On Wednesday, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump released a list of eleven potential picks for the Supreme Court that included Alabamian William Pryor. Judge William “Bill” Pryor, Jr. is currently a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He is a Mobile, Alabama, native and served as Alabama […]

On Friday, the omnipotent U.S. Department of Education threatened to pull federal funding from public school districts that refuse to fall in line over transgender bathrooms. Many school districts will submit, knowing that they cannot afford to jeopardize their federal cash flow. Setting aside for a moment the broader social debate over the directive, it […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the latter part of his presidency, Barack Obama has continually commuted the sentences of “non-violent offenders”, a practice Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) believes could have disastrous results. Contrary to the President’s assertion that those whom he is releasing are not a danger to society, the Alabama Senator asserts the opposite. “This […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Governor Robert Bentley has forced at least 87 staffers in his office sign confidentiality agreements, according to documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request by Alabama sports website and liberal political blog al.com. Conspicuously missing among the 87 individuals, however, is Rebekah Caldwell Mason, who was working for the Bentley […]

WASHINGTON — Four Alabama congressmen have signed on to a letter demanding President Barack Obama walk back his effort to coerce all public schools around the country to offer gender-neutral bathrooms. The administration claims the new policy “gives administrators, teachers, and parents the tools they need to protect transgender students from peer harassment and to […]

WASHINGTON — During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said voters are not swayed by the media digging into the past of presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump, insisting voters are more concerned with his ability to disrupt the status quo and take on the “Masters of the Universe,” as Sessions often […]

The Tax Foundation, a non-partisan public policy think tank, has released its analysis of sales tax levels across the country, and it is not good news for Alabamians. According to the study, the state of Alabama has the fourth highest combined sales tax rate in the country. The five states with the highest average combined […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Ambrosia Starling, the drag queen turned Roy Moore antagonist, says he may turn his newfound notoriety in the LGBT community and among Alabama’s liberal media establishment into a run for governor in 2018. “If you want Ambrosia Starling for governor and you think that is what it’s going to take,” Starling said […]

Across our nation there is a deafening debate about the “rights” of those who claim a gender preference or identity other than the one with which they were born. Make no mistake: it is a debate that is happening even here in the very conservative state of Alabama. As I write this, a big-box retailer […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, President Obama announced that he would use the administration’s power over funding and advocacy lawsuits to coerce all public schools in the country to offer gender-neutral bathrooms. “There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex,” […]

For the first time in a long time, this November will give Americans a clear choice on perhaps the most important issue facing our country and our civilization: whether we remain a nation-state that serves its own people, or whether we slide irrevocably toward a soulless globalism that treats humans as interchangeable widgets in the […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Gov. Robert Bentley (R-AL) signed a new suicide prevention bill into law on Wednesday making Alabama the 18th state to pass the “Jason Flatt Act.” The bill was passed by both houses of the legislature and was first introduced by Sen. Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa) after some prompting from University of Alabama football […]

(Video above: “Jim from Marshall County” discusses women in combat with talk show host Michael Hart) In a phone call to Birmingham-based talk radio station 101.1 WYDE on Tuesday, an Alabama Marine Sergeant passionately defended his belief that women should not be permitted to take on combat roles in the U.S. armed forces. The role […]

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is no stranger to controversy. After being removed from office nine years ago for refusing to remove a two-ton Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building, Moore is once again facing the possibility of being removed from office, this time for his stance on same-sex marriage. But […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s revolt against the use of unmanned traffic cameras has hit an unexpected speed bump this week as the City of Montgomery announced they will continue using the devices in defiance of a new law prohibiting them from doing so. Every member of Montgomery’s state legislative delegation voted in favor of the […]

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. — A local Alabama police department on Tuesday morning sent out a heartfelt thank you to drug dealers for supplying them with funds that allowed them to purchase new firearms. The Vestavia Hills police department used money from its confiscations fund – money seized during drug arrests or granted to them by […]

Last Tuesday’s Indiana primary victory, along with the subsequent suspensions of Ted Cruz and John Kasich’s presidential campaigns, made real estate mogul Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2016. That means that at some point this summer, Trump’s Alabama headquarters in Montgomery will reopen. The building that served as Trump’s headquarters prior […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Governor Robert Bentley on Monday officially threw his support behind presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump just months after accusing the billionaire real estate mogul of using racist, misogynistic, and offensive language throughout his campaign. “So, he will be the one that I support, and I will do whatever I […]

Barely a month goes by without an Alabama politician finding themselves embroiled in some kind of scandal, so the latest string of headlines involving all three branches of Alabama’s state government have probably not been all that surprising to most Yellowhammer State residents. However, the web of interconnectivity between the scandals is proving to be […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is for the second time facing the possibility of being removed from office after the Judicial Inquiry Commission suspended him for “flagrantly disregard(ing) and abus(ing) his authority” with respect to the issue of same sex marriage. After a federal court struck down Alabama’s gay marriage […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an interview on the Fox Business program “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions criticized House Speaker Paul Ryan’s refusal to endorse Trump and said that the American people have made their decision. “I think this was a big mistake, I really do,” Sessions said in regard to Ryan’s comments. “He […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of yet another Alabamian convicted of drug crimes as part of his effort to remove so-called “non-violent” offenders from Federal prisons. 40 year-old Jerome Lee Menefee was one of 58 convicted felons whose sentences were commuted by President Obama this week. In October of […]

(Video above: Lynne Patton’s stirring video supporting Donald J. Trump for President) Lynne Patton, a black female executive in the Trump Organization whose family is from Birmingham, Alabama, this week released a stirring video defending her boss from what she described as “reprehensible attempts” to attack his character. Ms. Patton’s video includes pictures of her […]

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is no longer available to 35,000 Alabamians. In January of this year, a federal waiver expired that allowed some states – including Alabama – to exempt some recipients of SNAP from the work requirements. Now, all able-bodied adults ages 18-49 who are not raising minors are required to work […]