Supreme Court endorses racialist gerrymandering
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, June 11) Chief Justice John Roberts famously wrote in a 2006 political redistricting case that “it is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.” In a […]
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A two-fer on why Bama redistricting really is okay
The Supreme Court should not make a twisted hodge-podge of redistricting law even worse by throwing out Alabama’s congressional map. Two pieces below explain why. (Links to full columns embedded […]
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Brave policeman erupts about black-on-black crime
(June 9) MOBILE, Alabama — The talk of this Alabama city for the past week has been a video of police Sgt. John Carlos Young demanding answers for a string […]
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Explaining ‘Yardi Gras’ to a national audience
(Feb. 4) Not even a pandemic can contain the whimsically celebratory spirit of Mardi Gras. In Mobile, Alabama, where Mardi Gras in North America was born, and in New Orleans […]
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Remembering Hank Aaron’s home run chase
(Jan. 22) MOBILE, Alabama — For those too young to remember it, Hank Aaron’s pursuit of Babe Ruth’s all-time Major League Baseball home run record was one of the most […]
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Tribute to author Winston Groom, R.I.P.
(Sept. 17) MOBILE, Alabama — At the very end of the novel bearing his name, the character Forrest Gump says, “At least I ain’t lived no hum-drum life.” Gump’s creator, […]
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What Hurricane Sally was like, in almost real time
(Sept. 16) MOBILE, Alabama — Winston Churchill wrote in the late 1800s that “nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result,” and that’s what most […]
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Mobile, Al., Federalist Society helps refute liberal attack
(Jan. 23). Not content with stifling dissent at overwhelmingly leftist law schools, the progressive legal establishment is now threatening to trample conservative judges’ freedom of association. Their proposal should be […]
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USAID cheats a Mobile company, puts America last
Jan. 13. As Sunday was the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, and as Puerto Rico continues to suffer from a two-week-long series of temblors, a […]
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Anti-Semitism rises with bizarre perversity
(Oct. 14) Last weekend [Oct. 13] I was struck by a stark juxtaposition between the Old Testament reading in Sunday’s Episcopalian lectionary and sad news of yet another series of anti-Semitic […]
