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7 Things: Rep. Ed Henry arrested, Walt Maddox comes out swinging wildly, leaker arrested in D.C., and more
1. State Representative Ed Henry is arrested for Medicare fraud
--- Henry was indicted and charged with 6 14 counts including planning to defraud Medicare and...
Alabamian Alice Johnson, freed by President Trump: ‘Thank you for this mercy’
“Good luck to Alice Johnson. Have a wonderful life!” President Trump tweeted Thursday morning, one day after commuting the sentence of the woman who...
7 Things: McCabe may take the 5th, Social Security is broke, Alabama Democrats are delusional, and more
1. Disgraced former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe wants immunity or he won't talk
--- As members of Congress attempt to call the fired official...
Alabama Lt. Governor run-off will likely be close
After Tuesday night’s election, it is still unclear who will represent the Republican party for lieutenant governor in November’s general election. Candidates Twinkle Cavanaugh...
Alabama Attorney General runoff: A case of good polling, and what’s to come
The results are in.
Attorney General Steve Marshall and former Attorney General Troy King will face each other again next month in a Republican primary...
7 Things: Tough run-offs, Ivey-Maddox, Trump plays the NFL again, and more …
1. Two remaining statewide races, lieutenant governor and attorney general, got ugly at the end and will remain that way for the next 6 six weeks
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5 takeaways from the Alabama primary elections
After more than a year of continuous campaigning, TV ads and more signs than ALDOT has time to take down, Alabama finally let its...
Roby still strong in Alabama’s second congressional district despite Trump backlash
In past elections, Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) had made short work of winning the Republican Party’s nod, even when she faced opposition on her...
Roy Moore’s career may be over, but Mooreism is not
Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore’s career may have ended in December when he lost a special election for the Senate, but...
Alabama GOP primary: A last second look at the governor and attorney general races
The first half of election season nears its resolution today as voters choose their party's candidate for November.
Here's what the polls tell us may...
7 Things: Primary election day is here, Manafort may be in big trouble, don’t bake the cake, and more
1. Primary election day is here in Alabama; biggest races to watch are for Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General
--- Sample ballots can be found...
Justice Thomas about cake baker case: America now in conflict between religious liberty and court’s decree on gay marriage
In his dissenting opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Clarence Thomas predicted that the court’s declaration that same-sex marriage is a right would ultimately...
Weird reasons negative political ads work – even when the message is weak and the source isn’t credible
Why do negative political ads work, even though we can't stand them and we know they're paid for by people whose interests are not...
Alabama politics ‘for dummies’: A primer on the executive department
It's common for even the most educated of voters to know little about the candidates on their ballots.
It's perhaps even more common for voters...
Paige Patterson and #SBCToo — ‘Wrath of God’ has fallen on the Southern Baptist Convention
During her years at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, April C. Armstrong kept a journal of her experiences as one of the few women earning...
7 Things: The North Korean summit is back on, AEA hearts the ALGOP now, AG race is going to get way uglier, and more
1. Meeting with the North Koreans is back on after a visit from a North Korean envoy
--- A North Korean spy delivered a letter...
Explainer: Prison reform bill
What just happened?
The House recently passed a bipartisan prison reform bill authored by Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). The First Step Act...
Some shockers in an Alabama pollster’s rundown of what could happen on Tuesday
A lack of publicly available polling on Alabama's primary races is hindering the coverage of June 5th's primary races. But Alabama pollster Ray Evans...
7 Things: No one knows what Alabama’s Gov. Ivey proposed for school safety, tariffs for everyone, liberal hypocrisy, and more
1. No one in Alabama politics is actually paying attention to what Gov. Kay Ivey is doing on school safety, which is ... almost nothing
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7 Things: Trump pounds away on AG Sessions, “Media bias” is PART of the Roseanne story, Troy King’s abuse of power as AG, and...
1. President Donald Trump regrets hiring AG Jeff Sessions, reports say he will fire him after Mueller report
--- Even though Sessions was the first...
The future of jobs and how Billy Joel’s ‘Allentown’ was remarkably prescient
Over 35 years ago during the 1981-82 recession, Billy Joel released “Allentown” about the plight of this Pennsylvania town. The song resonated across the...
State and local elections suffer low voter turnout because they don’t inspire
State and local elections are like the Terms & Conditions of your new app: you know they’re extremely important, but you don’t really have...
President Donald Trump endorses Congressman Mo Brooks for re-election
If you followed Congressman Mo Brooks' campaign for U.S. Senate and his campaign for re-election to the U.S. House, there was one theme his...
7 Things: Trump campaigns, Roseanne fails big-time, Alabama’s Republican Party stares down a big problem, and more …
1. President Donald Trump is on the campaign trail again, as if he ever stopped
--- While Trump was campaigning for Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, she...