris trailing Donald Trump by 2 points. Mitchell Communications released a similar survey. In this one, the former president leads by 1%. Four out of the last five polls from the Great Lakes State have Trump on top. Last week, Rep. Slotkin expressed her concerns about the Harris...
October 4, 2024–Dear Congress: Helene victims need help now. Could you please tear yourself away from campaigning and go into a special session to make FEMA actually do its job? Or let the US Military help secure Americans in mortal peril? I realize that nothing is more important to you than making the world safe for re-election, and you don’t get kickbacks and massive donations from ordinary Americans, but occasionally your constituents need help, too. After all, you weren’t elected just to se...
There are moments in American politics that make history, not just because of the message but because of the sheer energy that transcends time, place, and circumstance. Donald Trump’s return to Butler after his brush with death was precisely that — not just a rally but a momentous wave of support that signals the resilience and dynamism of the American people. With nearly 100,000 people in attendance, it was, without exaggeration, perhaps his greatest rally to date. Thousands waited for ove...
October 9, 2024–Anthropomorphic animals as a vehicle for telling morality tales has a history that stretches back millennia. Orwell's Animal Farm is perhaps the best known contemporary form of this style that combines a sweeping morality tale with biting political commentary. These types of stories are difficult to write, as the author has to walk a fine line between the reality of the situation he or she wishes to skewer and the suspension of belief needed to accept talking horses, pigs and g...
The decision by the Joe Biden inner circle to allow the poor fellow to get out of the Presidential race was a godsend for the Democratic Party. It gives new life to the Democrats’ chances to keep the White House. The ascension of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket breathes new life into a dead campaign. Biden’s demise, mentally and physically, assured a Democratic presidential defeat on November 5, but also guaranteed the Democrats’ loss of the U.S. Senate, as well as their ho...
Just as I was finishing this Robservation, President Biden announced that he is out of the running. More to come later. ****************************************************************************** So, here we are. I am writing this one week after the Trump assassination attempt. Like many of us, I am troubled. Not so much that an idiot kid would try to do something like this but rather the mess the Secret Service (SS) made out of the entire situation. In no way am I going to condemn the...
There are two schools of thought on the Constitution; either those that are strict Constitutionalists or those that believe it is a living, breathing document that changes with the times. Certainly there were assumptions at the time the Constitution was written when most of those in government were protestant. Though not in any judicial position, I tend to argue a strict Constitutional view. It’s the same with the Bible, the Bible is either the infallible, inspired, Word of God or is subject to...
This past May, June, and July, 2024, along Highway 231 in Wetumpka, our “illustrious” Alabama Highway Department has been hard at work from the Wal-Mart north to the old Montgomery Highway with construction cones all over the place. Somehow, the department had decided that dozens of raised “islands” in the highway’s center would help make traffic safer and more expedient. Do these contraptions really have any value? Do they enhance safety? Do they help the traffic flow? And how much extra tax...
Desperate people will say anything. And the Radical Left is getting desperate as they look to the November election. They can’t run on the economy. The voters know that inflation has wiped out any financial gains, and they have less buying power than they had four years ago. They can’t hide behind the COVID pandemic as they did in 2020. Increasingly, Americans are realizing that the lockdowns and compulsory vaccinations probably did more harm than good. They can’t run on foreign policy – not...
In the January 2023 edition of Alabama Gazette, in “Robert E. Lee, Arlington, and the Ministry of Truth” (https://www.alabamagazette.com/story/2023/01/01/opinion/robert-e-lee-arlington-and-the-ministry-of-truth/2480.html), I covered the history and subsequent theft of Arlington House by the Federal Government. Spearheaded by the dastardly Montgomery Meigs, the plan was to seize the Lee/Custis property and turn it into a cemetery. This would serve as retribution against Lee and his family sin...
Comments on last month’s Ballot Box v. Jury Box column were similar in tone and intellect with responses to past columns explaining our Pax Americana, that is, our so-called ‘Peaceful Transfer of Power’ as a forced coalition of once independent States. Given the recent flow of history recorded in Butler, PA it seemed timely to analyze how dysfunctional ballots proffer more bullets. Assassination attempts are nothing new in US history - esp. under hegemony. Until provided facts to the contr...
I’ve never understood why Donald Trump seems to attract such a level of hatred and vitriol. There is nothing unusual about political candidates being vilified by opponents, but after an election or a term in office, the level of animosity usually subsides, and attacks focus on policy decisions and not as much on personality. I experienced some hostilities when I was a Republican presidential elector in 2016. It was my 4th time to be an elector from Alabama, so it was out of the ordinary when a...
I have not been writing as consistently as I used to. Entirely by choice. Meaning, there are not any problems between myself and any of the newspapers or outlets I write for. It is entirely me. First, I have been writing for over 30 years now and I guess I am stepping back to see what I think of it all. I take it that is normal. The world of media has changed. There was a shift that came along with Covid. I do not feel I have the same freedom of speech I once had. I feel this way because I have...
