ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – The power of fear and a social media program named after a bird call cowed a majority in the United States Senate on Tuesday to bow down to the wishes of a corrupt dictator who has taken over the once great democratic republic of America, a new kind of…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Birmingham, expressed concerns about some aspects of the impeachment inquiry in a press call with reporters on Thursday, while continuing to rebuff media questions about how he might vote. “I cant’ say how I’m gonna vote, because I don’t know, one, if it’s coming,…
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…
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. — We now know where the Alabama Republican Party stands on impeachment and the rule of law in this American democracy. They are against it, at least the so-called leadership of the party, Republican Party Chair Terry Lathan. She held a news conference in Hoover this week simply to…
Editor’s Note: This is an open letter to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, the Republican from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, published here as an editorial opinion column. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dear Senator Shelby: You and I go way back, when I covered your earliest political campaigns for Alabama newspapers and the wire service UPI. You’ve been around awhile…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alabama Senator Doug Jones, the Birmingham Democrat, officially kicked off his campaign for reelection on Sunday at the B&A Warehouse in downtown Birmingham, emphasizing a centrists theme of common sense solutions and bringing the people of the state together as “One Alabama.” He came on stage with a…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – People have been complaining about “dysfunction” in Washington, well, since George Washington was drafted to become the first president of the United States. Politicians who want to come here to the so-called swamp, for all kinds of strange reasons, have been campaigning on the issue for decades. Candidate…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Everybody knows the news by now. Ole Ten Commandments former judge Roy Moore just couldn’t resist the opportunity for a little more publicity and another fund raising op. He announced down in Alabama that he’s by god running again for the U.S. Senate seat he lost to Birmingham…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – This might be a good time for Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to sit down for lunch with President Donald J. Trump at the White House, or maybe play a round of golf with him, to explain how tariffs actually work and brief him on the history of how trade…
EDITOR’S NOTE – MOBILE, Ala. – It’s simple. Opposition to the toll for a new bridge crossing Mobile Bay is overwhelming, and since the proposal claims the project cannot be completed without the toll money, it is dead in the water. You can read all about it here, and see the mainstream press coverage here…
Staff Report – The bipartisan Military Widow’s Tax Elimination Act has earned its 61 cosponsors, making it filibuster proof in the Senate, if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will bring it to the floor for a vote. U.S. Senator Doug Jones sponsored the legislation and announced Tuesday that his bill had surpassed the key threshold…
By Glynn Wilson – Former Vice President Joe Biden, a moderate Democrat who plans to appeal to working-class voters who deserted the Democratic Party to vote for President Donald J. Trump in 2016, tossed his hat into the ring to run for president on Thursday in a YouTube video on his own campaign channel that…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A question for readers. When you were a little kid, do you recall looking at a globe of the world or a map and placing yourself in physical context? I have a clear recollection of thinking of myself as from the city of Birmingham, in Jefferson County,…
By Glynn Wilson – As farmers and victims of floods, tornadoes and hurricanes desperately await financial aid from the federal government, members of Congress took off for a two week Spring Break this week without passing a disaster relief package, stymied in a compromise by a threatened presidential veto over more funding to help the…
Will the politicians in Montgomery listen? – Alabama workers have sent $14 billion in Medicaid taxes to fund health care in other states over the past few years, money that could have been used at home to improve health and the economy – By Glynn Wilson – Simply for the sake of partisan politics, Republicans…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — When Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate here Wednesday night and mentioned “Alabama values,” it made me stop to ponder what he was talking about. Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne Announces Run for U.S. Senate Against Democrat Doug Jones In his extemporaneous speech at…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — In a room full of mostly white males in business suits at Wintzell’s Oyster House downtown on Dauphin Street Wednesday night, Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne officially announced he will run for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Doug Jones in 2020. The primary vote will take place on March…
