Defending Drew Brees and the police.
Context, people, context! There really was nothing wrong with Drew Brees’ full statement (June 3): The thought police blasting quarterback Drew Brees today should spike their own outrage. Brees is […]
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It’s time to end the Jefferson Davis holiday in Alabama
(June 4) A move is afoot to repeal the law establishing an Alabama state holiday in honor of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Good. The holiday is woefully […]
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Jeff Sessions starts fighting back
(May 26) Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is finally getting feisty in his battle to win back his old Senate seat from Alabama — and his feistiness is nothing […]
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Schlafly’s Eagles were smart and impressive
(May 20) The late Phyllis Schlafly isn’t the only conservative badly mistreated by the Hulu series Mrs. America. The other women of Schlafly’s Eagle Forum organization are treated even worse, […]
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Jeff Sessions’ letter is right: He was right to recuse
(May 12) In one particular part of a remarkable open letter to citizens of Alabama, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally makes a crucial point about why he recused […]
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Don Siegelman tries, but fails, to get out like Flynn
(May 15) Former Alabama governor Don Siegelman shouldn’t get away with his latest attempt to finagle exoneration for long-ago crimes. Siegelman, whose term from 1999-2003 made him the last Democrat […]
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AG Steve Marshall is wrong to block coronavirus relief
(May 1-3, at al.com): Cramped and bullheaded “guidance” from Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is keeping Mobile County, and probably others in the state, from providing desperately needed relief to small […]
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Dad, in retrospect, ten years later
(April 28) I have written several times in the past about the political volunteer work of my father, Haywood H. Hillyer III, a onetime Republican national committeeman who died 10 years […]
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Alabama Gov. Ivey strikes good balance in partial re-opening
(April 28) Cautiously aggressive reopening. That’s probably the best way to describe the plan Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Tuesday for the state’s next moves in response to the coronavirus […]
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John Treen, controversial Republican stalwart, RIP
(April 22) The life of John Treen, who died last week of the coronavirus at age 94, is an example of how even fair and accurate headlines can nonetheless fail […]
