The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — I hate to be the bearer of bad news this close to Christmas or pour cold water on a hot victory. But you know me. Always a real news guy who just has to tell the truth, even if that means kicking somebody in…
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Doug Jones and his supporters in Alabama pulled off a historic election victory Dec. 12 that sent reverberations around the political world in a reprimand to President Donald J. Trump, a repudiation of Roy Moore’s style of racist-religious politics, and a major blow to Steve Bannon of Breitbart…
Don’t believe it. Go vote on Tuesday anyway. – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — A new public opinion survey has Birmingham attorney Doug Jones opening up a 10 point lead over former judge Roy Moore with one day to go before the vote in the special U.S. Senate election on Tuesday, Dec. 12.…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. – Five days before a crucial special election for a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, President Donald J. Trump came to Pensacola, Florida, to try to turn out the vote for accused teen sex predator and former judge Roy Moore in his race with Birmingham attorney Doug Jones. But…
BREAKING NEWS: Grammy-winner Jason Isbell and St. Paul and the Broken Bones will perform FREE get out the vote concerts in support of Doug Jones on Saturday, Dec. 9, three days before the vote in Alabama’s special U.S. Senate election on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Jones, the Democrat, is in a neck and neck race with…
Meanwhile Breitbart ‘Fake’ News Millionaire Steve Bannon Joins Roy Moore at Tea Party Rally in Fairhope – Editor’s Note: We wanted to present both of these events with seven days to go in the campaign side-by-side, just in case there are readers out there who are still undecided and want to compare and contrast these…
By Roger Newman – Exclusive to the New American Journal – “Alabama has a history of great senators,†said the greatest of them all. Not even Lister Hill’s exceptional accomplishments in expanding hospital care, medical research, libraries and education, or John J. Sparkman’s in housing and establishing rocketry in the state, could compare to those…
ELECTION WATCH – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — President Donald Trump is running scared. That’s the real secret of what’s going on in the news with only one week to go before the voters go to the polls on Tuesday, Dec. 12 to cast their ballot for Doug Jones or Roy Moore in…
Vote for Doug JonesLetter to the Editor By Rowland Scherman – CAPE COD, Ma. — Somehow, strangely enough, the fate of the entire planet Earth has boiled down to whether the people of the beautiful state of Alabama will vote for a legitimate senate candidate, or a candidate chosen by the most dangerous United States…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Judge Roy Moore is right about one thing. “The world is watching,†he said the other night in church near here. So now that we have your attention, world, there are a few things that need to be said. Everybody in Alabama is not…
Editor’s Note: New American Journal editor and publisher Glynn Wilson is an expert at analyzing public opinion data having studied survey research at the University of Alabama as an undergrad in the early 1980s and a grad student in the mid-1990s. He has covered public opinion and politics as a specialty for newspapers, wire services…
MOBILE, Ala. — Judge Roy Moore is such a “mans man” that he just could not take the joke from a comedian from Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show on ABC, who crashed the party in Theodore this week when Moore delivered a political sermon in a Baptist church. The event appears to be a…
By Glynn Wilson – Editor’s Note: Wilson is a native citizen of Alabama, who grew up a Baptist, but got a college education and has more than 35 years of experience as a journalist, operating under the free speech and press clauses of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. THEODORE, Ala. — Roy…
Democrat Doug Jones Has Advantage in Money and Organization – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — A new survey of likely voters in Alabama’s special senate election seems to indicate that sexual misconduct allegations against Roy Moore revealed by the press in Washington have not driven voters away but in fact energized his conservative…
Roy Moore’s Wife Kayla Not So ‘Pure’ – By Glynn Wilson – A national storm cascades down upon the town of Gadsden in the northeastern part of Alabama like nothing seen here perhaps since President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. A social misfit from Etowah County named Roy Moore has landed…
By Glynn Wilson – Auburn and NBA basketball star Charles Barkley was interviewed by a reporter for NBC before the Alabama-Auburn game on Saturday and asked to weigh in on the contentious campaign for U.S. Senate between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones. Barkley, who does not live and vote in Alabama, said he…
By James Rhodes – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Before President Trump departed to Mar-a-Largo for Thanksgiving recess, he took time to criticize Doug Jones as being “terrible” regarding national issues of defense, immigration, taxes and somehow his election would prevent “making America great again.” When specifically asked which was worse: Alabama voters electing an alleged child…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GULF SHORES, Ala. — It is common knowledge in the bar rooms along the golden sands of the Redneck Riviera that Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and other country music artists are modern day American poets. They are just as important to understand as the English playwright William…
He’s no constitutional authority, no Baptist and no representative of evangelical values. By Randall Balmer – I first encountered Roy Moore in 2002 in a Montgomery, Ala., courtroom, where I was an expert witness on the separation of church and state in what came to be known as the Alabama Ten Commandments case. Moore, then…
By Glynn Wilson — MOBILE, Ala. — An attorney in Massachusetts has filed a formal legal complaint against U.S. Senate Candidate Roy Moore of Alabama for criminal acts, including “predatory sexual activity,” as well as dishonesty, fraud and deceit, engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice and for trying to intimidate witnesses, including…
