(Above: Sen. Jeff Sessions addresses coal miners protesting overburdensome EPA regulations) Several thousand members of the coal industry organized a large protest on the West Lawn of the United States Capitol on Tuesday, blasting the overburdensome federal regulations that are straining their industry to the breaking point. After the event, The Wall St. Journal offered […]

Some car salesmen have a reputation for pulling some slick moves to get people to buy a car from them — but nothing like this. When the sales team at Eastern Shore Hyundai in Daphne, Alabama began shooting their latest commercial a little over a week ago, they had no idea they were in the […]

(Above: Sen. Jeff Sessions discusses how the federal government is hurting American workers) Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, this week continued his crusade for American workers and against amnesty by posting a YouTube video titled “Washington Policies Are Shrinking Wages, Growing Deficits.” Unlike most of the staged videos you see from politicians, it appears this one […]

MONTGOMERY – Alabama Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard on Monday announced that Jim Entrekin, Jr., an attorney with an established practice in Jefferson and Shelby Counties, will serve as Legal Counsel for the Office of the Speaker beginning in early November. “Jim’s years of private and public practice make him a tremendous asset to […]

Alabama State Senator Bryan Tayor, R-Prattville, has decided to not seek re-election in 2014. “Now is the time for me to focus on my family, my private sector career and my military service in the National Guard,” Taylor said during a press conference on Monday afternoon. "God is leading us in a different direction" – […]

German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp (TK), which has been trying in vain for the past year to sell its steel plants in Brazil and Alabama, is considering a new plan that would see the company exiting the United States entirely. According to a report by the Wall St. Journal, TK is considering a plan to build […]

HOMEWOOD – Republican state representative Paul DeMarco, R-Homewood, on Sunday night announced his candidacy for Alabama’s Sixth Congressional District. DeMarco currently serves as chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Alabama House of Representatives and the Joint Oversight Committee for Alabama Homeland Security, as well as Co-Chair of the Jefferson County House legislative Delegation. In […]

An anti-economic growth environmental group is doing everything it can to stop the Northern Beltline. Once completed, the Northern Beltline will be a 52-mile highway that will run from Interstate 59 in northeast Jefferson County to the Interstate 459 and I-20/59 junction in southwest Jefferson County. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers approved the permit […]

Darren Aronofsky’s epic depiction of the Biblical story of Noah is set to hit theaters next March with Russell Crowe taking on the lead role. Unfortunately, early screenings of the movie have resulted in a major blowback over the film’s apparent environmentalist angle. Brian Godawa had this to say about the film’s script: If you […]

Regions Financial, Alabama’s largest publicly traded company, has an outsized impact on the state’s economy according to a new study released this week. According to Tripp Umbach, an economic development research firm hired by Regions, the company “contributed $3.3 billion and nearly 22,000 direct and indirect jobs to the Alabama economy in 2012.” Regions also […]

Monday morning, Sept. 30, the folks of Alabama’s Sixth Congressional District awoke to the news that our 11-term Congressman Spencer Bachus will retire at the end of his current term. My wife, Megan, was on the way out the door to work when we heard the news. The first words out of her mouth were, […]

The United States Federal Government under the leadership of President Obama has spent five times more on welfare than it has on transportation, education and NASA combined. This seemingly impossible statistic was unearthed by Sen. Jeff Sessions’, R-Mobile, Senate Budget Committee staff. “We have just concluded the 5th fiscal year since President Obama took office. […]

The Sierra Club, one of the country’s foremost leftwing environmental groups, has added a new name to their list of targets: Alabama Governor Robert Bentley. Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal Campaign,” sent out an email blast Tuesday to the organization’s Alabama activists encouraging them to pressure Gov. Bentley into backing […]

(Above: Sean Hannity calls the ObamaCare hotline) After the president gave out an ObamaCare hotline number for individuals to call if (when) they’re having trouble signing up through healthcare.gov, talk radio show personality Sean Hannity decided to give it a call live on the air. “Welcome to the health insurance marketplace,” an automated female said […]

The Alabama House District 74 race is an interesting preview of the 2014 election cycle. We’ve seen the school employees’ union (AEA) go in hard against a school choice advocate. We’ve seen a Republican try to carve out issues in her platform to mollify the AEA and subsequently not make it into the runoff. We’ve seen […]

In spite of the seemingly positive unemployment numbers that have been trumpeted out of D.C. in recent months, the truth is, many American workers have simply given up on finding a job. As a result, they are no longer used to calculate the unemployment rate, making the official numbers an inaccurate depiction of what’s really […]

(Above: Irvin Carney’s epic Hate Week rant) It’s the third week of October, which only means one thing for Alabama fans: it’s Hate Week, the week leading up to the Tide taking on the loathed Tennessee Volunteers. When a local journalist filmed then-Alabama student Irvin Carney expressing his hatred of the Tennessee Volunteers in 2007, […]

About six months ago, the United States Treasury had roughly $150 billion cash on hand after collecting annual taxes for 2012. According to some analysts, that was unusually high as Americans did whatever they could to avert the higher taxes coming in 2013. But just days before the shutdown saga ended, the Treasury had been […]

MOBILE – Bradley Byrne, Republican Candidate for Alabama’s First Congressional District, today said he does not support the debt ceiling bill passed by the United States House & Senate yesterday. The bill, signed by President Obama overnight, hikes the country’s borrowing limit but does not cut spending. Byrne released the following statement: I do not support the […]

Former Auburn University head football coach Pat Dye did not like the selection of Alabama native Condoleezza Rice to the new 13-member College Football Playoff committee, and he made it known in no uncertain terms on Birmingham sports talk radio station WJOX. “All she knows about football is what somebody told her, or what she […]

It appears that Alabama may be well on its way to having its first husband and wife team in the Alabama legislature. Susan Hightower, wife of State Sen. Bill Hightower, came in first place in the 5-way Republican primary to fill the House District 104 seat vacated by former State Rep. Jim Barton. Margie Wilcox […]

(ABOVE: Molly Anne Dutton is interviewed by Fox & Friends host Elisabeth Hasselbeck) Molly Anne Dutton’s inspirational life story has swept the country since Yellowhammer initially wrote about it on Monday. Since then, multiple national media outlets have flocked to the story, including Fox News, which reposted Yellowhammer’s article on its website, and invited Dutton […]

Rep. Steve Hurst, R-Munford, has pre-filed a bill ahead of the Alabama legislature’s 2014 sessions that calls for child sex offenders to be surgically castrated. Under Rep. Hurst’s proposal, convicted sex offenders would be castrated before being released from prison if their victims were under the age of 12. The offender would also be responsible […]

Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, is returning to Alabama this weekend to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the Million Man March. Farrakhan will be the featured speaker this coming Sunday at an event being held in Tuskegee. “Please know that you can count on our full support, and cooperation, in making […]