By Glynn Wilson – In a significant blow to Alabama’s Jeff Sessions and his comeback attempt to regain his old seat in the United States Senate, President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday endorsed his opponent in the Republican primary runoff, former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville. While just a week after the vote on Super…
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Joe Biden Reemerges as Democratic Front Runner on Super Tuesday
Republican Tommy Tuberville Tops Jeff Sessions, Likely to Win Runoff and Face Senator Doug Jones in November – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — Joe Biden came back from the political dead on Super Tuesday and reemerged as the front runner in the Democratic Party’s primary race to take on President Donald Trump in…
Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate Again? Doug Jones Says ‘Bring Him On’
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…
The Year of the Dog 2018: Year in Review
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It has truly been the Year of the Dog, according to the Chinese Zodiac calendar, a year characterized by “Action,” especially if you are a Twitter follower. You may be suffering from an overdose of adrenaline and dopamine. You might want to take a break during the…
Michael Cohen was There the Day Trump Began Breaking Bad
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â When the neo-western crime drama Breaking Bad first hit Netflix, I watched the first episode and said “no,” I don’t want to watch this. But after Donald Trump was somehow elected president of the United States and the drug cartel-related money laundering plot of the show seemed…
The Beginning of the End of Trump’s Presidency
So Trump Wants to Establish a Press Blacklist Database?
Add my name to the top of the list. I say Trump should be arrested and removed from the White House, now. – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – If Donald Trump’s crazy tweets, undignified behavior, unqualified cabinet appointments, disastrous policies and authoritarian bashing of the press has not been…
We Can All Learn From the Russian Indictments and Tactics
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — If special counsel Robert Mueller can issue 14 indictments against Russians who conspired to mess with an election in the United States who he will never actually be able to drag into court and jail, why can’t he indict the top man who obviously…
Alabama Democrat Doug Jones Sworn in as U.S. Senator
By Glynn Wilson – Birmingham attorney Doug Jones kicked off the new year by making history on Wednesday, being sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence as the first Democrat in the United States Senate from Alabama in a quarter century. He reclaimed the seat long held by his mentor, Howell Heflin, narrowing the Republican…
Judge Roy Moore Defeats Republican Luther Strange in Special Senate Election
Democrat Doug Jones Wins Primary, Calls for Calm in Charlottesville – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The religious right in conservative Alabama once again proved they will turn out to vote in greater numbers than any other group as long as the candidate does not believe in the separation of church and state.…
Joe Biden Endorses Doug Jones in Alabama Senate Campaign
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Vice President Joe Biden has endorsed former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones of Birmingham in his bid to replace Jeff Sessions in the United States Senate. Former Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange now occupies the seat held by Sessions for 20 years. Strange was appointed by disgraced former…
Thoreau’s Realometer: Sessions is a Goner — Trump Should Go Too
“Be it life or death, we crave only reality.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oh how things have changed since Henry David Thoreau’s 1854, when he first published Walden. How things have changed since 1896, when Adolph Ochs purchased and began transforming the New…
Democrats Seek Revival Thanks to Divisiveness of Trump
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — In coffee shops, empty warehouses, churches, brewpubs and even wine bars around the country, Democrats are coming out of the woodwork to meet and get involved in public affairs again, appalled at the election of reality television celebrity Donald J. Trump as president and what he is doing…
Russian Spies Charged in Yahoo Hacking Case
By Glynn Wilson – Two Russian spies and two computer hackers have been charged with breaking into 500 million Yahoo email accounts between 2014 and 2016 in one of the largest cyber intrusions in U.S. history, according to a press release just out from the FBI. The charges were announced in the midst of ongoing…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Exposed as a Partisan Hatchet Man
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Partisan political prosecutions have a long history in the system of jurisprudence in the United States, in spite of what judges, lawyers and politicians want the public to believe. Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of it. Although over the past couple of decades,…
Senate Democrats Delay Judiciary Committee Vote on Jeff Sessions Nomination as Attorney General
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senate Democrats are delaying a key vote on Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions’s nomination as President Donald Trump’s attorney general, according The Hill and other news outlets. They say Senators need more time to review the candidate. “As we have done for most nominees … I’m asking that the vote for…
A Golden Shower of Fake News
The ‘Hidden Figures’ Jeff Sessions Wants to Keep in the Shadows
President-Elect Donald Trump to Bring ‘Victory Tour’ to Mobile
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — President-elect Donald J. Trump is planning to bring his “victory tour” or “thank you tour” to Mobile on Saturday, Dec. 17. The event will take place at âLaddâPeebles Stadium beginning at 3 p.m. You can obtain tickets here. This was first reported by the local CBS News affiliate…