By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The right-wing Republican pro-Russia National Rifle Association (NRA) is interfering with our democratic, electoral process again, this time targeting U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama in television ads trying to get people to pressure him to vote for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Many Democrats…
Guest Column – By U.S. Senator Doug Jones – Joshua Hillman, a bright young man from Prattville, Alabama, is heading to law school this fall with the hopes of someday becoming an advocate for others who need help. Joshua knows firsthand what it’s like to face a daily struggle and to do so with a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forgive my Trump news burnout. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 68 percent of Americans feel worn out by the amount of crazy news there is these days thanks in large part to the Trump Twitter storms and the way…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Calling President Donald J. Trump’s proposed 25-percent tariff on imported cars, trucks and auto parts as a national security measure “an absurd way to look at this” in a conference call with reporters on Thursday, U.S. Senator Doug Jones is working with Republican Senators Lamar Alexander of Tennessee…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump’s insistence on fighting a trade war against the entire world all at once for political purposes is on the verge of casting a pall over the global economy that could depress global economic growth and result in the loss of American jobs…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Democrats and independents: Listen up! The fate of the country and the world are in your hands. Before I go off on a stream of consciousness rant here many average IQ Americans will never understand, I need to say this one thing everyone should be able to get. It doesn’t take much abstract…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Attorney General and former Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama went on the road recently to try to sell the Trump administration’s cruel and unusual policy of separating immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexican border to law enforcement officers and the country by quoting the Bible,…
By Glynn Wilson – After threatening a presidential veto and another government shutdown, Donald Trump went on national television and complained about the massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending resolution passed this week by both houses of Congress, but then blinked and signed it into law. It funds the federal government through Sept. 30 and includes…
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration is threatening to cut $6 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget in 2018, eliminating block grants for water and sewer projects in poor, minority areas in states, including Alabama’s Black Belt, according to a preliminary budget proposal obtained by the Washington Post. Some Democratic…
By Glynn Wilson – Alabama’s new United States Senator Doug Jones chose the raging issue of gun violence Wednesday as the central topic for his first speech on the Senate floor since his election in December. And while he will be criticized from the right and the left for some of what he said, mainstream…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the new Democrat in Washington from Alabama, was asked to appear on “CBS This Morning” to comment on President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address, scheduled for Tuesday night. While many Democrats are planning on participating in “not watch” parties, and some Democrats are boycotting…
By Glynn Wilson – On the first full work day of a federal government shutdown caused mainly by a lack of competent leadership from the White House, a bipartisan group of Senators forged a compromise Monday morning to end the filibuster over government funding and debate pressing issues related to immigration and border security. The…
#Trumpshutdown By Glynn Wilson – One year to the day after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president of the United States on a promise to “make America great again,” he proved to be a failure as a deal maker and only made the governing crisis in Washington, D.C. worse. Republicans and Democrats proposed…
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 Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Doug Jones is not waiting on former judge Roy Moore to concede the U.S. Senate election in Alabama that captured the attention of the nation. Four days before Christmas, after a wedding anniversary vacation in Key West with his wife Louise and a trip to New York to…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — They say politics makes strange bedfellows. But somehow I don’t think they meant a 32-year-old assistant district attorney fondling a 14-year-old girl in nothing but his tighty-whities. Discredited judge Roy Moore emerged from his seclusion this week and tried to blame former President Barack…
