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ALGOP keynote speaker Scott Walker not eligible for steering committee under proposed amendment
The Alabama Republican Party will be host to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tonight at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery where Walker will be the...
Griffith vows not to accept ‘taxpayer funded health insurance’ until ObamaCare is repealed
On Friday afternoon, Republican congressional hopeful Wells Griffith unveiled a new radio spot pledging to not accept “a taxpayer funded health insurance plan” until...
11-story Lego tower sets world record
Delaware's Red Clay school district now holds the Guinness World Record for the tallest Lego tower ever made. Their tower stands more than 112...
ALGOP committee member concerned Party may have committed Social Security fraud
In an email that was sent to the Alabama Republican Party steering committee, one of the committee's members expressed concerns that the Party may...
Third tier presidential candidates emerge, without evasion
Here’s a new rule to apply to aspiring presidential candidates: If you have to say you’re considering a run this early, you’re likely not...
Alabama hosts Gov. Walker as his ‘stealth’ 2016 presidential campaign quietly gears up
The Alabama Republican Party will play host to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Friday night at their annual summer dinner.
The Party has had some...
RNC passes pro-coal, anti-enviro resolution sponsored by Alabamian
On the final day of business at the Republican National Committee's summer meeting, the RNC passed a resolution sponsored by Alabama's National Committeeman Paul...
Virginia gap: Biden trails Christie
Contributor Ellie Cohen dove into Joe Biden’s polling problem last week, highlighting how his nomination would increase the odds of Republicans taking back the White House...
AG Strange pushes back against more fed targeting of conservative Alabamians
Today Attorney General Luther Strange and Alabama Policy Institute (API) President Gary Palmer addressed API’s recent receipt of a letter from U.S. Senator Dick...
ALGOP committee member says amendment is a ‘power grab,’ Chairman dismisses accusation
An amendment proposed last week to the bylaws of the Alabama Republican Party would have removed from the Party’s steering committee any member who...
Matt Pitt montage
(Above: a montage of Matt Pitt's best quotes from his recent NBC 13 interview)
After being accused of impersonating a police officer for the second...
Ten years after Ten Commandments monument removal, Roy Moore has no regrets
In an interview with Raycom’s Max Reiss that aired on Montgomery NBC affiliate WSFA on Wednesday, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore looked...
AL-01 candidate Dean Young: ‘I’m against homosexuals pretending like they’re married’
Congressional candidate Dean Young made his position on gay marriage crystal clear yesterday during an interview with Mobile's local NBC affiliate.
“I’m against homosexuals pretending...
New secret tapes reveal Reagan told Nixon of Watergate, ‘this too shall pass’
Then-president Richard Nixon secretly taped all of his White House conversations from February 1971 until July 1973. As part of a legal agreement signed...
Third ranking House Democrat says Jeb, Christie could win in 2016
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third most powerful House Democrat, declined to endorse or even encourage a Hillary Clinton presidential...
PSC turns its attention to Alagasco
Prior to The Alabama Public Service Commission's decision to lower rates for Alabama Power customers last week, it had been a quarter century since...
Cooke accuses Ivey of mismanagement, Ivey shoots back
"The current Lieutenant Governor has mismanaged the Senate the past three years," Dr. Stan Cooke told Yellowhammer after announcing his plans to challenge Lt....
Ivey to co-chair committee for National Lt. Gov’s Association
Alabama Lieutenant Governor Kay Ivey has been named Co-Chair of the National Lieutenant Governor’s Association's committee on State Strategies in Military Affairs.
This newly formed...
Dean’s for Hillary . . . for now
Howard Dean, the 2004 insurgent presidential candidate who previously said Hillary Clinton would not get a free pass for the Democratic nomination in 2016, has...
Video captures exact moment truck launches over guardrail
Alex Stack said her immediate reaction to seeing a pickup truck in the median of the Interstate pulling a lawnmower was that the driver...
Mo Brooks proposes cutting ObamaCare proportionally to US military cuts
None of the Republican members of Alabama’s U.S. House delegation have indicated that they'll be signing on to the idea of using Congress’ federal...
Senator Durbin targets Alabama think tank on ‘Stand Your Ground’
On August 6, the Alabama Policy Institute received a letter from Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) inquiring into the Institute’s affiliation with the American Legislative...
How to go from ‘Who?’ to a million bucks, by Robert Bentley
This is the final installment of a three-part series written by Yellowhammer News’s state political reporter Adam Thomas after he spent a day with...
Alabama senator pre-files bill to protect “Merry Christmas”
It's a thousand degrees outside, it won't stop raining, and I was mauled last night by a vicious animal I found out later was...