Luther Strange, Alabama's new Senator, appearing on WBRC in Birmingham (image courtesy Strange's Facebook)
When Alabama's junior Senator, Jeff Sessions, was appointed as Attorney General, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley appointed his state's attorney general, Luther Strange, to fill the seat until a special election in 2018. Strange has announced...
Listening to those who support Alabama GOP Senate Roy Moore over the past week or so, you'd think the embattled Moore must surely be able to walk on water, turn cisterns of water into wine,...
Shortly after his brother, Roy, was declared the loser in the Alabama Senate election on Tuesday evening, Jerry Moore told NPR that the loss wasn't his brother's fault. And while he was at it, he...
Roy Moore at a June press conference (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
By around 10 p.m. Central time, it was clear beyond any doubt that Roy Moore's bid to take Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat had failed. Between 9 and 10 p.m. Central, nearly every major media...
Richard Shelby (image from Shelby's Facebook)
There is a significant element of the Alabama Republican Party that is completely morally bankrupt. That was amply established during the special election campaign for Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat. Numerous Republican officials, from nominal...
Senator-elect Doug Jones At Victory Speech
On Tuesday, Alabama voters rejected Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. Despite long odds, Doug Jones became the first Democrat in 25 years to win a U.S. Senate seat within the state. President Trump's support of a...
Cory Gardner at a John McCain campaign event in Phoenix (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
When The Washington Post published a bombshell story alleging that former Alabama chief justice and current Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore made inappropriate advances toward teenage girls in the 1970s, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
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It appears that accused pedophile Roy Moore believes that America's last "great" era took place when African Americans were in chains picking cotton calling white men "master." During a campaign event earlier in the year, Moore...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions either has the world's worst memory, or he's the biggest liar since his boss, Donald Trump. On Tuesday, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Sessions once again pretended he had forgotten about...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, once a darling of right-wing Republicans, has now fallen out of favor with some in the GOP and is being urged to resign. Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC) have...
An American Life League banner calling for a personhood amendment (image courtesy Brochureman, part of public domain)
An extreme offshoot of the pro-life--er, forced-birth--movement is rearing its head once again. Last month, at least three state legislatures--Alabama, Missouri, and South Carolina--considered "personhood" amendments to their state constitutions which would declare a fetus to...
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar
The Statute of Limitations has expired and any chance of convicting Josh Duggar for his indiscretions is long past, so why is there so much fuss about the charges? Because it goes a lot deeper...
On the eve of the Alabama Senate Race, things are surely tightening up between candidates Roy Moore and Doug Jones. For weeks, they exchanged barbs, with most revolving around Roy Moore's presumed perversions - and...
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Many of us were spanked as a child. Some schools even were able to spank people. Now, it seems to be going out of fashion. Many people say that spanking has a lasting effect on...
The GOP has no idea what to do with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. He has been ignored, endorsed, told to withdraw from the race, and every other option available. One significant person does not...
Spanish Fort High School in Alabama has put some very controversial books on its Advanced Placement summer reading list. The book is just chock full of right-wing propaganda. Some of the book titles are: Liberalism is...
Roy Moore at a June press conference (image courtesy Moore's Facebook)
For most of the fall, the conventional wisdom in the political world was that Steve Bannon and Breitbart News saw the race for Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat in Alabama as the first battle in...
In 2008, Amanda Kimbrough experienced one of the most horrible things an expectant mother can ever face: Her son Timmy was born and then died 19 minutes later. The child had been stillborn, and the memory...
Rusty Thomas, leader of Operation Save America (image courtesy Operation Save America's Facebook)
In at least 40 states, Roy Moore's bid to enter the Senate would be in a death spiral at this point. There is mounting evidence that he molested and harassed several women in the 1970s...
No longer happy with merely being known as the pedophile candidate, Roy Moore has now thrown in with Russian President Vladimir Putin in condemning the United States. Over the summer, Moore gave an interview which is...