There’s been men like Will… that’ve said, “you know what, we can all sit around and complain about it, or we can actually get up and do something.” This is a man who knows about business, knows about the free market and has been successful in it. I see his passion for discipling people and […]

Before President Trump trashes the Iran nuclear deal, he might consider: If he could negotiate an identical deal with Kim Jong Un, it would astonish the world and win him the Nobel Peace Prize. For Iran has no nuclear bomb or ICBM and has never tested either. It has never enriched uranium to bomb grade. […]

http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/4_27_18_THWC.mp3 Amanda Head joined The Ford Faction to talk about the criticism she came under after her ad for the support of Donald Trump ran during The Stanley Cup Playoffs.  She went into detail about how she reacted to some of the rude comments made about her.  Amanda asks about the guys take on the NFL draft […]

Second-year Colts general manager Chris Ballard has used five NFL draft picks in two days on prospects he is hoping will toughen up his rebuilding team in the trenches. Granted, the needs are numerous for a franchise that finished 4-12 last year and has missed the playoffs for three consecutive years, but Ballard bypassed skill-position […]

Understanding the facts Less than a year after the Charlie Gard case, another terminally ill British infant is gaining international attention and raising concerns about the rights of parents in Britain. A few months after he was born in May 2016, Alfie Evans began to show signs of having a developmental disorder. Then, on December […]

Yellowhammer News editor J. Pepper Bryars recently appeared on The Ford Faction radio program, heard from noon-3 p.m. weekdays on WYDE 101.1 FM in Birmingham and Huntsville. Topics discussed included:

American icons Bill Cosby and Tom Brokaw are in the headlines today, but one deserves to be there and the other probably does not. Cosby was convicted Thursday of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 14 years ago. Dozens of other women have made similar claims about the actor known as “America’s Dad.” Cosby, who once […]

In his essay “The Prevention of Literature,” George Orwell discusses the various inhibitions that political discourse and general literacy were facing in 1946. Orwell goes after his usual suspects for censuring texts: Soviet Russia, fascists, the Catholic Church. But he discusses a more latent and unsuspecting cause of censorship, namely the dispositions of the people. […]

Foreign control of American farmland doubled to 27.3 million acres between 2004 and 2014, the latest decade covered by United States Department of Agriculture data. This amounts to about 2 percent of American farmland overall, the value of which soared from $17.4 billion to $42.7 billion during that same period. And that’s the land we know about. The […]

Alabama voters will face the choices of whether to declare the state pro-life and allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed on state property under ballot proposals for the November election. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill threw his support behind both proposed constitutional amendments passed this year at a bill signing at the Alabama […]

When then-candidate Donald Trump was raising questions about Hillary Clinton’s health, he had the guts to make those allegations himself. One of our gubernatorial candidates is 73-years-old. She also has what most people believe is an insurmountable lead, low-unemployment numbers, and an overall good reputation after taking over for a lecherous old fool. Because there are […]

As embattled Business Council of Alabama CEO Bill Canary’s time as head of the organization is debated among insiders, some of the state’s heavy-hitters are expressing dissatisfaction with the leadership of the group. State Sen. Slade Blackwell (R-Mountain Brook) told Yellowhammer News the BCA “is fantastic,” but its representation in Montgomery is not. “The current […]

NASCAR has acquired the ARCA series, a launching pad for drivers looking to reach stock car racing’s top level. NASCAR vice chairman and executive vice president Jim France called the announcement Friday “a big moment for stock car racing in America.” Twelve of the 16 drivers in the Cup Series playoffs last year have logged […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON  POMPEO TURNS SOUR AND PERSONAL TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you to an article that a number of media outlets covered. This particular article is out of The Washington Examiner, going back and taking a look at Mike Pompeo’s nomination to […]

The least likely Republican to support Democrat-backed bills in Congress is U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville), according to rankings released Tuesday by a think tank in the nation’s capital. The Bipartisan Index, an annual scorecard produced by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, is based on data from 2017. It […]

Candidates for public office, once elected, bring their underlying principles and perspectives on policy issues into office with them, thus defining how they govern. It is important for citizens to know and understand the candidates for which they are voting, and Yellowhammer News and the Alabama Policy Institute (API) are partnering to bring that information […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning and business as usual on Capitol Hill. A line extends out the door of the Rayburn House Office Building with a mix of tourists, convention attendees, lobbyist and congressional staffers waiting to clear security. They’re here for any number of reasons — a White House or U.S. […]

A wreck on a rural road in northwestern Alabama has left three teenagers dead and two others injured. Area media report that five people were in a vehicle that crashed Thursday night in Lauderdale County near St. Florian.

When British hospital officials tried to pull the plug on 23-month-old toddler Alfie Evans on Monday night in arrogant defiance of his parents’ wishes, many Americans took to Twitter to count their blessings that they live in a country that would not allow such tyranny. “Stories like Alfie Evans make me realize how grateful I […]

Governor Kay Ivey said that meetings with high-level executives from Mazda, Toyota and Honda in Japan helped to fortify the state’s relationships with the global automakers and will facilitate their growth plans in Alabama. Governor Ivey, Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield and a team of Alabama economic development specialists returned home Thursday after talks with the […]

1. President Donald Trump admits to hiring Michael Cohen to deal with Stormy Daniels, Cohen pleads “the fifth“ — After months of denying, official denials, and obvious hedging Trump finally admits he hired Cohen to deal with the payout details to silence pornstar Stormy Daniels on “Fox & Friends”. — Michael Cohen, who everyone is telling […]

Taking a defensive lineman from Alabama in the first round for the second consecutive year, the Washington Redskins chose tackle Da’Ron Payne with the 13th overall pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night. The 6-foot-2, 311-pound Payne is considered a top-notch run-stopper, and he’ll line up next to former college teammate Jonathan Allen, Washington’s […]

In the days that followed a shooting incident at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tenn. – where a 29-year-old Illinois man is alleged to have killed four individuals and wounded several others – a familiar script played out, with the usual calls for stricter gun control laws shouted as strongly as ever. Just as familiar is […]

Linebacker Rashaan Evans couldn’t be happier after the Tennessee Titans drafted him with the No. 22 pick, a selection predicted by his friend Derrick Henry. The former Alabama teammates had discussed how much they wanted to play together in the NFL. Henry, a Heisman Trophy winner at Alabama in 2015, called Evans once the pick […]