In the first ad of the AL-01 special election, journalist Quin Hillyer lays out why he feels it’s important the people of the First Congressional District send him to Congress — values. The 30-second spot highlights many of the recent scandals that have engulfed Washington, including the IRS targeting conservatives, the DOJ spying on reporters, […]

Liberals’ favorite America-hating anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan, is coming back to Alabama for the second time in as many years at the behest of Alabama Democrats. Farrakhan and Democrat State Senator Hank Sanders, who warned voters in 2010 that Alabama may be “going back to the cotton fields of Jim Crow days” if Republicans were put […]

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) today joined with Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in sending a letter to their Senate colleagues highlighting ongoing concerns with the Gang of Eight’s Senate immigration reform bill. The group of staunchly conservative senators criticized the back-door deal that was struck by Gang of Eight […]

Earlier tonight, Heather McGill, the wife of state senator Shad McGill, took to Facebook to vent about women who she says have emailed or Facebook messaged her husband “inviting him to explore” and also “sending pictures of themselves.” Either the hangers-on who for decades grew accustomed to the Montgomery cesspool are having a hard time […]

Rep. Jim McClendon (R – Springville) will officially announce tomorrow that he will challenge fellow Republican Jerry Fielding (R – Sylacauga) in the Senate District 11 GOP primary in 2014. Fielding was a long-time Democrat who was elected to the Alabama Senate in 2010 after previously serving as a District Judge. He was one of the few bright […]

According to sources close to Bradley Byrne, he will officially announce his candidacy for Alabama’s first district congressional seat tomorrow. Byrne, whose Mobile roots go back to the late 1700s, will seek to become the first Baldwin County resident to represent the first congressional district in Congress. Republican Jo Bonner has held the seat since […]

Republican Matt Fridy will officially announce today that he is running for the Alabama House of Representatives in the newly-formed District 73. The new district was created recently through last year’s redistricting process because of heavy population growth in Shelby County. No current legislators reside in the district, which is located in southwestern Shelby County, […]

The National Republican Senatorial Committee last week announced Alabama native Michael Joffrion as their new Southeast political director. According to Roll Call, “Joffrion will oversee the committee’s efforts to topple Democratic incumbents in Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina, as well as hold on to retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ GOP-held seat in Georgia.” In 2010, Joffrion […]

The Alabama Policy Institute (API), an Alabama-based conservative think tank, today released an in-depth study that compares the governments of Alabama’s four largest cities: Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and Huntsville. What did the study find? Birmingham is a picture of government gone wild. Birmingham’s population has fallen by 38% over the past fifty years, but the […]

Earlier this week we posed “Six questions for the 2014 election cycle.” One of those questions was “Will Governor Bentley expand Medicaid?” We reached out to the governor’s office to see where things currently stand on the potential for Medicaid expansion. Here’s the exchange we had with Governor Bentley’s press secretary Jennifer Ardis: Yellowhammer: The […]

WASHINGTON — The Alabama-based Wetumpka TEA Party is one of 25 conservative organizations suing the U.S. Attorney General, Treasury Secretary, and Internal Revenue Service for targeting them for additional scrutiny by the IRS. The American Center for Law and Justice yesterday filed the lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the organizations. […]

Here are six story lines we will be watching closely as campaign season gets underway: 1. Will Bentley expand Medicaid? The June fundraising window is fast approaching but a credible primary challenger to Governor Robert Bentley has still not emerged. The Governor’s approval numbers remain strong. Barring something unforeseen, he is positioned to win reelection […]

Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes late last week penned a letter to Fox News employees vowing to stand strong against what he characterized as attempts by the Obama administration to intimidate investigative journalists. The letter was written in response to the Obama Justice Department’s decision to secretly look at Fox News reporter James Rosen’s […]

BY CLIFF SIMS & JEFF POOR Less than five minutes after Yellowhammer broke the news that Congressman Jo Bonner would be resigning from congress, speculation was already running rampant about who might run for his seat. After reaching out to political insiders and potential candidates, here’s an early attempt at handicapping the field in AL-01. […]

Hobby Lobby is back in court today seeking an exemption from the ObamaCare mandate that requires employers to offer healthcare coverage to their employees that includes access to the morning-after pill. Hobby Lobby’s contention is that no employer should be forced by the government to do something that goes against their religious beliefs, in this […]

The board of directors for the Alabama Education Association has purportedly approved $4 million to be taken from their reserve account to be dedicated to what they are calling “The Grand Plan for 2014.” According to sources familiar with the AEA’s political operation, the $4 million is over and above what will be spent out […]

Governor Robert Bentley today signed the Omnibus Gun Bill into law, giving Alabama what proponents of the bill call “the strongest Second Amendment protections in the country.” “With Governor Bentley’s signature today, Alabamians’ second amendment rights are more secure than ever,” House Speaker Mike Hubbard said in a statement. “Despite President Obama and the Democratic […]

Apple Inc. (AAPL) topped Fortune Magazine’s 2013 list of the world’s most admired companies. The California tech giant maintains a rabid following while raking in record profits. Last quarter Apple posted posted $13 billion in net income, making it the most profitable company in the world during that time frame. So what does Apple do […]

“We’ve got the world’s attention,” Senator Richard Shelby told me as we launched into a discussion about his latest meetings with top business leaders overseas. Shelby recently returned to the States after visiting Toulouse and London, where he and Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran went to recruit suppliers for Airbus’s new south Alabama manufacturing plant to […]

Republican’s landmark school choice bill, the Alabama Accountability Act, will go into effect immediately, in spite of efforts by the Governor to delay it for two years. The House of Representatives around lunch time voted 57-10 to non-concur with the Governor’s executive amendment to delay the Act’s implementation, then voted 59-6 to override his veto. […]

The Alabama House of Representatives Monday morning passed the much-debated Omnibus Gun Bill, which proponents say will give Alabama the strongest Second Amendment protections in the country. It now goes to the Governor for his signature. The final bill was the product of a compromise between the National Rifle Association, The Alabama Sheriffs’ Association and […]

A Birmingham area Tea Party group is planning an IRS protest to take place Tuesday at noon outside of a Birmingham Internal Revenue Service Office. State Senator Scott Beason is expected to speak. The protest is a part of a national movement dubbed the “Rein in the IRS Rallies” by the national conservative grassroots organization […]

Monday is the final day of the 2013 legislative session. Both budgets have already passed, which would normally indicate there could be a lot of action Monday. But Senate Democrats have been using every dilatory tactic in the book lately. Whether or not much work actually gets done depends on whether or not Senate Republicans […]

Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul are two of the current frontrunners for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, and both showed off their fundraising chops in the first few months of this year. Doug Stafford, a top Paul aide, told the Washington Examiner last week that Senator Paul raised $1.5 million in the first […]