There's lots of fun to be had with this latest Obama gaffe. Have you seen his campaign's new lapel pin, for instance?
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Just wanted to point out that the state legislature has the week off. I can’t complain — I’ve got the next three weeks off.
[...]So some hospitals have apparently started banning people from smoking anywhere on their property — even in their own private cars in the parking lot. It’s not even masked as some sort of safety thing — they just don’t want people to smoke.
Hey, I don’t let people smoke in [...]
I think this sums it up pretty well.
The old way: A donor to a political candidate doesn’t want the public to know he’s giving. So the donor sends the money through one or more political action committees, “laundering” it with other money before the candidate gets it. Presto! No [...]
You may have noticed this post. Right now I’ve got it set up on a cron job and a PHP program I wrote. It automatically posts a daily “This Day in Alabama history” if there’s anything for that day on the ADAH’s list. It actually only took me [...]
Today is the fiftieth day after Easter, the day traditionally celebrated as Pentecost Sunday in the Roman Church. It commemorates the decent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples. But before the gospel account of of their reception of the Holy Spirit, St. [...]
The best of Mother’s Days to all of you who have birthed, adopted, grand-ed, step-ed, or stepped in when mom wasn’t available. Mothering is one of those jobs where most of the recognition comes after the fact, when the kids grow up and figure out you really weren’t that stupid [...]
The Birmingham News finally turns the spotlight on the three undecided superdelegates in Alabama: Nancy Worley, Joe Turnham and Rep. Bud Cramer. They will help decide not so much who wins the Democratic candidacy, but how quickly he locks it up.
It’s time for Worley, Turnham and Cramer to stand with [...]
In our house, at any moment, if I can answer a question with the phrase of a song, to my husband's chagrin, I do. The kids do, too. And Queen comes up quite frequently, with the "Mama, Ooooo-oooo-eeee-oooo" when they're talking to me.
Happy Mother's Day!
flag that flew over the Mobile defenses at Blakeley at the close of the Civil War was raised last week in Baldwin County again for the first time in 143 years as officials put the giant Confederate banner on display at the annex building.
The 9-foot by 14-foot flag will hang [...]
Rental agents are hoping high gas prices won’t stop vacationers from driving to vacation at Gulf beach condominiums, especially travelers within a 350- to 500-mile radius.
“The price of gas is a big thing this season, and we are watching it,” said Marie Curren of Brett Robinson Real Estate & Development [...]
Over the past decade, it seemed that this resort city, flush with the spoils of a booming real estate market and a lucrative tourism trade, could buy just about anything it wanted.
Though they’ve spent more than $26 million on land acquisitions since 1999, Orange Beach’s elected leaders facing a projected [...]
The Coast Guard rescued fifteen people from the forty six foot fishing boat “Elissa” after it caught fire in Bon Secour Bay near the Intracoastal Waterway at approximately 730pm Saturday. A passenger aboard the vessel reported the fire, and told the Coast Guard that the crew had put a life [...]
Rick Gambino, businessman and former owner of Gambino’s Restaurant, has announced his candidacy for mayor of Fairhope.
“Fairhope has been good to me and my family for over 30 years,” Gambino said. “I really feel I can give something back to the community now, and I have the time to do [...]
Having nine newly SWAT-trained officers on staff is a bit like a car’s safety air bag it’s great to know it’s there, but you hope you never need it.
That’s how Fairhope police Chief Mike Comalander described the city’s new emergency response team a group of nine officers who last month [...]
Baldwin County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Ashton has been taken off a ventilator at a Birmingham hospital, a first step in what is expected to be a prolonged recovery from his head-on wreck earlier this month, said Sheriff Huey “Hoss” Mack.
/Doctors performed seven hours of surgery to repair leg and hip [...]
A woman who drove into waters off the Causeway on Friday night did so on purpose, Spanish Fort Police Chief David Edgar said Saturday.
Rescue crews searched the area for about three hours before finding Annie Langley, 28, “treading water” in the canal north of the Causeway behind The Original Oyster [...]
Birmingham News - Alabama’s superdelegates split over Clinton vs. Obama.
Birmingham News - The Birmingham News says that proposed compromise on ban of PAC-to-PAC transfer doesn’t fix the problem and should be rejected.
Birmingham News - The Birmingham News comments on recent guilty plea [...]
The Clanton Advertiser Editorial recommends checking the voter list when it is published
Eufaula Tribune Barbour County moves closer to a local sales tax increase
Prattville Progress Forum set for Autauga County School Superintendent candidates
News Courier Alliance for Limited Government to hold candidates forum in Athens
