Orange Beach and Gulf Shores officials kept the purple flags flying today as more dangerous Portuguese Man o’ Wars were seen floating off coastal Alabama. Purple flags at the beach mean dangerous marine life. Purple flags are flying due to the presence of Portuguese man o’ war. pic.twitter.com/yceM2nxZyp — City of Orange Beach (@cityorangebeach) […]

    Sunday, Hollywood sycophants give out Oscars. But they will miss some of the better performances of the year because Academy Awards just go to movie actors. They leave out political actors. That’s not right. Politicians deceive and manipulate people just as much as actors do. Some of their performances deserve recognition. So, I […]

The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. Not a great day for the White House, as Chief of Staff John Kelly grounds Jared Kushner — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law lost his security clearance, limiting his ability to see classified information and severely limiting his ability to advise the president on sensitive matters. […]

  Human trafficking survivor Lynne Caffery said she was “sold and given and resold and given to males and females for merchandise and guns and drugs and raped repeatedly” as a trafficked victim of a biker group and the Mexican cartel before landing in prison and, eventually, finding hope, education and a new life. Caffery […]

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    U.S. News & World Report crunched the numbers — more than 75 different data sets — and ranked Alabama as one of the worst places to live in America. Technically, it is the 46th best place to live on the magazine’s 2018 “Best States” rankings. Alabama beat out West Virginia, New Mexico, Mississippi […]

During a tele-town hall held Monday night, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) said the possibility of balancing the federal budget is up to American voters.  “Yeah, it’s possible,” Brooks said, “if the American people do a much better job than they have been doing of electing congressmen and senators who will vote for a balanced budget […]

  Professors at the University of North Carolina are threatening to destroy a Confederate monument if it is not taken down before Thursday, according to a Sunday report. Seventeen senior UNC Chapel Hill faculty members demand the university take down a “Silent Sam” statue before Thursday, or else they will tear it down themselves, reported The […]

  I abhor boycotts, not because they don’t work, but because they do. E-mail and social media have made the threat of boycotts surprisingly effective. Not only have Democrats completely dominated the boycott game, they have also weaponized government as a tool in this battle as well.  Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor is attempting to strike a […]

    Responding to a question about gun rights in a tele-town hall on Monday night, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) expressed that his primary concern about the Second Amendment is a lack of understanding about its meaning. “The most important thing is to help the general public understand the purpose of the Second Amendment,” Brooks […]

    Forget red states vs. blue states. The real battle is between sin states vs. saint states. And Alabama’s halo is looking a bit tarnished, at least according to a compilation by the website WalletHub of the most sinful states in the union. Alabama is … No. 11. WalletHub compiled its list by collecting […]

Just in December, five of these so-called “celebrated” pornographic stars, young women, all committed suicide. That’s an untold amount of despair, discouragement, suicide, drug addictions that come with the pornography industry and physiological, emotional, social, and even physiological destruction for viewers.

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  Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was among several candidates who recently received the endorsement of the Alabama Civil Justice Reform Committee, a coalition that advocates for pro-business judicial policies in the state. “The people of Alabama are indeed fortunate to have such an outstanding group of experienced leaders who share conservative values, a conviction […]

Kirk Wickizer of Huntsville, Ala., is the winner of this year’s Alabama Waterfowl Stamp Art Contest with his painting of a male Red-breasted Merganser. The winning artwork will be used as the design of the 2019-20 Alabama Waterfowl Stamp, which is required for licensed hunters when pursuing waterfowl in Alabama. This was Wickizer’s first time […]

  A liberal-created failure that goes entirely ignored is the left’s harmful agenda for society’s most vulnerable people — the mentally ill. Eastern State Hospital, built in 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first public hospital in America for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Many more followed. Much of the motivation to […]

The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. The Supreme Court has decided not to hear President Trump’s decision to end DACA — This is not as big of a blow as the media is making it out to be, the higher court decided not to jump the line and then it will […]

  Yellowhammer News recently sat down with Alabama School Board member and State Senate candidate Mary Scott Hunter to talk about hot-button topics like school shootings, the #MeToo movement, what she thinks of the Alabama Education Association (AEA), and why she prefers to be thought of as a “candidate”, not a “female candidate”. Hunter is […]

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  Yellowhammer News just heard in the hallway that as Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and a group of colleagues were walking back from the Alabama Republican Party’s dinner last Friday night in Montgomery, an apparently homeless woman asked the group for money. Instead of dismissing her, Marshall spoke with the woman and then walked […]

  During his four seasons at Auburn University in the 1980s, former college and professional basketball standout Chuck Person led the Tigers to three NCAA tournament appearances and remains the all-time scoring leader in the school’s history with 2,311 points. More recently, for three seasons he was an assistant coach at Auburn under current head […]

(Opinion) Republicans, the National Rifle Association, and gun advocates have come under attack after the latest school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Many of those blaming these groups are telling anyone who will listen that they are not coming after legal and safe gun owners. The rhetoric sounds a bit different this time with AL.com publishing […]

At his town hall meeting in Chickasaw last week, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) met with a room full of constituents who wanted to know why Nicholas Cruz was able to massacre 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and what could be done to prevent future mass shootings. Byrne discussed the […]

You’re hearing a lot of virulent tweets against Billy. I can tell you what Billy would do -- He would put his arm around them to tell them about the love of God in Christ for them and the more virulent they would become, the more gracious and sweet would he become in his Gospel communication.