Over the past few decades, politicians have proposed, and occasionally gotten, privatization of every government service from the Post Office to the school system. But privatizing liquor stores? Not in Alabama. According to the Associated Press, Alabama Beverage Commission administrator Mac Gipson is opposed to turning over the agency’s stores to a private contract – because they’ve brought in $190 million per year in general fund revenue. AP via the Anniston Star – Gipson opposes ABC privatization

The Associated Press reports that the candidates in Alabama's 2010 Supreme Court races raised $4.3 million between them -- more than any other state with the same number of seats at stake. Money from business interests and trial lawyers made up the majority of the donations. Republicans, usually backed by business donors, now hold an 8-1 majority on the court. AP via The Dothan Eagle -- Alabama No. 1 again in expensive court races

The Tuscaloosa News covers a local effort to legalize Sunday alcohol sales. Alabama is a Prohibition patchwork state – some counties are wet, some dry – but most of the state still bans alcohol sales on Sunday. The News notes that these laws are slowly falling by the wayside, as larger cities realize the tourism benefits of Sunday sales. Is this really a Goat Hill story? In a state like Alabama -– where even the most mundane of local controversies can become a constitutional amendment –- you never know. Legislators have been known to intervene in local alcohol sales from time to time.

The blog Smart Politics took a close look at politifact.com – a Pulitzer Prize-winner and one of the nation’s most prominent fact-checking sites – and concluded that the site had a left-wing bias. The proof? Politifact gives “pants on fire” ratings to Republicans more often than Democrats. The Alabama-based blog Leftinalabama.com took a different approach: to them, the study shows that Republicans must lie more. Neither conclusion is all that scientific, we’re thinking. For the record, since we’ve been tweeting our results to the world, Bama Fact Check has done 18 fact checks on Democrats, 13 fact checks on Republicans, one on an independent (Harri Anne Smith), one on a media organization and a few checks on anonymous ads which turned out to be connected to the Alabama Education Association. (That's a quick count from our Twitter feed: if we missed some, let us know.) Before the Bama Fact Check website was launched, The Anniston Star did a few fact checks on Democrat Ron Sparks, and a handful on Republicans Robert Bentley, Bradley Byrne and Tim James. We haven’t checked a single Democrat since the election. But then, there aren’t that many Democrats left to check. We’re hoping Joe Biden and Sarah Palin will both move to Alabama and start running for office here. Then we’d have steady business from both parties.