Did you know that ninety three percent of Alabama’s budget is earmarked? A recent report from the Alabama Policy Institute explores this little-known fact.

    There are talkers and doers, sowers of dissatisfaction seeds and agents of lasting change. Much of my column work over the year is dedicated to exposing the worst crapweasels in politics, pop culture, media and the policy arena. But to ring out 2017, I’m raising a toast to some of my favorite bulldogs […]

  Failed Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore may have solicited funds for a recount that never happened, but federal election law gives him wide latitude in deciding how to spend it. Paul S. Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at Common Cause, said Moore could refund that money to the people who gave it. […]

  In the latest edition of his weekly column featured on Yellowhammer News, George Mason University professor Walter E. Williams hammered the “low academic quality” of grade school teachers, primarily those that earned degrees from universities’ colleges of education, which he deemed the “slums” of those institutions. To make his point, Williams cited low standardized […]

    Americans are more likely to say that President Donald Trump is the man they admire most as opposed to Pope Francis or the Rev. Billy Graham, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. But former President Barack Obama beat all three. On the women’s side, Americans were most likely to name Hillary Clinton […]

    Birmingham’s DataPerk has acquired computer consulting business, IT Express, which allows the company to expand their services in the existing base in Birmingham and add Mobile offices in the acquisition. DataPerk reports now having more than 30 employees encompassing all locations and plans to hire about 12 more in 2018. DataPerk, founded in […]

    The little-known, yet wide-reaching super PAC that spent millions of dollars promoting Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama’s Senate race has been found to be funded heavily by the Democratic Senate Majority PAC. Highway 31, a group responsible for widespread campaign mailers, phone calls and advertisements for Jones, didn’t have to disclose donors during […]

    Activists are scoffing as EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s mission to completely redefine what it means to be a “true” environmentalist. Activist groups are not enthused with Pruitt’s plan to make environmentalism less interested in eventually destroying fossil fuels and more interested in environmental stewardship. “I’ve been asking the question lately, what is true environmentalism? […]

    A $1.5 million federal grant has been made available to the AL Department of Mental Health and will help make addiction-fighting medication an option to patients lacking insurance. The addiction-fighting medication, normally costing $200 to $300, will be closer to $5-10 for those who qualify. The grant is meant to keep addiction patients […]

You don't have to admire this president, or even like him, to acknowledge the obvious: that more than a few journalists won't rest until he's out of office.

    Despite multiple attempts from Republican Roy Moore’s campaign to offer objections to the December special election’s results, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and Secretary of State John Merrill have officially certified Democrat Doug Jones the winner. Late Wednesday night, Moore filed a lawsuit in an attempt to delay Alabama officials from declaring Jones’ victory, […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, John Stonestreet recently addressed the fact that America is shrinking. He said, “I don’t mean we’re getting shorter.” What he was referring to is the latest official estimates taken from two years of data that puts the U.S. […]

    We frequently wish for a happy and prosperous New Year. As an economist, I know more about prosperity than happiness. Because economic freedom is closely related to prosperity, 2017 closed with some good news for Alabama. The Economic Freedom of North America report, published by Canada’s Fraser Institute, measures the freedom of markets […]

  Defeated Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a complaint in Montgomery County Circuit Court last night seeking to block the formal certification of Democrat Doug Jones’ victory. Certification was scheduled to happen today. Here’s a copy of the full complaint: 2017 12 27 Complaint Moore v King by Yellowhammer News on Scribd   (Share […]

The United Nations is an outmoded organization that's outlived whatever small usefulness it once had. There's no reason for us to continue funding it.

While the left-wing media is hard at work attempting to convert millennials to the “dark side,” young conservatives are employing strategies to advance the agenda.

  According to a report from Bloomberg Technology’s Anders Melin and Alex Webb, Apple CEO Tim Cook, a graduate of Auburn University and Baldwin County’s Robertsdale High School, will have a total payout for the year “to about $102 million.” That total included a $9.33 million bonus, a 74 percent increase from the year before, in […]

    Defeated Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore late Wednesday filed a complaint seeking to block the formal certification of Democrat Doug Jones’ victory in this month’s special election. The state canvasing board is set to make that victory official today. But Moore filed a complaint in Montgomery County Circuit Court asking a judge to […]

  Late Wednesday evening, the U.S. Senate campaign for former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore announced it had filed a complaint on behalf of Moore calling on the certification of the December 12 special election to be delayed until a fraud investigation can take place. According to a press release, the complaint was […]

Reckon is just another lefty journalistic endeavor, but this one has the backing of three of Alabama’s major newspapers with combined centuries of serving as the state’s papers of record.

    In a Dec. 15 open letter entitled “Created Male and Female,” religious leaders of various denominations in the United States denounced “gender ideology” as a rejection of reason and science, which “harms individuals and societies,” especially children. It is a “false idea” that “a man can be or become a woman or vice versa,” […]

If you live in Alabama, chances are you are more sleep-deprived than people living in New Hampshire, D.C., California, Texas, and 37 other states, particularly if you live in the Birmingham-area and southwest parts of the state. Alabamians report getting “short sleep” in larger numbers than in many parts of the country, according to the […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, yesterday, we talked about the tax package that was passed by Congress. There was another news story that made headlines last week and that was Donald Trump’s national security strategy speech. To highlight the four pillars of that […]

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney describes his relationship with David Saville, 27, who is in his seventh season as a Clemson equipment manager and who has Down's syndrome.