7. Trump White House is preparing for life after Ruth Bader Ginsburg — The Trump White House is preparing for the possibility of a vacancy on the Supreme Court if Ruth Bader Ginsburg vacates her seat. The confirmation process will surely be an ugly and contentious one. — The 85-year-old justice missed oral arguments for […]

7. Alabama lawmakers are seeking a legislative solution to the embarrassing situation with Maori Davenport’s situation with the Alabama High School Athletic Association  — The AHSAA suspended the star player over an errant payment from USA Basketball and has, up to this point, refused to revisit the case stating the current rules don’t allow it. […]

7. While Trump prepared to talk to the nation on immigration, Mexico took action on their southern border — With the information that a new caravan is heading towards Mexico’s border the government is planning to put armed guards at 370 illegal entry points into the country. — Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero said the […]

With no end in sight for the government shutdown, President Trump will take to the airwaves to make his case to the American people that there is a "Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border".

After a meeting between Vice President Mike Pence and Democrats, Trump tweeted that we are moving closer to a deal with steel, "We are now planning a Steel Barrier rather than concrete", Democrats disagree saying, "no progress was made".

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week's biggest political stories

Speaker Pelosi is attempting to appear to be acting in good faith by choosing to ignore funding any border security while calling a vote Thursday night on a budget plan that funds every shutdown federal agency for the balance of Fiscal Year 2019, this goes nowhere and everyone knows it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters the House plans to open parts of the government is going nowhere in his body, "The Senate will be glad to vote on a measure that the House passes that the president will sign. But we’re not going to vote on anything else."

Trump, who some say won't budge as others try to negotiate a deal, spent the holidays in Washington working while the next-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spent her holidays but her staff has continued to release press statements over the shutdown.

Now that it appears state legislators are licking their chops to raise Alabama’s gasoline tax, the question we all should be asking is, “What are we going to get out of it?” As 2018 wound down, the push for the hike was aggressive, but details were scarce. Obviously, we all know the big projects that […]

Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Walt Maddox was promoted as the next Doug Jones, but the dysfunction in the Alabama Democratic Party continued to render the party feckless and a non-factor in state politics.

Will anything come of the investigation into a tech CEO's funded disinformation campaign?

NEW YORK – Many feared for the worst when news broke earlier this year that an Aaron Sorkin stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” would be opening on Broadway. In this highly polarized political environment, I shared a suspicion that the Coastal elites behind this production would use Lee’s classic novel to […]

Marshall told the Washington Post that he is looking into whether Democrat's "Project Birmingham's “Russian tactics”  may have violated state law during the 2017 race, Marshall said, “The impact it had on the election is something that’s significant for us to explore, and we’ll go from there.”

After the worst Christmas Eve ever, where the Dow Jones lost 653 points, the Dow responded by growing 1,068 points, marking the largest single point gain in one day.

In a Christmas morning availability in the Oval Office, the President told the press, "I can’t tell you when the government is going to be open, I can tell you it's not going o be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they want to call it."

In the recently released third installment of AL(dot)com-offshoot Reckon’s “Recused, the untold story of Jeff Sessions,” narrator Amy Yurkanin attempted to trace the origins of Sessions’ hawkish position on illegal immigration. Throughout her presentation, Yurkanin refers to the Trump administration’s policy of following immigration law that requires in some cases the separation of families if […]

Jackson closes the show with a "parting shot" directed at Republicans who should learn that criticizing this President from the right will change his actions.

The outgoing House of Representatives went back to the drawing board and added $5 billion for the wall, the Senate will now take up the measure but a government shutdown is looming.

The Trump White House ordered the Pentagon to pull U.S. troops from Syria saying that ISIS is defeated so there is no reason to be there.

One-third of conservatives would pay for the wall with their own money, 19% percent said they would pay an additional $100, 19 percent said they would pay $300, and two percent said they would pay more than $1,000 per year.

For UAB's football program, winning Tuesday's matchup against Northern Illinois in the Boca Raton Bowl would be the cherry...

Small towns are scattered throughout South Alabama. To many, they are just blurs or brief stopping points during trips to Florida’s Gulf Coast beaches. They come in different sizes and have funny names like Florala, Elba, Samson, Slocomb, McKenzie, Enterprise, Opp, Hartford and Brewton. They are not unlike any of Alabama’s numerous other small towns. […]

This is further evidence that there was a Russia’s disinformation campaign that worked to both sew discontent and also help elect President Trump and then attempted to support him after the fact with posts from these accounts spiking six months after the election.