Alabama Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) delivered a speech on the House floor Tuesday to remember the legacy of the late Reverend Billy Graham. At the time, Graham’s body was lying in state in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, just a short walk from where Palmer delivered his remarks. Watch the video here: […]

(Opinion) President Donald Trump has unfairly and rudely attacked … yet again … the most consistent, most honorable, and most trustworthy conservative in the country – Alabama’s Jeff Sessions. Here’s what just happened: The president didn’t like that our attorney general directed the Justice Department’s inspector general to review how the agency seeks surveillance orders […]

  Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) took to the House floor earlier this week to praise the life of the late Reverend Billy Graham, who he had the pleasure of meeting once during a presidential inauguration. “While no one could ever come close to having an impact on the world in the way that Christ […]

The national association for Republican state attorneys general recently endorsed Steve Marshall is his campaign to remain Alabama’s top law enforcement officer. Marshall, a former district attorney in north Alabama, was appointed attorney general last year when Luther Strange left for the U.S. Senate. He is now running in the Republican Primary against former U.S. […]

    Forget red states vs. blue states. The real battle is between sin states vs. saint states. And Alabama’s halo is looking a bit tarnished, at least according to a compilation by the website WalletHub of the most sinful states in the union. Alabama is … No. 11. WalletHub compiled its list by collecting […]

  Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was among several candidates who recently received the endorsement of the Alabama Civil Justice Reform Committee, a coalition that advocates for pro-business judicial policies in the state. “The people of Alabama are indeed fortunate to have such an outstanding group of experienced leaders who share conservative values, a conviction […]

  A bill to help healthcare professionals better identify and help veterans suffering from drug addiction passed both houses of the Alabama Legislature this week. What the bill seeks to fix: — Regular patients are subject to having their prescription records reviewed by doctors and pharmacists to ensure drugs aren’t being counter-productive, dangerous, or abused. […]

  A bill to establish the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering for grades 7-12 in Huntsville unanimously passed the State Senate on Thursday. Students from across the state will be able to apply for one of the 300 spots in the public school when it opens in 2020, according to the legislation. “Our […]

  Alabama is known as a low tax state, but are we the lowest? Not even close. We’re No. 14, according to a recent Tax Foundation report titled “Facts & Figures 2017: How does your state compare?” The study examined the individual local, county and state level taxes, but excluded federal collections. Here’s how Alabama […]

(Opinion) Last night my wife and I sat in our living room with our children, cheering Lindsey Vonn as she skied down the mountain in what’s probably her last Olympic Games, capturing the Bronze. Talent. Tenacity. Dedication. Pride. It’s times like Vonn’s run that makes my family, and Americans everywhere, love the Olympics. But … […]

  State Rep. Will Ainsworth held a news conference Tuesday in Guntersville explaining key details of his proposal to allow specially trained teachers to carry guns in the classroom. Several educators, lawmakers, and at least one sheriff joined Ainsworth, a Republican, during the event, which can be viewed here: (Should teachers be allowed to carry […]

  After first passing tax cuts and pay raises, the Alabama Senate approved a $2 billion budget Tuesday to fund the state’s general operating, non-education expenses for the next fiscal year. Key funding increases: — $3.2 million increase to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to fund the hiring of 30 new troopers. — $8 million […]

  Alabama lawmakers awarded final approval Tuesday to a bill that will make it a crime to park in spaces reserved for veterans who received one of the military’s medals of valor, the Purple Heart, or who were prisoners of war. Those who illegally park in such spaces could be hit with a $25 fine […]

    A businessman in California recently published an op-ed in that state’s Orange County Register telling his fellow residents, “Why California should be more like Alabama — seriously.” Tom Manzo, president of Timely Industries in Pacoima, Calif., and founder of the California Business and Industrial Alliance, was inspired to write the piece after Toyota-Mazda […]

Manufacture Alabama, an association of companies representing manufacturing interests in the state, has endorsed Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh in her campaign for lieutenant governor of Alabama. “Throughout her tenure at the Public Service Commission, Twinkle has proven herself to be a champion for manufacturers and an advocate for all Alabamians,” said George Clark, president of Manufacture […]

  Conservatives in Alabama would do our movement a favor if during Black History Month they read the autobiography of Tuskegee University’s founder and one of the great conservative minds of the 19th century – Booker T. Washington. Washington’s landmark memoir “Up From Slavery” and his contribution to conservatism are enormously underappreciated in modern conservative circles, […]

  (Opinion) It was a difficult scene to watch. The mother of a student killed in Wednesday’s school shooting in Florida pleaded on television for the president to “please do something” about gun violence. Her anger, her grief, and her heart-felt pleas moved me to tears. Others felt the same, and the #DoSomething hashtag went viral on Twitter, echoing […]

The left wants to talk about gun control in the wake of Nikolas Cruz’s mass murder of 17 students Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Fine. We need to talk. Something is definitely wrong with our society when this happens with such frequency and intensity. But the left seems intent to […]

  I keep hearing that the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote the bill to reform Alabama’s civil asset forfeiture law. But that’s not accurate. The bill was introduced in the current session of the State Legislature by staunch conservatives State Senator Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, and State Representative Arnold Mooney, R-Birmingham. Civil asset forfeiture is a […]

    (Opinion) Oh to be a Libertarian, always taking the easy position of unconstrained freedom without ever having to think about, much less deal with, the ugly consequences of such recklessness. Drug use, and even prostitution, are victimless crimes, they say, and should therefore be legal. Their arguments are consistent and logical, and they […]

(Opinion) Conservatives should always welcome former Democrats into the ranks of the Republican Party. But note the phrase … into the ranks. Leadership is a different matter. Former Montgomery mayor Bobby Bright apparently joined the Republican Party just last week, and now he’s seeking the GOP nomination to represent Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District in Washington. […]

  Our oldest son competed in his final Pinewood Derby last weekend before he bridges up from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts this spring. After five years of trial and error, he finally built a fast car. But the interesting part of this year’s race was the entrance of his siblings into the pack’s “outlaw” […]

  (Opinion) Recent efforts by Alabama’s lawmakers to do away with special elections to fill vacant U.S. Senate seats may have a little to do with that fiasco to replace Jeff Sessions. I mean, come on. The result of that unexpected and brief race was the nomination of an unpopular Republican candidate and the election […]

Well, that didn’t take long. Twenty-six days. That’s all it took from between the time Doug Jones was sworn in as a United States Senator to the time he blew his re-election chances by casting one of the most disgusting, cruel and cowardly votes in the history of that chamber. Jones joined dozens of Democrats […]