Liberals’ favorite America-hating anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan, is coming back to Alabama for the second time in as many years at the behest of Alabama Democrats. Farrakhan and Democrat State Senator Hank Sanders, who warned voters in 2010 that Alabama may be “going back to the cotton fields of Jim Crow days” if Republicans were put […]

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) today joined with Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in sending a letter to their Senate colleagues highlighting ongoing concerns with the Gang of Eight’s Senate immigration reform bill. The group of staunchly conservative senators criticized the back-door deal that was struck by Gang of Eight […]

WASHINGTON – In what was at times dramatic testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday, Becky Gerritson, president of the Wetumpka Tea Party, revealed the ordeal her organization went through while trying to obtain non-profit status with the Internal Revenue Service. Gerritson told the committee that IRS cashed check for her groups’ […]

Earlier tonight, Heather McGill, the wife of state senator Shad McGill, took to Facebook to vent about women who she says have emailed or Facebook messaged her husband “inviting him to explore” and also “sending pictures of themselves.” Either the hangers-on who for decades grew accustomed to the Montgomery cesspool are having a hard time […]

Rep. Jim McClendon (R – Springville) will officially announce tomorrow that he will challenge fellow Republican Jerry Fielding (R – Sylacauga) in the Senate District 11 GOP primary in 2014. Fielding was a long-time Democrat who was elected to the Alabama Senate in 2010 after previously serving as a District Judge. He was one of the few bright […]

According to sources close to Bradley Byrne, he will officially announce his candidacy for Alabama’s first district congressional seat tomorrow. Byrne, whose Mobile roots go back to the late 1700s, will seek to become the first Baldwin County resident to represent the first congressional district in Congress. Republican Jo Bonner has held the seat since […]

WASHINGTON — Although it has been suggested that some portion of the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program, part of which is set to be built in Mobile, could be in danger with Rep. Jo Bonner’s sudden retirement announcement last week, Republican Sen. Richard Shelby’s office seemed to indicate there is little to be concerned […]

Republican Matt Fridy will officially announce today that he is running for the Alabama House of Representatives in the newly-formed District 73. The new district was created recently through last year’s redistricting process because of heavy population growth in Shelby County. No current legislators reside in the district, which is located in southwestern Shelby County, […]

The National Republican Senatorial Committee last week announced Alabama native Michael Joffrion as their new Southeast political director. According to Roll Call, “Joffrion will oversee the committee’s efforts to topple Democratic incumbents in Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina, as well as hold on to retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ GOP-held seat in Georgia.” In 2010, Joffrion […]

At a stop during his Alabama economic development tour at the Energex Tube facility in Thomasville on Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions had some strong words about the current immigration battle being waged on Capitol Hill for Ashley Knight of Mobile-CBS affiliate WKRG 5. (video above) “I’m telling you — I’ve looked at it, I’ve studied […]

The Alabama Policy Institute (API), an Alabama-based conservative think tank, today released an in-depth study that compares the governments of Alabama’s four largest cities: Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and Huntsville. What did the study find? Birmingham is a picture of government gone wild. Birmingham’s population has fallen by 38% over the past fifty years, but the […]

Earlier this week we posed “Six questions for the 2014 election cycle.” One of those questions was “Will Governor Bentley expand Medicaid?” We reached out to the governor’s office to see where things currently stand on the potential for Medicaid expansion. Here’s the exchange we had with Governor Bentley’s press secretary Jennifer Ardis: Yellowhammer: The […]

WASHINGTON — The Alabama-based Wetumpka TEA Party is one of 25 conservative organizations suing the U.S. Attorney General, Treasury Secretary, and Internal Revenue Service for targeting them for additional scrutiny by the IRS. The American Center for Law and Justice yesterday filed the lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the organizations. […]

WASHINGTON — Conservatives have frequently railed against Obamacare’s individual health insurance mandate, but in an unexpected twist, a group of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives is now floating the idea of imposing that same mandate on illegal immigrants. Whether or not the government should subsidize health insurance for immigrants seeking citizenship has been […]

WASHINGTON – While much of the fallout from Rep. Jo Bonner’s decision to leave Congress has been focused on who might be is successor, the impact his resignation could have on the region has been missed, particularly with regard to the Mobile-built Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Bonner has been one of the fiercest defenders of the […]

Here are six story lines we will be watching closely as campaign season gets underway: 1. Will Bentley expand Medicaid? The June fundraising window is fast approaching but a credible primary challenger to Governor Robert Bentley has still not emerged. The Governor’s approval numbers remain strong. Barring something unforeseen, he is positioned to win reelection […]

Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes late last week penned a letter to Fox News employees vowing to stand strong against what he characterized as attempts by the Obama administration to intimidate investigative journalists. The letter was written in response to the Obama Justice Department’s decision to secretly look at Fox News reporter James Rosen’s […]

Last week’s bombshell that Republican Rep. Jo Bonner of Mobile will be resigning his congressional seat to take a job with the University of Alabama system sent shockwaves through the political world on Thursday and has set up the potential for an interesting race with a crowded field for the Republican nomination in a special […]

BY CLIFF SIMS & JEFF POOR Less than five minutes after Yellowhammer broke the news that Congressman Jo Bonner would be resigning from congress, speculation was already running rampant about who might run for his seat. After reaching out to political insiders and potential candidates, here’s an early attempt at handicapping the field in AL-01. […]

Jo Bonner, the six-term representative for Alabama’s First Congressional District, announced today that he is resigning from his seat in Congress to take a job as Vice Chancellor of Government Affairs and Economic Development for the University of Alabama System. Bonner, 53, made the announcement from his office at the RSA Tower in downtown Mobile […]

Hobby Lobby is back in court today seeking an exemption from the ObamaCare mandate that requires employers to offer healthcare coverage to their employees that includes access to the morning-after pill. Hobby Lobby’s contention is that no employer should be forced by the government to do something that goes against their religious beliefs, in this […]

The board of directors for the Alabama Education Association has purportedly approved $4 million to be taken from their reserve account to be dedicated to what they are calling “The Grand Plan for 2014.” According to sources familiar with the AEA’s political operation, the $4 million is over and above what will be spent out […]

Governor Robert Bentley today signed the Omnibus Gun Bill into law, giving Alabama what proponents of the bill call “the strongest Second Amendment protections in the country.” “With Governor Bentley’s signature today, Alabamians’ second amendment rights are more secure than ever,” House Speaker Mike Hubbard said in a statement. “Despite President Obama and the Democratic […]

The Alabama Public Service Commission recently held a public hearing concerning Alabama Power Company rates. But the hearing was really about an effort initiated by environmental groups determined to impose cap-and-trade type regulations on Alabama Power. For the first time in my memory, the PSC was brought into a debate that is really outside their […]