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Bentley: Obama is keeping states in the dark on Syrian refugee program, security concerns

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Governor Robert Bentley on Wednesday expressed his frustrations with the Syrian refugee vetting process and blasted the Obama Administration for...

Sessions backs Shelby re-election: ‘He has been a rock-solid partner on immigration & other battles’

Cliff Sims -
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- During an interview on Yellowhammer Radio Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) endorsed his Senate colleague Richard Shelby, who is facing...

Alabama Republicans block EPA regs as Obama returns from climate summit in Paris

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- The same day President Barack Obama returned to the United States from a climate change conference in Paris, Republican members of Alabama's...

Sessions warns Congress is preparing to fund ‘Obama’s entire immigration agenda,’ including Syrian refugees

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Tuesday warned that Congress is preparing to fund "(President) Obama's entire immigration agenda" in its yearly...

Alabama congressman’s bill cracks down on rampant fraud in taxpayer-funded housing system

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- A stunning report by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Inspector General revealed last month that over 800 Alabama families living...

Cavanaugh: Alabamians just had their power bills lowered, in spite of ‘job killing EPA’

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Public Service Commission on Tuesday secured a rate reduction for Alabama Power and Alagasco customers, in spite of increasing...

Cruz’s ‘master plan’ includes a push to win in Alabama and all across the South

Cliff Sims -
"Ted Cruz has always had a master plan. Now it could win him the White House." In an analysis of Cruz's campaign strategy, Yahoo! Politics...

Lawmaker warns Alabamians to avoid foreign-owned shops, suggests they may fund terror

Cliff Sims -
ALICEVILLE, Ala. -- State Representative Alan Harper (R-Aliceville) took to Facebook on Monday to warn Alabamians against shopping at stores and shops whose owners...

Alabama taxpayers must send an addition $51k to Planned Parenthood after court settlement

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- In the wake of revelations that Planned Parenthood facilities around the country were harvesting and selling aborted baby organs and body...

EPA regulations threaten Alabamians’ jobs, quality of life and liberty (Opinion)

Twinkle Cavanaugh -
In 2008, Barack Obama stated that under his plan, "electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket." Unless something is done about the plethora of mandates being...

Sessions: All of these refugee jihadis were implicated in terrorism in 2015

Sen. Jeff Sessions -
1. Liban Haji Mohamed On January 29, 2015, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a federal warrant was unsealed...

This explains why activists demand anti-First Amendment ‘safe zones’ at UA and beyond

Cliff Sims -
As college protests swept the nation in recent weeks, an unexpected trend emerged in which activists began demanding the creation of so called "safe...

Obama seizes ‘militaristic looking’ equipment from Alabama law enforcement, prompting backlash

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- In a letter to President Barack Obama Tuesday, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) blasted the president for being anti-police and urged him...

The time an Alabama senator mistook his wife’s panties for a handkerchief, in public

Cliff Sims -
Washington Post national political correspondent Karen Tumulty was packing up some of her things to move to a new office when she unearthed some...

Alabama moving toward zero-based budgeting, requiring agencies to justify spending

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama House and Senate budget chairmen signaled Monday they are preparing to move the state toward zero-based budgeting, which would ratchet...

Obama Admin. shoots back at Bentley, says Syrian refugee vetting is ‘extraordinarily thorough’

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- Two top Obama administration officials sent a letter to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley on Friday insisting the federal government's system for vetting...

Byrne: We’re at war with radical Islam, whether Obama wants to acknowledge it or not

U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne -
On November 13, humanity paused as we learned of a string of terror attacks in Paris, France. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the...

Thoughts from a UA student: There are no ‘safe zones’ in real life

Jordan LaPorta -
College is a time of great growth; at least it is supposed to be. It's an environment where people from all across the globe...

Sessions: Obama is hiding the immigration history of 72 terrorists

Cliff Sims -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuKefLibk-w&feature=youtu.be (Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions speaks on the Senate floor regarding the Obama administration's Syrian refugee policy. The full speech can be viewed here.) During...

Shelby rips Obama over Syrian refugees: ‘We don’t need those people in this country’

Cliff Sims -
During an interview on with conservative talk radio host Matt Murphy on Thursday, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) pointed to the crisis in Syria as...

Alabama’s lone Democrat joins Republicans, bucks Obama on Syrian refugee program

Cliff Sims -
Defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, Alabama's congressional delegation unanimously backed legislation to halt the influx of Syrian refugees and intensify the...

Task force signals Bentley moving toward major expansion of govt. healthcare in Alabama

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Governor Robert Bentley's Alabama Health Care Improvement Task Force on Wednesday recommended expanding Medicaid, the government healthcare program designed to provide...

In spite of misinformation campaign, AL lawmakers are trying to save state employees’ retirement

Katherine Robertson -
By: Katherine Green Robertson, Dr. John S. Jahera, and Dr. James R. Barth On November 9, a newspaper in North Alabama published an editorial suggesting...

White House refuses Bentley’s request for classified info on Syrian refugees coming to Alabama

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Top White House officials refused requests from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to be granted access to classified information about Syrian refugees...
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