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Can You Find Yourself on a Weather Map?

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – A question for readers. When you were a little kid, do you recall looking at a globe of the world or a map and placing yourself in physical context? I have a clear recollection of thinking of myself as from the city of Birmingham, in Jefferson County,…

Fake News Clickbait Strikes Again: Everybody Falls for It

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  So much for hope that the mainstream media and the Democrats are going to save us from Trump. They have been Zucked again. As I was working on my weekly column on Super Bowl Sunday, I knew something was not quite right with the world. It’s a…

Doug Jones Had Roy Moore Beat in the U.S. Senate Election Before the Washington Post Broke the Sensational Sex Scandal Story on Moore

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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…

What Now? Vote Like You’ve Never Voted Before

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. – “So now what?” asks the New York Times editorial board in an unsigned editorial under the headline: The High Court Brought Low: Don’t let Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh have the last word about American justice. “Having first sickened the White House and then…

Ten Days to Go: Doug Jones Pulls Ahead of Roy Moore in U.S. Senate Race

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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…

Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows, but Jesus. Not this.

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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…

Judge Roy Moore is Finished: We Will Not Elect Another Sex Fiend

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By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. – Judge Roy Moore is finished. Done. If his homophobic, bigoted positions and ignorance of law were not enough, it has now been confirmed that he is also a sex fiend, maybe a pedophile. Alabama had it’s Bentley affair. They will never elect another sex fiend. In case you’ve…