The best coach in college football, possibly the best in college football history, last week climbed down from his throne long enough to accuse a rival school, and by association, its coach, of buying football players. Nick Saban, coach at…

It’s quite rare for a piece of legislation to have the direct ability to truly impact the lives of so many of my patients. It’s even rarer for that legislation to have bipartisan support. HR 3173, the Improving Seniors’ Timely…

Lord, have mercy on me. I stood at the back of the aisle in our improvised outdoor chapel on this beautiful June evening in the American South. I patted my daughter Sasha’s hand reassuringly with all the outward confidence of…

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column here at The American Spectator entitled “We Are Governed by People Who Suck.” That piece had a couple of nice features to it. First, that it was quite entertaining — at…

Dr. Leah Torres, an abortionist and prominent online activist who calls herself a “sex-positive OB/Gyn,” has had her medical license in Alabama temporarily suspended, blocking her from performing abortions in Alabama. The Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners found that…

These are hard times, and many of us are drinking more than we probably should. Here in Alabama, we can’t get wine shipped to our homes, and that’s a problem. We tried a few years ago to pass a law…

In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court held that political gerrymandering claims do not belong in federal court. That’s great, as far as it goes. The lower federal courts had proven increasingly more creative in attempting to banish political…

At a recent gathering of Baptists, an adept assured us that Critical Race Theory and Intersectional Theory supplied us with “analytical tools” offering us “selective insights” for employment in our quest to “understand multifaceted social dynamics.” We just had to…

Occupational licensing remains one of the most effective methods of restricting employment in the country. Experts have estimated the economic costs of excessively strict occupational licensing around the country at $203 billion. Burdensome licensing rules function as a way for…