By Glynn Wilson – One of the most disheartening facts about the Trump administration’s policies to the millions of Americans who care deeply about the Earth’s natural environment is the outright war on the planet being waged by President Donald Trump and his cabinet. A couple of new stories just out demonstrate the problem, and…
By Glynn Wilson – This may be the most important news you read this week, maybe this month. So you think the exposure of “fake news” in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election and all the stories about how Facebook data was compromised and used to manipulate voters was the end of the controversy?…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – So we need your help, dear readers, to settle an argument. Would you rather read a factual story? Or a legend that may or may not be all true? Is it OK to tell a white lie now and then to save someone from grief or pain?…
By Robert Reich – America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump have we had a president who combined all these nefarious qualities. America’s great good fortune was to begin with the opposite –…
Staff Report – Former judge and Senate candidate Roy Moore’s attempt to convince a judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against him failed Wednesday when Montgomery County Circuit Judge Roman Ashley Shaul denied his motion to dismiss the case and scheduled a formal court hearing for April 12. Leigh Corfman of Gadsden filed the lawsuit…
By Keven Smith – FaceBook criticism is nothing new. In fact, there’s an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to it, which began, interestingly enough, in 2007 – a mere two years after the company, under CEO Mark Zuckerberg, settled a lawsuit with brothers Cameron, and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra claiming that he had stolen the…
By Robert Reich – What’s worrying isn’t that Trump is now getting advice about policy from fanatics like John Bolton and Lawrence Kudlow. Trump has never cared about policy. The real worry is that – with Robert Mueller breathing down his neck, and several special elections suggesting a giant “blue wave” in November – Trump…
By Patrick Lynch – In spite of restrictions by the Trump administration not to talk about global warming or using the terminology of “climate change,” the scientists and public relations folks at NASA have come up with a way to continue the research and show us the results. NASA research shows that permafrost — permanently frozen…
By Glynn Wilson – Porn star and stripper Stormy Daniels appears to be beating President Donald Trump at his own game, the media manipulation Wrestle Mania game that is. When Trump was interviewed on the CBS News show “60 Minutes” not long after winning the presidential election in November 2016, he quizzed executive producer Jeff…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – I lost a friend on Facebook this week. Not a real friend, mind you. Just a friend on Facebook. The relationship was so short I don’t even remember his name. All I remember is that his profile picture was the logo for the Auburn Tigers football team.…
By Glynn Wilson – Three months after Roy Moore went down to holy defeat in his divine plan allegedly ordained by God to take Jesus to Washington with him to serve in the United States Senate, more allegations are surfacing that could land Moore and some of his political associates in further legal hot water.…
By Glynn Wilson – After threatening a presidential veto and another government shutdown, Donald Trump went on national television and complained about the massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending resolution passed this week by both houses of Congress, but then blinked and signed it into law. It funds the federal government through Sept. 30 and includes…
By Glynn Wilson – If President Donald J. Trump is not above the law according to the courts in New York, then former judge Roy Moore should not be excused by the courts in Alabama either, according to attorneys for Leigh Corfman, the Gadsden woman who is suing Moore for defamation. Montgomery Judge Roman Ashley…
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration is threatening to cut $6 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget in 2018, eliminating block grants for water and sewer projects in poor, minority areas in states, including Alabama’s Black Belt, according to a preliminary budget proposal obtained by the Washington Post. Some Democratic…
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Staff Report – A man from Decatur, Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal court this week to kidnapping and child sex-trafficking charges as part of a detailed plan to hire someone to kidnap a woman and her 14-year-old daughter for sale to a Memphis pimp, according to a press release just out from the U.S. Attorneys…
By Glynn Wilson – Alabama’s new United States Senator Doug Jones chose the raging issue of gun violence Wednesday as the central topic for his first speech on the Senate floor since his election in December. And while he will be criticized from the right and the left for some of what he said, mainstream…
“The day I realized it can be smart to be shallow was, for me, a deep experience.” – Donald J. Trump – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – So the news broke with the usual urgency late on a Friday that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe of the FBI, prompting…
By Glynn Wilson – Students across the country walked out in a symbolic protest on Wednesday to focus the nation’s attention on gun violence one month after a gunman killed 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students in a number of schools across Alabama participated in the protest. When asked…
