(Video above: Shades Mountain Baptist Church a cappella group sings “Mary Did You Know?”) In what worship pastor Michael Adler called “some back hallway practice time,” a group from Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Birmingham put together a stirring arrangement of “Mary Did You Know?” that will immediately get even the biggest Scrooge into the […]

(Video above: ESPNU Iron Bowl Commercial) The politically correct crowd probably won’t like it, but this pretty much sums it up. Never graduate’ — Hilarious ESPN commercial perfectly sums up Iron Bowl rivalry https://t.co/efJ5fwNf0B — Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) November 25, 2015

1. College football The traditions. The rivalries. The memories. When aliens stumble upon our ancient, 21st century Alabama civilization 10,000 years from now, they’ll probably assume The Iron Bowl was a yearly mass celebration of a primitive people’s religion. Belting out “Dixieland Delight” during the second half of an Alabama football game (RIP?) is the […]

As college protests swept the nation in recent weeks, an unexpected trend emerged in which activists began demanding the creation of so called “safe zones” or “safe spaces” on campus. These safe zones are often described as areas in which a certain group can huddle away from the mean world outside and “dialogue” with like-minded […]

(Video above: The historic Avondale Mills smokestack comes down) Words like “trust me,” “light this fuse,” and “watch this” are typically indicators that it might be worth turning on a camera just in case something goes wrong, but a guy in an excavator trying to knock down a smokestack that’s, like, 160 feet tall is […]

WASHINGTON — In a letter to President Barack Obama Tuesday, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) blasted the president for being anti-police and urged him to reverse a “dangerous” executive order that resulted in the federal government taking two armored vehicles away from a local Alabama sheriff. The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office received two unarmed, tracked […]

(Video above: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) discusses his faith during the q&a portion of a campaign event) The Internet is simultaneously the only way I can get anything done and the biggest reason I don’t get as much done as I should. On Monday night, it was the latter as I got scrolled through various […]

Washington Post national political correspondent Karen Tumulty was packing up some of her things to move to a new office when she unearthed some old documents, including a press release from the late U.S. Sen. Howell Heflin (D-Ala.) that she called the “best ever.” Heflin served as Alabama’s junior U.S. senator from 1979 until being […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama House and Senate budget chairmen signaled Monday they are preparing to move the state toward zero-based budgeting, which would ratchet up scrutiny on state agencies and require them justify their budget requests each year. To this point, the State of Alabama, similar to the federal government, has used a form of […]

WASHINGTON — Two top Obama administration officials sent a letter to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley on Friday insisting the federal government’s system for vetting Syrian refugees is strong and should not be a point of concern for states that are slated to receive refugees in the coming months. Alabama is expected to receive 100 Syrian […]

Niche, a site that seeks to “make choosing a neighborhood, college, or K-12 school a more transparent process” by “providing reviews and insight from everyday experts,” is out with a new list of the top elementary schools in Alabama, and it looks like a handful of communities are dominating. Multiple schools in Mountain Brook, Homewood, […]

Niche, a site that seeks to “make choosing a neighborhood, college, or K-12 school a more transparent process” by “providing reviews and insight from everyday experts,” is out with its annual list of the top high schools in the nation, and Alabama is well represented with 7 schools in the top 500 (out of 23,861). […]

According to American Express, nearly 75 million people are playing fantasy sports this year in the United States, spending a jaw-dropping $4.6 billion in the process. Season-long fantasy leagues often consist of groups of friends who play for free on websites like ESPN and Yahoo. Daily and weekly fantasy games, however, begin by team managers […]

(Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions speaks on the Senate floor regarding the Obama administration’s Syrian refugee policy. The full speech can be viewed here.) During a speech on the Senate floor Friday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said the Obama administration is willfully concealing the immigration history of convicted terrorists. Sessions’ remarks were made in the […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally-adjusted October unemployment rate is 5.9%, down from September’s rate of 6.0%, and below October 2014’s rate of 6.2%, according to data released by the Department of Labor. “More jobs are being created, Alabama’s unemployment rate continues to drops and our economy is growing,” Governor Robert Bentley said in a […]

During an interview on with conservative talk radio host Matt Murphy on Thursday, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) pointed to the crisis in Syria as evidence that President Barack Obama’s foreign policy has been a disaster for the country. “I believe that the Syrian refugee situation is symptomatic of a failure in our foreign policy,” Shelby […]

Defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, Alabama’s congressional delegation unanimously backed legislation to halt the influx of Syrian refugees and intensify the security screenings of refugees going forward. The bill was approved by a vote of 289 to 137, with 47 Democrats including Alabama Congressman Terri Sewell (D-AL7), joining Republicans in creating a […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Governor Robert Bentley’s Alabama Health Care Improvement Task Force on Wednesday recommended expanding Medicaid, the government healthcare program designed to provide coverage for low-income and disabled individuals. The task force said the most significant barrier to improving healthcare outcomes in Alabama is eliminating the “coverage gap” — people who do not have […]

(Video above: University of Alabama students make claims of racism in viral video) Three University of Alabama students, including the school’s first black Student Government Association president in forty years, released a video last week claiming that racism is so pervasive on campus that at least one of them has been scared to leave her […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Top White House officials refused requests from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to be granted access to classified information about Syrian refugees slated to be resettled in Mobile. Bentley and roughly a dozen other governors participated in a conference call with senior White House aides Tuesday night. According to Bloomberg, Obama administration officials […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL1), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, on Wednesday introduced legislation that would defund the Syrian refugee resettlement program. 100 Syrian refugees are currently slated to be housed by Catholic Social Services in Mobile, which is located within Byrne’s south Alabama congressional district. The Defund the Syrian […]

(Video above: WKRG reports on the assault of a Summerdale police officer) SUMMERDALE, Ala. — With a population of less than 1,000, the quiet south Alabama town of Summerdale is not accustomed to dealing with a lot of violent criminals. But unbeknownst to local police Corporal Vince Miller, that is exactly what he had on […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psrF1e3tXNA (Video above h/t WarEagleReader: Jeopardy drops in a “Kick Six” question) Auburn is having a bit of a down year on the field in 2015, but they were the champions of the “Great Football Plays” category of Jeopardy on Tuesday. “In 2013 a 109-yard ‘Kick Six’ kicked in a win for this school over […]

A new study by a leading economic research firm asserts that President Obama’s so called Clean Power Plan could result in a double-digit spike in electricity rates in most U.S. states, including Alabama. The study by National Economic Research Associates (NERA) estimates Alabamians’ electricity costs will jump by 19 percent as a result of increased […]