Alabama

Virtually all recent polling shows that growing majorities of Americans view Trump's personal characteristics-- like integrity, honesty, intelligence, etc-- in negative lights. The last to go was the question about Trump as a strong leader. That would took the longest time to start slipping.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Every week is global sharing week in the real world economy; the drug war fails keep growing higher than the spring harvest; and the fake left begins to turn on itself.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Every week is global sharing week in the real world economy; the drug war fails keep growing higher than the spring harvest; and the fake left begins to turn on itself.

Peak Portland, king kill and robot preachers + this day in history w/AirFrance Flight 447 and our song of the day by Jens Lekman on your Morning Monarchy for June 1, 2017.

Ben Carson, former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks to the congregation of Briarwood Presbyterian Church, June 28, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP/Butch Dill)
On Friday, the Alabama House Committee approved a bill that would grant one church the legal authority to establish their own police force.

(ANTIMEDIA) On Friday, the Alabama House Committee approved a bill that would grant one church the legal authority to establish their own police force.

Calorie cannibals, prayer warriors and cult films + this day in history w/the beginning of MK Ultra and our song of the day by Father John Misty on your Morning Monarchy for April 13, 2017.

(ANTIMEDIA) Alabama Governor Robert Bentley was booked at Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Monday afternoon on two misdemeanor charges. Although last week the Alabama Ethics Commission found reason to believe he had committed four felonies, Bentley has only been charged with “failure to disclose information on [a] statement of economic interest” and “failure to file campaign finance reports.”

Rachel Maddow has been covering the Alabama impeachment saga-- and for a long time. And she's doing a really good job of it. We haven't been writing much about Robert Bentley's plight because it looked like just another example of a hypocritical "family values" Republican caught in the act. "People bow to the throne." Yeah...But there is something beyond the salacious details to note in this unfolding scandal.

(ANTIMEDIA) Attorney General Jeff Sessions is terribly confused and wildly uninformed. That, or he’s a liar.
Trump’s pick to head the Department of Justice has long opposed cannabis and enthusiastically supported the war on drugs. Though he reportedly recently assured congressional lawmakers he would not be instituting a crackdown on weed in states where it’s legal, his rhetoric against the increasingly accepted plant is concerning.