By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — If President Donald J. Trump was actually as smart as he likes to say he is and actually had a plan to make America great, he would have shut down his Twitter account on Inauguration Day and ordered his cabinet to come up with real plans to address…
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Undocumented Women Fear Reporting Abuse
By Kimberely Blackburn – Delta Digital News Service JONESBORO, Ark. – Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a woman inside a courthouse to obtain a protective order against her allegedly abusive boyfriend earlier this year in Texas. This, along with reports of increased immigration investigations, results in many undocumented women being afraid to report abuse. In…
Drummond Company Executive and Lawyers Indicted in Environmental Bribery Conspiracy
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two Birmingham lawyers and an Alabama coal company executive were indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday on charges of conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud and money laundering for paying a state legislator to fight the cleanup of a Superfund site in north Birmingham. U.S. attorneys, IRS and…
President Trump’s Decision to End the Dreamer Immigrant Program in Doubt
By Kimberely Blackburn Delta Digital News Service JONESBORO – President Donald Trump announced his decision to discontinue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a decision placing those brought to the United States as children by undocumented immigrant parents, often known as “dreamers,” at risk for deportation. Trump’s decision comes after lawmakers from 10 states…
Former Alabama Legislator Pleads Guilty to Bribery Conspiracy, Fraud and Tax Evasion
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former Alabama legislator Oliver Robinson pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to accepting bribes from a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in exchange for advocating their employers’ opposition to EPA actions in North Birmingham, according to a press release just out from the U.S.…
Massachusetts Inmate Sentenced to Three Years for Threatening to Kill the President
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — An ignorant, Massachusetts redneck turned Muslim extremist sympathizer, who is already in state prison on gun and drug charges, was sentenced in federal court in Boston to three more years behind bars on Wednesday for threatening to kill then-President Barack Obama in 2015 and 2016. Alex Hernandez, 32,…
Senate Democrats Join Protesters in Rally to Save American Health Care
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Activists held a rally outside the Capitol on Tuesday to try to save the American health care system with chants of “kill the bill” as Republican senators inside held a procedural vote to debate the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which would leave millions of people, including…
Democrat Doug Jones Defends Sessions’ Recusal in Russia Probe
Trump makes headlines criticizing Sessions: Observers wonder when the Attorney General will go — By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In another explosive story from the New York Times out Thursday, President Donald J. Trump made a statement criticizing his pick for Attorney General, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, for recusing himself from any investigation…
Washington’s Mayflower Hotel at the Center of Another Presidential Scandal
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Avenue has been the scene for a number of historic events and scandals in its history since opening in 1925 during the so-called “Roaring Twenties.” If the people, the press and the special prosecutor were paying attention, it could become the scene of…
Freedom of Speech Rallies Show Free Speech Alive and Well in America
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – White conservative activists for Trump rallied for “free speech” on the National Mall on Sunday while counter demonstrators held their own rally higher up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in objection to “hate speech,” chanting “no Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA.” To observers of all…
Trump’s Federal Hiring Freeze Makes America Less Safe
Even Members of Congress and Trump Voters and Fans Who Visit Washington – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When New York celebrity businessman Donald J. Trump took office in January, one of his first acts as president was to immediately sign a symbolic memo calling for a “hiring freeze” on federal employees. The…
Comey: President Trump is a Liar Who Can’t Be Trusted
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump is a liar who can’t be trusted and did not want the FBI director getting to the bottom of the investigation into Russian “meddling” in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, especially vis a vis his “satellite” associates, especially fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.…
Exclusive: Criminal Complaint Filed Against Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort
By Glynn Wilson – A day after Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced the appointment of a special counsel to handle the investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election, the relationship of President Donald J. Trump’s campaign team to Russia, and perhaps even collusion by the president himself, at least in his financial…
Senators Demand Investigation Into AG Jeff Sessions’ Role in FBI Director Comey’s Firing
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — A group of United States Senators is demanding an investigation into the role of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey. In a letter to Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz, the Senators say Sessions may have violated his vow…
Special Counsel Appointed to Investigate Russian Interference in U.S. Election
By Glynn Wilson – In a major breakthrough in the scandal of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, a special counsel has been appointed by the second in command at the Department of Justice, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, quelling wide spread calls for an independent investigation. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller accepted…
Trump Faces Deepest Crisis of Presidency With Comey Memo
The president may have obstructed justice in pressuring FBI director to drop Flynn investigation – By Chris Strohm and Steven T. Dennis – Bloomberg News – Donald Trump is facing the deepest crisis of his presidency after contents of a memo written by James Comey when he was FBI director surfaced Tuesday, alleging that the…
Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions During Senate Hearing Convicted
By Glynn Wilson – Welcome to the new world order of Donald Trump the dictator president and his enforcer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, where laughing at a politician is now a criminal offense. Code Pink activist Desiree Fairooz was convicted by a D.C. jury on Wednesday for disorderly or disruptive conduct with the intent to…
Suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore to Run for US Senate
By Glynn Wilson – Sounding more and more like former Alabama Governor George Wallace, the fiery little judge known as the Ten Commandments judge, who has now been removed from office and permanently suspended as state Chief Justice twice, proved he is as much of a political animal as Wallace. He just can’t help himself.…
Death Penalty Drug Sparks Controversy in Arkansas
By Kimberely Blackburn – Delta Digital News Service – VARNER, Ark. â The last man Arkansas plans to execute in April is not a saint. Sentenced to life for the 1998 death of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff cheerleader Dominique Hurd, Kenneth Williams escaped in 1999 after 19 days in prison. Williams robbed and…
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns Rather Than Face Impeachment, Jail Time
By Glynn Wilson – Alabama’s embattled Republican Governor Robert Bentley has been convinced he has no choice but to resign or face an impeachment trial, be removed from office and perhaps face jail time in an episode that is reminiscient of Richard Nixon resigning the presidency on August 9, 1974. Only Bentley is not being…