By House Speaker Mike Hubbard The first gavel of the 2012 legislative session will sound in less than a month, as lawmakers from around the state descend on the capital to carry out the business of the people. Last month, the legislative leadership made it clear the top...

By: Brooklyn Roberts Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By that definition, our current system of education is the epitome of insanity. We all speak of wanting to improve education, but we keep d...

This week is National School Choice Week. School choice offers families the opportunity to select schools that meet their child’s needs. Watch the below video from The Heritage Foundation explaining school choice, how it benefits parents and children and why school choi...

I must admit, I dropped the ball a little on Twitter this week…Next week is National Education Week and we have some good stuff planned. Until then, here are a few notable tweets from the past 7 days. Alabama’s December 2011 unemployment rate dropped again dramati...

Huntsville, AL – Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) made the following statement following the Obama Administration’s decision not to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline Project. “The Keystone XL Pipeline is critical to America’s energy needs. According to the U.S. D...

Candidates: Chuck Malone: - Current Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court - Former Chief of Staff to Gov. Robert Bentley - Circuit Judge from 2000-2010 - Adjunct professor at the University of Alabama Law School for 6 years - Practiced law for 20 years before being...

 By Elois Zeanah Both want to weaken Alabama’s immigration law.  President Obama needs votes of illegal aliens to give him a narrow re-election win, according to some pundits.  Attorney General Luther Strange apparently thinks he needs businesses which oppose Alabama’s ...

“There have been a number of issues raised about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). My understanding is that House leadership yesterday shelved SOPA until significant changes could be made to address some of those concerns. It makes s...

This week’s Coffee County Republican Club meeting started with a speech by Bradley Byrne discussing the government stifling private business. Once he received his standing ovation and sat down, the rest of the meeting illustrated his point exactly. As primary season kic...

The ball has dropped, the last verses of Auld Lang Syne have been sung, and the confetti has all been swept away. Another year is in the books, and frankly, it was one that many young adults would just as soon forget. A year when the national debt topped the $15 trillio...