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Over 200,000 Alabamians have taxpayer funded ‘Obama phones’

Hundreds of thousands of Alabamians have jumped on board a federal program allowing them to get a free cell phone paid for by taxpayer...

ABI launches investigation into who sent white powder to AG’s office

The Attorney General and Homeland Security offices on Washington Ave. were evacuated Wednesday morning when an envelope in Attorney General Luther Strange's reception area...

Artur Davis attacks ‘outrageous’ Harry Reid: ‘This is a guy who will say anything’

In an appearance on the Fox Business Network Tuesday night, former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who is considering a run for the U.S....

Paul provides no cover for Cruz on birther question

Donald Trump signaled he isn’t sure Ted Cruz is eligible to be president — and Ann Coulter asserted that the question is “not open and...

Mark Levin: Christie a ‘Gerald Ford Republican’

Marco Rubio is a neo-statist. Paul Ryan is easily shoved around. And now Chris Christie is a Gerald Ford Republican. Conservative talk show host Mark Levin is running out...

Alabama AG’s office evacuated due to ‘white substance in envelope’ (with updates)

According to state government sources, the office of Alabama Attorney General Luther strange has been evacuated due to the discovery of an envelop containing...

Sessions warns ‘we shouldn’t lightly walk into’ using gov’t shutdown to attack ObamaCare

Over the past month, several prominent conservative Republican senators have been promoting the idea of using the threat of a government shutdown to force...

Bizarre ‘ranked choice’ ballot in AL-01… Are we voting for Heisman, or Congress?

It’s a ballot that might resemble something you’d see in Heisman Trophy balloting, but the entire first congressional district special election process, which begins...

Birmingham pastor to broadcast live Aug. 21 from undisclosed location in the Middle East

David Platt, New York Times best selling author and pastor of Birmingham's Church at Brook Hills, will be broadcasting a live 90 minute online...

Hillary’s first phase of a campaign: Playing catch-up

This was supposed to be the year Hillary Clinton used to rest up. Instead, it’s evident she’s taking the time to play catch-up. The first hint...

Florida congressman says his 2016 choice is Jeb

Despite there being two Republican titans in Florida mulling 2016 presidential bids, Rep. Dan Webster has settled on one. The second-term congressman barely paused to...

Environmentalists descend on Aderholt’s Cullman office

The country got its first glimpses on Monday of President Barack Obama’s advocacy group Organizing for Action’s climate change push. “Gravity exists. The Earth is...

PSC lowers rates for Alabama Power customers, Dunn votes ‘no’

Alabama Public Service Commissioners Twinkle Cavanaugh and Jeremy Oden voted today to give Alabama consumers some relief by reducing Alabama Power Company's allowed rate...

Alabama Minority GOP Chairman joins race to unseat Dunn on PSC

Alabama Minority GOP Chairman Phillip Brown today announced he is launching his first bid for public office, challenging incumbent Republican Terry Dunn for place...

Strange petitions feds to approve Keystone XL pipeline

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange today joined 22 other attorneys general from around the nation in petitioning the U.S. Secretary of State's office to...

Two views of Cruz, Washington vs. Iowa

Two diverging views of Ted Cruz and his presidential timber, following his weekend jaunt to Iowa . . . Blogger Jennifer Rubin, from Washington: “I see no...

Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe delivers the jobs quote of the year on Huckabee

“We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That’s...

Meadows qualifies in HD74, hopes to succeed Jay Love

Former Montgomery county public school board president Charlotte Meadows qualified today as a Republican candidate for the House District 74 special election. "I am running...

Rand, Walker, Jindal and Perry converge in South Carolina

Four likely 2016 presidential contenders will land in South Carolina on the same day later this month — but for separate events on behalf...

Clements announces candidacy for House District 62

Jamey Clements announced, on Friday, he is running for the Republican nomination for Alabama House District 62. Clements said he will support policies that will...

The irony of Public Service Commissioner Terry Dunn’s populist rhetoric

Almost all liberal ideas are cloaked in populism. From Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Party and Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth" movement in the early 1900s, to...

Fincher: AL-01’s self-proclaimed “small-town candidate”

Late last month, State Rep. Chad Fincher, R-Semmes, raised a lot of eyebrows when his congressional campaign received the nod from GOPAC, one of...

Santorum’s strength and weakness in 2 and a half minutes

In a span of just two and a half minutes in Iowa Saturday, Rick Santorum revealed both his greatest strength and most severe weakness...

Influential Christian leader suggests Rubio should sit out 2016

Bob Vander Plaats, the president of The Family Leader — which is holding it summit in Ames, Iowa this weekend — suggested Marco Rubio should consider...