By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Birmingham, expressed concerns about some aspects of the impeachment inquiry in a press call with reporters on Thursday, while continuing to rebuff media questions about how he might vote. “I cant’ say how I’m gonna vote, because I don’t know, one, if it’s coming,…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones will host a forum on environmental justice and community development in the Black Belt at Wallace Community College in Selma, Alabama on Monday, Nov. 25 at 12 noon in coordination with the League of Conservation Voters and The Nature Conservancy. Senator Jones, the Democrat from Birmingham, will moderate a panel of…
Reportedly He Will Not Have Trump’s Support – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Apparently it’s no longer a trial balloon, and Alabama is now back in the national spotlight. Word began to leak out Wednesday on Twitter, then on CNN and other news outlets on television and the web, that President Donald Trump’s…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The images coming out of Syria, where American military forces are rapidly withdrawing as Iran’s partners ISIS are released from prisons, and the Russians and Turkey take over the ground near the border, are reminiscent of pictures coming out of Vietnam in 1973. This is not playing well…
Impeachment Trial Could Begin by Thanksgiving – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress returned to the nation’s capital after a fall recess on Tuesday and immediately got to work rebuking President Donald J. Trump for his sudden military withdrawal from Syria, while Republican Senators are increasingly being asked to take a stand on…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â The political and legal quagmire gripping Washington, the country and the world just grows weirder by the minute. I’m developing a new theory about why Donald Trump is doing what he’s doing, but first I want to talk about Rudy. Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, that is, who…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — We now know where the Alabama Republican Party stands on impeachment and the rule of law in this American democracy. They are against it, at least the so-called leadership of the party, Republican Party Chair Terry Lathan. She held a news conference in Hoover this week simply to…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alabama Senator Doug Jones, the Birmingham Democrat, officially kicked off his campaign for reelection on Sunday at the B&A Warehouse in downtown Birmingham, emphasizing a centrists theme of common sense solutions and bringing the people of the state together as “One Alabama.” He came on stage with a…
Glynn Wilson – We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Russia interfered in an American election in 2016, and that they and other hostile powers are already preparing to do it again in 2020. In fact there is no scintilla of doubt, and if given the chance, an honest grand jury would rule…
Acknowledging Huntsville Alabama’s Role in Building the Saturn V Rocket – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s not hard to remember exactly where I was 50 years ago when the Apollo 11 space craft launched for the moon on July 16, 1969 with Saturn V rocket motors built in Huntsville, Alabama. Or where…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – People have been complaining about “dysfunction” in Washington, well, since George Washington was drafted to become the first president of the United States. Politicians who want to come here to the so-called swamp, for all kinds of strange reasons, have been campaigning on the issue for decades. Candidate…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – As a political issue, the social wedge issue of abortion only serves to divide Americans and does nothing to solve any real economic or social issues facing governments at the federal, state or local level. While public opinion polls have shown Americans equally divided at 48 percent of the public identifying…
By Glynn Wilson – This might be a good time for Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to sit down for lunch with President Donald J. Trump at the White House, or maybe play a round of golf with him, to explain how tariffs actually work and brief him on the history of how trade…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones Expresses Concerns About Attorney General William Barr’s Objectivity in Pending Investigations of the Trump Administration – By Glynn Wilson – It seems we may have reached the point of crossing the Rubicon with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. You may recall that the phrase refers to Julius Caesar’s crossing of…
Staff Report – The bipartisan Military Widow’s Tax Elimination Act has earned its 61 cosponsors, making it filibuster proof in the Senate, if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will bring it to the floor for a vote. U.S. Senator Doug Jones sponsored the legislation and announced Tuesday that his bill had surpassed the key threshold…
By Glynn Wilson – Former Vice President Joe Biden, a moderate Democrat who plans to appeal to working-class voters who deserted the Democratic Party to vote for President Donald J. Trump in 2016, tossed his hat into the ring to run for president on Thursday in a YouTube video on his own campaign channel that…
By Glynn Wilson – As farmers and victims of floods, tornadoes and hurricanes desperately await financial aid from the federal government, members of Congress took off for a two week Spring Break this week without passing a disaster relief package, stymied in a compromise by a threatened presidential veto over more funding to help the…
By Glynn Wilson – President Donald J. Trump didn’t waste any time in showing his true priorities just a day after he and the country learned of his apparent exoneration in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of his involvement in conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election. Trump and his Department of Justice reversed…
Guest Column – By Senator Doug Jones – As Americans, we all appreciate and support our troops and their families. Right? Of course we do. We fly the flag, hold parades in their honor, and praise these brave Americans – and their spouses and children – for their sacrifices on our behalf. We commit to…
