OPINION: My Thoughts
BART MOSS
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By Bart Moss
 By Bart Moss  
Published 6:01 pm Tuesday, February 11, 2025

OPINION: My Thoughts

He Says

Not feeling my best this week. The flu has run rampant in the community, and it has gone through my house leaving me the last person standing. However, I think I have dodged it as long as I can. This column may suffer too …

Congratulations to the following teams on their area championships — Belgreen boys and girls and Red Bay boys. Congratulations to the following teams on advancing to the Northwest Regional at Wallace State Community College this week:

On Tuesday, Belgreen’s girls played the No. 1 team in Class 2A, Decatur Heritage, at 6 p.m. Red Bay’s boys played Tanner at 7:30 p.m. On Wednesday, Phil Campbell’s girls played Holly Pond at 9 a.m …

As basketball season comes to an end, it is clearly baseball/softball season as the weather forecast calls for six inches of rain or more this week …

The two top ranked college basketball teams lost within minutes of each other this weekend. Auburn lost to Florida and Duke lost to Clemson. The two teams should still be ranked one and two on Monday if voters have any sanity at all.

Unlike football, you don’t drop just because you lose one game. Auburn’s total body of work is still miles ahead of the other teams near the top. Either way, Saturday in Tuscaloosa may feature a one vs. two matchup between Auburn and Alabama …

Gov. Kay Ivey expressed support for a cell phone ban in public schools. Cell phones and social media are the center of the vast majority of discipline issues in schools. They are also at the center of learning loss, distractions and teens’ lack of interpersonal communications …

News from Trump World this week: USAID was exposed as a government corruption scheme and is being rightly shut down and revamped. …

USAID and CIA were also exposed for their involvement in the impeachment of Trump in 2019 …

A bunch of radical Congressmen showed up to attempt a vain photo opp at the Department of Education and were held at bay by a guy who just didn’t care. It was glorious to watch … Trump revoked Joe Biden’s security clearance along with those for Anthony Blinkin, Alvin Bragg and Letitia James. They are reaping what they have sown …

Trump also signed an executive order banning biological males in women’s sports …

The Democrats obsession for everything weird and illogical gave Donald Trump the best photo opp in recent presidential history, and, they only have themselves to blame …

President Trump became the first sitting president of the United States to attend a Super Bowl …

The pregame show was much better than the halftime show. … Lady Gaga, Harry Connick Jr., and the Southern University marching band were awesome! …

The jazzed-up “God Bless America” and “National Anthem” were great too. … Controversial call right off the bat, but the right call. … The Eagles off to a dominant start 17-0 …

Halftime show, awful. … Eagles domination continues straight to Super Bowl LIX champions.

Have a great week!

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>> READ NEXT WEEK’S COLUMN HERE.

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