Tag Archive for President Donald J. Trump

Going Around in Circles, Chasing Trump’s Tail

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“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” – – Hunter S. Thompson – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. – An image haunts me as I consume the news this morning, an image of…

Federal Judge Rules Against Trump in Emoluments Clause Case

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Attorneys General Allege That Trump’s Business Enterprises Violate U.S. Constitution – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a major blow to President Donald J. Trump and a historic court ruling, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that a lawsuit alleging that Trump’s business enterprises violate the emoluments clauses of the U.S. Constitution may proceed…

Will the F.B.I. and Congress Now Act to Remove Trump from Power?

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Try to imagine the reaction inside the Hoover building at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue as arguably the most corrupt and incompetent president in American history openly committed treason on foreign soil in Helsinki, Finland on Monday. If anyone other than Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Alabama was in charge…

Senator Doug Jones: Tariffs Threaten Alabama Jobs

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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 Show in Washington: Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Fourth of July holiday week is over and the soothing cool front is moving out. It’s about to get hot again in the nation’s capital in more ways than one, just in time for President Donald J. Trump to turn the country even…

Key Republican Issue of Illegal Immigration Becomes a Winner for Democrats

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration’s plan to use illegal immigration as the cornerstone political issue in the midterm elections to try to get more Republicans elected to Congress blew up in its face this week. While Democrats were planning to focus on health care and expanding Medicaid, crying babies being…

Trump-Kim Summit in Jeopardy Without Total Nuclear Disarmament

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By David Underhill – In an inscrutable Oriental blink the mirage of Korean peace begins to fade. North Korea’s “Little Rocket Man”, whose grim regime was a target for fire and fury like the world has never seen, according to last year’s Trumpet blasts, yielded to the Bigger Man with the Bigger Nuclear Button. The…

Michael Cohen was There the Day Trump Began Breaking Bad

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The Big Picture -  By Glynn Wilson -  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…

Say it Ain’t So: A Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump?

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  The disconnect from reality is palpable. It makes me dread waking up, turning on Matilda the Mac (the pet name for my computer) and scanning the headlines online. Not a day goes by in the era of Twitter and Trump without a story coming down the pike…

Are the Country and the World Savable?

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  MOBILE, Ala. — What would you rather read? A story of gloom and doom or a tale of human hope for the future? Or must we cover both sides? Reading the news online and watching what’s left of the Sunday morning news talk shows on broadcast television…

James Comey Forgot: Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall

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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…

An Untethered Trump

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By Robert Reich – The petulant adolescent in the White House – who has replaced most of the adults around him with raging sycophants and has demoted his chief of staff, John Kelly, to lapdog – lacks adequate supervision. Before, he was merely petty and vindictive. He’d tweet nasty things about people he wanted to…