Joseph Curl covered the White House for the Washington Times during the George W. Bush administration, and says he still thinks about the former president every Christmas season because Bush always gave him a “spectacular gift.” Before revealing what that gift was, Curl said it is important to understand just how many people are involved […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX0XvEu7_cg (Video above: A clip from 60 Minutes’ interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook) Tim Cook is not known as a champion of conservatism — quite the contrary, actually. After being inducted into the Alabama Hall of Honor last year, the Robertsdale native and Auburn University graduate urged his home state to achieve “equality in […]

(Video above: SkyBama captures Alabama Christmas lights by night) Kevin Henderson and his drone video team at SkyBama have produced a stunning 7-minute video of some of the best Christmas lights from all across Alabama. The shots were all captured with a GoPro Hero3+ 5 mounted on a Phantom 2 Drone. Locations include (in order […]

A Massachusetts court ruling has grabbed the attention of religious schools in Alabama, where faculty, staff and parents are concerned that it could set a precedent, although the ruling does not impact them directly. Buzzfeed News explains: A state court in Massachusetts has ruled that a Catholic preparatory school violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when […]

A coalition of Alabama leaders from the Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths submitted a letter to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley on Monday, urging him to reconsider his position Syrian refugees. In mid-November, Bentley became the second governor in the country to announce that his administration would refuse Syrian refugees slated to be relocated to his […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — What if many of the over 5 million Americans who have some level of security clearance were not fully vetted before gaining access to the U.S. government’s best kept secrets? In 2011, that is exactly what Blake Percival realized was going on. Percival was settling into a new job making the most […]

Al Jazeera America, the US arm of a media conglomerate run by the ruling family of Qatar, called out Alabama on Monday for teaching abstinence-only education in public schools. Al Jazeera pointed to CDC data showing that Alabama’s STD rates are among the highest in the country as evidence that teaching abstinence as the only […]

(Video above: Texas homeowner syncs Christmas lights to the University of Alabama fight song) An Alabama football fan living in Texas has endured so much good-natured ribbing for being a Crimson Tide supporter that one of his co-workers decided to give him a special Christmas present this year. John Storms of Austin, Texas, synced 25,000 […]

TRUSSVILLE, Ala. — US Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz delivered a half-hour stem-winder to a raucous group of conservative activists and GOP primary voters on Sunday, attracting a crowd so large the fire marshal funneled several hundred event attendees into an overflow room with a live video feed. In total, upwards of 1,500 […]

The University of Alabama’s famed Crimson Tide football team is having another SEC championship season on the field and has earned a bid to the College Football Playoff, but it is the team’s performance in the classroom that is garnering attention this week. The No. 2-ranked Crimson Tide are also ranked No. 6 academically, according […]

DAPHNE, Ala. — During a weekend campaign stop in south Alabama, Republican senator and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz said he had “three words” for people questioning whether the southern border can be secured: “Secretary Jeff Sessions.” “We are going to deport criminal illegal aliens, we are going to pass Kate’s Law [mandatory minimum sentences for […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The State of Alabama chose the same company who oversaw the rollout of HealthCare.gov to upgrade the state’s financial management software, and is now experiencing similar results. The State of Alabama Accounting and Resource System, STAARS, had not been updated for roughly a quarter century, prompting state government leaders in 2013 to […]

WASHINGTON — A $1.1 trillion bill to fund the government through next September flew through the House (316-113) and Senate (65-33) on Friday, but only garnered support from two individuals in Alabama’s nine-member federal delegation. Alabama’s lone Democratic representative Terri Sewell (D-AL7) was joined in supporting the bill by Republican Robert Aderholt (R-AL4), while the […]

Conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh on Friday expressed exasperation that Congressional Republicans had pushed through a $1.1 trillion spending bill that funds a host of Democratic priorities–from Planned Parenthood to President Obama’s immigration agenda–concluding that Jeff Sessions may be “the only conservative left in Congress” because he was one of the few senators sounding […]

John McCain really, really hates the state of Alabama — despises the Yellowhammer State with every fiber of his being. It’s hard to say where this deep-seeded loathing, this burning desire to inflict carnage on an entire state some 1,600 miles from his Arizona home came from, or when it started. One might think it […]

(Video above: Senator Jeff Sessions backs Senator Ted Cruz in his spat with Senator Rubio) WASHINGTON — Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is lending his significant credibility to Senator Ted Cruz in a spat with Senator Marco Rubio, after the two presidential candidates tangled over their respective records on the issue of immigration. Cruz has long […]

WASHINGTON — Defense News reported this week that the Alabama-made littoral combat ship (LCS) may have been dealt a “fatal blow” when Secretary of Defense Ash Carter directed the US Navy to slash its previous order of ships by twelve and reduce its annual orders by tho-thirds. But three members of Alabama’s federal delegation are […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Longtime State Representative Alvin Holmes (D-Montgomery) is joining the NAACP in demanding the Confederate flag be removed from the uniforms of Alabama State Troopers, and asking Governor Robert Bentley to issue an executive order making it happen. The Confederate battle flag is included in the Alabama coat of arms alongside the four […]

WASHIHNGTON — Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL5) on Thursday said he will join Alabama Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions in opposing that massive spending bill that Republicans are poised to pass through Congress. Shelby and Sessions have both been openly critical of the legislation, particularly because it “funds President Obama’s entire immigration agenda,” but Shelby […]

Over the next couple of weeks, Yellowhammer will recap some of the most important Alabama stories of 2015, from politics and business, to faith and culture, and everything in between. Terrorism may be dominating the headlines right now, but Alabama had produced some incredible feel-good stories this year as well. Here are five of the […]

WASHINGTON — A single paragraph in the 2,000 page spending bill currently making its way through Congress likely saved hundreds of jobs at an Alabama rocket company, and perhaps untold thousands more jobs that could come as the momentum of Alabama’s aerospace sector continues to build. For over a decade now, the U.S. military has […]

(Video above: Carmen Jemette’s spectacular Christmas Lights display) A family on Dalraida Pkwy. in Montgomery, Alabama, has transformed their property into a winter wonderland of lights this Christmas, and the folks at Growing Dreamz, a company that says it specializes in growing small businesses through creating content and providing social media training, have captured the […]

Sumiton is Alabama’s most conservative city, and one of the most conservative cities in the entire United States, according to a new analysis by a political tech startup called Crowdpac. “We looked at all political donations to candidates on the federal and state level since 2002, and calculated a political ideology score for every town […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama has just received its first “infrastructure report card,” revealing that every driver in the state is paying an additional $300 per year in vehicle maintenance and repair costs because of potholes. Additionally, while the state’s infrastructure did not receive an overall failing grade, its inability to pass with flying colors could […]