If someone asked you what a Congressman does on a daily basis, I can imagine what would come to your mind: voting on bills, attending committee hearings, holding meetings with others in Washington, and lots of time debating and arguing. Those are in fact major parts of the job, but there is so much more […]

    (Opinion) The Internet is an amazing place, you can see both the best and absolute worst of society. After the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, we see this on full display. The best is readily available, you can learn about the heroes of this tragedy, including a teacher who shielded his students with […]

(Opinion) Last night my wife and I sat in our living room with our children, cheering Lindsey Vonn as she skied down the mountain in what’s probably her last Olympic Games, capturing the Bronze. Talent. Tenacity. Dedication. Pride. It’s times like Vonn’s run that makes my family, and Americans everywhere, love the Olympics. But … […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TRANSGENDER SELF-IDENTIFICATION SURVEY RESULTS SKYROCKET — WHY? TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, World Magazine recently covered a report published in the Journal of Pediatrics. The report found that nearly 3 percent of Minnesota teens in 2016 said they were transgender, gender-queer, gender fluid […]

  The beloved American evangelist Billy Graham passed away at his home in North Carolina Wednesday at the age of 99, leaving a life-long legacy of preaching, teaching and evangelism that earned him the nickname “America’s Pastor.” In 1964, Graham offered to bring his team to Birmingham after the 1963 bombing at 16th Street Baptist […]

  SCOTTSBORO — Tuesday night, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) took on all comers at a town hall event in the northeastern corner of Alabama during a question-and-answer session. One question posed to Brooks from a woman at the Scottsboro City Hall event dealt with health care. She referenced a May 2017 interview Brooks had with CNN’s […]

  The gun control debate is complex. It pits rights against duties. It pits individualism against communitarianism. It pits gun owners against anti-gun activists, and law-abiding citizens against one another. Most of all, it pits “common sense” against evidence. The vast majority of gun control proponents keep talking about “common sense” gun control, as though […]

  The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. White House repeats that Trump thinks that Russia meddled, media declares that it isn’t enough — WH spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders acknowledges Russia meddled in the 2016 election, “it’s very clear that Russia meddled in the election” adding “what he’s saying is it didn’t […]

  For 110 years, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has been protecting the state’s natural resources. Tuesday, Gov. Kay Ivey and department officials celebrated that service and dedicated a memorial to 12 Conservation Enforcement Officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. “On behalf of our entire state, I thank […]

  State Rep. Will Ainsworth held a news conference Tuesday in Guntersville explaining key details of his proposal to allow specially trained teachers to carry guns in the classroom. Several educators, lawmakers, and at least one sheriff joined Ainsworth, a Republican, during the event, which can be viewed here: (Should teachers be allowed to carry […]

  After first passing tax cuts and pay raises, the Alabama Senate approved a $2 billion budget Tuesday to fund the state’s general operating, non-education expenses for the next fiscal year. Key funding increases: — $3.2 million increase to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to fund the hiring of 30 new troopers. — $8 million […]

  Alabama lawmakers awarded final approval Tuesday to a bill that will make it a crime to park in spaces reserved for veterans who received one of the military’s medals of valor, the Purple Heart, or who were prisoners of war. Those who illegally park in such spaces could be hit with a $25 fine […]

    (Sponsored) Wes Thompson made his Tuesday visit a memorable one to touch on what scares The Ford Faction the most: Artifcial Intelligence.  Wes touches on driverless cars, planes, and other hot takes on today’s “Tech Tuesday.”  http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/Wes_Thompson_Uses_Artificial_Intelligence_To_Terrify_The_Ford_Faction.mp3 Click here to listen in a new window. Subscribe to the Yellowhammer Radio Presents The Ford Faction […]

    The lack of honesty in our political discourse is becoming an epidemic. The NRA killed these kids in Florida? No. Republicans prefer to take blood money from gun lobbyists as opposed to making kids safer? No. Democrats want to take your guns away? Well, they do, but they know they can’t because the […]

    HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology’s Educational Outreach team is expanding its Genetic Technologies for All Classrooms (GTAC) training program to educators nationwide. The details: — GTAC has been training Alabama’s Life Science educators for eight years, equipping them with the latest research in genetics and biotechnology to take back to their classrooms. — “I […]

  Monday at the Xante Corporation in Mobile, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) made an appearance to help hand out $1,200 bonuses to company employees. Byrne credited the tax legislation signed into law by President Donald Trump late last year for making those bonuses possible. “It’s a way of saying, by working together we were able to give […]

When you move to same-sex marriage, you’re not only on a slippery slope, you’re putting the water on the slippery slope. Sure enough, what they said would never happen is now being promoted by legislative action, being contemplated -- legislative action that is also considering the fact of removing incest.

    A businessman in California recently published an op-ed in that state’s Orange County Register telling his fellow residents, “Why California should be more like Alabama — seriously.” Tom Manzo, president of Timely Industries in Pacoima, Calif., and founder of the California Business and Industrial Alliance, was inspired to write the piece after Toyota-Mazda […]

A recent article in The Guardian dons the foreboding title “Robots will destroy our jobs — and we’re not ready for it.” The article claims, “For every job created by robotic automation, several more will be eliminated entirely. … This disruption will have a devastating impact on our workforce.” According to an article in MIT […]

Manufacture Alabama, an association of companies representing manufacturing interests in the state, has endorsed Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh in her campaign for lieutenant governor of Alabama. “Throughout her tenure at the Public Service Commission, Twinkle has proven herself to be a champion for manufacturers and an advocate for all Alabamians,” said George Clark, president of Manufacture […]

The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. The NRA narrative is a lie, looking at Alabama’s Republican Senators and Representatives tells you a different story — On the high-end, Congressman Robert Aderholt received $43,749 lifetime contributions, which isn’t even close to the top tier donors in his campaign account. He raised over […]

  (Opinion) The world’s most deliberative body, as the U.S. Senate likes to call itself, held a weeklong debate on the contentious issue of immigration — and the public is no better informed for it. That’s because pro-amnesty senators routinely did the same thing that other supporters of mass immigration do — spout empty platitudes […]

In the world of “woke” Twitter, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana is a white supremacist, fundamentalist, homophobic, NRA lackey who has tested God’s patience by opposing gun control. Comedy writer Marcella Arguello was blunt, responding to breaking news when Scalise was seriously wounded in an attack on the GOP baseball team. She tweeted that […]

    Brittany Nicole Slater, 26, of Decatur, was arrested Friday by Decatur Police and charged with a felony robbery charge, fleeing and attempting to elude. Slater punched a Belk employee, the loss prevention worker, in the face in the store parking lot as she was trying to get away. Slater then left in a vehicle and […]