WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) announced on Monday that during the next session of Congress he will once again Chair the House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces subcommittee. In the 114th Congress, which will be seated in January, Rogers says he plans to use his key subcommittee role to “keep pressure” on Russian […]

For the second time in as many weeks, the country’s most well known anti-tax crusader is urging Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley to stick to his signed oath to Alabama voters not to raise their taxes. Grover Norquist, the head of the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), has perhaps been the country’s most […]

WARRIOR, Ala. — When a trio of burglars returned to a rural Alabama neighborhood for a second round of stealing Christmas gifts, they ended up getting more than they bargained for. The Wyatt family returned home last Friday to find that their home had been burglarized, with two of their TVs and several of their […]

WASHINGTON — Speaker of the House John Boehner last week led a ceremony to award Auburn University graduate Bobelle Sconiers Harrell the Congressional Gold Medal, considered alongside the Presidential Medal of Freedom as the United States’ highest civilian honor. Harrel received the medal posthumously for her service in World War II with the Civil Air […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snviTYMXn7I (Video above: Chicago police play “Sweet Home Alabama” while escorting a “Black Lives Matter” protest) CHICAGO, Ill. — The Chicago police officer who was captured on camera blaring “Sweet Home Alabama” while escorting a “Black Lives Matter” protest to a “die in” has now been suspended by the Chicago Police Department for being “disrespectful” […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Friday passed the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizing $585 billion for the military next year. Some of the highlights of the bill include $521.3 billion to fund the Pentagon’s base budget and $63.7 billion for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also authorizes $5 billion to […]

ENTERPRISE, Ala. — Alabama State Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) on Sunday added his opinions to the growing debate over what the state should do to address the shortfall in its General Fund Budget, which Senate General Fund Budget Chairman Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) predicts could be in the neighborhood of $260 million. But unlike Gov. Bentley, […]

HOOVER, Ala. — On the right side of Facebook’s newsfeed is a section titled “trending,” a list of the most-discussed topics on the world’s largest social network at that moment. On Saturday, at the top of the list, right above a Saturday Night Live skit and a bizarre NBA play, was this: “Buffalo Wild Wings: […]

RELATED: Everything you need to know about the Alabama House delegation’s ‘cromnibus’ votes WASHINGTON — The $1.1 trillion “CRomnibus” passed the U.S. Senate Saturday night, concluding an usually active day of of political maneuvering by dissenting senators on both ends of the political spectrum. The bill, which got its name because it combined an omnibus […]

Gov. Robert Bentley issued a bold challenge to Alabama legislators on Thursday: “Don’t cower away from the difficult things we’ve got to face.” Bentley, discussing the state’s undeniably dire General Fund Budget crisis, said lawmakers could either continue kicking the can down the road by patching the deficits with one-time fixes, or they could take […]

WASHINGTON — House Republican leadership, with the help of a chunk of Democrats, pushed through a $1.1 trillion spending bill on Thursday that will fund the government through next September. The final vote was 219 – 206, as 57 Democrats joined with 162 Republicans to push the bill over the finish line. According to The […]

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Thursday released the Navy’s long anticipated “Small Surface Combatant (SSC) Task Force” report, and it contained good news for Alabama. While full details of the report likely won’t be made available to the public for national security reasons, Secretary Hagel left no doubt that the Navy’s need […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Alabama’s State Climatologist this week urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to readdress the physical science behind its Clean Power Plan, which assumes that carbon dioxide emissions are the driving force behind variations in the Earth’s climate. Dr. John Christy is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — During a speech and subsequent press conference on Thursday, Gov. Robert Bentley for the first time signaled publicly that he would be open to expanding Medicaid. It was a drastic departure from statements the governor made throughout his re-election campaign, and perhaps even more notably, during his 2014 State of the State […]

http://youtu.be/BQCdjdhAt-M (Video Above: Sen. Jeff Sessions speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014) WASHINGTON — Flanked by leaders from the U.S. law enforcement community, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Wednesday held a press conference on Capitol Hill to send a message to the President and members of Congress — including […]

Here are two statements, both made on the floor of the United States Senate. One of them was delivered by the U.S. Senate’s most liberal Democrat, the other by one of the body’s most conservative members. See if you can tell the difference. Statement A: I come to the floor today to ask a fundamental […]

OPELIKA, Ala. — The Lee County Sheriff’s office has confirmed to WSFA that Republican state senator Tom Whatley has been arrested and charged with third degree domestic violence. He has posted a $500 bond and has been released after spending the mandatory 12 hour period in the Lee County Jail. Watley was first elected to […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley addressed a crowd of over 1,200 farmers at the Alabama Farmers Federation’s 93rd annual meeting in Montgomery over the weekend. In his speech, the governor took the opportunity to thank leaders from the state’s largest industry and to tout the technological innovations that are changing the way farmers […]

Movoto, one of the web’s most-read real estate blogs, this week released a list of the “10 Most Dangerous Places in Alabama.” “Alabama may have a lot going for it—it was the birthplace of greats like Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, and, of course, Channing Tatum, and was even the first state to build a rocket […]

Die-in (noun): a demonstration in which people lie down as if dead. “There is a right way to protest and a wrong way to protest. Laying down in the middle of the road is the wrong way and shame on the politicians who are afraid to stand up and tell them ‘no.'” That is the […]

Former Auburn University star Bo Jackson, already the “Greatest Athlete of All Time,” will now have the chance to be the “Greatest Video Game Athlete of All Time.” EA Sports announced on Monday that, for the the first time, Jackson will appear in the company’s popular Madden video game. From EA: Bo Jackson is coming […]

(Video above: Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) speaks out against President Obama’s executive actions on immigration on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Monday, Dec. 8, 2014.) WASHINGTON — Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) on Monday spoke out against the President’s executive actions on immigration, which unilaterally shielded 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. Byrne, […]

Marine Cpl. Clay Hunt watched a fellow Marine die after being shot in the throat by a sniper in Iraq. Weeks leader Hunt was also shot in the wrist by an enemy marksman. But as the Washington Post explains, Hunt didn’t let that stop him from deploying again to Afghanistan after completing Marine sniper school […]

In an email to the Alabama Republican Party Executive Committee, ALGOP Chairman Bill Armistead broke the news that he will not seek a third term. Armistead’s announcement will spark a Chairmanship race that will culminate in the election of a new chairman on Feb. 21, 2015, the day after the ALGOP’s winter dinner featuring keynote […]