Conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh praised Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions on Monday for his efforts to rally Americans against President Obama’s plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants by executive order. “…Jeff Sessions – God bless Jeff Sessions – is begging everybody to call their congressmen and senators to stop what Obama […]

ATLANTA, GA — Roughly 1,600 people are scheduled to testify at Environmental Protection Agency public hearings across the nation on Tuesday, including elected officials, industry professionals, scientists and environmentalists who support or oppose proposed EPA regulations that would drastically cut carbon emissions from the country’s power plants. The southeast hearings are scheduled to begin at […]

An open letter to the Birmingham City Council by Samford economics professor Art Carden Dear Birmingham City Council, I received an email from Uber saying that you will effectively decide their fate during Tuesday morning’s meeting. You will essentially decide whether you wish to embrace the 21st century or instead shackle innovators like Uber and Lyft. […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Republican leaders assembled at the Alabama Coal Association headquarters in Birmingham on Monday to slam proposed regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency that they say constitute an assault on Alabamians’ way of life. Alabama Public Service Commission President Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh, Commissioner Jeremy Oden, Commissioner-elect Chip Beeker, and Republican National Committeeman Paul […]

By: U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions For over 150 years, the steel industry has been a central part of Alabama’s economy and its workers have been a shared source of pride. And it remains so. Today, the steel industry employs over 50,000 people in good jobs throughout our state. But the industry faces worldwide challenges, many […]

During a recent campaign stop, Parker Griffith, the Democratic nominee for Alabama governor, was asked what led him to decide to run for the state’s highest office. His response was, well, frankly just about what we’ve come to expect from the cursing party-switcher who recently compared Alabama politics to warring Islamic sects. “How did I […]

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) during an appearance on Breitbart News Sunday said this will be a critical week in the ongoing Congressional debate over what to do about the estimated 57,000 Central American children who have entered the United States illegally over the past nine months, resulting in a humanitarian and political crisis. President Obama […]

If your family’s home videos growing up were anything like mine, you were lucky if someone remembered to take the lens cap off the camcorder. And editing? Yea right. If you want to go back and see that one shining moment from your 5th grade school play, you’re going to have to fast-forward through hours […]

What’s it like to prepare to deploy into a hostile area overseas? To get bit by a military working dog? To do hand-to-hand combat training with Navy SEALs and Green Berets? To get ready to drive like your life depends on it? Thanks to Alabama defense contractor XTreme Concepts, Yellowhammer found out. Previous videos in […]

There will be very little drama in this year’s Alabama general elections, since most of the action these days is in the Republican primary. On the national level, all of the attention is focused on whether or not Republicans will re-take the Senate in November. As we wrote in April, no state gains more than […]

“Everything around you can be used as a weapon.” That’s one of the first things the instructor told Yellowhammer’s Cliff Sims at a remote training facility in northern Virginia several weeks ago. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a knife or a bottle or a stick,” the instructor continued. “We’re going to use a lot of […]

By: Sen. Richard Shelby Last week, I met with Robert McDonald, President Obama’s nominee to be the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs. I shared with him my deep concerns regarding the failures of the VA system, and particularly the systemic problems at the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS). I urged Mr. McDonald to […]

Have you ever wondered if making more money would make you happier? That may seem like a silly question. Of course making more money would make you happier, right? Well, maybe, but only up to a point. A new analysis conducted by Advisors Perspectives approximates how much money citizens in each U.S. state must make […]

(Video above: Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims lays out 5 commonsense steps to get American back on track) In The News in 90 Seconds, Yellowhammer takes a complex issue and boils it down into a short video to make it more understandable. Check out the video above. The transcript of the voiceover is below. Got […]

According to an extensive study conducted by the Pew Research Center, Alabamians and other Southerners are more likely to own guns, hold conservative political views and “feel proud to be American” than individuals who live in other parts of the United States, especially the Northeast. The Pew Research Center conducted their annual “American Trends Panel” […]

A ruling Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia eliminates the federal government’s ability to provide subsidies on federal insurance exchanges under ObamaCare. Almost simultaneously, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., issued a ruling that came to the opposite conclusion. With two seemingly contradictory […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange lauded a ruling today by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that eliminates the federal government’s ability to provide subsidies on federal insurance exchanges under ObamaCare. The State of Alabama joined an amicus brief to the court arguing that the law allowed the […]

What’s it like to prepare to deploy into a hostile area overseas? To get bit by a military working dog? To do hand-to-hand combat training with Navy SEALs and Green Berets? To get ready to drive like your life depends on it? Thanks to Alabama defense contractor XTreme Concepts, Yellowhammer found out. For several days […]

The Machine. For over a century it has held almost total sway over Greek life and the Student Government Association at the University of Alabama. The so called “secret society” has been the topic of a cover story in Esquire magazine. It’s been featured in the New York Times. It’s been accused of election-rigging, voter […]

AJ and the Alabama Eats crew are in Mountain Brook, Ala. today at Davenport’s Pizza Palace, which has been cooking up some of the country’s best pizza for an entire half-century. The restaurant was founded in 1964 by the late Rex Hollis. It was named after Jim “Peanut” Davenport, a childhood friend of Mr. Hollis’s […]

In the wake of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s stunning defeat, the leadership team in the Republican-controlled U.S. House went through a shakeup. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal.) rose from Majority Whip — the third-ranking member of the House — to become Majority Leader, which is second in command behind Speaker of the House John Boehner. […]

Last week, I joined officials from throughout Alabama at the Farnborough International Airshow outside of London, England. I was accompanied by representatives from the city of Mobile, members of the Mobile and Baldwin County Commissions, Senators Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, Governor Bentley, and other officials from across our state. Our goal was simple: to […]

What’s it like to prepare to deploy into a hostile area overseas? To get bit by a military working dog? To do hand-to-hand combat training with Navy SEALs and Green Berets? To get ready to drive like your life depends on it? Thanks to Alabama defense contractor XTreme Concepts, Yellowhammer found out. For several days […]

By: Artur Davis Let me get the news-making information out of the way: On Aug. 25, an exact year before the election, I will be setting up a Davis for Mayor exploratory committee. If it reports that the resources and grassroots support are there, I am in. I don’t underestimate the obstacles. While I was […]