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7. $1.6 billion jackpot — After no one won the $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot on Friday, the jackpot for the drawing on Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET is now a world record for any lottery. — Alabama’s cut for this lottery is zero. The only thing Alabama will see from this is news stories about cars […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Why is the Maddox campaign trying to win an election by claiming the Governor is sick? — Why did George Soros dump $200,000 into Alabama elections? — What in the world was Saudi Arabia thinking […]

FINALLY! The Alabama Gubernatorial race is heating up! Democratic candidate for governor Walt Maddox has started hitting Governor Kay Ivey over an alleged health situation with no evidence she actually has one. The person who they are using to concoct this scheme is a disgruntled former state employee who has known Maddox for 25 years and, despite […]

7. 2020 is definitely underway, with Sen. Kamala Harris proposing a straight-up giveaway to every person making less than $100,000 a year. — Sen. Harris says she wants to provide Americans whose wages haven’t increased a “basic income” to “keep up with cost of living increases.” — The proposal has absolutely no chance of becoming […]

7. Definitely not a mob — In the last 48 hours, multiple Republican candidates have been attacked in Nevada when a “tracker” was arrested after assaulting a staffer for the Nevada GOP gubernatorial candidate, a Minnesota House candidate was punched at an event at a bar and a Minnesota State Representative Sarah Anderson was assaulted by an anarchist […]

If this is really the final push for Walt Maddox to get his campaign’s “Kay Ivey is sick” narrative into the news, they may want to try again. The Alabama Political Reporter published a “bombshell” is just a regurgitation of an old story. Their report includes comments from the former head of ALEA, Spencer Collier, […]

7. Secretary of State John Merrill wants the state to go after those who are committing voter fraud. — While speaking to Dale County Republicans, Secretary Merrill made it clear that current laws on voter fraud not being enforced is a serious problem for his office, and a lot of the fraud is absentee voter […]

The cowardly caretaker junior senator in an ill-fitting suit from the great state of Alabama apparently doesn’t like being criticized. As reported by Yellowhammer News, Senator Doug Jones was astonished that political leaders in his home state expected him to actually represent the wishes of the vast majority of the people in the state he […]

The race for Governor in Alabama has been boiled down to three issues: Governor Kay Ivey’s claim she steadied the ship of state Democrat challenger Walt Maddox whining about not being able to secure a debate Maddox wanting to expand Medicaid without a serious plan for doing so Republicans in Alabama have been steadfastly against the Medicaid expansion proposal because […]

7. NBC News, and plenty of other outlets, told a lie this weekend about President Donald Trump, President Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee,  and they took two days to correct it. — President Trump was at a rally in Ohio telling a story about Ohio-born then-General Grant beating Robert E. Lee. When Trump […]

7. Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson says he will not be testifying before Congress — Simpson’s firm was hired during the 2016 presidential campaign by the law firm with ties to the DNC and Clinton campaign. He helped plant stories with news outlets which were then used as justification to launch further inquiries into the Trump campaign. […]

When Alabama’s cowardly caretaker junior senator from the great state of Alabama was running for office, he argued that he would represent the state of Alabama and not the Democratic Party, at least according to what he told the Associated Press. An excerpt from the AP: “I’m going to consider anything,” said Jones, explaining that […]

7. Things are getting harder for Democrats in the Senate, but possibly easier in the House — Last week, polls for Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) moved the race out of range for Democrats. This week, Tennessee’s Senate seat appears to be moving, as well (Taylor Swift be damned). And now the one seat where a Republican […]

Last month, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution against illegal immigrants voting. Text of the resolution reads as follows: Whereas voting is fundamental to a functioning democracy; Whereas the Constitution prohibits discrimination in voting based on race, sex, poll taxes, and age; Whereas it is of paramount importance that the United States maintains the legitimacy […]

7. A socialist has won a city council seat in Alabama — Liberal Huntsville activist Frances Akridge defeated former Superintendent and State School Board member Mary Jane Caylor who called Akridge a “tax-and-spend liberal who supports Bernie Sanders and avowed socialists…” — Her opponent highlighted the donations that Akridge gave to Bernie Sanders and other […]

We are less than a month before an election and Democrats are looking down the barrel at another round of embarrassing and demoralizing election losses. Endorsements by pro-abortion and anti-gun groups don’t help. But fear not, because they totally relate to Alabama’s voters on the issue of guns. Just watch them over the last week:

7. The world is over in 12 years, according to CNN — It’s over in 22 years, according to the New York Times and they mean it this time — The latest dire warning comes from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and requires “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” or we may face […]

Democrats have it good. If a Republican started a campaign commercial with this image, they would be mocked by every media outlet in Alabama, CNN would cover it and late night shows would have a blast. Instead, there is almost no coverage of it at all. Why? It’s terrible and reminiscent of another media darling.

Did you know that the League of Women Voters has a questionnaire that it sends to gubernatorial candidates? If you answered no, it’s because, like most normal people, you have better things to do with your life than pretend to be interested in the nuance of Alabama’s uncompetitive gubernatorial race. However, if you didn’t know […]

7. Unemployment is the lowest it has been since 1969 — The good economic news keeps coming for President Donald Trump as we approach the midterm elections. The unemployment rate fell again and now sits at to 3.7 percent. — Previous months were good, but they were already providing good news. They were better than […]

Opinion: Doug Jones' no good, very bad year

The tale of Senator Doug Jones’ terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year should be a children’s book in its own right. It is a story of blind idealism run rampant and outwardly statesmanship masking naivety. But, when push comes to shove, all of the plot lines point to this: Jones’ time in the United States […]

7. The Ethics Commision obviously drops the case against the Etowah County “Beach House” sheriff because he followed the law — The Alabama Ethics Commission voted to drop an ethics case against Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin, who was accused of misusing public funds “related to food accounts.” — As much as Alabama residents may not like this law, […]

After 10 a.m. CT on Thursday, CNN’s Gloria Borger, a political analyst, declared that the information gleaned from the FBI investigation into Supreme Court justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh didn’t really matter and the sexual assault allegations will just be a “Democrats said, Republicans said” issue. She could not be more wrong. This should still […]

7. Democrat lunacy on Judge Brett Kavanaugh is firing up Republican men and women — The enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans is down to two points with Republican excitement up 12 points each. Enthusiasm amongst Democratic women is actually going down. — Other polls have indicated things are moving in the GOP’s favor after the […]