August 13, 2008
During the summer I have been traveling around the state talking with civic clubs about Alabama politics. With it being a presidential year, an…
August 06, 2008
All the national polling data this year points to the economy as being the major issue on voters’ minds. The prevailing issue of the War in Iraq is a…
July 23, 2008
When we Alabamians change course politically we go from one extreme to the other. The facts are obvious. From 1916 through 1960 we voted for a…
July 16, 2008
The protracted Democratic Presidential Race is finally over. Freshman Illinois Senator Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. The 46 year old…
July 09, 2008
Most political observers including myself have never seen a Governor in his second term work as hard as Gov. Bob Riley. The Constitution prohibits…
July 02, 2008
When California Democrat Nancy Pelosi took the oath as the first female Speaker of the House it garnered enormous nationwide media attention. The…
June 25, 2008
The American electorate blamed the great depression on the Republican Party. Herbert Hoover’s cavalier laissez faire attitude seared a burning…
June 18, 2008
Now that the dust has settled from the June 3rd primaries, the news is there is no news. There were very few surprises. The results came out almost…
June 04, 2008
Many of you have wondered about my prognosis in last week’s column that Barack Obama would probably not win the presidency, although he has all but…
May 28, 2008
Unless you are a political junkie you probably have already grown weary of this year’s drawn out presidential race, which is on course to be the…