MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Governor Robert Bentley is urging the state’s congressional delegation to gear up for a fight with the White House over President Obama’s newly announced executive actions on gun control. The White House on Monday evening released details of the executive actions, which will include expanded background checks on gun purchases, additional […]

WASHINGTON — US Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Monday responded to President Barack Obama’s planned executive actions on gun control, saying Mr. Obama wants the United States to “look more like Chicago,” the president’s violence-ridden hometown. The Chicago Tribune noted in October of last year that someone in Chicago is shot once every 2.84 hours, […]

By: Sen. Jeff Sessions The President has announced another brazen, illegal executive action. As Americans gathered with loved ones to wish each other a more prosperous New Year, the President issued an edict to put that longed-for prosperity further out of reach. In a proposed federal rule published on New Year’s Eve, President Obama decreed […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama congressmen are gearing up for a fight with the Obama administration over the president’s expected executive orders on gun control, which could come as early as this week. According to Politico, “the changes include requiring an expanded number of small-scale gun sellers to be licensed — and therefore conduct background checks — […]

In a long-rumored move, the Obama Administration signaled last week that the President is preparing to roll out executive orders on gun control. Politico, which first broke the story, explains what the President is expected to do: According to gun industry insiders and others familiar with the proposals, the changes include requiring an expanded number […]

America is great. Trump is disgusting. Anybody but Trump. Iowans dump Trump. Those are just a handful of the messages that garnered national headlines after they were plastered across the sky by airplanes during the Rose Bowl parade over the weekend. The immediate question for many people was, who did this? The answer did not […]

[jwplatform TXbQMhda] (Video above: Yellowhammer goes inside AMK9’s hero dog training facility in Anniston, Alabama) 1,500 Iowans crowded into a gymnasium in August of 2011 to mourn the loss of Chief Petty Officer Jon Tumilson, a Navy SEAL hero who was killed in Afghanistan when a rocket-propelled grenade shot down a helicopter on which he […]

After torrential rain swept through Alabama over the Christmas holidays, many areas around the state are still assessing the damage, or waiting for flood waters to recede. State officials say properly documenting the damage to both public and private property can be the difference between receiving financial assistance, and not, whether it be from insurance […]

RINO, or “Republican in Name Only,” has for the last couple of decades been the pejorative term of choice for conservatives looking for an easy way to describe Republicans who do not adhere to the Party’s limited-government, free-market, pro-family principles. RINOs have existed as long as the Republican Party itself, just under different names. In […]

Alabama is the second most conservative state in America, according to the most recent Gallup survey, so it may come as a surprise that Alabama’s state and local governments are among the country’s largest. The Birmingham Business Journal on Monday analyzed U.S. Census Bureau statistics and found that Alabama has the 11th highest ratio of […]

Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and a former contestant on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, gave birth to her second out-of-wedlock child two days before Christmas. Upon announcing her second pregnancy, she wrote on her blog, “I know this has been, and will be, a huge disappointment to my family, […]

2015 was a wild year in Alabama politics. A reality television star drew tens of thousands of Alabamians to his presidential campaign rallies. A sitting governor got divorced. A sitting Speaker’s political career survived an entire year under indictment. Same-sex weddings took place at courthouses around the state. Taxes were raised. The Confederate Battle Flag […]

Propelled by an impressive fundraising operation helmed by Alabama businessman Dean Parker, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson enjoyed a meteoric — but ultimately brief — rise to the top tier of the GOP field in late October and early November of this year. A CBS News/New York Times poll released October 27th found Carson leading […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — What if many of the over 5 million Americans who have some level of security clearance were not fully vetted before gaining access to the U.S. government’s best kept secrets? In 2011, that is exactly what Blake Percival realized was going on. Percival was settling into a new job making the most […]

TRUSSVILLE, Ala. — US Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz delivered a half-hour stem-winder to a raucous group of conservative activists and GOP primary voters on Sunday, attracting a crowd so large the fire marshal funneled several hundred event attendees into an overflow room with a live video feed. In total, upwards of 1,500 […]

DAPHNE, Ala. — During a weekend campaign stop in south Alabama, Republican senator and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz said he had “three words” for people questioning whether the southern border can be secured: “Secretary Jeff Sessions.” “We are going to deport criminal illegal aliens, we are going to pass Kate’s Law [mandatory minimum sentences for […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The State of Alabama chose the same company who oversaw the rollout of HealthCare.gov to upgrade the state’s financial management software, and is now experiencing similar results. The State of Alabama Accounting and Resource System, STAARS, had not been updated for roughly a quarter century, prompting state government leaders in 2013 to […]

WASHINGTON — A $1.1 trillion bill to fund the government through next September flew through the House (316-113) and Senate (65-33) on Friday, but only garnered support from two individuals in Alabama’s nine-member federal delegation. Alabama’s lone Democratic representative Terri Sewell (D-AL7) was joined in supporting the bill by Republican Robert Aderholt (R-AL4), while the […]

Conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh on Friday expressed exasperation that Congressional Republicans had pushed through a $1.1 trillion spending bill that funds a host of Democratic priorities–from Planned Parenthood to President Obama’s immigration agenda–concluding that Jeff Sessions may be “the only conservative left in Congress” because he was one of the few senators sounding […]

John McCain really, really hates the state of Alabama — despises the Yellowhammer State with every fiber of his being. It’s hard to say where this deep-seeded loathing, this burning desire to inflict carnage on an entire state some 1,600 miles from his Arizona home came from, or when it started. One might think it […]

(Video above: Senator Jeff Sessions backs Senator Ted Cruz in his spat with Senator Rubio) WASHINGTON — Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is lending his significant credibility to Senator Ted Cruz in a spat with Senator Marco Rubio, after the two presidential candidates tangled over their respective records on the issue of immigration. Cruz has long […]

WASHINGTON — Defense News reported this week that the Alabama-made littoral combat ship (LCS) may have been dealt a “fatal blow” when Secretary of Defense Ash Carter directed the US Navy to slash its previous order of ships by twelve and reduce its annual orders by tho-thirds. But three members of Alabama’s federal delegation are […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Longtime State Representative Alvin Holmes (D-Montgomery) is joining the NAACP in demanding the Confederate flag be removed from the uniforms of Alabama State Troopers, and asking Governor Robert Bentley to issue an executive order making it happen. The Confederate battle flag is included in the Alabama coat of arms alongside the four […]

WASHIHNGTON — Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL5) on Thursday said he will join Alabama Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions in opposing that massive spending bill that Republicans are poised to pass through Congress. Shelby and Sessions have both been openly critical of the legislation, particularly because it “funds President Obama’s entire immigration agenda,” but Shelby […]