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Cliff Sims -
Government surveillance garners all the headlines, but Americans are voluntarily turning over more personal information to tech companies than most government agencies could ever...

Alabama lottery will not be on November ballot after vote blocked in House

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Procedural wrangling in the Alabama House of Representatives will keep a statewide lottery constitutional amendment from appearing on the ballot in...

Two Alabama senators resigned from Republican caucus after lottery vote. Here’s why.

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Two senators have resigned from the Senate Republican Caucus in the wake of last week's vote to approve a statewide lottery,...

Sessions: Special prosecutor needed to investigate Clinton Foundation ‘extortion’ scheme

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(Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions interviewed on CNN, August 23, 2016) WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is calling for a special prosecutor to be...

Bentley sends Alabama National Guard choppers, pilots to help protect U.S. border

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MONTGOMERY (Governor’s Office) — Governor Robert Bentley has approved sending an additional Alabama National Guard UH-72 helicopter and pilot to Marana, Arizona to assist...

Black Alabamian’s pro-voter ID tweet goes viral: ‘It’s racist to assume we can’t get an ID’

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A black Alabamian is tired of Democratic politicians calling photo voter ID laws "racist," and has taken to Twitter to declare that "it is racist," however,"...

The lottery is a means to an end, and that end is a bigger Alabama government (opinion)

Katherine Robertson -
"The people want to vote!"--the most oft-repeated catchphrase of the lottery debate. Even politicians who declare themselves personally opposed to a state-run lottery try...

Sessions: US should admit immigrants who love America, not those who want a theocracy

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(Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions appears on CBS's "Face the Nation") WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) responded to criticism of Donald J. Trump's call...

This Alabamian owes the government a bunch of money because he won Gold in Rio

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Alabama native DeMarcus Cousins helped lead the USA Men's Basketball Team to Gold in Rio over the weekend, but as...

OBAMA BLOCKED: Court sides with Alabama on transgender school bathroom mandate

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FORT WORTH, Texas -- A federal judge has blocked the Obama administration's directive that public schools around the country must allow students to use...

Pro-lottery Alabama politicians are lying, contributing to the breakdown of the family (Video)

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(Video above: Terrell Kennedy discusses the prospect of an Alabama lottery.) Terrell Kennedy is the founder of Fit for Life, an after-school tutoring program for...

Palmer: We’ve gone from not negotiating with terrorists to making cash payments to Iran

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WASHINGTON -- Alabama congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL6) is accusing President Barack Obama of "paying a ransom to the leading state sponsor of terrorism" in...

Here’s how each Alabama Senator voted on the lottery

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Senate on Friday evening approved a lottery bill after spending most of the week debating and rejecting previous lottery...

Alabama Senate approves lottery bill, action moves to the House next week

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Senate on Friday evening approved a lottery bill after spending most of the week debating and rejecting previous lottery...

Byrne: While Louisiana suffers, Obama’s golfing with his buddies and the media’s silent

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BATON ROUGLE, La. -- In what the Red Cross has called "the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Superstorm Sandy," Louisiana...

Alabama congressman tapped to advise Trump on ag issues: ‘I want to help any way I can’

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NEW YORK -- Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has tapped Alabama congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL4) to advise him on issues important to farmers...

Lottery ‘on life support’ in Alabama legislature, budget fix still up in the air

Cliff Sims -
RELATED: Bentley’s lottery panic is a sham. Here’s how Alabama can pay its bills without it. MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Lottery proposals in the Alabama legislature...

Sessions: Terrorists are getting into the United States posing as refugees

Sen. Jeff Sessions -
Hillary Clinton’s plan to admit 65,000 refugees from Syria next year is radical and places America at great risk. Her goal is disconnected from...

McCutcheon’s first words as Alabama House Speaker: The ‘imperial speakership’ is over

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- In his first words as Alabama Speaker of the House, State Rep. Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) declared "the days of the imperial...

Liberal playbook: Bentley claims his opponents want to kill children (opinion)

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(Video above: "Paul Ryan" pushes Granny over a cliff) During the 2012 presidential election, a liberal group called "The Agenda Project" released an ad with...

Bentley seeking lottery money to increase spending on Medicaid, infrastructure

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Gov. Robert Bentley on Monday announced details of what he is wanting the Alabama legislature to accomplish in its upcoming Special...

Sessions suggests FBI investigating ‘dangerous’ Clinton Foundation ‘pay-to-play’ scheme

Cliff Sims -
(Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions discusses the latest batch of Clinton emails on Fox News) WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) says the latest emails...

Alabama gets hearing in continued battle against Obama’s transgender bathroom rule

Jordan LaPorta -
AUSTIN, Texas -- In Federal Court on Friday, Alabama and eleven other states asked a judge to stop an order from the Obama Administration...

Bentley lays out Medicaid funding options: Create a lottery or let sick children die

Jordan LaPorta -
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- At Children's Hospital on Wednesday, Governor Robert Bentley (R-Ala.) put forth a bleak choice for Alabamians on how they can deal...
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