Above: Senate gallery chants “Yes we can!” as Vice President Biden reads the immigration vote results aloud WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate passed the so-called “Gang of Eight” immigration bill on Thursday by a 68-32 vote margin, resulting in the Senate gallery breaking out into a “Yes we can!” chant. While the bill’s passage in […]

Above: Senator Richard Shelby delivers remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate regarding the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill. In a wide-ranging floor speech that touched on the history of U.S. immigration reform, laid out the negative economic impacts of the current immigration proposal, and even quoted Mark Twain, Senator Richard Shelby gave […]

Think it’s hot now? Just wait ’til Obama’s newly declared “War on Coal” causes electric rates to spike so high you can’t afford to pay your power bill. “The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants,” Daniel Schrag, a member of […]

15 Republican Senators joined all 52 Democrats in voting to invoke cloture on the Corker-Hoeven amendment, a 1,200-page substitute to the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform proposal. The motion’s passage ends debate on the amendment, moving the bill into position for final passage. Majority Leader Harry Reid says he plans to pass the bill […]

When Barack Obama makes his long-awaited climate change policy announcement on Tuesday, expect him to use a familiar phrase: “We can’t wait.” Obama first strung those three words together in October of 2011 as an excuse to bypass congress using executive orders to tweak rules and make recess appointments, some of which were found to […]

Steve Nodine’s potential candidacy for U.S. House got some media time from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews today. “What’s one of the worst possible places to launch and carry out a congressional campaign?” Matthews asked on Hardball. “Well, ask Stephen Nodine… who’s considering a run for the United States Congress. He happens to be serving out right […]

As I’ve mentioned before, blog posts that aren’t political in nature will have the “PERSONAL BLOG” header so you’ll know to skip over if you aren’t interested. Several years in a row around Christmas time, I and several other folks in the wiregrass area of southeast Alabama produced an event called “Jingle Bell Rock” in […]

Crenshaw County Probate Judge Jim Perdue has officially announced himself as a Republican candidate for Secretary of State. “I am delighted about the opportunity to travel throughout Alabama over the coming months and share my vision with the people of this great state” Perdue said in a statement. “I feel that my service as a […]

The Alabama Public Service Commission yesterday held its second public hearing as part of their open rate review of the Alabama Power Company. On one side, the Southern Environmental Law Center, Alabama Environmental Council, the AARP and other leftist groups continued their call for Alabama to adopt stricter environmental standards on energy producers. On the […]

According to Gallup, “Americans’ confidence in Congress as an institution is down to 10%, ranking the legislative body last on a list of 16 societal institutions for the fourth straight year. This is the lowest level of confidence Gallup has found, not only for Congress, but for any institution on record.” They began tracking in […]

Louisiana Senator Elbert Guillory explains why he switched parties to become a Republican. There’s nothing that could be added to this to make it more perfect. The video is above, and here’s the transcript: “Hello, my name is Elbert Lee Guillory, and I’m the senator for the twenty-fourth district right here in beautiful Louisiana. Recently […]

Rich Wingo was a linebacker for the University of Alabama during one of the most famous plays in college football history, “The Goal Line Stand” in the 1978 national championship game against Penn State. 35 years later, sources in Tuscaloosa say Wingo is now ready to hold the line again — this time for conservative […]

The Birmingham Business Journal just released their annual list of the 100 largest private companies in Birmingham, and Drummond Co. is at the top of the list after bringing in a whopping $3.7 billion in revenue in 2012. “The industries represented vary widely, from steel production and distribution to financial services to supermarkets and everything […]

Conservative grassroots advocacy organization Heritage Action for America has released their latest Congressional “scorecard” that ranks the conservative voting records of members of Congress. According to the Heritage Action website, “The Heritage Action Scorecard measures votes, co-sponsorships, and other legislative activity to show how conservative Members of Congress are.” Overall, 26 members of the House […]

Several highly placed sources in north Alabama have recently been teasing the possibility of a well-funded Republican primary challenger to Governor Robert Bentley in 2014. While I considered the sources extremely reliable, their unwillingness to get into details made me question whether they had hard information, or were just speculating. This morning I received a […]

Republican businessman Danny Garrett announced yesterday that he is running for the Alabama House of Representatives in District 44. The current District 44 representative, Arthur Payne, has been in the legislature for 35 years and is planning to retire in 2014. “Now, more than ever, it is important to have principled, conservative leadership here in […]

Businessman and anti-tax advocate Dean Young has garnered the support of Chief Justice Roy Moore in his campaign to succeed Rep. Jo Bonner as the representative of Alabama’s First Congressional District. “While I cannot endorse candidates for public office because of my position as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court,” Moore wrote in a […]

The group conducting research using blood & saliva samples taken at Alabama roadblocks is a well-known advocate for leftwing causes and is financed in part by the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation. The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) is in charge of the study being conducted using the saliva and blood samples. PIRE’s stated […]

Maverick PAC (MavPAC) today announced Martha Roby as a 40 under 40 award recipient, an honor given to professionals deemed by their peers as up-and-coming leaders for the next-generation of Republicans. MavPAC is headed by George P. Bush, son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. According to Red Alert Politics, MavPAC “was organized to get […]

The Quin Hillyer campaign announced today that Hillyer is the first Republican candidate in the Congressional District 1 Special Election to sign the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge. “I understand how Washington works, the problem is the people we send up there do not,” Hillyer said in a statement. “There is a spending […]

Off-duty police officers in two Alabama counties set up roadblocks this past weekend to collect saliva and blood samples from drivers as they came through. Birmingham radio personality Matt Murphy broke the story on his show this morning. St. Clair and Bibb County participated in the program, which the St. Clair Sheriff’s office says was […]

Eutaw farmer Chris “Chip” Beeker officially announced this morning that he will challenge Terry Dunn in the upcoming Republican primary for Public Service Commissioner and cited keeping utility rates low, protecting and growing energy sector jobs, and combating Barack Obama’s excessive environmental mandates among his top priorities. “Obama’s radical Environmental Protection Agency and its increased […]

While Americans’ trust in government is near a historic low, Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature is more popular than ever, according to a polling memo that numerous legislators shared with Yellowhammer Thursday. The Real Clear Politics average of national polls shows Congress’s approval rating hovering around 15%. According to the McLaughlin & Associates poll, which was commissioned […]

According to sources familiar with his thinking, State Representative Chad Fincher (R – Semmes) is running for Congress in Alabama’s First Congressional District, and may make his announcement as soon as early next week. Fincher made a name for himself in Republican circles during the 2013 legislative session by sponsoring the Alabama Accountability Act, the […]