In the wake of the impeachment inquiry being launched, public support also jumps for Congress – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A clear majority of the American people now support the impeachment and removal from office of President Donald J. Trump, and we don’t even have a report yet from the House investigation…
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Back in Session, the U.S. Senate Takes On President Trump on Withdrawal from Syria
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…
U.S. Senator Richard Shelby Keeps His Powder Dry on Impeachment as House Republicans Vote With Democrats to Rebuke Trump for Syria Withdrawal
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…
Trump Advisory Committee Recommends Near Total Privatization of National Parks
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the world is focused on President Donald Trump’s latest crazy tweet, pulling U.S. troops out of Syria and allowing Russia and Turkey to release ISIS fighters and destroy the Kurds, U.S. allies, along with the impeachment investigation in the House, there are all kinds of under the…
Gallup Poll: Trump’s Personal Approval Falls With Republicans and Church Goers
News Polls: A Majority of Americans Support Trump Impeachment Investigation
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in his highly controversial roller coaster ride of a presidency, Donald Trump may be in real trouble. The news about the new impeachment investigation launched by House Democrats has reached the American people, and now a solid majority of 55 percent support the inquiry,…
House Speaker Nanci Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry Against President Donald Trump
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an extraordinary political turnabout, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made an appearance on national television late Tuesday afternoon and announced that a formal impeachment inquiry would be launched in the House against President Donald J. Trump. What prompted this political change? The Speaker has resisted calls to impeach…
Millions of People Take to the Streets to Protest Lack of Government Action to Address Global Warming in Climate Strike
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — An estimated four million people around the world walked off the job, skipped school and joined marches and rallies on Friday to protest inadequate government action to address climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels in what youth organizers called a Climate Strike.…
Trump Claims to Call Off Peace Negotiations With Taliban at Camp David
By Glynn Wilson – CUNNINGHAM FALLS BY CAMP DAVID, Md. — In an extraordinary revelation set to change the subject of the news away from President Donald Trump’s sharpie scandal over changing the track map for Hurricane Dorian to show a threat to Alabama, the president revealed Saturday that he had been planning a secret…
Reflecting on the Role of Organized Labor in American Politics on Labor Day
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…
The Main Point of Mueller’s Report and Testimony: Russia Interfered in a U.S. Election
Senators Press Trump Administration to Implement ‘Operation Safe Return’ on Southern Border
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…
Alabama Democrat Doug Jones Takes to the Senate Floor to Speak on the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission
Acknowledging Huntsville Alabama’s Role in Building the Saturn V Rocket – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s not hard to remember exactly where I was 50 years ago when the Apollo 11 space craft launched for the moon on July 16, 1969 with Saturn V rocket motors built in Huntsville, Alabama. Or where…
The ‘Worst Fourth of July Ever’ Thanks to Trump’s Takeover of ‘The Peoples” Independence Day
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The verdict of “the people” is in: “It was the worst Fourth of July ever.” That’s the conclusion I heard the most out of locals from Virginia, the District and Maryland about Independence Day 2019 that will be known forever as the day President Donald Trump took over…
American National Pride Hits New Low as Final Planning Takes Shape for Trump’s ‘Salute’ to the U.S. Military on July Fourth
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of the Independence Day celebration in the nation’s capital and around the country on the Fourth of July, patriotic American pride and national morale are showing record lows, according to public opinion research, largely based on the disgraceful performance of the occupant of the White…
Trump Officially Takes Over Independence Day Celebration in Washington for 2020 Reelection Campaign
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since no-one around East Potomac Park had heard anything official about the Fourth of July fireworks launch site being moved from the Washington Monument to West Potomac Park when I went nosing around down there by Hains Point golf course today to scout the new location as tweeted…
Controversial President Donald Trump Officially Kicks Off Reelection Bid in Orlando
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly four years since he officially announced his unlikely run for president in the basement of Trump Tower in New York in 2015, the controversial President Donald J. Trump kicked off his 2020 reelection campaign in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday in one of his signature football stadium rallies…
Alabama Abortion Law at Odds With Public Consensus on the Issue
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…