105-year old Alabamian and civil rights icon Amelia Boynton Robinson was Rep. Terri Sewell’s (AL-07) guest at the State of the Union address last night, but her age didn’t stop her from getting a little sassy and stealing the show. Before the State of the Union address Boynton Robinson was able to meet with President […]

  ALABASTER, Ala. — 19 year old Alabamian Jacob Russell Durant went on quite the joyride on Friday, January 16th—and it might land him in prison for 20 years. According to NBC 13, Shelby County deputies were alerted at around 11pm Friday evening that a military Humvee was barreling down the road in the wrong direction […]

An Alabama man was pulled over and ticketed in Marietta, Georgia — a suburb of Atlanta — last week for eating a McDonald’s cheeseburger while driving. According the driver, Madison Turner, the cop observed him shortly after he bought a double quarter pounder with cheese from McDonald’s and pulled him over telling him, “You can’t […]

Politico Magazine ranked the 50 states and the District of Columbia for the second consecutive year in what they call a “highly scientific and incontrovertible” list, and Alabama’s spot leaves much to be desired. As with any such list, the criteria were cherry picked to give an overall ranking based on favored metrics. Politico ranked […]

Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ […]

As Yellowhammer reported this morning, liberals continue to deride Voter ID laws, calling them everything from racist to classist and sexist. Never mind that in addition to keeping our voting process as fraud free as possible, the law also offers anyone who needs a valid ID to vote the opportunity to get one for F-R-E-E […]

During a Tonight Show interview with host Jimmy Fallon, First Lady Michelle Obama touted ObamaCare as a cure-all for the health insurance needs of young people, who she described as “knuckleheads” who don’t know what is good for them. What she failed to mention is that ObamaCare needs young people much more than they need […]

According to a CNN statement, the anti-gun liberal from across the pond, Piers Morgan, will no longer have a primetime slot on their network. His unpopular and controversial program could be off the air as early as March. Morgan’s self-promoting style and anti-American stances prompted CNN’s audience to run to other networks in droves. The show’s […]

The New York Times, ever the champion of liberal causes, published a puff piece praising the millions of dollars promised to be injected into political races by environmentalist, Democrat, and billionaire Tom Steyer. While the NYT is well within their rights to support Mr. Steyer, it comes merely a few weeks after an editorial in […]

In the age of the 24-hour news cycle, most media outlets place “being first” above “being right” on their list of priorities. As a result, many sources of news compromise the quality of their work in the rush to get their story out. Twitter has become a source for many media outlets on both sides […]

As Yellowhammer reported last week, pro-life student group Bama Students for Life (BSL) had their display removed from the Ferguson student center by a university official. The official was recorded saying that BSL was “lucky” the display had stayed as long as it did. BSL sent a letter to the university following the incident standing […]

Despite the increasing push from the left for states to expand Medicaid under ObamaCare, 25 states, including Alabama, have resisted. Southern states have been particularly apprehensive about accepting the expansion. Arkansas, West Virginia, and Kentucky are the only three who have, and Arkansas’ experience was so bad that they just voted to reverse course, according to […]

Conservatives across the country cheered Friday evening when news broke that the United Auto Workers’ plan to unionize foreign auto manufacturers in the south hit a major speed bump. Workers at a Chattanooga, Tenn. Volkswagen plant voted against unionizing by a narrow margin, 712-626, but the vote still sent a resounding message: The South will […]

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has delivered yet another punch in the gut to the Obama administration’s agenda. This week the CBO confirmed what many economists have said for years: raising the minimum wage to the proposed $10.10 would cost minimum wage workers their jobs. In fact, the CBO report says it is likely that […]

Hillary Clinton has been the darling of the progressive left for decades now. You already can’t go anywhere without seeing “I’m Ready for Hillary” bumper stickers on the cars of many Dem’s already looking ahead to 2016. But while Hillary is the presumptive heir to the presidency in the eyes of many Democrats, one MSNBC […]

On the day after Thanksgiving, the IRS quietly introduced a set of proposed rules regarding the political activity allowed by 501(c)(4) non-profit organizations. The IRS is required to give the public 90 days to comment, meaning that open period will end on February 27th. These new rules could put in danger the First Amendment rights […]

A yearly report released by Reporters Without Borders (RWB) lists the US as the 46th freest press, down 14 spots from last year. The United States now ranks just above Haiti, and just below the former Soviet state of Romania. The report labels the US and Brazil as the two developed nations in the Americas […]

University of Alabama officials last week removed a pro-life display from the Ferguson Student Center without warning, citing the display’s potentially offensive nature as the reason for the decision. Now the students responsible for the display, members of the pro-life group Bama Students for Life, are fighting back and asking for the University to respect […]

Pro-abortion advocates often like to say that no one likes abortion, that it is an unfortunate part of being a woman in today’s society. But actions speak so much louder than words. Yesterday, in response to the White House’s twitter campaign #WhatWomenNeed for Valentine’s Day, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards posted a vine video flipping […]

During the opening ceremony for the Sochi Olympics NBC heralded the Communist Revolution as a “pivotal experiment” in world history. Sure, if by pivotal, NBC meant something that proved once and for all that communism was a horrible failure that cost tens of millions of human lives, and most of a century of economic and […]

Though Governor Bentley continues to hold the line on not expanding Medicaid under Obamacare, there has been a concerted effort by special interest groups and left-leaning editorial writers recently to pressure the Governor to change his mind. Advocates of big government solutions to healthcare issues have even trumpeted Medicaid expansion as a potential economic and […]

Alabama may be facing a dire shortage of substitute teachers during the coming year thanks to *drum roll* ObamaCare. Marshall County school superintendent Tim Nabors shared his concern about the sub shortage on Thursday with Huntsville news station WHNT. Nabors said ObamaCare will affect the availability of substitute teachers in the school system due to the […]

A report released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday confirms what many economists and conservatives have been saying for the last four years: ObamaCare has, and will, cost Americans literally millions of jobs. CBO estimates mark the number at nearly 2.3 million jobs. That’s around half the population of Alabama. And those jobs […]

Over the last few days there has been an onslaught of national media pundits, liberal bloggers and even the President of the United States renewing a push for solving all the country’s poverty issues by increasing the minimum wage. The Alabama reporter class all sound as if they are reading from the same sheet of […]