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Attention, Alabama: ‘Something’ is Going on Here
One of my favorite recurring sketches on David Letterman's Late Show on CBS is called "Is This Anything?" The stage curtain comes up and...
OUCH: Central Alabama VA called out in study of most outlandish government spending — twice!
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is retiring this year, and that's a shame for plenty of reasons, not the least of which is that his...
AG Strange responds to Hubbard camp’s ‘political witch hunt’ allegations
During a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) and Mark White, an attorney for House Speaker Mike Hubbard, both accused Attorney...
Explosive Mike Hubbard press conference as told through Twitter
Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard held a press conference Tuesday afternoon flanked by dozens of state and local leaders, including legislators, businessmen and local...
Alabama National Guard called up for Ebola response? Possible, but not likely
President Obama recently authorized the Pentagon to call up the National Guard if they are needed as part of the U.S. government's response to...
Knives come out: Birmingham Rep. Jim Carns already angling for Speakership
As news broke on Monday afternoon that Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard had been indicted on 23 felony public corruption charges, one of his...
Alabama House Speaker indicted on corruption charges
AUBURN, Ala. -- Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard has been indicted on corruption charges stemming from a Lee County Grand Jury investigation that has...
Roby: Liberals’ ‘insulting, offensive’ political attacks distract from the real ‘War on Women’
For about four years now, the Professional Left in Washington has been engaged in a desperate campaign to convince the American people that...
Meet the viral video star behind some of Alabama’s most effective political ads
In April of 2012, Free Market America, a conservative advocacy organization that promotes free market principles, posted a four-minute, thirty-eight second video on YouTube...
Sessions: American public should have ‘Zero Confidence’ in Obama’s Ebola Czar
Ebola is a health crisis. Yet the President has appointed as his new Ebola ‘czar’ a partisan loyalist whose expertise is politics—not health. One...
Patient with ‘slim chance’ of Ebola in Montgomery, could take two days to confirm
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange announced in a press conference today that emergency personal responded to a possible Ebola victim from Nigeria...
Byrne calls for west Africa travel ban, condemns use of military to control Ebola outbreak
WASHINGTON – Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-1) today made clear his support for a temporary ban on travel to the United States from west Africa...
What George Wallace can teach us about Republicans’ chances to retake the US Senate
George Wallace was governor of Alabama for over 16 years -- 5,848 days, to be exact. He won the office four times, serving two...
The inspirational, unconventional Ala. House campaign that’s crazy enough it might actually work
"Lil Wayne + Ecclesiastes + Frank Sinatra = one of the best Alabama campaign ads of the year"
That Yellowhammer headline from June of this...
(Video) Bentley slams Griffith for being an untrustworthy party-switcher
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, who has withstood a barrage of negative ads from his Democratic opponent Parker Griffith, has decided to go on the...
How Alabama’s 66k military personnel may end up fighting Obama’s climate change war
According to the American Forces News Service, Alabama has over 66,000 military personnel based in the state at installations like Fort McClellan, Anniston Army...
Warning: They act one way in the District, another way in Montgomery, and they’re back (Opinion)
Alabama has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, but it took another 30 years for the GOP to finally gain control of...
A quick inside look at Shelby’s relentless push for Republicans to retake the senate
In a tiny private dining room of a popular Capitol Hill restaurant in late September, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) sat at the center of...
A defiant Sessions declares Americans ‘will not tolerate’ Obama’s amnesty plan
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Thursday expressed outrage that a White House spokesman openly admitted that the Obama Administration postponed taking executive...
Alabama Ebola scare ends up being false alarm after patient quarantined
An individual who recently traveled to Africa was quarantined at St. Vincent's St. Clair Hospital in Pell City, Ala., with symptoms of Ebola, but...
Alabama speech reveals what a Jeb Bush presidential candidacy would sound like
A who's who of Alabama business and political power players converged at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Birmingham Tuesday night for the annual Business...
ALGOP Chairman: Griffith a ‘one trick pony’ beholden to ‘AEA union bosses’
Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead slammed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Parker Griffith on Wednesday for being "a one trick pony" who would "would only...
Everything you need to know about Alabama’s Ebola response preparedness
There are no confirmed cases of Ebola in Alabama but we must be prepared should a case be identified. pic.twitter.com/BwcTl3omdB— Gov. Robert Bentley (@GovernorBentley)...
(Chart) For the first time in decades, Alabama’s government is actually shrinking
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley was elected in the great Tea Party wave of 2010, an election cycle when the calls for reductions to the...