‘Governor Kay Ivey, you must stop this, you have the power.’ I am a conservative Republican, Christian, wife, mother of three, and grandmother of five. As a voter, I will be disenfranchised if Roy Moore stays on the ballot in December. We live in a society which has already decided Moore is guilty. Even […]

  Holiday events in Alabama Great family entertainment highlights holiday celebrations across Alabama.  Events include everything from the Galaxy of Lights Tour at the Huntsville Botanical Garden to the lighting of the Christmas tree at the state Capitol in Montgomery. The Governor’s Mansion will also be open for special Christmas candlelight tours on the first […]

I recently read an article in the Triangle Business Journal about why North Carolina might have the upper hand on Alabama when it comes to the Toyota and Mazda joint plant Economic Development competition. While they certainly make some well-thought-out points, I figured I would respond to this article with why I think the business case […]

    Americans have been buried in the last six weeks by a blizzard of reports of sexual harassment, assault, misconduct and malfeasance from our politicians, journalists and Hollywood glitterati. In the last week alone, we’ve seen a picture of Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., during his pre-senatorial days placing his hands over a sleeping woman’s […]

    Black Friday shopping unexpectedly turned violent after incidents including a brawl at an Alabama mall Thursday and a shooting at a Missouri mall Friday. While scouting sales, Black Friday shopping quickly escalated when a wild brawl broke between two women around 11 p.m Thursday at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala., reported AL.com. […]

    How big is this year’s Iron Bowl? So big that bragging rights is way down the list. Alabama, No. 1 in the College Football Playoff ranking, heads to the Plains to meet its cross-state rival at 2:30 p.m. on CBS. And victory for the visitors or No. 6 Auburn stamps that team’s ticket […]

  Governor’s Mansion open for candlelight tours on Monday nights in December  Gov. Kay Ivey will open the Governor’s Mansion for candlelight tours on the first three Monday nights in December from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Designers have volunteered their time to decorate the Governor’s Mansion and the neighboring Hill House for the candlelight tours. “This is the […]

    ‘Moore’s best employment opportunity is to get a sales job at Honest Abe’s Used Car Lot in Gadsden’ I’ve been a reliable Alabama Republican supporter for decades, even before I was old enough to vote. As a high school senior in Camden, Alabama in 1964, I enthusiastically attended the Barry Goldwater rally in […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I’d like to take you to a number of stories today. I’m going to highlight it with a story out of The Washington Examiner. Of course, our listeners are probably, no doubt, familiar with the situation with Roy […]

    An unbecoming hysteria continues on both sides of the Roy Moore debate, and our civic life is made worse by it. Witness a recent column against Moore by the liberal but usually thoughtful Kyle Whitmire of al.com, and witness the outlandish conspiracy-mongering in defense of Moore by Alabama Senate President Pro-Tem Del Marsh. […]

    The circumstances of U.S. Border Patrol agent Rogelio Martinez’s death this week remain murkier than the Rio Grande River. Agent Martinez succumbed to critical head injuries early Sunday morning. An unnamed partner, who came to Martinez’s aid after he radioed for help from a remote area of the Big Bend sector in Texas, also suffered […]

  It’s been with equal parts satisfaction and disappointment that I have watched from afar as the left has finally come around to my opinion of Bill Clinton, or at least they have finally come around to believing his accusers. As I have maintained since the 1990s, Gennifer Flowers was telling the truth; so was […]

    Yes, Jeff Sessions really is making a difference at the Justice Department, as a new order curbing the department’s own power makes clear. The other day, a friend said to me that he figured Sessions really would be better off accepting a write-in bid for his old Senate seat because “he’s not really […]

    ‘I don’t believe there has ever been [a politician] who was such an embarrassment to Christianity’ Having never met the man, all I know about Roy Moore comes from what I have read and heard him say. I just can’t understand how anyone can call themselves a Christian and be so filled with […]

    This is the time to give thanks, and I hope that your family has much to be thankful for this year. Thanksgiving offers a time to reflect on the prosperity we enjoy. Most humans throughout history have lived at the subsistence level, usually only one poor harvest away from facing famine. Just as […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio   Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Well, Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Harry, it was President Abraham Lincoln that first established Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November. Then, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, he was celebrating Thanksgiving on the last day of the month. […]

    Today we observe Thanksgiving. People across the country are gathered with family and friends, to once again eat and acknowledge the blessings bestowed upon us. Most likely, or hopefully so, the majority of these feasts of gratitude will begin with a short prayer, a moment of grace, acknowledging that the gifts are given […]

    How stands John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” this Thanksgiving? How stands the country that was to be “a light unto the nations”? To those who look to cable TV for news, the answer must at the least be ambiguous. For consider the issues that have lately convulsed the public discourse of the […]

Conservatism in Alabama is more splintered than I thought. I recently outlined how differently younger and older Alabama conservatives are reacting to the sexual misconduct allegations against Roy Moore. Aside from that, another division continues to form as indicated by the Shoals Young Republicans’ resolution – approved unanimously by the group on Sunday – declaring […]

Trae Elston and JJ Nelson join The Ford Faction for their weekly picks for The Yellowhammer Pick ‘Em in college football. So far Trae leads the pack with an 22-6 record. The overall winner gets to donate $1000 to a charity of their choice. Subscribe to the Yellowhammer Radio Presents The Ford Faction podcast on […]

  The following are reader opinions about Roy Moore in response to Yellowhammer’s call for submissions. ‘We stand with this man of courage’ I am just a working, concerned, Alabamian by birth, who votes based on who will or has proven they will follow the Constitution. My wife is a legal immigrant from Taiwan, became a citizen, […]

    The prestigious scholarship program Rhodes Trust announced its 32 scholars for 2018 on Sunday and around half of the scholars are aspiring social justice activists. The scholarship winners have conducted research on Black Lives Matter, gun control, and climate change and done activism on issues ranging from the Ferguson protests to gender-neutral bathrooms […]

Wes Thompson and the guys dive into the new robots that can  do back flips and create their own language, Android phones are listening, and app of the week. http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/Another_edition_of_Tech_Tuesday_with_Wes_Tompson_of_Tep_io.mp3   Click here to listen in a new window. Subscribe to the Yellowhammer Radio Presents The Ford Faction podcast on iTunes or Stitcher.

  A math teacher in the U.K. has been suspended and faces possible further disciplinary action after he said “Well done, girls” to a group of students in forgetting that one of the girls prefers to be identified as a boy. Joshua Sutcliffe is a teacher at Cherwell School in Oxford, and is also a […]