OAKMAN, Ala. — Gov. Robert Bentley visited the Drummond Camp Creek Coal Mine in Walker County on Wednesday and brought with him some fierce criticism of an “overreaching” federal government and the EPA regulations that he says are currently threatening to close Alabama coal mines, destroy jobs and raise electricity rates for Alabama consumers. “What […]

The Alabama Free Market Alliance (AFMA), a conservative advocacy group headed by Alabama’s Republican National Committeeman Paul Reynolds, released a television ad this week that is now airing statewide. However, rather than focusing on a particular race, as most ads are doing this close to election day, the AFMA ad is reminding Alabama voters about […]

Southern Progress Action Fund (SPAF), an Arkansas-based liberal group bent on returning Democrats to power in the South is spending over $100,000 to swing Alabama legislative races in the final week of the election cycle. The group, which Bloomberg reported “hopes that the South will rise again — for Democrats, that is,” was launched by […]

USCIS, a union that represents roughly 12,000 officers in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, made waves this week when it disclosed that the U.S. government had ordered enough supplies to make roughly 34 million immigrant work permits and residency cards, presumably to meet needs that could be brought on by President Obama’s seemingly imminent […]

Yellowhammer’s Cliff Sims unloaded on Apple CEO Tim Cook on Twitter Monday after Cook harshly criticized the State of Alabama for being “too slow on equality for the LGBT community.” Cook’s remarks were made during a speech following his induction into the Alabama Hall of Honor, a distinction he received alongside several other notable individuals, […]

Alabama’s incumbent Republican Attorney General Luther Strange is locked in a heated race against Democratic challenger State Rep. Joe Hubbard (D-Montgomery), but it looks like he’s about to get some help from Alabama’s most popular elected official and a national GOP group with some big money. U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is expected to endorse […]

A spokesperson for Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley responded to speculation that Bentley could be a potential 2016 presidential candidate by simply saying that he’s focused on his current job for now. “Right now Governor Bentley is focused on being the best Governor he can be for the state of Alabama,” campaign spokesperson Rebekah Mason told […]

The Washington Posts last week published an article titled “Governors to watch for 2016 and beyond” suggesting that Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley should be added to the list of GOP governors who are considered viable presidential contenders. So how did the Washington Post come to this surprising conclusion? Polling. The Post started by generating a […]

In preparation for election day Nov. 4th, the Alabama Republican Party is using Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as its spokesperson in hopes of driving voters to the polls in what is expected to be a low-turnout election. Sessions cut two television ads and a radio spot paid for by the state GOP, all of which […]

WETUMPKA, Ala. — Becky Gerritson, President of the Wetumpka TEA Party, called Thursday’s U.S. District Court’s ruling to dismiss two lawsuits against the IRS by dozens of tea parties and other conservative groups “outrageous.” The IRS’s targeting of conservatives first came to the public’s attention in May of 2013, when Lois Lerner, then head of […]

Hollow victory: a victory with such a devastating cost that it is tantamount to defeat. Exactly one week ago today, an indictment was signed, paving the way for Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard to be arrested on 23 felony counts of public corruption this past Monday. On Tuesday, Hubbard orchestrated one of the most extraordinary […]

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL5) on Thursday during an interview with Birmingham conservative talk radio host Matt Murphy said that the timing of the recent spread of the enterovirus in the United States coincides with what he referred to as President Obama’s “enticement” of illegal immigrant children to cross America’s southern border. “Why the CDC is […]

One of my favorite recurring sketches on David Letterman’s Late Show on CBS is called “Is This Anything?” The stage curtain comes up and a performer has about thirty seconds to do whatever bizarre or unusual stunt they can, at which point the curtain lowers and Dave and band leader Paul Shaffer simply decide whether […]

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is retiring this year, and that’s a shame for plenty of reasons, not the least of which is that his office will no longer publish his yearly — and now legendary — “Wastebook,” an annual look at the U.S. federal government’s most outlandish expenditures. “With no one watching over the vast […]

During a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) and Mark White, an attorney for House Speaker Mike Hubbard, both accused Attorney General Luther Strange of “Chicago-style gutter politics” with regard to Hubbard’s indictment on 23 felony counts of public corruption. Rogers accused Strange of attacking Hubbard because he was a potential 2018 […]

Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard held a press conference Tuesday afternoon flanked by dozens of state and local leaders, including legislators, businessmen and local elected officials. Here’s a recap of the press conference, as told through Twitter, in order of the individuals who spoke. Hubbard Attorney Mark White White: "Mike Hubbard will not resign. Mike […]

President Obama recently authorized the Pentagon to call up the National Guard if they are needed as part of the U.S. government’s response to the escalating Ebola crisis in West Africa. The U.S. has committed to send as many as 4,000 American troops to African countries where the outbreak is spreading to provide humanitarian support. […]

As news broke on Monday afternoon that Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard had been indicted on 23 felony public corruption charges, one of his House Republican colleagues was already launching a bid to succeed Hubbard in what is arguably the state’s most powerful office. Rep. Jim Carns (R-Birmingham) began peppering members of the House Republican […]

AUBURN, Ala. — Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard has been indicted on corruption charges stemming from a Lee County Grand Jury investigation that has been ongoing since at least January of 2013. Hubbard was indicted on 23 counts total, according to a release from the Alabama Attorney General’s office: • Four counts of using of […]

For about four years now, the Professional Left in Washington has been engaged in a desperate campaign to convince the American people that conservatives are engaged in a “War on Women.” You’ve probably seen the political ads or heard the rhetoric from television commentators. Their goal is to label anyone who is pro-life and believes […]

In April of 2012, Free Market America, a conservative advocacy organization that promotes free market principles, posted a four-minute, thirty-eight second video on YouTube titled “If I wanted America to fail.” In a world of Vines, listicles and snapchats, the serious tone and extended length of the video didn’t seem very well suited for viral […]

Ebola is a health crisis. Yet the President has appointed as his new Ebola ‘czar’ a partisan loyalist whose expertise is politics—not health. One would think, faced with the prospect of an epidemic, the President would task an expert in epidemiology not an expert in political spin. Sound bites are not going to deter a […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange announced in a press conference today that emergency personal responded to a possible Ebola victim from Nigeria at a local Montgomery eye clinic. However, medical experts say there is a very slim chance that the individual has actually has contracted the deadly virus, as none of her family […]

WASHINGTON – Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-1) today made clear his support for a temporary ban on travel to the United States from west Africa to help protect Americans against the spread of the Ebola virus. Many Members of Congress, including House Speaker John Boehner, have spoken out about their support for a temporary ban on […]