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Aug. 31, 2011
The Political Round-Up.

Perry record mercurial on health care.

New York Times: The New Resentment of the Poor.

State Sen. Hank Sanders:Worth a repeat, boys to men.

Immigration legislator limber enough to put foot in mouth.

Aug. 30, 2011
Gold Coins: The mystery of the double eagle. How did a Philadelphia family get hold of $40 million in gold coins, and why has the Secret Service been chasing them for 70 years?

Is Texas next target for hurricane?

Rasmussen Reports: 43 percent now view 'Tea Party' label as a negative.

Montgomery Advertiser: Welfare drug testing too costly.

McMillan: One crisis after another.

Why don't scholars have access to Rosa Parks' archives?

Earthquake! Hurricane! Alien Invasion! Meanwhile in London, everything seemingly is spinning back under control.

New storm brews in Congress over paying for disaster relief.

'I Didn't Change. The World Changed'
In an interview, Dick Cheney says 'It's important to have people at the helm who are prepared to be unpopular.'

Aug. 29, 2011
Settlement of lawsuit won't stop Oct. 1 Alabama Power rate hike.

Alabama looking at models for drug testing welfare applicants.

Time: Drug testing gaining traction nationwide, still bad policy for welfare recipients.

New York Times: Alabama cruel and hypocritical, lacking humility and compassion.

No 9/11? Oops, Washington drops ball.

Aug. 28, 2011
Holmes calls for drug-testing of state lawmakers.

Gambling vote-buying trial judge no football fan.

New Alabama immigration law could devastate agriculture.

Washington Post: Alabama's immigration travesty.

The discord of politics, the politics of discord.

Crowded prisons.

Twenty-five years later, how Top Gun may America love war.

Aug. 27, 2011
Jefferson County reports progress in debt talks.

Obama: Offering change you can believe in beginning in January, 2013.

Aug. 26, 2011
The Political Round-Up.

Wall Street Journal: Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics -- One worked, one hasn't.

Obama faces discomfiting questions from black community, lawmakers.

New York Times: Stop waiting for Superman. By Timothy Egan.

Film explores life of enigmatic Klan leader and storyteller Asa Carter.

Aug. 25, 2011
The Political Round-Up.

Hispanic school enrollment not dropping.

The Alabama town most changed (and saved) by immigration.

Bentley, Hammond defend immigration bill.

Hispanic teens share personal stories with Beason.

Rick Perry and the demons of Fred Thompson and Wesley Clark.

U.S. may back refinance plan for mortgages.

Rowing with gusto toward the falls.

Aug. 24, 2011
Alabama ground zero for national debate over immigration.

Steve Flowers: Comparing today's leaders to 1961 group.

Ag Commissioner John McMillan speaks to issues.

State Sen. Hank Sanders: History a mixed bag.

Aug. 23, 2011
The Political Fix: Voter opposition to Obama hardens.

Senate at stake in 2012 as key candidates make decisions.

Who's more nervous over Perry candidacy? Repubs or Dems?

How Democrats hurt jobs. By Joe Nocera.

Aug. 22, 2011
The case against Ross. Ross speaks out.

Jefferson County debacle means higher borrowing costs for all Alabama taxpayers.

Eric Cantor: Removing obstacles to economic growth.

Anniston Star: Perry wrestles with his own health care approach.

The kids are not all right.

Cops make Mexican churchgoers jumpy.

Aug. 21, 2011
Tensions rise as Latinos feel under siege in the South.

Perry distrusts pointy-headed intellectuals.

Artur Davis wrong about Alabama corruption trial. By Charlanna W. Spencer.

Perry getting full scale political rectal screening.

Is Perry a hypocrite in criticism of Washington?

Aug. 20, 2011
Alabama lawmakers to wed welfare to reality.

Michele Bachmann's 'war' on the IRS.

U.S. to offer oil leases in Gulf of Mexico.

Anniston Star: Riley not above the law.

Aug. 19, 2011
City budget message for fiscal year 2011-2012: Capital assets are old, not much is new, oodles are borrowed, and we're all blue, hey, buddy, got a buck or two in your shoe?

Obama: Excuse maker-in-chief? Bad luck, events beyond White House control dog Obama administration. 

Democrats take pro-tax message on the road.

Ex-Roy Moore aide to challenge Bonner in GOP congressional primary.

Bedford: Language to protect religious activities removed from immigration bill.

Obama appointee sworn in as top federal prosecutor in Montgomery.

Department of Mental Health lays off 582 employees statewide.

Oil companies investigate report of sheen in Gulf.

A young, inexperienced orator captures the Democratic presidential nomination and squares off against the war hero and senior statesman nominated by the Republicans. Speaking as if from a pulpit, in a style learned from fiery preachers, the magnetic newcomer had the crowds swooning. I’m referring, of course, to the presidential election of 1896.

Aug. 18, 2011
The Political Round-Up: Rick Perry -- Reagan redux or Bush all over again?

Behold, a hard-money Texas politician.

Perry, Romney offer contrasting approaches to job creation.

Mike Hubbard: Alabama must assert its sovereignty. Other GOP legislators agree.

Last year awash in oil, coast now awash in money.

Aug 17, 2011
The Political Round-Up: Should mayor's pay match mayor's job?; Saraland, Creola play footsie; Graddick, Stuart have history; Insurance reform body to meet here; At Nodine's Beck & Pascal; Ouch ... now I get it; Crime time.

Washington Post: Perry campaign off to ugly start.

Los Angeles Times: With new immigration law, again Alabama has a wheel in the ditch. Not so, argue state legislators, illegal is illegal and it is a state's right to make and enforce its laws. Attorney discusses nuts and bolts of new immigration law's effects on business owners.

Justice Department rolls snake eyes in Alabama gambling corruption trial. By Scott Horton for Harpers.

Talladega Daily Home: Verdict or not, bingo trial leaves lasting impression on state's lawmakers.

Steve Flowers: A look at two powerful Alabama senators.

Anniston Star: Alabama, Georgia and Florida's neverending water war.

New York Times: Time for government to take no lip from taxpayers.

Aug. 16, 2011
Richard Cohen on The Texas Gipper.

Ezra Klein: Breaking down Rick Perry's Texas miracle.

Dem dip part of political cycle of ebb and flow.

Nothing as inessential as Essential Air Service.

Wheel still spins in bingo trial.

Dothan Eagle: No justice without new  bingo trial.

State audit cites former Senate president pro tem.

Obama: GOP stubborn opposition to tax hikes a failure of common sense.

Aug. 15, 2011
Declining property values may affect school budgets.

Montgomery Advertiser: Rants and raves.

Perry's entry bring GOP presidential race into focus.

Google to buy cell phone maker for $12.5 billion.

Aug. 14, 2011
Starved state budgets look to internet-based gambling for new revenue. 

Bingo trial outcome predictable, predictably troubling. By Artur Davis.

Montgomery Advertiser: Mask digs hole deeper.

Ex-prosecutors weigh in on bingo trial.

Talladega Daily Home: Incompetence in bingo trial.

Aug. 13, 2011
Both Dems, Repubs want to move on from bingo trial.

Perry's entry sets up a clarifying contrast.

Iowa straw poll now focus of GOP presidential race.

Resistance widens to Obama initiative on criminal immigrants.

Trend to lighten harsh sentences catching on in conservative states.

Kurt Andersen: We, Robot.

Dog helps rape victim, 15, testify.

Aug. 12, 2011
GOP debate kicks campaign into new phase.

Montgomery Advertiser: Lessons from bingo trial.

Dothan Eagle: Boondoggle.

More states step fight against diploma mills.

Aug. 11, 2011
UK riots: 'We have allowed our welfare system to prop up immoral lifestyles. We have not taught all our young people that an entitlement culture is morally wrong.'

Susannah Breslin: What a tornado taught me that college didn't.

Legislator, ethics director in conflict over lobbyist's payments. 

Langford case shows need for tough ethics law.

Nervous Democrats yearn for bolder Obama.

Why the center-left is fed up with Obama.

Even Radio Shack CEO baffled by company's survival.

CIA considers Facebook a 'godsend.'

Aug. 10, 2011
The toughest golf hole in Mobile and Baldwin counties is ....?

New York Times: Time to test Obama's boast. GOP smells blood in the water.

Anniston Star: What's our top priority?

Steve Flowers: No major changes in congressional districts.

Radney's case caught Harper Lee's eye.

More needed in fight against meth.

Ann Coulter: In Great Britain, welfare state achieves what Hitler couldn't.

Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalized youngsters.

Aug. 9, 2011
A Downgrade Awakening: Amid market wreckage, signs of political turn.

State Sen. Harri Anne Smith: Waiting on a jury verdict makes a girl jumpy.

For-profit college group sued as U.S. lays out wide fraud.

We once loved Jimmuh, too.

Wall Street Journal: Could anyone be as smart as Obama apparently thinks he is?

Aug. 8, 2011
Citizens, not victims.

Political squabbling leading factor in S&P's lowering of U.S. rating.

New York Times: Here's an easy $100 billion cut.

Capitalist economy/social welfare state = oil/water.

Lack of jobs for blacks creates tension between Obama, black lawmakers.

Education needs digital age upgrade.

Aug. 7, 2011
Alabama’s economic outlook, despite recession and high unemployment, remains bullish into next decade. By John McMillan, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.

Obama's biggest challenge is jobs.

Gambling corruptions trial, Week 9: Attorneys rest, jury goes to work.

Alabama Voices: State's new immigrant law needed.

U.S. of (Latin) America.

Origins of the debt showdown.

Tarpon on a fly.

Aug. 6, 2011
Five GOP officials got big bonuses amid PAC-to-PAC transfer.

Unemployment and the economy loom over the 2012 race. Will Obama be reelected? Economy likely holds answer.

Judges using innovative methods to deal with budget cuts.

Nearly a third of state used food stamps in May.

Aug. 5, 2011
The Political Round-Up: Drug theft shadows Nodine prosecution; Alabama, what's going wrong? asks Carson; What's driving Bentley; Crime time.

The most unpopular Congress. Ever.

Jury could get gambling corruption case today. Smith lawyer closes colorfully.

Perry, DeMint to headline GOP events. 

Anniston Star: Time to reform No Child Left Behind Act.

Your Turn: Local mom questions credibility of son's educators in wake of diploma mill report.

Peter Schiff speech to mortgage bankers November, 2006. Parts 1-8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

Macro Commentary: The 'damned if we do, damned if we don’t' global economy.

Aug. 4, 2011
We the stupid.

Milton McGregor: Alabama's answer to high tech's Bill Gates, Steve Jobs et al. By Eddie Curran.

The Political Round-Up:

Why Obama won't face a primary challenge.

New jockeying Congress for next phase in budget fight.

Six Flags over New Orleans tattered.

Aug. 3, 2011
The Political Round-Up:

Steve Flowers: Where's the beef? Lack of evidence against defendants in gambling corruption trial stunning. Closing arguments in high profile case begin.

Some Republicans facing re-election uncertain how to RSVP to Tea Party invite.

Congress: Profiles in sleaze and courage.

Looking back: The strike that busted unions.

New York Times: Budget Control Act of 2011 a farce.

Washington Post: One shot on taxes, don't blow it, Democrats. By Ezra Klein.

Wall Street Journal: Hard to see debt ceiling deal as anything but political win for GOP. One sure sign, liberals furious with Obama.

August 2, 2011
The Political Round-Up: AU grad wins GOP leadership post; What's driving Bentley; Crime time.

Debt Deal: Democrats mourn deal like a death, angry liberals search for silver lining.

Despite talk to contrary, Obama base remains solid, says Gallup poll.

Decatur Daily: Tea Party deserves A for negotiating skills, F for patriotism. New York Times says Tea Party influence exaggerated

Your Turn: Tea Party wages war on America. By Joe Nocera.

States, cities brace for less federal money

Putin: U.S. is global 'parasite.'

Stirring the Pot: Was slavery a time of greater family values?

August 1, 2011
Your Turn: Issue of 'revolving jailhouse door' not as simple as some would have it. By Mike McMaken, Mobile County District Court judge.

Did Obama capitulate or pull cagey move? New York Times' columnist Paul Krugman: President Surrendered.

New York Times: Debt ceiling deal nearly complete capitulation to the hostage-taking demands of Republican extremists. Who got what in the deal.

Small flying spy drone cracks Wi-Fi and cell data.

Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad.

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