By Glynn Wilson with Trace Thompson – LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ala. — One month ago, the president of the United States declared a national emergency because of the coronavirus pandemic, setting off an economic panic. On Easter Weekend, the number of cases and deaths in the U.S. surpassed Italy, with 528,735 confirmed cases and more than…
By Glynn Wilson – Senator Doug Jones of Alabama held a press conference on Thursday at the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital with Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, Director of UAB’s Division of Infectious Diseases, to share updates about the health care situation in Alabama, the latest on how the CARES Act legislation recently passed by…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Votes to Pass Strengthened Economic Relief Package – By Glynn Wilson – The largest fiscal stimulus bill ever passed by the United States Congress, containing $2.2 trillion intended to flood the country with cash in an effort to stem the debilitating impact on the economy of the coronavirus pandemic, is…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Urges Everyone To Remain At Home – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — Disregard everything posted on social media prior to Monday, March 16. Ignore any postings about a vaccine becoming available in time to deal with the coronavirus COVID-19 global pandemic. Remain at home if at all…
Republican Tommy Tuberville Tops Jeff Sessions, Likely to Win Runoff and Face Senator Doug Jones in November – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — Joe Biden came back from the political dead on Super Tuesday and reemerged as the front runner in the Democratic Party’s primary race to take on President Donald Trump in…
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Part II: Case Studies — Donald Trump and George Wallace – “He who does not oppose evil, commands it to be done,” the great artist Leonardo Da Vinci once said. By…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Says He’s Perplexed, Appalled By Trump and Attorney General William Barr – By Glynn Wilson – Donald J. Trump is far from the first American president to manipulate the justice system for partisan political purposes. But like everything else Trump does, his abuses of power are just far bigger and…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, will vote for the conviction of President Donald J. Trump in the Senate impeachment trial and in favor of his removal from office, even though most pundits still say the Republicans have the votes to acquit the president. It would take 67 votes…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Reacts to the Dershowitz Argument – By Glynn Wilson – In a press conference call with reporters on Thursday morning before the U.S. Senate was to go back into session to continue the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, Senator Doug Jones of Alabama hinted that the odds…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Says House Managers Are Making A Compelling Case – By Glynn Wilson – The House legal team prosecuting President Donald J. Trump in the Senate impeachment trial seemed to hit its stride somewhere between the half way point of day two and into day three. They must have gotten the…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Urges Senators to Take the ‘Impartial Justice’ Oath Seriously – By Glynn Wilson – As United States Senators are preparing to take a special oath to remain impartial and impart justice in the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, more information is coming to light on almost an…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Calls for Deescalation on Iran and a ‘Fair and Complete’ Impeachment Trial Showing the American People the Full Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s time to take down those Christmas decorations and for Congress to get back to work in Washington, and there’s significant work to be done. It…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In any other democratic country where the underlying principle is that we are all about creating “a nation of laws, not men,” any president who committed as many atrocities as Donald J. Trump would have been long gone by now, piled on the trash heap of history…
Reportedly He Will Not Have Trump’s Support – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Apparently it’s no longer a trial balloon, and Alabama is now back in the national spotlight. Word began to leak out Wednesday on Twitter, then on CNN and other news outlets on television and the web, that President Donald Trump’s…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The images coming out of Syria, where American military forces are rapidly withdrawing as Iran’s partners ISIS are released from prisons, and the Russians and Turkey take over the ground near the border, are reminiscent of pictures coming out of Vietnam in 1973. This is not playing well…
Impeachment Trial Could Begin by Thanksgiving – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress returned to the nation’s capital after a fall recess on Tuesday and immediately got to work rebuking President Donald J. Trump for his sudden military withdrawal from Syria, while Republican Senators are increasingly being asked to take a stand on…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Americans celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday in September with barbecue, beans and boat rides, this is a good time to reflect on the status of organized labor in the United States in terms of politics and public opinion. This should be a big anniversary for…
Glynn Wilson – We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Russia interfered in an American election in 2016, and that they and other hostile powers are already preparing to do it again in 2020. In fact there is no scintilla of doubt, and if given the chance, an honest grand jury would rule…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan group of Senators are indicating they will attempt to step into the policy vacuum on the southern border, where current policy has fueled a humanitarian crisis, with a program called “Operation Safe Return.” U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, announced the decision publicly by…
By Glynn Wilson – As a political issue, the social wedge issue of abortion only serves to divide Americans and does nothing to solve any real economic or social issues facing governments at the federal, state or local level. While public opinion polls have shown Americans equally divided at 48 percent of the public identifying…
