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Alabama lawmaker demands Confederate flag be removed from state trooper uniforms

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Longtime State Representative Alvin Holmes (D-Montgomery) is joining the NAACP in demanding the Confederate flag be removed from the uniforms of...

Brooks: GOP’s ‘debt-ridden’ $1.1 trillion spending bill ‘betrays America’s future’

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WASHIHNGTON -- Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL5) on Thursday said he will join Alabama Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions in opposing that massive spending...

Sessions: GOP-led Congress is betraying voters, funding Obama’s entire immigration agenda

Sen. Jeff Sessions -
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, issued the following statement warning that the omnibus...

A study says this is Alabama’s most conservative town (find out where your hometown ranks)

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Sumiton is Alabama's most conservative city, and one of the most conservative cities in the entire United States, according to a new analysis by...

United Nations goes on anti-Alabama tirade partially funded by American taxpayers

Cliff Sims -
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a statement Friday blasting the State of Alabama -- and the United...

Alabama among the most heavily-armed states; research says that makes us safer

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Alabama is among the most heavily-armed states in America, according to a CBS News analysis of ATF gun registrations in accordance with the National...

Shocking ‘torture’ of Alabama child inspires crusade to make sure child abusers get life in prison

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Scott Hicks of Wetumpka, Alabama, traveled down to Bay County, Florida, in September after two failure-to-appear arrest warrants were issued against him on battery...

Sessions, Cruz push ‘American Jobs First Act,’ seek to stop influx of foreign workers

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) on Friday introduced the American Jobs First Act, which they believe would ease...

Shelby has quietly become the single biggest thorn in Obama’s side; here’s how

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The end of the year is typically a time when people put aside their differences and come together to celebrate the holidays. The same...

Palmer: EPA was never intended to have this much power; they must be stopped

Gary Palmer -
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is one of the most powerful and most feared regulatory agencies in the country. What was originally intended to...

Shelby, Cruz team up on bill to allow Alabama, other states to refuse Syrian refugees

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- Alabama Senator Richard Shelby has signed on to co-sponsor a bill that would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit governors...

Obama administration comes after Alabama with civil rights investigation

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday announced it is launching an investigation into whether civil rights violations occurred when...

Alabamians concerned as Afghan pilots go missing from nearby training base

Cliff Sims -
Alabamians expressed concerns Tuesday evening as news broke that two members of the Afghan Air Force have disappeared from a military base located roughly...

Shelby, Sessions push to pause immigration from ‘high risk’ countries

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- Alabama Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions were two of only 10 Republicans to vote in favor of pausing the issuance of...

Former NRA president goes off on gun-grabbing AL.com blogger

Editor -
By: Jim Porter What AL.com writer John Archibald is really saying in his December 4 column, "To hell with the NRA; this country has to...

Alabama lawmaker pushes Convention of States to pass balanced budget amendment

Cliff Sims -
A state senator is pushing to renew Alabama's call for a Convention of States to amend the U.S. Constitution. Sen. Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa) has pre-filed...

Alabama congressmen: Obama has a gun control plan, but no strategy to defeat ISIS

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- Several Republican members of Alabama's congressional delegation released statements on Monday criticizing President Barack Obama for his latest Oval Office address, which...

Launch of new education group could signal seismic shift in Alabama politics’ power structure

Cliff Sims -
A coalition of education leaders on Friday announced the formation of Alabama Unites for Education (AUE), an advocacy group that appears poised to fill...

Bentley: Obama using gun control push to distract from national security failures

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Governor Robert Bentley slammed President Barack Obama for his Sunday evening Oval Office address to the nation, which Bentley said...

Rick & Bubba come unglued after Obama ‘lies’ about ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ (Video)

Cliff Sims -
https://youtu.be/bRIODVheCM4 (Video above: Rick & Bubba discuss Obama's explanation of what "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is about) Alabama-based, nationally-syndicated talk radio hosts Rick Burgess and Bill...

Shelby: Obama is trying to exploit terrorist attacks to take away Second Amendment rights

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt4I1Iszr7Y (Video above: Sen. Richard Shelby criticizes President Obama's gun control efforts in a speech on the Senate Floor) WASHINGTON -- Alabama Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)...

Sessions, Cruz demand Obama release immigration history of San Bernardino terrorists

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) on Thursday sent a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of...

Liberals don’t think minority voters in Alabama have the capacity to get a free ID (opinion)

Cliff Sims -
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Federal court challenging Alabama’s photo voter I.D. law. The suit, which...

NAACP sues Alabama claiming the state’s photo voter I.D. law is ‘discriminatory’

Cliff Sims -
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Federal court challenging Alabama's photo voter I.D. law. The suit, which...
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