Poverty, Crime and Declining Population Due to a ‘Brain Drain’ Are to Blame – By Glynn Wilson – The city of Bessemer just west of Birmingham, Alabama, may not be the worst place to live in the country, but it’s close. A new report ranking the 50 worst places places to live in the United…
SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – Many journalists and pundits have been scrambling for the past two years to try to understand the mass popularity of TV reality star Donald Trump and how he somehow managed to fool enough of the people into voting for him for president in 2016. We know a little…
By John Feffer – Are You Ready for an Epoch Fail?Globalists Really Are Ruining Your Life You know the story: the globalists want your guns. They want your democracy. They’re hovering just beyond the horizon in those black helicopters. They control the media and Wall Street. They’ve burrowed into a deep state that stretches like…
But just maybe it could get more people to swallow the medicine – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ALABAMA – What do you get when you crush sugar cane and boil the juice? Molasses, of course. The thick, brown syrup still used in the American South for baking pies, cookies and other…
Occam’s Hostage: Seeking Simple Clarity Amid Trump’s Turmoil – Satire- By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – The Night Wolves patrol the perimeter of the school playground in a provincial Russian town beyond the Urals. This biker club has units scattered across the country and some abroad. Most are in larger cities. The Wolves don’t…
Is Doug Jones Running for President in 2020? – “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” – Poverb By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room was described as “hell” last week by not only President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.…
Guest Column – By Doug Jones – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From Florence to Dothan, Mobile to Huntsville, and every stop in between, Alabama is a proud producer and exporter of goods to countries around the world. In fact, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, more than 567,000 Alabama jobs are supported by global trade.…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So it’s been two weeks since I arrived back in the nation’s capital, right on time to visit the federal district courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland just north of D.C. where one of the trials of the century — or maybe the millennium — will…
Editor’s Note: Monday, April 23 was celebrated in Alabama as Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday that some say should be removed from the official calendar much like the Confederate Battle Flag was removed from state capitol buildings. The controversy over removing Confederate monuments which sparked protests in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Virginia has now…
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Thousands of bird watchers are flocking to the Alabama Gulf Coast this spring for the annual bird migration, but it’s also mating season for other species, including this fairly large American alligator [Alligator mississippiensis] that has become a tourist attraction in its own right as people come…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As an educated lawyer, former FBI director James Comey should know the Latin legal phrase, “Fiat justitia ruat caelum,” which means: “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” He apparently forget that under the pressure of the election in 2016 and in trying to serve President…
By Glynn Wilson – Alabama’s new United States Senator Doug Jones chose the raging issue of gun violence Wednesday as the central topic for his first speech on the Senate floor since his election in December. And while he will be criticized from the right and the left for some of what he said, mainstream…
By David Underhill – When Roman emperors knew they were finished, the courageous ones would fall on their own swords. Infirm and unable to defend themselves against their rivals. Or about to lose in a palace coup or civil war. Or having done something so disgraceful their reputation could never recover. Rather than submit to…
By Glynn Wilson – Students across the country walked out in a symbolic protest on Wednesday to focus the nation’s attention on gun violence one month after a gunman killed 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students in a number of schools across Alabama participated in the protest. When asked…
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — His history changing campaign for the United States Senate was a state and national “turning point” and a “watershed,” Senator Doug Jones said to a packed house of supporters on Southside Sunday who came out to celebrate his victory with hot dogs, barbecue and beer. “We were on…
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Nothing gets the people of Alabama fired up like football. It’s even been called the state religion. But in the best piece of journalism ever published on the subject, Rick Bragg debunked that notion a few years back in Sports Illustrated. “They say college football is religion in…
Bear Bryant was interviewed by students at Birmingham’s Parker High School in 1973 – Please click on this link and hit subscribe to our YouTube channel to help save us from losing advertising revenue (see explanation below). Students interview University of Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant at Parker High School in Birmingham the day…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — We are floating on polluted waters in a sinking ship. We might as well look at the U.S.S. United States of America as The Titanic. Remember, it was the ship that was not supposed to sink. When it became obvious that it hit an iceberg and was going…
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – Maybe it once made sense to allow the police to put bad dudes out of business by seizing their stuff. “Civil forfeiture” gave cops an OK to snatch dope dealers’ cash, vehicles and other assets without having to wait for trials and convictions. But these seizures became so…
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – It must have been the baffling foreign language that prevented many reporters and editors from noting the obvious. Mar means sea or ocean in Spanish. If they had known this they surely would have realized that the name of Donald Trump’s Florida resort – Mar-a-Lago – means it’s…
