As Attorney General, I have no higher duty than to enforce our laws and ensure the safety of all Alabamians—and that includes the unborn. Throughout my career as a prosecutor and as your Attorney General, I have fought to protect the right to life. While many candidates label themselves as pro-life, I have a proven […]

Alabama didn’t look poised to win a third national title in six years. Once match play began, the Crimson Tide found another gear. Tide freshmen Wilson Furr and Davis Shore won both their matches Tuesday, and Alabama swept Duke in the semifinal to reach the final against Oklahoma State in the NCAA men’s golf championship. […]

So let me break this down before I get started. On Tuesday, ABC cancelled the hit sitcom “Roseanne” after the show’s star and co-creator, Roseanne Barr, posted a racist tweet about one of President Obama’s top aides. The tweet referencing Valerie Jarrett , which has now been deleted, read: “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the […]

Alabama ranks 45th in broadband access for its residents, making internet growth a vital infrastructure issue and a topic of discussion in the upcoming elections. In advance of the June 5 primary, Alabama Policy Institute and Yellowhammer News queried candidates for governor and lieutenant governor on what they felt were important infrastructure investment projects and […]

http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/5_25_18_THWC.mp3 Amanda Head made her weekly appearance on The Ford Faction and started it off by joining the guys in some Memorial Day trivia (and losing to Zac). Amanda touches upon her appearance at “Stormy Daniels Day” and being harassed by people there who didn’t like her support for President Trump.  She talks about what else […]

Is the Alabama Republican Party willing to allow an ignorant, racist, anti-Semitic, liar to represent them in the fall? https://twitter.com/WagtheDog68/status/1001497916769558529 According to word out of the ALGOP, maybe not. This shouldn’t even be an issue, but it is. Jim Bonner is NOT former Congressman Jo Bonner, nor is he related to him, but the similar […]

In the wake of the recent horrific school shootings in Santa Fe, Texas, and Lakeland, Florida, and today’s tragic events at a middle school in Noblesville, Indiana, I found myself reviewing another opinion piece that I wrote in December of 2012. That one was written in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut. […]

Election season reminds us – as if we had forgotten – of what politics usually is rather than what it ought to be. I’ve often heard Nick Saban and other coaches talk about the ability of their teams to “find a way to win,” meaning it doesn’t matter how the win is secured, as long […]

The Daily Beast is adding a new element to the media’s heated battle against billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s recent decision to call out reporters who he believes distort news events. Musk’s criticisms of journalists who he believes distort news events are riling up the Tesla CEO’s supposedly misogynistic Twitter followers, according to Daily Beast reporter […]

A coalition of pro-life leaders has reached out to Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson calling on him to stop donating to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, pointing out that it was founded by “an outspoken racist” and is responsible for “the slaughter of minority children” through abortion. A letter signed by Alveda King, the […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: FACEBOOK THE “NEW CHURCH”? TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, World Magazine ran an article recently on Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It says he believes his social platform will join one billion people in meaningful communities, according to an interview he gave with CNN Tech recently. In fact, he […]

When we got ready to buy a house a few years ago, the biggest thing that drew us to Crestwood was the incredible sense of community. Our neighbors are known to put together fun events like Easter egg hunts, water balloon fights, Mardi Gras parades, and alley parties. So when we bought our lovely little […]

Stories like Frank Ranelli’s – a Birmingham-area businessman whose more than 130 computers were seized by Homewood police in 2010 on suspicion that some were stolen – were what drove Alabama’s legislators and interest groups to attempt reform of the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws during this year’s legislative session. Significant reform gained early momentum […]

Purdue Pharma, the drug manufacturer accused of launching the opioid epidemic for the aggressive marketing of its painkiller OxyContin, knew the painkiller was prone to “significant” abuse, despite aggressively promoting the drug as a safer alternative to other painkillers. A confidential Justice Department report reveals that company officials had received reports within a year of OxyContin’s release […]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics this week released data on the average weekly wages in the 346 largest counties in the United States, indicating that 6 of the 10 counties with the highest average weekly wages in the fourth quarter of 2017 were in either the Silicon Valley-San Francisco area or the Washington, D.C. area. […]

Several recent polls, plus the popularity of Sen. Bernie Sanders, demonstrate that young people prefer socialism to free market capitalism. That, I believe, is a result of their ignorance and indoctrination during their school years, from kindergarten through college. For the most part, neither they nor many of their teachers and professors know what free […]

It’s been three short months since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, left 17 people dead , and America has suffered from yet another school shooting. This time in Santa Fe, Texas, where 10 people were gunned down on Friday. As we’ve come to expect, it’s trending on every social media platform and news […]

Make it four in a row. University of Alabama students who competed in a NASA robotics contest came away with the top prize again, making it four straight years for the team from UA to win. Alabama Astrobotics took the top prize at the NASA Robotic Mining Competition, besting student teams from more than 50 other institutions in the challenge […]

1. Lying about immigration is becoming a full-time beat for the media — There were a series of outrages over the weekend, none of which were true. — 1,500 kids are not missing, Trump isn’t caging children, and Trump doesn’t have a prison bus with baby seats in it. 2. Attack ads out in GOP […]

Border Patrol agents patrolling the area of San Luis, Arizona arrested a Mexican national with previous felony convictions of first-degree rape, second-degree kidnapping, and first-degree burglary early Thursday evening, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) announced Friday. Yuma Station agents arrested the male subject at approximately 4:34 p.m. on Thursday after he illegally entered the […]

Bee Campus USA recently announced Auburn University as the first university in Alabama to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strengths of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators. The university joins a group of 39 campuses nationwide aiming to raise awareness of pollinators, food production, native plant species […]

Twitter recently blocked a user who posted sharp criticism of Hamas, the militant and political Islamist organization regarded by much of the international community as a terrorist group. After The Daily Caller News Foundation contacted Twitter to ask why, a representative for the social media giant said there was an error, and that the account’s […]

An employee at a Little Caesars in Florida shot and killed an attacker wearing a clown mask who was armed with scissors Saturday night, according to police. The employee, Heriberto Feliciano, 28, was reportedly closing the Little Caesars when the attacker ran in and began hitting him with a wooden post in the face and […]

The following is adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on April 18, 2018, during a two-week teaching residency at Hillsdale as a Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Journalism. Our nation is about to be transformed, thanks to the #MeToo movement. I am not speaking about a cessation of sexual predation in the workplace. […]