By Glynn Wilson – The election of Birmingham attorney Doug Jones as the next U.S. Senator from Alabama was certified in Montgomery Thursday at 1:10 p.m. by unanimous vote of the State Canvassing Board in spite of a last minute lawsuit to try to stop it by Roy Moore. The board, consisting of Gov. Kay…
By David Underhill – Associate Editor – MOBILE, Ala – It was a miracle that no lightning bolt struck Judge Roy Moore dead in the pulpit of the Baptist church where he spoke recently on the fringes of Mobile. He was already flagrantly apostate by using the sanctuary to magnify the message of his run…
Don’t believe it. Go vote on Tuesday anyway. – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — A new public opinion survey has Birmingham attorney Doug Jones opening up a 10 point lead over former judge Roy Moore with one day to go before the vote in the special U.S. Senate election on Tuesday, Dec. 12.…
BREAKING NEWS: Grammy-winner Jason Isbell and St. Paul and the Broken Bones will perform FREE get out the vote concerts in support of Doug Jones on Saturday, Dec. 9, three days before the vote in Alabama’s special U.S. Senate election on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Jones, the Democrat, is in a neck and neck race with…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Judge Roy Moore is right about one thing. “The world is watching,†he said the other night in church near here. So now that we have your attention, world, there are a few things that need to be said. Everybody in Alabama is not…
Editor’s Note: New American Journal editor and publisher Glynn Wilson is an expert at analyzing public opinion data having studied survey research at the University of Alabama as an undergrad in the early 1980s and a grad student in the mid-1990s. He has covered public opinion and politics as a specialty for newspapers, wire services…
He’s no constitutional authority, no Baptist and no representative of evangelical values. By Randall Balmer – I first encountered Roy Moore in 2002 in a Montgomery, Ala., courtroom, where I was an expert witness on the separation of church and state in what came to be known as the Alabama Ten Commandments case. Moore, then…
By Glynn Wilson — MOBILE, Ala. — An attorney in Massachusetts has filed a formal legal complaint against U.S. Senate Candidate Roy Moore of Alabama for criminal acts, including “predatory sexual activity,” as well as dishonesty, fraud and deceit, engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice and for trying to intimidate witnesses, including…
Video Link The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Now that we have made “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” I think it is incumbent upon me to add a few editorial comments as material for future shows. First of all let me say for the record that I personally have…
VIDEO ADDED: By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Another woman from Alabama has come forward with a story saying she was sexually attacked and almost raped as a teenager by U.S. Senate candidate and former Ten Commandments judge Roy Moore. Beverly Young Nelson, from Anniston, appeared at a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — When the tea in Boston Harbor dissipated, a new nation emerged from the carnage. Now that the tea party in modern American politics is clearly over, it looks like another new nation is emerging, one that will no longer stomach the election of people who tear…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — So we rolled into the laid back land of live oaks, Spanish moss and historic McMansions this week after spending half the year in another swamp, Washington, D.C., and what a surprise we found. Everywhere you look, even on streets occupied by families with…
Trump’s Approval Drops Below 50 Percent – By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrat Doug Jones has pulled even with Republican and former judge Roy Moore in the U.S. Senate campaign in Alabama with less than two months to go before the special election, and even President Donald Trump’s reputation is suffering in the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With less than a week to go before a special election runoff in an national Senate race that could be a harbinger of the future for Alabama and the country, feisty former Judge Roy Moore is still holding off the big money and leading Senator Luther Strange by…
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.…
