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Polling: Bentley's Support is Strong Among Key Conservative Groups
With the 2012 election cycle behind us, we took our first look yesterday at the trend of Governor Bentley's approval numbers over the first...
Hubbard Announces Committee Appointments for 2013 Legislative Session
Alabama Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard today announced a slate of new committee chairman and vice chairman appointments that will begin during the...
Bentley Polling Numbers Rise Steadily Over First Two Years
This week Yellowhammer will be doing a three part series on polling numbers for Alabama Governor Robert Bentley that outline how his popularity has...
Inside Look at Senate District 35 Special Election
As we mentioned in mid-December, three Republicans qualified for the Senate District 35 special election set to take place Jan. 29:
1. Rep. Jim Barton:...
Who's Who Among Behind-the-Scenes Liberals in Alabama
Teachers unions, trial lawyers associations, and radical environmental groups are examples of organizations that are operating across the country in an effort to undermine...
Who Will Carry the Banner of Economic Freedom & Prosperity?
For the first time in a couple of decades Congress will give the American people a significant tax hike. According to the Congressional Budget...
2012 Year in Review
Alabama politics had very few clear winners and losers in 2012. With few exceptions, most of the key players and organizations ended the year...
So This is Christmas?
By Cameron Smith
On December 14, 2012, Americans saw the darkness in Newtown, Connecticut. And for many of us it is hard to grasp,...
Hate Mail of the Week: Environmentalist Edition
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Hate Mail of the Week" is a weekly feature on Yellowhammer Politics in which some of the hate mail submitted through our contact page...
Rumors & Rumblings
"Rumors and Rumblings" is a weekly feature that runs each Wednesday. It includes short nuggets of information that we glean from conversations throughout the...
Fiscal Cliff by the Numbers
The Alabama Policy Institute (API) has released a new infographic in its By the Numbers series that outlines the significant impacts to the federal...
Governor Nikki Haley Appoints Tim Scott to U.S. Senate
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley today announced that she will appoint Congressman Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate. Scott will replace conservative stalwart Senator...
Alabama Republican Party Finances Under Investigation
According to AL.com and multiple Yellowhammer sources, the Alabama Attorney General's office has subpoenaed the Alabama Republican Party's financial records. Members of the Party's...
Wacko Environmentalists Take On the Alabama Public Service Commission
The Alabama Public Service Commission staff convened on Tuesday with one of our state's utilities for their annual meeting to review the regulatory climate...
Chicago Student to Teacher: "You went on strike for a whole week! You better teach me something!"
The Daily Caller posted a phenomenal video this morning from inside a Chicago classroom. In the video, an unidentified student from Chicago's South Shore...
Rogers Named Chairman of Strategic Forces Subcommittee
(Washington, DC) The Chairman of the Congressional panel that has jurisdiction over the Department of Defense today named Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers the next...
Roby Selected for NDAA Conference Committee
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02) has been appointed to serve on the conference committee tasked with negotiating a final agreement between the...
Failure, Fear, and the Fiscal Cliff
If Americans are less than confident, slightly confused and even a little angry with the political narrative they are hearing about the “fiscal cliff”,...
Conservatives Dominate 2012 Twitter Trends
Trending topics are the most-talked-about topics on Twitter at a given time. They are listed on each Twitter user's homepage to show what topics...
Rumors & Rumblings
"Rumors and Rumblings" is a weekly feature that runs each Wednesday. It includes short nuggets of information that we glean from conversations throughout the...
New Popemobile Built in Alabama
Dieter Zetsche, chairman of Mercedes' parent company Daimler, personally delivered the Pope's brand new modified M Class crossover to the Vatican last week. "It...
Gov. Haley: GIVE US TIM SCOTT
I was as surprised as anyone last week when conservative stalwart Sen. Jim DeMint resigned from his South Carolina U.S. Senate seat to become...
National Association of Manufacturers CEO Addresses BCA Crowd
I attended the annual meeting of the Business Council of Alabama today at the Harbert Center in downtown Birmingham. I enjoyed hearing Jay Timmons,...
The Facts on ALGOP Spending
This is a very open blog so I allow free dialogue and I welcome criticism. That’s why the Yellowhammer comment section frequently contains both...