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1-24-25

Monologue:

Life!

Triple Dipper:

1. ICE Storm
2. Life!
3. Adventures in Woke World!

Guests

3pm: Congressman Robert Aderholt

3:30pm: JP on Sports

Resources

1. ICE Storm

https://www.foxnews.com/us/rhode-island-judge-specializing-immigration-law-resigns-after-fbi-raids-office

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/24/fbi-and-dhs-agents-raided-an-immigration-lawyers-office-in-providence-yesterday-n2651058

https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-resident-angered-liberal-mayors-refusal-cooperate-ice-doesnt-align-people

https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/23/denver-mayor-to-work-with-ice-agents/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-ice-nabs-child-sex-offenders-among-530-illegal-immigrants-caught-single-day

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-venezuelan-military-official-applauds-trumps-first-good-step-targeting-bloodthirsty-gang

2. Life!

https://1819news.com/news/item/sens-tuberville-britt-push-pro-life-policies-in-new-trump-admin-we-look-forward-to-the-reinstatement-of-trump-policies-on-life

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3296529/everything-about-2025-march-for-life/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-address-anti-abortion-march-for-life-00200229

https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-should-not-have-been-prosecuted-trump-pardons-23-pro-lifers-targeted-by-biden-doj?topStoryPosition=1

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/24/exclusive-sen-ricketts-introduces-bill-protect-dignity-aborted-unborn-babies/

https://1819news.com/news/item/aderholt-introduces-bill-to-bar-taxes-from-funding-planned-parenthood-women-deserve-real-health-care-options-that-protect-both-mother-and-child

https://www.aol.com/chip-roy-leads-house-republicans-185110118.html


3. Adventures in Woke World

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1882672369497681929?t=2vc5uVytGDbT3rLZ7VZk-A&s=19 (if you can print the pics with this link please do)

https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1882558987109040537?t=LPfNlJ7ND_5TvaQY9B0L7w&s=19 if you can print the pics with this link please do)

https://www.dailywire.com/news/karla-sofia-gascon-becomes-first-trans-identifying-man-up-for-best-actress-oscar

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/24/pierre-poilievre-had-the-perfect-response-when-asked-about-gender-n2651025

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/01/22/evanston-firefighters-wear-trump-masks-at-work/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14314325/amp/transgender-inmates-panic-donald-trump-executive-order-mens-prison.html

Rightside Way Monologue

Today is the day of the March for Life in Washington DC…..a day when people

surge to our nations capitol to celebrate the fact that life begins at conception and

that life is precious and should be defended at all costs…..we now live in a post-

Roe world where abortion is not the absolute law of the land…..the Supreme Court

saw fit to reverse Roe and send the matter back to the individual states and affirm

that there is no such thing as a constitutional right to end the life of a human

being…..I for one am decidedly pro-life, always have been…..Democrats are a

mixed bag….occasionally you will find someone who identifies as a “pro life

Democrat” but they’ve become like political unicorns, always talked about but

never seen…..the Democrat party tried to make abortion the center of their ill-fated

misguided attempts to keep control in the last election cycle but it’s an uphill climb

to convince the majority of a whole nation that things like being able to afford food

for your family, or security of your southern border, are somehow less important

than being able to terminate a pregnancy on demand…..if Democrats had their way

Planned Parenthood would open up drive-thru abortion clinics staffed with

minimum wage interns and put them on every street corner in America…..

But let me give you another thought…..let me suggest to you that while defeating

the abortion-minded agenda and overturning Roe v. Wade was huge….and it

was!....that was just a battle…..and those of us who are pro life need to make sure

that we win the larger war….and to do that we have to be pro-life after the womb

as well…..being pro life means we support living and that means that we are

providing strong alternatives and opportunities to those who felt the need to

consider an abortion in the first place…..


Occasionally I get asked what my favorite moments in the State Senate were…..

To be sure there were several highlights spread out over an eight-year period….I

can distinctly remember the night that we passed the first-ever measure of school

choice in Alabama. I recall the very first caucus meeting for the new Republican

majority when, for the first time in Alabama history, we didn’t have enough

chairs in the room to seat all of the new Republican Senators and how it moved

some of the old guys to tears. I remember passing legislation that kept a giant

green-energy windfarm from setting up on a scenic byway next to pastoral

farmland in my District. I remember a group of high school students I assisted

who made it their mission in life to name a highway in my District after the

veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq because in their words it was “the war of their

generation.” There were economic development bills, getting a raise for

deputies, balancing the budgets, cutting our own legislative pay to prove the

point that it could be done, and a whole slew of unsung moments with

constituents that just made it all seem worth it.

But one day when I was speaking to a group of students and one of them asked

me point blank what was my most favorite thing; the MOST favorite of all….. I

knew what it was, and it may surprise you: Senate Bill 280, that amended section

22 of the Alabama Code during the 2012 Regular Session…..so here’s the story:

Some very good friends for many years to my wife Charlene and me are Cris and

Karen Mahy….. Cris has been on Rightside Radio with me several times to talk

about the ministry that they have to Ukraine ….their calling to the people of

Ukraine dates back a number of years and began with the impact a tour of a

Ukrainian orphanage had on their hearts….. My friends were the first family I

ever met who went through a foreign adoption…. As they saw the children in

that orphanage they felt compelled (called, really) that their next child was

already born and living in Ukraine….. She was and her name is Karina….The

Mahy family went through all of the bureaucratic machinations, legal wrangling,

state department approvals and multiple trips overseas….. They hired

interpreters and foreign lawyers and after what seemed like an eternity, they

were able to bring Karina home to Alabama. They went through all that it takes

to not only make her a part of the family but to ensure that her US citizenship

was established. Everything that it takes to adopt a child multiplied by a factor

(and expense) of 10….. But they discovered that there was still more to do….My

friend Cris came to see me in my capacity as a lawyer in 2011 because it turned

out that Alabama was one of the few states that had laws on the books that

required what was known then as the re-adoption process. I discovered because

of the Mahy family that Alabama law made the foreign adoption process more

difficult by requiring that every parent who adopted a foreign child had to do it

twice, including all of the legal costs of doing so. Why? Who knows?.....So I

handled the issue as their attorney and was proud to stand with them in the

Probate Court and celebrate Karina’s second adoption….. But next came that

MOST favorite thing I ever got to do in the Alabama State Senate just a few

months later. I drafted a Bill that became Senate Bill 280, and we passed it into

law with a unanimous bipartisan vote……Upon taking effect on January 1, 2013

the new law did away with the archaic need for a second adoption and

streamlined the adoption process for countless adoptive parents. To further

crown the moment, my colleagues agreed that Section 1 of the Act should state:

“Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama … this act shall be known and may

be cited as Karina’s law.”


It was a great day when Governor Robert Bentley held a special bill signing in

the Old House Chamber in the Alabama State Capitol and the Mahy family, with

Karina Mahy present, looked on and had their pictures made with the Governor

while he signed a bill into law to codify a step forward to build stronger families

in Alabama, and named it after their daughter….. It was a moment I will never

forget…..I tell that story for the simple but profound reason that Karina’s Law is

a clear indication that the legislature can (when it wants to) take actions that

impact the families that they serve in ways that go beyond budgets, and schools,

and Medicaid, and all of the other functions of typical governance…..And right

now, in the post-Roe world, adoption needs to be front and center again.

For 50 years pro-life conservatives have been fighting against abortion…. They

carried the fight forward despite the fact that the abortion industry is a big-

money special interest….. They fought despite the fact that the left demonized,

doxed and demonstrated against anyone who dared to question whether life in

the womb was really life in the womb….. They fought, and they won, despite

political paralysis that saw many politicians become indifferent over

time…..While not entirely a Republican matter, the fact remains that the

Republican Party maintained the right to life in its party platform and it was

largely Republican-led efforts in the legislative processes that kept the political

side of the fight alive, including here in Alabama….. The Alabama Republican

supermajority is now like the proverbial dog that chased cars every day and then

one day finally caught the bumper. Now, the question is, “Okay, we won. So,

what now?”

Let me suggest that we dispel any of the Liberal talking points that say that

Conservatives don’t care about children and families by not taking action that

furthers life after birth. We should work now to extend the pro-life movement to

not only preserve life in the womb but to enhance the quality of life for children

after the womb. One of the chief means that we can do just that is to take the

extra steps to streamline the adoption processes in every state…..Let’s make sure

the laws on the books are amenable, agreeable and workable for the average

person…… States can reduce the costs for filing fees on the legal processes

required to adopt….. Legislators should work toward allowing incentives like tax

credits, adoption scholarships, early childhood healthcare credits and more…..

The State Bar Association can work with Alabama attorneys who handle

adoption cases and incentivize them to handle them pro bono, or to allow for a

tax credit for doing so….. Doctors who practice in the realm of pediatrics can be

incentivized to do prenatal and early childhood wellness checks for families that

have chosen to forego abortion and choose adoption…… The opportunities are

endless and, in truth, one omnibus adoption bill could do all of this at once.

The Bible says in multiple places that we should bring justice to the fatherless

and that God upholds the fatherless. Jesus said to allow the little children to

come to Him….. We as a state should do those very things with that very

sentiment…… As more and more young mothers realize that abortion is not a

solution, and in some states, it is not an option, let’s make sure that pro-life

means pro-living and that we have done all that we can as a state to promote life

both in the womb and after birth.

It is possible to further promote life in a post-Roe world.

That’s a wrap for the Rightside Way……

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