Chad Mathis has racked up an impressive list of supporters for his congressional campaign, including national conservative heavyweights like FreedomWorks, The Madison Project, Club for Growth and U.S. Sen. Mike Lee. Most recently, the Tea Party Patriots, a national tea party organization, came out in support of Mathis’ candidacy, an announcement that now has local […]

Decatur, Ala. native and current San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers recently delivered the 125th annual commencement address at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. The devout Catholic, husband and father of seven challenged the graduates to embrace a Latin phrase that he has adopted as his life motto — “Nunc Coepi,” translated […]

SUMMARY: Alabama voters appear to be the victims of a well-financed ruse built to manipulate them and swing elections. Lobbyist John Rice founded the Alabama Foundation for Limited Government (AFLG) and Stop Common Core PAC earlier this year. Stop Common Core PAC is funded by the Alabama Foundation for Limited Government, which does not disclose the source […]

Cubby’s Corner Deli opened in Hoover, Ala. in late 2011 and has been serving up classic American sandwiches and homemade Italian dishes ever since. Tucked in the corner of Hoover Tactical Firearms, one of the nation’s premier firearms stores, Cubby’s is the only restaurant in town where you can unload your pistol on a state-of-the-art […]

WASHINGTON — Rep. Robert Aderholt (AL-04) has taken the lead on trying to roll back costly school lunch regulations that have been a priority for the Obama Administration, especially the First Lady. The Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which Aderholt chairs, yesterday passed a bill to fund the U.S. Department of Agriculture , the Food & Drug […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney has endorsed Lt. Governor Kay Ivey in the June 3rd Republican primary. “Kay Ivey has been my friend since 2006, but she has always been a friend to Alabama,” Romney wrote in an email to his Alabama supporters. “Alabamians have long relied on […]

(Above: Rep. Martha Roby comments on the Veterans Affairs scandal) Rep. Martha Roby, R-AL02, was left wondering “what does it take for someone in the Obama Administration to get fired?” after reports revealed that veterans in need of treatment waited months for care, some dying while still on the “secret waiting list.” Additionally, VA officials […]

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has been a member of the United States Senate for over 17 years now. He’s currently running for a fourth term. But even though Sessions has been around for a while, there has never been a point during his career that his star has shined brighter than it is right now, […]

Control of the Senate is the biggest prize of the 2014 election cycle, and Alabama’s two Senate seats are safe in Republicans hands. But Scott Bland of National Journal wrote today that one of Alabama’s congressional districts is the center of another battle for control in the U.S. House — not between parties, but among […]

So this video is a couple of years old, but it resurfaced over the weekend when nationally-syndicated talk radio firebrand Michael Berry posted it on his Facebook page with the caption “This is how a Brit reacts to seeing American Collegiate Football for the 1st time.” In the video, English comedian and actor Stephen Fry […]

Actions have consequences. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, last year urged the country’s major gun retailers “to suspend sales of modern assault-style weapons.” The State of New York then went a step further and passed the NY SAFE Act, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo described as the “toughest” gun control law in the United States. The Act’s […]

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Alabama is the only state in the country that has seen its unemployment rate rise over the last 12 months. Alabama Department of Labor Commissioner Tom Surtees announced this morning that Alabama’s unemployment rate rose for the third straight month, to 6.9%. That’s up almost a full point […]

When Bama fans all over the country go to the polls to vote this year, the overwhelming majority of them will be pulling the lever for a Republican. The chart below, which was created by National Journal after an analysis of over 200,000 interview by Scarborough Research, shows the Alabama Crimson Tide with the most […]

(Above: Sessions addresses Sens. Reid and Schumer’s immigration bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate) Sen. Jeff Sessions took to the Senate floor this week to respond to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-Ill., who are once again pushing for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Senate’s […]

“The chance of repealing Obamacare is zero,” U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-AL03, said bluntly to the Pell City Rotary Club earlier this week. The reactions to Rogers’ statement were predictable. Emails coming in through Yellowhammer’s contact page from concerned conservatives decried his remarks as defeatism — or worse, complicity. Alabama’s liberal media seized the opportunity […]

It’s not unusual for Alabama political candidates to be unintentionally funny. 2010 was actually a banner year for viral campaign ads coming out of the Yellowhammer State. The combination of quirky candidates and the rise of YouTube resulted in Alabama campaign spots and their subsequent parodies exploding across the web. In spite of the fact […]

Rainy Day Patriots Tea Party and the 60 Plus Association have teamed up to host a 6th Congressional District debate on Thursday at Hoover Tactical Firearms. Meanwhile a few miles north, the Alabama Policy Institute will be hosting a meet and greet and question and answer time with State House candidates from House Districts 46 […]

Paul DeMarco today released a new campaign spot set in the Homewood Pharmacy, a familiar landmark in DeMarco’s Edgewood neighborhood and the perfect setting for a healthcare-related ad. Here’s the transcript: You see them everywhere — victims of ObamaCare. Some were promised they could keep their doctor, they can’t. Others’ premiums went up 30 percent. […]

The Democratic Party is all but defunct in Alabama. That has left traditionally Democrat-aligned groups like the Alabama Education Association (AEA) to concoct elaborate schemes to funnel money into Republican primaries to influence elections without voters realizing. This election cycle, deceptively-named groups like The Alabama Foundation for Limited Government and Stop Common Core PAC, which […]

(Above: Gary Palmer recalls playing for Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant) Gary Palmer, congressional candidate in Alabama’s 6th District, today released a video discussing his experience as a walk-on football player at the University of Alabama under Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant in the 1970s. Even though Palmer never played football in high school, he tried out […]

New Hope High School, located just southeast of Huntsville, Ala., announced today that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin will deliver the commencement address at the school’s upcoming graduation ceremony. Madison County School Superintendent Dr. David Copeland said the grandmother of one of New Hope’s graduates is a personal friend of Palin’s and played a key […]

An impromptu meeting in Washington, D.C. last year has now led to an unprecedented effort by an Alabama family to raise awareness about Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare disease that causes muscle degeneration and often kills its victims by the time they reach their late teens or early 20s. Gabe Griffin, the 9-year-old son […]

Chad Griffin of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is out today with an op-ed declaring that his organization’s “unprecedented, $8.5 million effort to advance equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people” in the south will lead to Alabama becoming a “new home for LGBT equality.” The new initiative, which HRC has dubbed “Project […]

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley today released his first campaign ad of the 2014 election cycle, titled “Accomplishments.” In 2010 you elected me as your governor. Since then, unemployment is down, we’ve recruited over 50,000 jobs, saved over a billion dollars, and launched the largest roads program in state history. We’ve faced difficult challenges, but Alabamians […]