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…
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…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – Due to a major national backlash against President Donald J. Trump and the Republicans in Congress for messing with people’s health care, the Democrats are now in a position to make major gains in the U.S. House next year, according to a new poll just out from Public Policy Polling. Democrats…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The surprise announcement on Wednesday that Birmingham attorney Doug Jones filed the qualifying papers to run for public office as a Democrat in the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat long held by now Attorney General Jeff Sessions currently occupied by former state Attorney General Luther…
By Glynn Wilson – While the House Republicans were celebrating in the White House Rose Garden after the vote to replace Obamacare with Trumpcare on Thursday, it would have been interesting to be a fly on a bush. Did any of them even whisper a hint about the massive voter backlash that was already exploding…
Will Republicans ‘Rue the Day?’ – By Glynn Wilson – Changing their tune again and playing politics with people’s lives again, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives gambled on the ignorance and apathy of a majority of the American people on Thursday when they managed to wrangle 217 votes to barely pass President Donald…
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…
By Glynn Wilson — MOBILE, Ala. — The Trump administration held public meetings in cities along the Gulf Coast this week to generate public comments on the environmental impacts of opening up 95 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to new oil and gas leases. But while federal law and national policy calls for…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The Trump administration has announced a plan to open up more offshore waters in the continental United States to oil and gas exploration and to remove federal regulations imposed by previous administrations on oil and gas drilling, in spite of findings in a federal lawsuit in the 2010…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Not since George W. Bush’s 100 day losing war with Iraq based on bad intel has America suffered such days of grief as the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. For those who are too young to remember or who somehow rode out the Bush years…
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.…
By Norman Solomon – After Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss nearly six months ago, her most powerful Democratic allies feared losing control of the party. Efforts to lip-sync economic populism while remaining closely tied to Wall Street had led to a catastrophic defeat. In the aftermath, the party’s progressive base — personified by Bernie Sanders —…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Actions over the past few days by Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Mobile, Alabama, demonstrate that rather than keeping his head down and considering resigning for lying to Congress about communicating with the Russians during the campaign before the election, he is moving with all deliberate speed…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Do you wake up in the morning, make the coffee, crank up your computer and look at your Facebook news feed and ever feel confused about what’s really going on in the world? Don’t feel bad. You are not alone. Rapid changes in technology over the past…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — A strange series of events led to where we are today, with a reality television celebrity casino mob boss connected to Russian oligarchs in the White House turning back the clock on U.S. policies to combat climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels.…
By Glynn Wilson – President Donald Trump’s job approval rating took another nose dive this week down to 36 percent, according to the latest Gallup poll, in the wake of the failure of House Republican leaders to muster the votes to pass a new healthcare bill that would have repealed and replaced the Affordable Care…
By Glynn Wilson – President Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress suffered a stunning political defeat on Friday when House leaders withdrew legislation to repeal Obamacare and replace it with Trumpcare, when it became obvious they did not have the votes to pass the so-called American Health Care Act to replace the Affordable Care…
Voters Think Attorney General Jeff Sessions Should Resign – By Glynn Wilson – A new national poll shows there’s very little support among American voters for the Republican American Health Care Act, the bill offered up by the Trump administration to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Only 24 percent…
