By Glynn Wilson – The Republicans in the United States Senate showed just how partisan Washington has become on Wednesday by voting along strict party lines to acquit President Donald J. Trump of two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, even though a number of Republicans had admitted publicly that Trump…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, will vote for the conviction of President Donald J. Trump in the Senate impeachment trial and in favor of his removal from office, even though most pundits still say the Republicans have the votes to acquit the president. It would take 67 votes…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Reacts to the Dershowitz Argument – By Glynn Wilson – In a press conference call with reporters on Thursday morning before the U.S. Senate was to go back into session to continue the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, Senator Doug Jones of Alabama hinted that the odds…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â It’s hard to know what the Chinese astrologers were thinking when they came up with the Chinese zodiac, but sometimes their system creates opportunities for word games that also tend to possess political and/or social insight. Take 2020, for example, the Year of the Rat. The Rat…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – House prosecutors made their closing arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump on Friday, with lead House manager and Congressman Adam Schiff of California taking to the podium in the Senate at the end of the night to make an impassioned appeal for Senators to…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – The power of fear and a social media program named after a bird call cowed a majority in the United States Senate on Tuesday to bow down to the wishes of a corrupt dictator who has taken over the once great democratic republic of America, a new kind of…
Facebook Manipulation Had No Discernible Impact – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Birmingham Democrat Doug Jones had Alabama Republican Roy Moore beat in the U.S. Senate election last year before the Washington Post broke the sex scandal story on November 9, 2017. Our definitive reporting on the campaign clearly shows that, and the…
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…
“And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?” – John Milton, Areopagitica…
MOBILE, Ala. — Judge Roy Moore is such a “mans man” that he just could not take the joke from a comedian from Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show on ABC, who crashed the party in Theodore this week when Moore delivered a political sermon in a Baptist church. The event appears to be a…
By Andrew Kreig – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a chaotic chapter of government efforts to suppress research into the evidence regarding President Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, President Trump on Oct. 26 suddenly backed away from his promises this week to comply with a 1992 Congressional law and release all remaining documents related to the assassination. The…
By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — If President Donald J. Trump was actually as smart as he likes to say he is and actually had a plan to make America great, he would have shut down his Twitter account on Inauguration Day and ordered his cabinet to come up with real plans to address…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – Texting, using a cellphone and sending and reading email messages are the most frequently used forms of nonpersonal communication for adult Americans topping home phones and Twitter by far, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. Between 37 percent and 39 percent of all Americans said they used each…
