I am voting for Lew Burdette for Governor of Alabama
By Quin Hillyer This is not an “endorsement.” It’s just an explanation for why I am taking the rare step of making my vote on any race public. For all […]
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Long past time for Ivey to kill Common Core math
A version of this piece on Common Core was stuck behind a firewall, so here is the full text, courtesy of Lagniappe Mobile, which I think for publishing this piece […]
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On vaccinations, Ivey, other guvs violate free market and Constitution
(June 8) Alabama, Florida, and other states are on dangerous constitutional ground by passing laws forbidding private businesses to require proof of coronavirus vaccination for entrance to their premises. If […]
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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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Forgiving Bama Gov. Ivey’s blackface
(Aug. 31) It is reasonable to criticize Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey for doing a skit in blackface in college. It’s also reasonable, given that this happened half a century ago, to […]
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NYT: Wild-ish campaign, even w/out Roy Moore
By Quin Hillyer at the New York Times; Mobile, Ala. — After hyperventilating through last December’s special-election version of a house of horrors, Alabama voters shrugged their collective shoulders this […]
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Bama ethics change: pro jobs; not corrupt
By Quin Hillyer, a Mobile-based Contributing Editor for National Review Online. His new novel, Mad Jones, Heretic, is available now at Amazon.com. Don’t believe the dire predictions about the “cliffs of corruption” supposedly […]
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Kay Ivey needs to ‘get it in gear’
By Quin at Yellowhammer; Once Alabama’s horrendous special election for the U.S. Senate is finally settled, it will be time for Governor Kay Ivey to earn her keep. So far, […]
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Fallout from Roy Moore controversy
Two important columns after the Moore story both — neither of them assuming Moore’s guilt or innocence, but merely analyzing political questions worth considering; It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault — and […]
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RED ALERT! State Ed. Bd. may kill reform
Note from Quin to all Alabamans: Please read the stories below, and call your State Board of Education representative to demand that he/she votes to keep Michael Sentance as state superintendent of […]
