Listen to the 10-min audio:   Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take a look back to last Tuesday’s election. Interesting how a number of outlets are now saying that this was a referendum and a rejection of Donald Trump’s politics. The New York Times actually came out and called itself […]

  Yellowhammer News announced today that it will begin running conservative stalwart Pat Buchanan’s column, bringing its readers a national conservative voice they can trust. “Pat has been at the forefront of the conservative movement for decades, and his wit and wisdom will serve our readers well,” said the site’s editor, J. Pepper Bryars, who […]

Yellowhammer Films has released its latest project, a touching look at one Alabama couple’s two-year journey to adopt their daughter from Ethiopia. Ryan and Casey Bly of McCalla, a suburb of Birmingham, adopted their daughter last summer and our team documented their heartwarming story. “Ryan had been placed in a foster home when he was […]

  Birmingham’s city school system announced this week that students enrolled in any of its 43 schools are now eligible to receive free breakfast and lunch “regardless of income status.” The money is provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the program doesn’t require applications to determine eligibility. Any student can take advantage of […]

  In the wake of increased aggression from North Korea and the development of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the hostile regime, the Missile Defense Agency installed the last of 44 interceptors for a Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system ahead of schedule at Alaska’s Fort Greeley this month. A Boeing facility in Huntsville has […]

  Perhaps former Alabama Gov. Bob Riley said it best: “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times that the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” That was certainly the case for three servicemen from Leeds who went far beyond the call of duty to save the lives of their comrades during battle. […]

  The following is a collection of the past week’s news and views from Alabama’s congressional delegation: — Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) made use of his role as a member of the House Armed Services conference committee, which has been in negotiations with the Senate to authorize defense spending for fiscal year 2018. Byrne helped […]

  Alabama’s concentration of residents who have served in uniform exceeds most other states, but the Heart of Dixie’s veteran population is shrinking faster than the national average, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.The Census Bureau estimates that Alabama had 331,076 veterans in 2016. That is 8.8 percent of the total […]

Yellowhammer News will begin carrying a regular weekly column by David Rainer, an award-winning outdoor writer. “David is well known and well respected among Alabama’s outdoorsmen,” said the site’s editor, J. Pepper Bryars. “He has hunted and fished across the state with some of the best in the sport, and his insights, advice, and stories […]

  So…. Who comes next? Without prejudging the fall-out from the sex-related allegations against Senate candidate Roy Moore, it still is obvious that a chance exists he may withdraw from the race. While state law seems clear that it’s too late to replace Moore on the ballot, some highly informed sources say precedent exists to […]

Joel Blankenship joins The Ford Faction to dig a little bit deeper into the Roy Moore sexual assault allegations made against him earlier this week and what the outcome could be.  The guys also review Rocky IV and talk about the “Man Movie of The Week” and how horrible Ford’s knowledge of movies are. Subscribe to […]

  American music legend Charlie Daniels said in an interview with CNSNews.com that he learned lessons playing high school football that have served him his entire life—“not just as a professional musician, but as a person.” In his newly published memoir—“Never Look at the Empty Seats”—Daniels writes about spending his high school years in Gulf, […]

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 11-3 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 […]

  Listen to the 10-min. audio: Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, “Evangelical Focus” is reporting on a new religion to worship artificial intelligence. Former Google and Uber engineer, Anthony Levandowski, founded the “Way of the Future,” which aims to create a deity based on artificial intelligence for the betterment of society. Levandowski filed paperwork […]

  If we know one thing about Judge Roy Moore it’s this: he’s not going to willingly step aside and allow the political establishment to place someone else’s name on the ballot. https://twitter.com/MooreSenate/status/928771064406167552   If he goes, it’ll be the same way Moore was removed from the bench – by force of law. That’s why […]

    One of the qualities that we hope to have at Yellowhammer News is a sense of thoughtfulness, the ability to gather information, consider the various aspects of an issue, deliberate upon the consequences and then chart a path ahead for Alabama’s conservatives. We will not be anyone’s attack dog. Nor will we be […]

  Many doctors treat patients under the belief “You are your genes,” meaning that every person is a product of his or her own unique heredity. The statement is true to some degree, said Dr. Anna Hurst, a medical geneticist and pediatrician in the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). […]

American Family Care (AFC), the nation’s leading provider of urgent care, accessible primary care, and occupational medicine, announced today it will offer military veterans free flu shots on Veterans Day, Saturday, November 11. The announcement is an extension of AFC’s ongoing effort to promote flu prevention in the United States and comes on the heels […]

    Listen to the 10-min audio:   Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I want to look back to last Sunday. While many people around this country were gathering for worship, down in a small Texas town of Sutherland Springs, which is about 30 miles east of San Antonio, a massacre occurred where 4 […]

  Brendan Kirby, a 23-year journalism veteran, has signed on as a regular contributor to the new Yellowhammer News.Kirby, who covers national politics for LifeZette, spent 15 years covering the courts, local government and politics for the Press-Register and Al.com in Mobile. During his time there, he won numerous statewide journalism awards, was finalist for […]

  Many little girls dream of being a ballerina, a princess or perhaps a high-fashion model. Not Denise Richardson. At the tender age of 4, Richardson wanted to grow up and become a soldier. For a young girl whose family was immersed in a world “of all things Army,” her aspirations weren’t unusual. Her father […]

Alain Burrese joins The Ford Faction to talk about the tragic Texas Church shooting, what to do if a situation like this comes up, and he talks about his website. Subscribe to the Yellowhammer Radio Presents The Ford Faction podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/What_To_Do_During_A_Shooting_with_Alain_Burrese_.mp3 Click here to listen in a new window. www.surviveashooting.com

  Extreme vetting of gun buyers would not have stopped the situation in Sutherland Springs, Texas, President Trump told a news conference in South Korea on Tuesday. The gunman who killed 26 people passed a background check to purchase four guns in a four-year period because information about his domestic violence convictions did not make […]

    Unless and until shown otherwise with actual facts and details, this column will make the case that much of Alabama government is underfunded. Even to type that sentence above is to subject myself to an extreme fingernails-across-chalkboard sensation, because I’m a hardline fiscal conservative and, personally, a proud skinflint in many situations. Still, […]