Alabama’s Republican National Committeeman Paul Reynolds sent out an email blast Monday morning comparing the “totalitarian government” in several recent fictional movies to the “real-world threat to the free market” that he believes is being posed by the Obama Administration. The email blast went out from the Alabama Free Market Alliance, a conservative advocacy group […]

Kevin Trudeau, who is known to many as the “infomercial king,” but to a federal judge as “deceitful to the core,” is now serving a 10-year sentence in Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Ala. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled that Trudeau had made false health and diet claims in his book, “The Weight Loss […]

Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead released an op-ed Monday morning provocatively titled, “Is Obama A Sociopath?” “President Obama returned to the White House last night after a two week vacation to Martha’s Vineyard,” Armistead wrote. “Amidst an international crisis in the Middle East, a national crisis in Missouri and the beheading of American journalist […]

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday announced the creation of the Alabama Drone Task Force. The task force was created to review the necessary requirements to further Alabama’s potential use of drones in the areas of agriculture, conservation and law enforcement. The Governor requested task force members accomplish the following: Study the requirements for drone […]

The Robert Bentley for Governor campaign will launch a giant wave — really more like a tsunami — of television ads on Monday, August 25. The $500,000 ad buy will flood the state with a steady flow of pro-Bentley messaging touting the governor’s record on jobs and the economy. In the ad, titled “Working for […]

5 of Alabama’s top 10 most stolen vehicles in 2013 were pickup trucks, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, including the 1997 Chevrolet full-size pickup, which tops the list. The rest of the top 10 can be found below. And here are top 10 most stolen vehicles nationally: 1. Honda Accord – 53,995 thefts […]

“Coffee Shop,” a romantic comedy shot in Old Town Helena and on the Alabama Gulf Coast shores of Fairhope, will be shown for the first time tonight, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, at the Carmike Summit 16 in Birmingham and the Patton Creek 15 in Hoover. A red carpet premier will also take place the following […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL2) on Thursday applauded The Department of Veterans Affairs’ decision to remove Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS) director James Talton and Chief of Staff Dr. Cliff Robinson from their positions. The management shakeup comes in the wake of almost two solid months […]

Prior to the mid-90s, Alabama was known as “tort hell,” a place National Review judicial writer Jack Park says was “marked by outlandish punitive-damage awards, dodgy procedures, and plaintiff-friendly legal doctrines.” The most notorious example of the Alabama Supreme Court’s apparently severe anti-business bias during that time period took place in BMW v. Gore. In […]

James Talton, the embattled Director of the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS), has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, as reports of mismanagement and impropriety continue to come out. In early June, a federal audit included CAVHCS among 84 VA facilities nationwide cited for unethical practices. According to Department of Veterans […]

The Alabama Free Market Alliance (AFMA), a conservative advocacy group founded by Alabama’s Republican National Committeeman Paul Reynolds, embedded an “undercover” film crew with environmental protestors for several days last month in an effort to get the unvarnished truth about their agenda. On Thursday, AFMA published the video of their findings, and some of what […]

Alabama is the most honest state in the country according to a study by Honest Tea, a beverage company who recently conducted their second annual nationwide experiment on honesty. But whereas Alabama topped the rankings by itself in 2013, the Yellowhammer State is sharing the honor this year with Alaska and Hawaii. Honest Tea set […]

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Parker Griffith hasn’t gotten a lot of traction in Alabama with his platform of two key issues: expanding Medicaid under ObamaCare and implementing a statewide lottery. He has, however, made some headlines for his fiery, and often bizarre, rhetoric. In April he used profanity to try to get his followers ginned up […]

(Above: Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL2) discusses her future with Yellowhammer CEO Cliff Sims) Maybe it is a result of there being very little drama this year in Alabama at the top of the ticket, but Alabama political insiders are already speculating about who’s going to run for what office in 2018. The governor, attorney general […]

A wind energy company led by a personal friend of President Obama’s has nixed plans to build wind farms in northeast Alabama, according to sources with knowledge of the proposed project. Green energy companies have long been the beneficiaries of favorable treatment by the federal government. Tax breaks, subsidies, and often a total lack of […]

One day after Yellowhammer reported the proliferation of former military equipment to local Alabama law enforcement agencies, Huntsville TV station WAFF has discovered that the State of Alabama has been suspended from the federal program that allocates the gear. Congress’s “1033″ program, which has been around for a couple of decades, allows for the transfer […]

Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson was personally selected by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to coordinate the law enforcement response to protests in Ferguson, Mo. A 27-year veteran of the Highway Patrol, Johnson was supposed to be the steady hand amidst the chaos. He started by delivering a stirring speech at a unity rally that […]

This year for the first time, the federal government released data comparing price differences among states and metro areas. The new measurements are known as Regional Price Parities (RPP) and Real Personal Income (RPI). These simple, but powerful data points allow individuals in each state to measure how far their money goes compared to individuals […]

Senior White House aides are currently working with major corporations to “expand the executive actions President Barack Obama takes on immigration,” according to a report by Politico, and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is not happy about it. The president initially planned to only slow deportations of illegal immigrants and make other alterations to immigration enforcement […]

A Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS) employee took a recovering vet to a crack house in Tuskegee to buy illegal drugs and solicit a prostitute, but is still employed by the VA over a year after the events occurred, according to a report by the Montgomery Advertiser. An internal investigation also found the […]

The militarization of America’s police forces has gone from being a pet issue of libertarians to the forefront of the national debate as the chaos of the Ferguson protests has played out on television and computer screens across the U.S. But the fact is, it’s nothing new. Congress’s “1033” program, which has been around for […]

Foreign immigration is a hot topic in American right now. However, individuals immigrating from state to state may actually have a more significant impact on the country’s culture, economy and politics. America experienced significant changes during periods of rapid migration, as seen during the country’s westward expansion, the movement of blacks from the South to […]

For the first time since October of 2012, Alabama’s unemployment rate jumped over 7 percent in July, according to revised numbers released Friday by the Department of Labor. But the economy also grew at the fastest rate it has this year, lending some credibility to the Bentley administration’s argument that the bump in unemployment is […]

The Alabama State Board of Education earlier this week voted 6-2 to give State School Superintendent Tommy Bice a sizable raise. Since taking over as Alabama’s K-12 chief in January of 2012, Bice has made roughly $200,000 annually. Under the new contract approved by the board, his base salary will rise to $250,000. Alabama high […]