API Resembles Ministry of Truth

 

The Alabama Policy Institute calls itself the premier think tank in Alabama. Oh, sure, no one else does, but at least API knows how to heap praise on itself. Welcome to Shoalanda Speaks, the next Pulitizer winner in editorial news writing.

We recently mentioned the API stance on UNA's mask requirements, but also telling is its rating of the Alabama Legislature. In the Senate, Larry Stutts merited a 98. Remember Stutts, once named the 2015 Alabama Scumbag of the Year? He opposed the legalization of medical marijuana, thus winning the API's favor.

On the other hand, Tim Melson was one of two Republican state senators to land at the bottom of the API's list. Dr. Melson supported the passage of the medical bill and helped to ensure it became law. For this one act, the API has declared him unfit.

As stated in our earlier blog, for an organization whose policy is based on free trade, why the opposition to medical marijuana? This seems to be another case of political pundits knowing more than researchers who have spent their entire lives studying various areas of health and medicine.

When doing future research on candidates, one might do very well to disregard the Alabama Policy Institute. It seems to need only its own version of Sassy to qualify as a Roy Moore clone.

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Alabama Policy Institute Chastises UNA

 

The Alabama Policy Institute stands for:

1. Free Trade

2. Less Legal Regulation

3. Strong Families

Yet the organization strongly supports the Alabama vaccine passport ban, a law that controls what businesses can and can't do, which seems contrary to two of its basic tenets. Now the organization has called out some specific entities for breaking this new law:

Finally, some public universities have been making distinctions between the vaccinated and the nonvaccinated. For instance, the University of North Alabama mandates masks indoors for unvaccinated students, and the University of West Alabama mandates masks for unvaccinated RA’s. If an unvaccinated student cannot wear a mask because of a medical condition, then forcing him to choose between wearing a mask or getting vaccinated may constitute an illegal condition of receiving an education.

The University of North Alabama has, in the last few years, made some horrible legal choices; its mask policy isn't one of them. No one likes to wear a mask for medical reasons. Yet it's much preferable to being dead.

If there's anyone out there who hasn't gotten it yet, our world changed early in 2020. Denying that change isn't merely eccentric, it's dangerous beyond belief. If you think COVID-19 has been detrimental to businesses, just be glad you don't work for a company that manufactures lipstick.