Category: Editorial

By Congressman Bradley Byrne There is no greater responsibility of the federal government than to provide for the safety and security of the American people. I have found myself making this point over and over again throughout my short time in Congress. With the wide range of issues under debate here in Washington, some of my colleagues seem to forget that our most basic responsibility as outlined in the Constitution…

By Harvey H. (“Hardy”) Jackson Some of you know that before I retired, I spent my twilight years, professionally speaking, researching, and eventually writing a book about the Alabama-Florida Gulf Coast since World War II. The project involved spending a lot of time down there, so much time that my publisher began to wonder if I would ever finish – “I promise, it is almost done. Just one more Mullet…

By Bob Jones World War I has been overshadowed in modern history by the events involving World War II, Korea, Vietnam and more recently the Middle East. Despite those events, historians debate that it was WWI that shaped our modern world. On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson in a speech to Congress said, “The World must be made safe for democracy.” Wilson called for the U.S. to declare war…