By Glynn Wilson – One day after President Donald J. Trump went on national television to announce that he would unilaterally withdraw the United States from a deal with Iran negotiated by the Obama administration to prevent that country from developing nuclear weapons, threats to homeland security are already being announced, oil and gas prices…
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No Judge Will Touch Political Hot Potato of Roy Moore Defamation Case
By Glynn Wilson – So there’s not one single judge in Etowah County, Alabama, who wants to have anything to do with former judge Roy Moore and his doomed defamation case in Gadsden against women who accused him of sexual impropriety last year. According to a document filed in court this week signed by all…
Trial Date Set for Judge Roy Moore Defamation Case
Understanding the Facebook Juggernaut and How Newspapers Killed Themselves
By Glynn Wilson – Let’s review. There is much hand-wringing in the news of late about how Facebook lost control of all the data it collects on users, how that data was used by Cambridge Analytica to potentially swing the 2016 presidential election away from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, and how Facebook and Google…
Climate Change Denier Scott Pruitt May Be On the Way Out at EPA
By Glynn Wilson – One of the most disheartening facts about the Trump administration’s policies to the millions of Americans who care deeply about the Earth’s natural environment is the outright war on the planet being waged by President Donald Trump and his cabinet. A couple of new stories just out demonstrate the problem, and…
The ‘Fake News’ Controversy is Not Over and Not Just on Facebook: Check Your Local TV News Listings for Sinclair Propaganda
By Glynn Wilson – This may be the most important news you read this week, maybe this month. So you think the exposure of “fake news” in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election and all the stories about how Facebook data was compromised and used to manipulate voters was the end of the controversy?…
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Defamation Lawsuit Against Roy Moore
Staff Report – Former judge and Senate candidate Roy Moore’s attempt to convince a judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against him failed Wednesday when Montgomery County Circuit Judge Roman Ashley Shaul denied his motion to dismiss the case and scheduled a formal court hearing for April 12. Leigh Corfman of Gadsden filed the lawsuit…
Alabama Attorney Goes Public With Attempted Bribery Allegations Against Roy Moore, Steve Bannon and Breitbart News
By Glynn Wilson – Three months after Roy Moore went down to holy defeat in his divine plan allegedly ordained by God to take Jesus to Washington with him to serve in the United States Senate, more allegations are surfacing that could land Moore and some of his political associates in further legal hot water.…
After Threatening to Shut Down the Government Again, President Trump Signs Spending Bill
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…
If President Trump is Not Above the Law, Neither is Judge Roy Moore
By Glynn Wilson – If President Donald J. Trump is not above the law according to the courts in New York, then former judge Roy Moore should not be excused by the courts in Alabama either, according to attorneys for Leigh Corfman, the Gadsden woman who is suing Moore for defamation. Montgomery Judge Roman Ashley…
How Wrestle Mania Trumped Intelligence in U.S. Politics
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox Campaigns for Governor in Mobile and Baldwin County
By Glynn Wilson – DAPHNE, Ala. — The “unwavering hero” of the massive tornado that struck Tuscaloosa in 2011, Walter Maddox, at 45, may be the early front runner in a crowded field of candidates for governor of Alabama. On a campaign swing through Baldwin County and Mobile Thursday night, the Tuscaloosa mayor said why…
Still Unrepentant for Grievous Sins, Former Judge Roy Moore Appeals to Christians for Money
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It is unclear why the national press should care now, other than the fact that the story is a bit of traffic driving sensational tabloid clickbait, yet a story is making the rounds on Twitter this morning quoting former Ten Commandments judge and Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore…
We Can All Learn From the Russian Indictments and Tactics
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — If special counsel Robert Mueller can issue 14 indictments against Russians who conspired to mess with an election in the United States who he will never actually be able to drag into court and jail, why can’t he indict the top man who obviously…
Chris Christie Runs for Attorney General to Make Alabama Great in Government, Not Just Football
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Nothing gets the people of Alabama fired up like football. It’s even been called the state religion. But in the best piece of journalism ever published on the subject, Rick Bragg debunked that notion a few years back in Sports Illustrated. “They say college football is religion in…
Protest Trump’s Budget Or Face the Ultimate Disaster
Trump Declares All Out War on the Poor, the Environment, the World – By Glynn Wilson – The hour grows late. The situation dire and dark. The proposed fiscal 2019 federal budget unveiled Monday by President Donald J. Trump, which is certain to draw criticism and debate in Congress and massive acts of resistance…
Exclusive: Video Found of University of Alabama Football Coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant
Bear Bryant was interviewed by students at Birmingham’s Parker High School in 1973 – Please click on this link and hit subscribe to our YouTube channel to help save us from losing advertising revenue (see explanation below). Students interview University of Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant at Parker High School in Birmingham the day…
Former Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Runs From House Intel Committee Subpoena
By Glynn Wilson – So we ran former White House strategist Steve Bannon out of Alabama last year when he came to town to try and help the radical, right-wing conservative Republican former judge and alleged teen sexual molester Roy Moore in his race against Birmingham attorney and Democrat Doug Jones for the U.S. Senate.…
Democrats Qualify in Statewide Races Hoping for a ‘Blue Wave’ in 2018 Midterm Elections
By Glynn Wilson – When Birmingham attorney Doug Jones tossed his hat into the ring as a Democrat to run for the United States Senate last year and ended up beating the radical, right-wing conservative Republican former judge and alleged teen sexual molester Roy Moore in December, Democrats all over the state and country saw…
Resurrect the Slave Ship Clotilda, Save Africatown and Rectify History
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – Maybe it once made sense to allow the police to put bad dudes out of business by seizing their stuff. “Civil forfeiture” gave cops an OK to snatch dope dealers’ cash, vehicles and other assets without having to wait for trials and convictions. But these seizures became so…