MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Governor Robert Bentley on Tuesday officially informed President Barack Obama of Alabama’s decision to not participate in the resettlement of Syrian refugees. Additionally, Governor Bentley urged the President to reconsider the federal plans for resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States because of the growing concerns that the country is not […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Tuesday unloaded on President Barack Obama’s refugee resettlement plan, creating a powerful one-two punch in the Senate that could lead to the program being defunded. The current funding proposal before Congress would not only authorize the President’s plan to bring in 85,000 refugees […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Billionaire businessman and Republican presidential hopeful Donald J. Trump is coming back to Alabama, hoping to build on the momentum he gained after entertaining tens of thousands of supporters in Mobile earlier this year. RELATED: Trumpapalooza: The night Alabama became the center of the political universe Mr. Trump will hold a campaign […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Governor Robert Bentley has signed an executive order directing state agencies to utilize “all lawful means necessary” to prevent the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the State of Alabama. “It is clear that the United States is not prepared to handle the resettlement of Syrian refugees, and one mistake by the Federal […]

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley made national headlines Sunday evening by announcing his administration will refuse entry to any Syrian refugees the Obama administration attempts to place in Alabama. But legal experts are split on whether Bentley and other governors have the legal authority to reject refugees. Immigrant vs. Asylum-seeker vs. Refugee Immigration is simply the […]

Hundreds of refugees fleeing persecution in the Middle East have resettled in Alabama in recent years, according to government data Yellowhammer pulled Monday. According to information collected by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a small division inside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Alabama has accepted a total of 381 refugees from 14 different […]

GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. — Florida Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is coming to Alabama Tuesday, Dec. 1, for a campaign rally in Guntersville. The rally will be the first large event the senator has held in the Yellowhammer State since announcing his presidential bid in April. It will take place from 4:15 p.m. to […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Monday sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee with proposed language for canceling the “blank check” for refugee resettlement in the upcoming government funding bill. The current funding proposal would not only authorize President Barack Obama’s plan to bring in 85,000 refugees on top of the […]

After a wave of terrorist attacks in Paris left over 100 dead, including one American, and 300 injured, security officials in the United States are feeling increased pressure to keep the country safe while implementing President Barack Obama’s controversial refugee relocation program. President Obama said on Monday that he intends to push forward with plans […]

WASHINGTON – Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) sent a letter to President Barack Obama Monday morning demanding he stop the refugee resettlement program for Syrian refugees due to national security concerns. Reports indicate that at least one of the attackers in the Paris terror attacks had entered France through the refugee process. The Islamic State has […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Governor Robert Bentley announced late Sunday evening that his administration will refuse Syrian refugees slated to be relocated to Alabama in the coming weeks. “After full consideration of this weekend’s attacks of terror on innocent citizens in Paris, I will oppose any attempt to relocate Syrian refugees to Alabama through the U.S. […]

Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has already reached heights in his career in public service that many ambitious politicians could only dream of. He clerked for a state Supreme Court justice and a federal judge. He spent six years as an assistant U.S. attorney and a decade as a district attorney. He was then elected to Congress […]

PARIS — Over 100 are dead and hundreds more injured after a series of coordinated terrorist attacks were executed Friday night in Paris, France. Upon hearing the news, Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) published a tweet summing up the feelings of many Americans watching helplessly from the other side of the world. Humanity can not stand […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — University of Alabama president Stuart R. Bell on Thursday encouraged students, faculty and administrators to maintain a level of “dignity and respect” in their interactions with each other, as protests swept across other college campuses around the country. Marches and other protests took place on roughly two dozen campuses this week, resulting […]

In his masterpiece “1984,” George Orwell wrote about newspeak, the dystopian government’s attempt to reform the language, making opposing views impossible to articulate. American universities seem to be taking this lesson to heart. With the happy assistance of faculty things like the First Amendment are twisted to mean “you have a right to my opinion”. […]

2014: “I cannot expand Medicaid in Alabama. We will not bring hundreds of thousands into a system that is broken and buckling.” 2015: “We are looking at that (expanding Medicaid).” After spending the first four years of his governorship refusing to expand Medicaid under ObamaCare, Governor Robert Bentley (R-AL) told a group of lawyers in […]

By Bob Shepard The University of Alabama at Birmingham will launch the first Phase 1 human trials of a drug – derived from the female hormone estrogen – that may help patients with severe bleeding survive long enough to get to appropriate medical care. A three-year, $10 million U.S. Department of Defense contract from the […]

In the Alabama State House, the familiar refrain surrounding public education is that the legislature has failed to ever “fully fund” it. The implication, of course, is that we cannot and should not expect positive outcomes from our public schools. This philosophy has been refuted by an enormous body of academic research and, last week, […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama has some of the toughest pseudoephedrine (PSE), known by brand name “Sudafed,” laws in the country aimed at cutting down on the ability of criminals manufacturing methamphetamine to get their hands on the vital component. A new study comparing the outcomes of states that require a prescription to obtain cold medicines containing PSE with […]

WASHINGTON — A bill sponsored by Alabama Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-AL2) giving the Department of Veterans Affairs authority to “takeover” failing VA facilities will receive a congressional subcommittee hearing next week. “Clearly, the VA doesn’t have in place the tools to come in and take over failing health centers, and that’s what we want to […]

While college football games and presidential debates held our attention, Alabamians may have allowed a forgotten nemesis to slip back into our lives under the radar. Just last year, Alabama voters threw Terry Dunn off of the Public Service Commission, the panel tasked with regulating the state’s public utilities and the front lines of the […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley on Tuesday announced that in a third round of grants from the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has approved more than $21 million for five Alabama projects to restore some of Alabama’s natural resources affected by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A panel of 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Monday evening upheld the blocking of a key component of President Obama’s executive actions on amnesty, which would have granted protection from deportation to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants. Alabama joined 25 other states in filing the lawsuit. The move by the U.S. Fifth Circuit […]

If something makes you look up, look down. If something makes you look down, look up. I was introduced to this little jingle during a patrol class at Jungle Warfare Training in Okinawa, Japan in 1988.  “The Gunny”, our Chief Instructor, was a seasoned Marine Gunnery Sergeant who learned this jingle the hard way in […]