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Sessions, leader of the GOP’s populist uprising, wants candidates to answer these 5 questions

WASHINGTON -- Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions is not on the ballot in 2016, but his ideas on trade and immigration have dominated the Republican...

Sessions: Obama’s massive trade deal just signed away an estimated 450k American jobs

7,000 miles away, the President’s trade representative just quietly signed a massive, 5,544 page trade deal, with little fanfare from its supporters. Only...

AL Dept. of Education lobbyist ridicules conservatives for effort to repeal Common Core

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A lobbyist for the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) took to Facebook this week to ridicule a Republican senator's bill...

Alabama scientist proves to Congress global warming projections ‘don’t match facts’

https://youtu.be/ZWD22OtAMHg?t=31m16s (Video above: Dr. John Christy testifies before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology) WASHINGTON -- Alabama's state climatologist during Congressional testimony on Wednesday...

Brooks on whether he’ll vote for deficit-growing budget: ‘Not a snowball’s chance in…’

WASHINGTON -- Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL5) on Tuesday night had a simple response when asked whether he will vote for GOP Leadership's...

Welcome to Alabama: Where alleged criminals are prosecuted by alleged criminals (opinion)

For over fourteen months now, the state government of Alabama has been under a dark cloud of suspicion and accusations stemming from the indictment...

Every Alabama lawmaker ranked from most conservative to most liberal

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The American Conservative Union (ACU) on Tuesday announced its annual list of Alabama’s most conservative and liberal lawmakers, and the organization’s...

Meet Alabama’s most liberal lawmakers, including one Republican

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The American Conservative Union (ACU) this week is rolling out its annual list of Alabama’s most conservative and liberal lawmakers, and...

Meet Alabama’s four most conservative lawmakers

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The American Conservative Union (ACU) this week is rolling out its annual list of Alabama's most conservative and liberal lawmakers, and...

Heisman winner Derrick Henry to deliver closing prayer at National Prayer Breakfast

WASHINGTON -- Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL4) on Monday announced Heisman-winning University of Alabama running back Derrick Henry will deliver the closing prayer at...

Gambling, ‘equal pay,’ minimum wage hike top Alabama Democrats’ legislative agenda

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama House Democrats on Monday released their 2016 legislative agenda, and it echoes many of the priorities of the national Democratic...

Alabama Speaker strips rival of committee chairmanship in move that could hurt North Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- When Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) last week announced committee assignments for the upcoming legislative session, one lawmaker's name was...

Sessions was right: Thousands of Americans laid off after training their foreign replacement

WASHINGTON -- In early 2015, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) warned that an increasing number of American workers were being laid off after being compelled...

Russian Rocket Roulette: How crony capitalists are threatening Alabama jobs & national security

National security and potentially thousands of Alabama jobs have found themselves entangled in a web of crony capitalism surrounding the debate over the United...

Trump’s Alabama chairman: I want a President like John Wayne, not Justin Bieber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lV_VOGHmYI&feature=youtu.be (Video above: State Rep. Ed Henry (R-Hartselle), Alabama co-chair of the Trump campaign, speaks at a campaign event) FLORENCE, Ala. -- State Representative Ed Henry...

Teacher pay raise, right-to-work, anti-Syrian refugee bills top Alabama House GOP agenda

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama House Republicans on Thursday rolled out their list of 2016 legislative priorities, which they have titled the “Right for Alabama”...

Sessions: America’s open borders are fueling an exploding heroin epidemic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMnzzhopBY&feature=youtu.be (Video above: Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) hears testimony in a U.S. Senate Committee hearing titled "Attacking America's Epidemic of Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse") WASHINGTON...

ALGOP trolls Al Gore, who predicted 10 year ago today would be a ‘planetary emergency’

Former Vice President-turned climate change entrepreneur Al Gore predicted ten years ago today that at this moment the globe would be embroiled in a...

Michelle Obama’s disgusting, expensive lunches may soon be out of Alabama schools

WASHINGTON -- The US Senate Agriculture Committee this week rolled out legislation to dramatically scale back Michelle Obama's controversial school lunch program, which has...

Alabama takes fight against Obama’s ‘War on Coal’ all the way to US Supreme Court

WASHINGTON -- Roughly half the states in the country, including Alabama, are urging the United States Supreme Court to block the Obama administration's so...

Alabama-built warship subject of ‘open war’ breaking out inside the Pentagon

WASHINGTON -- A brawl has broken out inside the Pentagon between Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and the heads of the Army and Navy...

Alabama Legislature to State Agencies: Start at zero and prove you need all of this money

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Senator Larry Stutts (R-Sheffield) says Alabama's new "zero-based budgeting" method is forcing state agencies to "provide proof, line-by-line, supporting their...

Alabama’s State Climatologist debunks claims that 2015 was the ‘hottest year on record’

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Alabama’s State Climatologist finds himself in a familiar position this week: at odds with global warming alarmists, many of whom are...

Top Sessions immigration & communications guru joins Trump campaign

WASHINGTON -- The Donald J. Trump presidential campaign got a behind-the-scenes boost on Monday when one of Senator Jeff Sessions' (R-Ala.) top staffers agreed...