When a member of the Lee County Democrats reached out to her on New Year’s Day, Mallory Hagan thought it was the same old thing. “I genuinely thought that they were going to ask me to endorse a candidate because I’ve been asked to do that before,” Hagan, former Miss America, said in an interview […]

Possible record high temps are expected this week as high as 10-15 degrees above average. The National Weather Service (NWS) said many high temperature records may be in jeopardy for the next few days. The warm weather is already off to a hot start in Mobile, which hit 80 degrees on Sunday afternoon and tied its record high […]

Every time there is a mass shooting, and it is far too often, cable news outlets trot out advocates and victims to scream about how Republicans are beholden to the National Rifle Association. We are told that the politicians care more about all that NRA money and they don’t care about the kids who are […]

    There is a wave of student threats in wake of the Florida school shooting. Irondale Police confirmed Sunday a rumored threat of violence against Shades Valley High School. Bessemer Police say someone threatened to “shoot up” Bessemer City High School. A Springville High School student was arrested and charged with making a terrorist threat. A […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: THE MASS SHOOTING IN A FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, it’s with a great deal of sadness that we must go back to a story — seems like we’ve recounted this issue time and time again. Last Wednesday, an alleged […]

    This episode of Executive Lion’s Living Life On Purpose shows Matt Wilson and Andrew Wells talking with Todd Gerelds, author of the books “Woodlawn” and “Always Fall Forward”. Todd has not only been successful in his business career but he has also felt called to write two books that have great purpose and […]

Yellowhammer News Editor J. Pepper Bryars discussed guns and violence Monday morning on the Matt and Aunie Show on Birmingham’s Talk 99.5. Bryars and the hosts discussed the nation’s reaction to the school shooting in Florida, and how he believes the underlying cause of such violence isn’t access to firearms but a devaluing of life […]

“Enough is enough!” “This can’t go on!” “This has to stop!” These were among the comments that came through the blizzard of commentary after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County. We have heard these words before. Unfortunately, such atrocities are not going to stop. For the ingredients that produce such […]

  The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. Media is obsessing over Donald Trump’s response to the latest Mueller investigation news, not the news — President Trump acknowledged that Russians meddled in the election but the media wants him to admit that there still might be collusion. — The reality is that there has […]

  Conservatives in Alabama would do our movement a favor if during Black History Month they read the autobiography of Tuskegee University’s founder and one of the great conservative minds of the 19th century – Booker T. Washington. Washington’s landmark memoir “Up From Slavery” and his contribution to conservatism are enormously underappreciated in modern conservative circles, […]

  Attorney General Jeff Sessions propped up civil asset forfeiture last week, claiming the program is a “key tool” that allows law enforcement officers to effectively fight the drug war. “Civil asset forfeiture is a key tool that helps law enforcement defund organized crime, take back ill-gotten gains, and prevent new crimes from being committed. […]

  (Opinion) It was a difficult scene to watch. The mother of a student killed in Wednesday’s school shooting in Florida pleaded on television for the president to “please do something” about gun violence. Her anger, her grief, and her heart-felt pleas moved me to tears. Others felt the same, and the #DoSomething hashtag went viral on Twitter, echoing […]

  “TRAINED BY THE NRA.” That’s the bombastic and misleading headline running in The New York Daily News’ Saturday print edition about Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old man who confessed to murdering 17 high school students and faculty in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. The rampage, in which Cruz used an AR-15, sparked a typical debate […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories including: — Isn’t there a better response to another school shooting than demonizing the NRA? — Will Republicans plans to finally cut spending? — Will Alabama join other states in ending civil asset forfeiture? Jackson closes the […]

  The majority of Americans in 2017 did not identify themselves as Protestants, according to Gallup surveys conducted during the year, and the differing religious denominations tended to be concentrated in certain geographical areas.    “About half of Americans (48 percent) identify as Protestants or other Christians who are not Catholic or Mormon,” said Gallup […]

    I’ve repeatedly said that though President Trump gives his leftist enemies plenty of fodder in his tweets to attack him, they would malign any Republican president unless he totally capitulated to their demands — and switched parties. Indeed, they always have. The liberals say Trump is such an awful person, which apparently excuses […]

  Speaking to the Major County Sheriffs’ Association last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to study “the intersection” between mental health and criminality” in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. He noted that in the first quarter of the Trump administration after he was sworn in, there was a 23 percent increase […]

The left wants to talk about gun control in the wake of Nikolas Cruz’s mass murder of 17 students Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Fine. We need to talk. Something is definitely wrong with our society when this happens with such frequency and intensity. But the left seems intent to […]

Thank goodness it’s the weekend, am I right? Check out what happened in the state legislature and Taylor’s Top 5 for this week! 1. Folks, we are very close to statewide ride sharing! This week, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that sets up the framework for ride-sharing companies to operate across the state. Now that […]

    On The Ford Faction Amanda Head touches on a variety of things. First an Olympic update then a sound off on the Florida School Shooter. She covers his everything in the media now gets turned back to Russia and how we cannot focus on what the president is doing for trying to find […]

  Friday on ESPN’s “First Take,” former Auburn University basketball standout and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkey announced he would be launching a vocational school initiative to train black plumbers, electricians and car mechanics. Barkley, who also co-hosts TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” lamented that millennials tend to be opposed to occupations that involve manual […]

We have become, in the words of St. John Paul II himself, “masters of suspicion,” incapable of seeing how human interactions could ever rise above mere sexual gratification and appropriation.

  Candidate Donald Trump may have promised to extricate us from Middle East wars, once ISIS and al-Qaida were routed, yet events and people seem to be conspiring to keep us endlessly enmeshed. Friday night, a drone, apparently modeled on a U.S. drone that fell into Iran’s hands, intruded briefly into Israeli airspace over the Golan […]

If the plan works out, Alabama red snapper anglers will have access to the prized reef fish for more days than last year’s extended season. The plan entails exempted fishing permits (EFPs) that allow the five Gulf states to set seasons that will keep the snapper harvest within the overall quota for the recreational fishery […]