By Glynn Wilson – Political courage was seriously absent in the United States Capitol on Saturday as only seven Republicans could find it in themselves to join 48 Democrats and two independents to find former president Donald Trump guilty of inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021 as Congress affirmed the Electoral College votes…
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U.S. House Votes to Impeach Trump Again for Inciting Violent Insurrection
By Glynn Wilson – House Speaker Nanci Pelosi didn’t waste any time in pursing a second article of impeachment against lame duck president Donald Trump after coming very close to being assassinated in the United State Capitol building last Wednesday by an armed and dangerous insurrectionist militia ordered to storm up Capitol Hill by a…
Murphy’s Law: What Else Could Go Wrong in the Year of Converging Crises?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As the clock ticks down in the final quarter of 2020, the year of the “converging crisis” as some experts are now calling it, for millions of people survival feels like a daily ordeal either physically, economically or psychologically. Of course I’m human. I feel it all…
Senator Doug Jones: Every Trial is a Pursuit of Truth
Will my colleagues in the Senate uphold that? – Editor’s Note: U.S. Senator Doug Jones lost his father on Saturday, Dec. 28, as he reported on Twitter: “Yesterday we lost the Jones family patriarch. My dad, Gordon Jones, died as my mom, his wife of 70 years, held his hand. He was of impeccable character,…
Both Sides of the Story: Fascism v. Socialism
Cook Political Report Has U.S. Senator Doug Jones’ Race in the ‘Toss Up’ Category
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Tis the season for all things impeachment, so stuff your stockings accordingly. Although don’t forget that Congress is now in recess for the Christmas and New Years holiday. So we will all have to take a break from that news until an agreement can be reached between…
Major Christian Magazine Calls for Trump to be Removed From Office
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Now here’s a revelation. An evangelical Christian magazine with widespread circulation founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham published an editorial on Thursday calling for President Donald Trump’s removal from office by the Senate or popular vote in 2020. An Associated Press story about it being shared…
Full House Votes to Impeach President Trump for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress
House Judiciary Committee Approves Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump, 23-17
By Glynn Wilson – In what could be a historic vote if not for the hyper partisan divide in American politics, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted 23-17 along party lines on Friday to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump, setting up a vote in the full House next week and a…
An Impeachment Victory Dance, or Bust…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – It makes me happy to report that it’s 65 degrees in mid-December here about 1,000 miles from Washington, D.C., proving that our climate change escape travel strategy is working. But even here in the woods along the Alabama-Florida line, it’s hard to escape…
House Intelligence Committee Impeachment Report Shows How Trump Abused the Power of the Presidency
By Glynn Wilson – There is little doubt that Donald Trump abused his power as president by pressuring officials in Ukraine to help him in the 2020 election by investigating a potential political rival in exchange for releasing military aid in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution and election law, according to a report released…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones Expresses Concerns About Impeachment
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,…
How Much Evidence is Enough?
Fox News Poll Shows Trump Presidency Sinking: Will He ‘Ratfuck’ the Country if We Don’t Make Him King and Dictator for Life?
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â The political and legal quagmire gripping Washington, the country and the world just grows weirder by the minute. I’m developing a new theory about why Donald Trump is doing what he’s doing, but first I want to talk about Rudy. Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, that is, who…
Alabama Republican Party Attacks U.S. Senator Doug Jones, Stands Against Trump Impeachment Investigation and Rule of Law
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…
An Open Letter to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama
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…
A Majority of Americans Think Trump Should Resign Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
Trump is Making America Stoned and Drunk Again
Trump Faces Deepest Crisis of Presidency With Comey Memo
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…
Forty Percent of Americans Want Trump Impeached Already
By Glynn Wilson – Less than two weeks into Donald J. Trump’s tenure as President of the United States, already 40 percent of Americans say they want him impeached and removed from office in an unprecedented public backlash to his policies, according to a new survey just out from Public Policy Polling. Yet it is…