MONTGOMERY, Ala. — When Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) last week announced committee assignments for the upcoming legislative session, one lawmaker’s name was conspicuously missing from the chairmanship he has held since Republicans took over the legislature in 2010. State Rep. Phil Williams (R-Huntsville) has been the only Republican to ever chair the Technology […]

With the deadly, mosquito-borne Zika virus sparking panic in South America and popping up in a handful of places in the southeastern United States, Alabamians are beginning to wonder, should we be worried? Zika was first discovered in Uganda in 1947. It spread rapidly across Africa, then popped up in various regions of the world […]

A massive nationwide study of Americans’ overall well-being reveals that while daily life for most U.S. residents has not gotten better in recent years, Alabamians’ well-being has improved faster than citizens of any other state in the country. According to the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, Alabama has gone from ranking 46th in 2014, to 28th […]

(Video above: “I-20: The Sex Trafficking Superhighway”) Anna* grew up in what she describes as a “middle-to-upper class family” in Alabama. On her sixteenth birthday, her parents got her a Honda Accord. “I had my wheels, I had my freedom,” she says. But like many American teenagers, Anna’s relationship with her parents was sometimes frayed […]

WASHINGTON — In early 2015, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) warned that an increasing number of American workers were being laid off after being compelled by their employer to train their foreign replacement, many of whom were in the country on H-1B visas, which are given to immigrants to come work in specialized fields, usually in […]

National security and potentially thousands of Alabama jobs have found themselves entangled in a web of crony capitalism surrounding the debate over the United States’ use of Russian rocket engines. For over a decade now, the U.S. military has relied on Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines to launch its satellites into space. Last year, however, Congress […]

(Video above: State Rep. Ed Henry (R-Hartselle), Alabama co-chair of the Trump campaign, speaks at a campaign event) FLORENCE, Ala. — State Representative Ed Henry (R-Hartselle), the Alabama co-chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, this week delivered an impassioned speech detailing why he is supporting the billionaire businessman over other candidates. Speaking from first-hand experience […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama House Republicans on Thursday rolled out their list of 2016 legislative priorities, which they have titled the “Right for Alabama” agenda. “Our ‘Right for Alabama’ agenda focuses on important issues like job creation, protecting public school students from harm, demanding the dignity that unborn life deserves, and other vital initiatives,” said […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMnzzhopBY&feature=youtu.be (Video above: Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) hears testimony in a U.S. Senate Committee hearing titled “Attacking America’s Epidemic of Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse”) WASHINGTON — With the head of U.S. drug policy sitting before him in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Wednesday stated a little-discussed fact: America’s porous […]

Former Vice President-turned climate change entrepreneur Al Gore predicted ten years ago today that at this moment the globe would be embroiled in a “planetary emergency,” unless the United States immediately took drastic steps to reduce carbon emissions. After attempts to pass so called “Cap and Trade” failed in Congress, the Obama administration unilaterally imposed […]

WASHINGTON — The US Senate Agriculture Committee this week rolled out legislation to dramatically scale back Michelle Obama’s controversial school lunch program, which has frustrated hungry kids and exasperated cash-strapped public schools. The Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was part of the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign, which has the stated goal of reducing childhood […]

SAMANTHA, Ala. — The pastor of a small church in Tuscaloosa County has sparked quite a controversy inside the evangelical community after stating in a letter to the editor of the Alabama Baptist newspaper that Syrian refugees are the same type of idol worshipers God instructed his people to destroy in the Old Testament. Pastor […]

WASHINGTON — Roughly half the states in the country, including Alabama, are urging the United States Supreme Court to block the Obama administration’s so called “Clean Power Plan” from going into effect until their legal challenge works its way through the judicial system. The Clean Power Plan, which was imposed via executive action and designed […]

Today is the 33rd anniversary of legendary Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s death, and the War Eagle Reader has unearthed the press release Auburn University put out responding to the news. The Tide and Tigers remain fierce rivals on the field, but this press release exudes the kind of class both programs are known […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Knight Eady, an Alabama-based marketing an events company, is partnering up with St. Vincent’s Health System to host the 2016 Birmingham Corporate Challenge July 16 at Railroad Park. This second year event will bring together more than 50 of the most influential companies in the Alabama corporate community for Olympic-style field day […]

WASHINGTON — A brawl has broken out inside the Pentagon between Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and the heads of the Army and Navy over the Obama administration’s military spending priorities, and the Alabama-built Littoral Combat Ship is at the center of it all. The Obama administration is pushing for a significant reduction in ship […]

(Video above: John David Marlin works on his ABCs) John David Marlin, the 2-years-old son of Cameron and Hannah Marlin from Helena, Alabama, is the Internet’s latest viral sensation after garnering over 10 million views on a video of him reciting the alphabet. The video was captured at John David’s aunt’s house, and he has […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Senator Larry Stutts (R-Sheffield) says Alabama’s new “zero-based budgeting” method is forcing state agencies to “provide proof, line-by-line, supporting their budget requests.” To this point, the State of Alabama, similar to the federal government, has used a form of “baseline budgeting.” This means that an agency’s budget appropriation for this year […]

(Video above: Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s legendary speech to incoming freshmen) Legendary Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant passed away on this day 33 years ago after suffering a massive heart attack at 1:24 P.M. at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, only 37 days after he announced his retirement as a coach (he stayed […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Alabama’s State Climatologist finds himself in a familiar position this week: at odds with global warming alarmists, many of whom are now claiming 2015 was the hottest year on record. “2015 Was Hottest Year in Historical Record, Scientists Say,” read last week’s headline atop the New York Times. “The whole system is […]

WASHINGTON — The Donald J. Trump presidential campaign got a behind-the-scenes boost on Monday when one of Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-Ala.) top staffers agreed to join the campaign as senior policy adviser. Stephen Miller, who has worked for Sessions for the past seven years and until Monday held the role of Communications Director, first worked […]

If the only thing you think about when you hear the words “all the way” is whether it’s actually a good idea to put mushrooms on hash browns (I’m a scattered, covered and chunked guy myself), the latest news coming out of Waffle House HQ is definitely for you. The restaurant chain announced on Monday […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama Senator Gerald Allen believes there is a “revisionist movement” seeking to “whitewash” Alabama history, and he plans to do something about it during the upcoming legislative session. In a move first reported by the Montgomery Advertiser, Senator Allen has introduced a bill that would prohibit cities from removing “any object of […]

The vast majority of the press leading up to Alabama’s March 1st primary elections will be devoted to the presidential race, and rightfully so. It is, after all, the first time Alabama and many other southern states will play a prominent role in the nominating process, thanks to the so called SEC Primary. Most of […]