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Bentley Signs Gun Bill into Law

Bentley Signs Gun Bill into Law

Governor Robert Bentley today signed the Omnibus Gun Bill into law, giving ...
May 22, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Cap-and-Trade by Other Means

Cap-and-Trade by Other Means

The Alabama Public Service Commission recently held a public hearing concer...
May 22, 2013/by Gary Palmer
Leftwing Washington Post Writer finds Sessions-Bashing Friend in AL.com

Leftwing Washington Post Writer finds Sessions-Bashing Friend in AL.com

Dana Milbank likens Jeff Sessions to former Alabama Gov. George Wallace for...
May 22, 2013/by Jeff Poor
Apple CEO (& Auburn Grad) Tim Cook Bashes U.S. Tax System

Apple CEO (& Auburn Grad) Tim Cook Bashes U.S. Tax System

Apple Inc. (AAPL) topped Fortune Magazine’s 2013 list of the world...
May 22, 2013/by Cliff Sims
EXCLUSIVE: Shelby Discusses His Economic Development Vision for Alabama

EXCLUSIVE: Shelby Discusses His Economic Development Vision for Alabama

“We’ve got the world’s attention,” Senator Richard ...
May 21, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Legislature Rejects Bentley Amendment, Pushes Forward With Accountability Act

Legislature Rejects Bentley Amendment, Pushes Forward With Accountability Act

Republican’s landmark school choice bill, the Alabama Accountability ...
May 20, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Gun Bill Passes Legislature, Goes to Governor

Gun Bill Passes Legislature, Goes to Governor

The Alabama House of Representatives Monday morning passed the much-debated...
May 20, 2013/by Cliff Sims
IRS Protest to Take Place Tuesday in Birmingham

IRS Protest to Take Place Tuesday in Birmingham

A Birmingham area Tea Party group is planning an IRS protest to take place ...
May 20, 2013/by Cliff Sims
What to watch for on the final day of the 2013 session

What to watch for on the final day of the 2013 session

Monday is the final day of the 2013 legislative session. Both budgets have ...
May 20, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Rubio Out-raising Paul 2 to 1

Rubio Out-raising Paul 2 to 1

Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul are two of the current frontrunners for ...
May 19, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Shelby Sees Similarities Between Obama & Nixon Administrations

Shelby Sees Similarities Between Obama & Nixon Administrations

Senator Richard Shelby said today in an interview with Now This News that h...
May 17, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Alabama Should Push Forward with School Choice

Alabama Should Push Forward with School Choice

Governor Robert Bentley on Wednesday signed an executive amendment that wou...
May 17, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Scandals Engulf D.C.

Scandals Engulf D.C.

It’s mass chaos in Washington, D.C. right now. Literally one third of...
May 15, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Rumors & Rumblings

Rumors & Rumblings

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a weekly feature that runs each Wedne...
May 15, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Luther Strange weighs actions over IRS-tea party scandal

Luther Strange weighs actions over IRS-tea party scandal

Late Tuesday afternoon, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange put out a r...
May 14, 2013/by Jeff Poor
Campaign finance reform to get a shot on last day of session

Campaign finance reform to get a shot on last day of session

The most anticipated issues on the final day of the 2013 legislative sessio...
May 14, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Media bias laid bare

Media bias laid bare

The mainstream media has been going through a rough stretch lately. From th...
May 13, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Roby Makes Her Move

Roby Makes Her Move

“We want to get Washington out of the way of how you use your time,” Re...
May 12, 2013/by Cliff Sims
IRS Admits to Targeting Conservative Groups

IRS Admits to Targeting Conservative Groups

Remember all of those “Tea Party Crazies,” as Senator Roger Bed...
May 10, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Barry Mask: From Aubie, to Legislator, to CEO

Barry Mask: From Aubie, to Legislator, to CEO

Yellowhammer speculated in this week’s Rumors & Rumblings that R...
May 10, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Teachers Union Leader Removed from TRS Board

Teachers Union Leader Removed from TRS Board

A bad session got even worse for teachers’ union leader Henry Mabry T...
May 9, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Bonner defends Alabama-built Littoral Combat Ship in appropriations hearing

Bonner defends Alabama-built Littoral Combat Ship in appropriations hearing

WASHINGTON – Rep. Jo Bonner took on critics of the U.S. Navy’s prototyp...
May 9, 2013/by Jeff Poor
Recap from the Alabama Power PSC Hearings

Recap from the Alabama Power PSC Hearings

Yesterday’s rate review hearing on Alabama Power at the Alabama Publi...
May 9, 2013/by Cliff Sims
Undercover inside a late-term abortion clinic

Undercover inside a late-term abortion clinic

In the shocking video above, late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart is caught ...
May 9, 2013/by Cliff Sims