On Tuesday, the GOP picked up seven seats in the U.S. Senate resulting in their first majority (52-46) since 2006. House Republicans expanded their majority by twelve seats, bringing their total to 246. The election results nationwide indicate the voters’ desire for a new direction. Now they’ll wait to see if Republicans can really offer more than the status quo […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — During an appearance on WAPI’s “Matt Murphy Show” on Thursday, Yellowhammer CEO Cliff Sims said that voters have given the Alabama Legislature a rare opportunity to make their state a model of conservative governance, and believes Republicans must capitalize on the opportunity by delivering in a big way. “The people gave a […]

Alabama native and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who tends to stay above the fray of politics, on Thursday vented on Fox News about Democrats’ tendency to play racial politics, rather than focusing on policy differences. “The idea that you would play such a card and try fear mongering among minorities just because you […]

Scott Stantis is widely viewed as one of the best — if not the best — editorial cartoonists in the country. At one point he was the staff cartoonist for The Birmingham News. And although he’s now at The Chicago Tribune, which is one of the most high profile jobs in his field, Stantis still […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama House Republicans on Thursday huddled for a meeting in Montgomery just two days after voters saw fit to expand their majority to 72 of the 105-member body. The top order of business for the caucus was to elect their leadership for the next four years. The assembled group voted to keep […]

Alabama native and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday that President Obama should walk back his executive amnesty plan and realize that the American people delivered a strong message at the polls that they do not approve of the direction he has taken the country. “We can’t have a circumstance in which […]

WASHINGTON — Tuesday’s elections may have delivered sweeping changes to the makeup of the U.S. Senate, but the same Jeff Sessions returned to work post-election and continued hammering President Obama for his plan to grant executive amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. “(On Election Day), the American people rebelled against the President’s executive amnesty and […]

Everyone’s seen who won the races, but now that the dust has settled, here’s a deeper look at Alabama’s biggest winners this election cycle. School Choice School choice advocacy groups have flocked to Alabama in the wake of the Alabama Accountability Act — the state’s first ever school choice law — believing that there will […]

Congratulations everyone, you did it. It probably didn’t seem possible, but you survived another election cycle. Enjoy the lack of political ads while you can–2016 will be here before you know it. With the midterm elections in the rear view mirror and 2016 slowly appearing on the horizon, WalletHub, a finance social network, crunched the […]

If June 4, 2014, the day after Alabama’s Primary Elections, was considered “rock bottom” for the Alabama Education Association (AEA), its embattled leader, Henry Mabry, must have immediately found a jackhammer and started digging, because five months later, the once powerful organization has somehow managed to reach a new low. Remember that time AEA spent […]

Shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday night it became clear that Republicans would take the majority in the U.S. Senate, topping off a massive night for the GOP and a crushing defeat for the Obama presidency. Voters tossed out Democratic incumbent senators in Arkansas, Colorado and North Carolina and elected Republicans to fill seats being […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Republican Party was notified late this afternoon that ballots at two polling locations in House Districts 77 and 78 have been “severely mishandled,” which the ALGOP says “resulted in voters having not been given the correct ballot” in those two districts. The two voting locations in question are Beulah Baptist […]

People don’t vote for many different reasons, but a consistent excuse is that voting just takes too much time. During the 2012 election, the Government Accountability Office collected data from 36 states to find the average wait time for voting. At 35 minutes, Florida had the longest wait time. Residents of Alaska and Vermont enjoyed […]

There’s very little drama at the top of the ticket this year in Alabama, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a storyline worth watching. That storyline is math, simple math. And no, believe it or not, it has nothing to do with Common Core. Here are a few reasons why math is the storyline worth […]

With a price tag of roughly $3.67 billion dollars, the 2014 elections are going down in history as the most expensive midterms in American history, and they’re finally about to come to a close. Voters around the country will head to the polls Tuesday to exercise their sacred right as American citizens — one man, […]

Alabama is something of a Petri dish for outlandish politicians, bizarre campaign moments and scratch-your-head political theater. Sometimes it seems like the Yellowhammer State was created just to be the perfect environment in which to grow the most wacky, over-the-top characters imaginable. A state representative declaring men should be able to marry mules? We’ve got […]

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will cruise to re-election on Tuesday as the only U.S. Senator on the ballot in 2014 who did not face a General Election opponent, and according to Daily Caller Editor-In-Chief and Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, the reason is simple. “Jeff Sessions is so popular he could come to work […]

“To everything there is a season,” Ecclesiastes reads. The end of the campaign season is a relief to those who tire of hearing all the political ads. It also brings the beginning of a new, more important season: a season for governing. We have work to do getting this country back on track, and the […]

TUSCUMBIA, Ala. — Famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson gained national notoriety for his speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast, during which he criticized ObamaCare and warned of America’s “moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility” as President Obama sat just a few feet away. On Sunday, Carson took aim at another Democrat, this time one right […]

The Alabama New South Coalition (ANSC), whose stated purpose is “to promote the general welfare of all people through independent focused organizations dedicated to progressive ideals of freedom, justice and democracy,” appears to be working to accomplish those goals through a simple method — fear. The group is disseminating a mailer to black households around […]

36 states will hold gubernatorial elections on Tuesday, and according to the famed election prognosticators at FiveThirtyEight, Alabama’s incumbent governor Robert Bentley is the surest bet of them all. His chances of getting re-elected currently stand at over 99 percent, and the margin of victory is expected to be substantial. FiveThirtyEight’s founder Nate Silver explains […]

“If Pipkin and Tullos are going home to their families tonight after what they did,” the juror said, “then Barry Moore should definitely be going home to his family.” OPELIKA, Ala. — Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) was able to breath a sigh of relief Thursday as a twelve-member jury of his peers found him not […]

The battle lines in Rep. Jim Carns’ (R-Birmingham) bid to unseat Rep. Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representative perhaps became a bit more clear Thursday evening at Jim & Nicks BBQ in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood. Carns, who launched his campaign for the gavel within minutes of the news […]

OPELIKA, Ala. — Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) was found not guilty on all counts after being charged with two counts of first-degree perjury and two counts of providing false statements during testimony he gave to a special grand jury in January. While testifying before the grand jury, Moore was asked to recall the details of […]