There is an email alert circulating regarding an internet sales tax bill asking people to make calls on it. This is an alert we sent out LAST year during the legislative session. There is NOT a bill introduced on the internet sales tax this year and it is not possible to use it to close [...]
This piece, written by Prof. Jim Otteson (former head of UA Philosophy Dept), is an excellent response to the Occupy Wall Street movement and President Obama. Too many people believe in capitalism but have never really thought about why. It’s a must-read! An Audacious Promise: The Moral Case For Capitalism
Will the strongest immigration bill in the country be weakened? Not if we can help it. Call your Senator and make it clear that you want them to pass SB541 if they decide to make any changes to the immigration law. HB658 is NOT acceptable!! Below are some good examples of how HB658 will weaken [...]
Senator Scott Beason, a co-sponsor of HB56, has introduced a bill (SB541) to tweak that legislation and make it easier to enforce and easier to defend in court. Sen. Beason’s bill was approved by a Senate Committee today and heads to the floor for a full vote. HB56′s original sponsor, Rep. Micky Hammon, has also [...]
The American Public Policy Alliance has created a new tool to make it easier for you to let your legislator know you want him/her to VOTE YES on SB84 to keep American Law in American Courts. Just click here and enter your zip code. This tool even provides you with exactly what to say when [...]
David Beito, History Professor at the University of Alabama, and Daniel Smith, Economics Professor at Troy State University, have written an excellent editorialcomparing tornado recovery efforts in Joplin, MO and Tuscaloosa, AL. The two cities took vastly different approaches to the rebuilding efforts, one relaxing government regulation and one using it as an opportunity to [...]
The Federation of Americans For Immigration Reform (FAIR) has put together the following fact sheet on Alabama’s new immigration law. As you can see, much of what the main stream media says about it has little basis in fact. Before we start to discuss what changes, if any, should be made, it is important to [...]
Last year, we commended the Alabama legislature for having passed the toughest anti-illegal immigration law in the United States. Now the trick is to keep it that way. The law has already been partially upheld in federal court, so we’re off to a good start, but we recognize that some tweaks may be necessary. We [...]
The Brookings Institute has become the latest organization to recognize the uselessness of the Common Core Standards in their recent Brown Center Report on American Education. Below are a few highlights of the report. Predicting the Effect of the Common Core State Standards on Student Achievement:The Common Core will have little to no effect on [...]
Jim Stergios has a great column about the con game that is the Common Core Standards Initiative. The following excerpt is particularly persuasive as most of the people who are writing the Common Core Standards have a record of failing to improve education in their own states… Given the very average and in some cases [...]
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