For young Alabama lawyer Brett Talley, his withdrawal from consideration for a federal judgeship should not be the last word on his promising career. With the right combination of graciousness and gumption, Talley can rise above this setback — just as a then-40-year-old judicial nominee named Jeff Sessions did when his nomination was derailed […]

  A liberal group founded by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander has named Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill to its “Voter Suppression Wall of Shame.” Citing Alabama’s voter identification law and former Gov. Robert Bentley’s decision to close some driver’s license offices, Let America Vote accuses Merrill of trying to block black […]

  Local talk radio is a strong force in Alabama. The Senate Leadership Fund—a Mitch McConnell-backed super PAC—learned this lesson during the GOP primary process when it that supported Luther Strange against Roy Moore. An SLF memo leaked to The New York Times immediately after the election described “the power of talk radio” as a […]

  Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, delivered an emotional speech on the floor of the House of Representatives today announcing he has prostate cancer. Watch the video here (hat tip Buzzfeed): Please pray for the congressman and his family.

    Tuesday’s special election victory by Democrat Doug Jones was dramatic — no doubt about it. Barring a successful recount, he will become the first Democrat to represent Alabama in the Senate in nearly a quarter century. Here are the six most notable takeaways from an election that capped a very strange year in […]

  9:35 — Oh well.  Shoulda. Coulda. Woulda.  It’s time to re-group, to heal, to learn … and to fight back. 9:25 — AP calls it for Jones.  Too soon? 9:24 — Tie ball game! 49.2 to 49.2 9:20 — Those odds makers are all over the place. About an hour ago they had Moore favored to […]

    I didn’t vote for Roy Moore because I believe at least some of those allegations are credible. I didn’t vote for Doug Jones, either, because he supports what any just man would call infanticide. And no, I didn’t waste it on a write-in candidate. I did what I’ve done in every general election […]

  It’s a beautiful way to end an ugly election: The weather isn’t expected to impact voter turn out at all. It may be a little colder than usual in the northern part of Alabama, with highs in the 48-52 degree range, according to James Spann, but it’ll be sunny across the entire state. No […]

  Even interventionists are regretting some of the wars into which they helped plunge the United States in this century. Among those wars are Afghanistan and Iraq, the longest in our history; Libya, which was left without a stable government; Syria’s civil war, a six-year human rights disaster we helped kick off by arming rebels […]

  CNN’s media analyst was taken to the woodshed Sunday by a conservative radio host in North Alabama who said our state doesn’t trust the national media because they have consistently called us “stupid” and “racist.” “People don’t trust you guys and the reason they don’t trust you is because you are constantly telling them […]

    Democrat Doug Jones has a path to victory against Republican Roy Moore on Tuesday in Alabama’s special election for the Senate — the same one Democrat Robert Vance nearly rode to victory against him five years ago. All but forgotten now, Moore’s 2012 race for chief justice of Alabama Supreme Court stumbled across […]

  An average of six of the most recent polls indicates that Roy Moore has a slim lead over Doug Jones in the race to become Alabama’s next senator, with an average of 48.3 percent of likely voters saying they will vote for Moore and 45.6 percent saying they will vote for Jones. Why it […]

A conservative writer for the Washington Post asked this week what many in our movement nationally have been pondering while watching Alabama creep ever closer to sending Roy Moore to the U.S. Senate: “What’s the matter with Alabama?” Examining a recent poll, columnist Jennifer Rubin bemoaned that Moore received nearly 60-percent of the female vote, […]

  Chris Matthews appeared on MSNBC this week and made the absurd statement that Alabama’s “crazy” and “mythical” beliefs about Israel are what caused President Donald Trump to announce he’s moving our embassy from Tel Aviv to that nation’s eternal capital – Jerusalem. “Don’t think this isn’t related to Alabama next week. It is related,” […]

Claims that the Republican tax reform efforts would maim middle-class taxpayers are false. Without a doubt, many people, particularly graduate students and those with exceptionally high medical expenses, have legitimate concerns about how the Republicans’ tax reform efforts would affect them. Taxing tuition waivers and canceling the medical expense deduction, as the House bill does, […]

    A billboard in front of Living Way Ministries in Opelika is making news for its rather odd comparison. “They falsely accused Jesus,” the sign read. “Vote Roy Moore.” Several members of the congregation have keys to the sign, church officials told WHNT News 19. After it was left up for an unknown length […]

    Roy Moore is not in the Supreme Court chambers today as the justices weigh whether a Colorado baker had the right to say “no” to a gay couple, but the Alabama Senate candidate’s fingerprints will be on the debate, nonetheless. The former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice’s private legal group, the Foundation for […]

    Alabama’s U.S. Representatives Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) and Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) co-sponsored a bill that passed the House last week requiring all House members, employees, staff and nonpaid personnel to complete sexual harassment and anti-discrimination training. Looking deeper: Constituents are calling into question the long-standing protocol Congressional members have been using in cases where […]

    There has been much chatter in Washington that the Senate might expel Roy Moore or even refuse to seat him at all if he wins this month’s special election in Alabama, but that would be harder than many realize. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) raised the issue once again this week, telling […]

  It’s come to this, Alabama: Jimmy Kimmel said he’s ready to fly down to Alabama and have a fist fight with Roy Moore. Why is this happening? The judge and the late night comedian began a war of words after one of Kimmel’s writers mocked Moore at a rally Wednesday night at the Magnolia […]

    Depending on who you ask, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore either has a five or six point lead in his race against Democrat Doug Jones in the December 12th contest. The race has gained intense national scrutiny since multiple women have accused Moore of various forms of sexual misconduct. “JMC Consulting’s poll […]

    A group of anti-Roy Moore protestors led by media darling and drag queen Ambrosia Starling held a rally earlier this week on the steps of the Alabama State House, reported the Montgomery Advertiser. “Every minority in Alabama is in trouble,” Starling said. “Every minority in America is in trouble. So it’s time for […]

    Sexual misconduct allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore have raised the very real possibility that Democrat Doug Jones could win next month’s special election, which would produce a rarity in Alabama politics — a split Senate delegation. How rare? According to research by University of Minnesota political scientist Eric Ostermeier, no other […]

Pro-life candidates in the Alabama Democratic Party have long been on the political equivalent of the threatened species list. Abortion rights extremists have hunted them mercilessly, their numbers have dropped precipitously, and their once vast territory has shrunk to a few measly electoral acres on the outskirts of their party. But has the nomination of […]