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…
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The Grounds for Trump’s Impeachment
By Robert Reich – By my count, there are now four grounds to impeach Donald Trump. The fifth appears to be on its way. First, in taking the oath of office, a president promises to “faithfully execute the laws and the constitution.” That’s Article II Section 2. But Trump is unfaithfully executing his duties as…
Trump’s AG Jeff Sessions Faces New Ethics Complaint by Going After Pot Smokers, Black Lives Matter
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…
How We Are Going to Fund the New Free Press
Doublespeak: Trump Guts EPA While Claiming to be for Protecting the Environment
By Glynn Wilson – New EPA administrator Scott Pruitt recently told Fox News that Trump’s new executive order abandoning work on climate change and promoting fossil fuels is a return to “core EPA originalism.” This is clearly a perfect example of “doublespeak,” a term inspired by George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The creation of the…
Legal Complaint Filed Accusing Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Lying to Congress and Engaging in a Cover Up
By Glynn Wilson – An attorney in Massachusetts has filed a legal complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice against President Donald J. Trump’s pick as Attorney General, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, formally accusing him of lying to Congress and covering it up. The complaint (see link below), filed on behalf of 23 residents of…
Scientists Issue Statement Opposing Trump Order Withdrawing from Global Climate Change Fight
By Glynn Wilson – Just as the Trump administration moves to roll back environmental protection regulations and withdraw the United States from the growing world community of countries joining the major battle against climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels, the American Association for the Advancement Science has issued a…
Countering Trump’s Twitter Distractions
Editor’s Note: In President Barack Obama’s final two press conferences and his farewell address from Chicago, he advised Democrats to learn how to talk to average, working people like the ones who voted for Donald Trump. Now there is an academic who has solid advice for how to do just that, George Lakoff. Watch this…
Republican Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Report Showing Millions Would Lose Health Care Under Trump Plan
By Glynn Wilson – In spite of all the big talk rhetoric from Republicans from the president on down about a plan to repeal and allegedly replace the Affordable Care Act with something that would cover the same number of people for less, an independent, nonpartisan U.S. Congressional Budget Office report released Monday says the…
Rather Than Announcing His Resignation, Sessions Demands Resignations of U.S. Attorneys Around the Country
By Glynn Wilson – Rather than resigning as U.S. Attorney General for lying to Congress, Alabama Jeff Sessions announced the proactive decision this week to forcibly remove U.S. attorneys around the country from office who were appointed by President Barack Obama so the Trump administration could bring in more conservative Federalist Society lawyers to oversee…
Three Terrifying Reasons for Trump’s Latest Rant on Obama Wiretaps
By Robert Reich – Early Saturday morning, March 4, the 45th president of the United States alleged in a series of tweets that former president Barack Obama orchestrated a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap Trump’s phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election. Trump concluded that the former president is…
Ryan Zinke of Montana Sworn in as Trump’s Secretary of the Interior
Should Environmentalists Be Concerned? – By Glynn Wilson – Americans who value national parks and other public lands have a right to be concerned about President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke of Montana. Zinke, whose record on protecting the environment shows some promise, but also potential problems, was…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Recuses Himself on Russian Investigations
Attorney General Jeff Sessions News Conference Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in a news conference he would recuse himself from any investigations involving President Trumpâs campaign and potential connections to Russia. He did so in response to reports he failed to disclose at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing his contacts with the Russian ambassador…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Lied to Congress About Contacts with Russian Officials
He Should Step Down Immediately for the Sake of the Integrity of the U.S. Legal System – By Glynn Wilson – Editor-in-Chief – MOBILE, Ala. — It is now being reported by many news organizations that Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee in his testimony during his confirmation hearings about meeting…
President Trump’s Liar-in-Chief Shock and Awe Continues
Robert Reich: Seven Signs of Tyranny
By Robert Reich – As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically do 7 things: 1. They exaggerate their mandate to govern – claiming, for example, that they won an election by a “landslide” even after losing the popular vote. They criticize any finding that they or co-conspirators stole the election. And they repeatedly claim…
Thanks Jeff Sessions: Alabama is a National Joke Again
Joe Reed and the Democrats are no better: It’s time for an independent third party to emerge. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Little Jeffry Beauregard Sessions of Alabama has made the big time. No, it’s not just because a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate held their noses and confirmed him as…
Trump’s War on the Courts, the Press and the States
By Robert Reich – With congressional Republicans in the majority in Congress and unwilling to cross Donald Trump, the job of containing Trump’s incipient tyranny falls to three centers of independent power: the nation’s courts, its press and a few state governments. Which is why Trump is escalating attacks on all three. The Judiciary After…
How Jeff Sessions Helped Kill Equitable School Funding in Alabama
A lawsuit in the 1990s had Alabama poised to fund poor black school districts as fairly as wealthy white schools. As state attorney general, Sessions fought the effort passionately. – By Ryan Gabrielson – ProPublica – In the early 1990s, children across Alabama’s large rural stretches still attended faltering public schools, some with exposed wiring…
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…