Former Vice President-turned climate change entrepreneur Al Gore predicted ten years ago today that at this moment the globe would be embroiled in a “planetary emergency,” unless the United States immediately took drastic steps to reduce carbon emissions. After attempts to pass so called “Cap and Trade” failed in Congress, the Obama administration unilaterally imposed […]

WASHINGTON — The US Senate Agriculture Committee this week rolled out legislation to dramatically scale back Michelle Obama’s controversial school lunch program, which has frustrated hungry kids and exasperated cash-strapped public schools. The Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was part of the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign, which has the stated goal of reducing childhood […]

WASHINGTON — Roughly half the states in the country, including Alabama, are urging the United States Supreme Court to block the Obama administration’s so called “Clean Power Plan” from going into effect until their legal challenge works its way through the judicial system. The Clean Power Plan, which was imposed via executive action and designed […]

WASHINGTON — A brawl has broken out inside the Pentagon between Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and the heads of the Army and Navy over the Obama administration’s military spending priorities, and the Alabama-built Littoral Combat Ship is at the center of it all. The Obama administration is pushing for a significant reduction in ship […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Senator Larry Stutts (R-Sheffield) says Alabama’s new “zero-based budgeting” method is forcing state agencies to “provide proof, line-by-line, supporting their budget requests.” To this point, the State of Alabama, similar to the federal government, has used a form of “baseline budgeting.” This means that an agency’s budget appropriation for this year […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Alabama’s State Climatologist finds himself in a familiar position this week: at odds with global warming alarmists, many of whom are now claiming 2015 was the hottest year on record. “2015 Was Hottest Year in Historical Record, Scientists Say,” read last week’s headline atop the New York Times. “The whole system is […]

WASHINGTON — The Donald J. Trump presidential campaign got a behind-the-scenes boost on Monday when one of Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-Ala.) top staffers agreed to join the campaign as senior policy adviser. Stephen Miller, who has worked for Sessions for the past seven years and until Monday held the role of Communications Director, first worked […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama Senator Gerald Allen believes there is a “revisionist movement” seeking to “whitewash” Alabama history, and he plans to do something about it during the upcoming legislative session. In a move first reported by the Montgomery Advertiser, Senator Allen has introduced a bill that would prohibit cities from removing “any object of […]

The vast majority of the press leading up to Alabama’s March 1st primary elections will be devoted to the presidential race, and rightfully so. It is, after all, the first time Alabama and many other southern states will play a prominent role in the nominating process, thanks to the so called SEC Primary. Most of […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM2XAzJh4Ew&feature=youtu.be (Video above: Dave Ramsey goes on an epic rant against relying on politicians to fix things) Nationally-syndicated talk radio host Dave Ramsey is known for going on rants against credit cards and debt and in favor of saving money and making cash purchases, but the personal money-management expert is taking aim at a new […]

(Video above: School choice changed the lives of Gloria McMeans and her son Keeynaad) By Dr. Chad Mathis, Chairman of the Alabama Federation for Children I will never forget the first time I heard Gloria McMeans talk about her son, Keenyaad. Keenyaad had always been an excellent student. He was incredibly bright and progressing faster […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Education Association (AEA), once indisputably the most powerful force in Alabama politics, has now been relegated to spending almost every dollar it brings in to pay down debt accrued during a disastrous attempt to elect liberal candidates to the Alabama legislature in 2014. “We’re out of the business,” AEA President […]

WASHINGTON — Responding to a newly released report from the Department of Homeland Security that revealed over 500,000 temporary visitors to the United States overstayed their visas last year but were not deported, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) declared the country has descended into a state of “open borders” in which “millions are free to come… […]

(Video above: Adler from the Rick & Bubba Show went inside the Bernie Sanders Birmingham rally) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The nationally syndicated, Alabama-based Rick & Bubba show infiltrated the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign’s Birmingham rally earlier this week, and it went about how you would expect. Chris Adler, Rick & Bubba’s producer, donned a hippie […]

WASHINGTON — Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) brought U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch before his Senate Subcommittee on Wednesday to make it clear to the Obama administration that he and other conservatives in the legislative branch are pushing back hard against the President’s executive actions on gun control, which they believe to be unconstitutional. “It is […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — According to an editorial posted on the Alabama sports website and liberal political blog al.com Wednesday morning, if candidates in Birmingham want to be in the running for the endorsement of one influential local PAC, they’ll have to fork over some cold, hard cash. Hezekiah Jackson is president of Birmingham NAACP and […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama Republican Party Chairman Terry Lathan on Tuesday blasted Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, accusing the self-avowed socialist senator of bringing his “Free Stuff Tour” to Birmingham and saying Alabamians do not want any part of it. Sanders on Monday evening held a campaign rally at the historic Boutwell Auditorium, attracting a […]

(Video above: Ted Cruz and Donald Trump debate ‘New York values’ in Fox Business debate) Ted Cruz and Donald Trump spent several minutes in the most recent Republican presidential debate sparring over “New York values.” Cruz, a Texan, said, “Most people know exactly what New York values are… There are many wonderful, wonderful working men […]

Louisiana officially installed a new Democratic governor last week, and the first thing he did was expand Medicaid under ObamaCare. Governor John Bel Edwards reversed the long-held position of his predecessor, Republican Bobby Jindal, who had rebuffed the Obama administration’s overtures, which include a promise to cover the entire cost of expanding the government healthcare […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — On the coldest night of the year, the “warming station” the City of Birmingham typically provides for the homeless was not available, leaving hundreds surprised and left to huddle together for warmth on the streets. The reason? Self-avowed socialist senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders needed to use the space for […]

MOBILE, Ala. — Residents of Mobile’s Midtown neighborhood were stunned to find Ku Klux Klan flyers littering their yards over the weekend as the white supremacist group apparently sought to use Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a recruiting tool. “We also have a dream,” the flyers’ headline declared, referencing MLK’s famous speech. “The […]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama continues to stonewall a five-month-old request by Senators Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) for the administration to reveal the immigration histories of over 100 individuals currently in the United States who have been implicated in terrorism. Sessions and Cruz have now for the third time written a letter […]

WASHINGTON — The United States’ nuclear agreement with Iran went into effect over the weekend, prompting Alabama Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL1), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, to blast the Obama administration for pumping billions of dollars into the Iranian regime that could be used to harm America and her allies around the […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — If one Alabama Senator has his way, 2016 will be there year the state finally allows law-abiding citizens to carry loaded handguns in their vehicles without the need to pay for a concealed carry permit. Senator Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa) shepherded the bill through the Alabama Senate last year, but it ultimately died […]