7. Twitter’s CEO may be looking at charges for lying to Congress and could see immunity stripped —House Energy and Commerce Committee is now reviewing the testimony of  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to see if he lied to Congress about their handling of banned accounts, death threats, and other decisions at the company. — The […]

7. President Donald Trump’s disapproval rating is up to 60 percent — After a 38-seat loss in the midterms, the president’s disapproval rating has continued to climb to match the highest of his term. — The polling shows a sub-40 approval rating for the first time since December of 2017, which was after his former national […]

Report after report is coming out about the violent incident that took place at the Riverchase Galleria. Cable news segments have been devoted to it and numerous news stories have been written with very little actual information being available. Some of the coverage from mainstream media is now inserting a racial element into Emantic “EJ” Bradford Jr.’s death […]

7. Trump administration announces a deal with Mexico on asylum; Incoming Mexican president denies — On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced the deal and tweeted, “Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the United States until their claims are individually approved in court,” and added a threat of border closure, saying, “If for […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Why does the Alabama political press love fired prosecutor Matt Hart so much? — Can Democrats create another Doug Jones in Mississippi? — Are there enough votes in the new Alabama Legislature for a “yes” vote […]

Every year on my radio show the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I give listeners an opportunity to offer up their “Turkey of the Year,” a person who did something foolish or a series of foolish things that would make them stand out from all the other foolish things we see every year. This year’s nominees included yours […]

7. Sorry, marijuana and CBD oil fans, the state is cracking down on illegal marijuana and CBD oil usage — The Attorney General’s Office issued a notice pointing out that the laws passed in Alabama only allow for CBD oil to be possessed by certain people under specific circumstances, but do not make the substance legal. The laws only […]

Republican Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-5) and Attorney General Steve Marshall have filed a suit against the federal government and their plans to count illegal immigrants in the 2020 census and use those numbers for congressional reapportionment, as well as the allocation of federal funding. An adverse decision for Brooks, Marshall and Alabama would most likely cost the […]

7. Ivanka Trump has a Hillary Clinton problem — In what will surely be viewed as hypocritical and foolish behavior, President Donald Trump’s daughter and White House official, Ivanka Trump reportedly had been using a personal email account to conduct government business including interactions from a private email account with cabinet secretaries and forwards of her […]

When now-Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) was elected in December 2017, people around the globe pretended it was the beginning of something new for Democrats in the South. It was not. Jones’ election was a one-off event, a blip not a trend. It was an event that happened in spite of rather than because of Jones, his […]

7. Democrats see a rising star in Beto O’Rourke — He agrees — O’Rourke joins Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) as a potential 2020 candidate who said no to the presidential race before the midterms and who now is cracking the door open to a run. — Recent polling shows O’Rourke ranking as high as third on […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — What happened to all of the voter suppression stories? — Sen. Doug Jones is running for re-election, can he actually win? — Are Birmingham and Alabama’s pensions able to be salvaged?

7. Disgraced former Governor Robert Bentley and his mistress are running around Las Vegas — Bentley and his former political advisor Rebekah Mason were seen in Las Vegas this week, the site of dermatology conference this weekend. Mason works for Bentley’s dermatology practice in Tuscaloosa. — Bentley hilariously claimed that he an Mason never had […]

The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 7. As Congress comes together in Washington D.C., two Alabama Congressmen make moves — No one is officially challenging Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House. She is “100 percent confident” she will win, but Rep. Terri Sewell  has remained silent on whether she will support Pelosi. […]

The Madison County Democratic Party said hundreds of people were disenfranchised in 2016, and Alabama’s political media dutifully reported the story without evidence. They lied. Election Day came and went and there were zero legitimate cases of voter suppression in the state of Alabama. In fact, four students who claimed suppression had their court cases dismissed […]

7. Amazon goes big, liberals and conservatives complain about the way the world works now — Arlington, Virginia, and Long Island City in New York will each get $2.5 billion in investment and 25,000 jobs. Both will offer massive incentives to get the new split headquarters. — A total of 238 cities competed for these […]

Give Alabama Board of Education Member Ella Bell credit. She knows exactly what her constituents want to hear. And apparently, they want to hear that Alabama’s school choice program, the Alabama Accountability Act (AAA), “destroys a whole race of people.” She also believes the AAA “took money from the poorest counties in the state to send kids to […]

7. Hillary Clinton is allegedly running, but rising star Beto O’Rourke is flying up in the polls amongst Democrats — A new poll shows that Clinton isn’t even rating enough attention to be polled. Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and O’Rourke are polling in the top three with Democrats. — This weekend, […]

7. The migrant caravan that we are told isn’t coming to the United States is coming to the United States — The AP reports that thousands of migrants were back on the move toward the U.S. Trains from Mexico City took them to the outskirts and they began walking north. — In unrelated news, an […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — How did Republicans gain seats when they already had a supermajority? — Which is the bigger story, Democrats taking the House or Republicans hanging on to the Senate? — What is next for former U.S. […]

7. Democrats don’t want Nancy Pelosi as the speaker of the House — They will get her anyway — While only a small number of members have said they won’t vote for Pelosi, others are being more guarded. Most expect her to easily win the post. — The elected Democrats may break for Pelosi. More than […]

President Donald Trump has said numerous times he doesn’t plan on firing FBI special counsel Mueller, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Protesting is fun for those on the left since Trump took office. There has been Indivisible, Black Lives Matter, The Resistance and now we have a movement to protect the Mueller investigation. It […]

7. Red wave in Alabama is bigger than most expected — ALGOP adds seats to supermajorities — A bloodbath for Alabama Democrats whose huge turnout yielded roughly the same number of votes as the party received in the 2017 special U.S. Senate election. Alabama Republicans swept in all statewide constitutional officers and judicial candidates on the […]

Prior to the 2018 midterms, Republicans had a supermajority in the Alabama State House, a supermajority in the Alabama State Senate and they held every single statewide seat with the exception of the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook). Our cowardly caretaker junior senator from the great state of Alabama in […]