Staff Report – Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Calls for Investigation Into VA Failure to Pay Veterans – In response to a news report indicating that the Trump administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs claims to be so short staffed it can’t do the math to pay student veterans benefits it owes, U.S. Senator Doug Jones…
Staff Report – Colorful Atlanta attorney Donald Watkins and his son have been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with concocting a scheme that defrauded investors out of millions of dollars, according to an announcement just out from the U.S. attorneys office in Birmingham. Donald V. Watkins Sr., 70, of Atlanta, Georgia — perhaps…
Editor’s Note by Glynn Wilson: Just this week I had time and thought to log back on to my account at Ancestry.com, to check on a report I received by email about six months ago. I had taken the $69 plunge to try Ancestry.com in an effort to confirm or deny my own suspicions about…
Doug Jones joins bipartisan group of Senators standing up to Trump tariffs on aluminum and steel – Sample banner ad: Your company could have an ad on this site like this. Click here to see how — > By Glynn Wilson – Trump’s Twitter Trade policies are already costing jobs and plant closures in the…
Sample banner ad: Your company could have an ad on this site like this. Click here to see how — > By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. – Nowhere in the country are people more supportive of the president than Alabama, yet they may be the first people hardest hit by Donald Trump’s Twitter trade…
So too did the press, the media, the intelligence community and Democrats – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Facebook fucked up. So too did the entire traditional press and broadcast news media in America. So did the CIA, the NSA and the FBI. Democrats screwed up too. The Republicans and the Russians just…
Editor’s Note – One day in 2017, during Trump’s first summer as president, I was on my way back from covering a protest on the U.S. Capitol lawn when the Republicans in Congress were still trying to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. As I took my seat on the D.C. Metro…
By Glynn Wilson – Everyone knows America suffers from a sharp partisan divide. All you have to do is turn on the news on TV or glance at the news feed on Facebook to know that. But the latest analysis of the data by the Pew Research Center from the midterm elections shows how the…
By Glynn Wilson – President Trump’s appointment of political loyalist Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general to replace Jeff Sessions of Alabama was illegal and is unconstitutional, and a federal judge in Maryland has been asked to rule on that question in a lawsuit defending a the pre-existing condition provision in the Affordable Care Act,…
On the Media – Â By Glynn Wilson -Â There is a groundswell of public sentiment on social media that perhaps the White House press corps should run a boycott on Trump. Before we go any further, let me make it clear up front that this is never going to happen, for economic reasons if…
Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Democrats all over the country are buoyed by a surge in voters in enough places to take back a majority in the U.S. House, inspired by what they see as a mortal threat to Democracy by the divisiveness of President Donald J. Trump. More than…
By Glynn Wilson – The forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Alabama by Donald Trump the day after the midterm elections and right after a contentious White House press conference has set off a firestorm of criticism in Washington and around the country and generated a host of anxiety in the legal community…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Forced to Resign – ELECTION ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – True to form, the first King of America preempted all television programming the day after the midterm elections to make sure everyone’s attention was focused on him, the greatest narcissist whoever lived. Donald Trump could not wait a day for…
Connecting the Dots By Glynn Wilson William Wilberforce, the British politician and philanthropist who is credited with ending the slave trade in Great Britain, spent his entire adult life dedicated to “creating a better world,” according to his biographies and the movie Amazing Grace. So his story is important to know for anyone with similar…
But just maybe it could get more people to swallow the medicine – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ALABAMA – What do you get when you crush sugar cane and boil the juice? Molasses, of course. The thick, brown syrup still used in the American South for baking pies, cookies and other…
By Glynn Wilson – In a late breaking news development on Friday afternoon that comes as bad news for President Donald J. Trump on the eve of the midterm elections next Tuesday, a federal judge announced his decision to deny Trump’s request to stay a lawsuit claiming he is in violation of the United States…
