The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So it’s been two weeks since I arrived back in the nation’s capital, right on time to visit the federal district courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland just north of D.C. where one of the trials of the century — or maybe the millennium — will…
Editor’s Note: Monday, April 23 was celebrated in Alabama as Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday that some say should be removed from the official calendar much like the Confederate Battle Flag was removed from state capitol buildings. The controversy over removing Confederate monuments which sparked protests in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Virginia has now…
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Thousands of bird watchers are flocking to the Alabama Gulf Coast this spring for the annual bird migration, but it’s also mating season for other species, including this fairly large American alligator [Alligator mississippiensis] that has become a tourist attraction in its own right as people come…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As an educated lawyer, former FBI director James Comey should know the Latin legal phrase, “Fiat justitia ruat caelum,” which means: “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” He apparently forget that under the pressure of the election in 2016 and in trying to serve President…
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 David Underhill – When Roman emperors knew they were finished, the courageous ones would fall on their own swords. Infirm and unable to defend themselves against their rivals. Or about to lose in a palace coup or civil war. Or having done something so disgraceful their reputation could never recover. Rather than submit to…
By Glynn Wilson – Students across the country walked out in a symbolic protest on Wednesday to focus the nation’s attention on gun violence one month after a gunman killed 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students in a number of schools across Alabama participated in the protest. When asked…
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — His history changing campaign for the United States Senate was a state and national “turning point” and a “watershed,” Senator Doug Jones said to a packed house of supporters on Southside Sunday who came out to celebrate his victory with hot dogs, barbecue and beer. “We were on…
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…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — We are floating on polluted waters in a sinking ship. We might as well look at the U.S.S. United States of America as The Titanic. Remember, it was the ship that was not supposed to sink. When it became obvious that it hit an iceberg and was going…
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…
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – It must have been the baffling foreign language that prevented many reporters and editors from noting the obvious. Mar means sea or ocean in Spanish. If they had known this they surely would have realized that the name of Donald Trump’s Florida resort – Mar-a-Lago – means it’s…
By Roger Newman – Exclusive to the New American Journal – “Alabama has a history of great senators,†said the greatest of them all. Not even Lister Hill’s exceptional accomplishments in expanding hospital care, medical research, libraries and education, or John J. Sparkman’s in housing and establishing rocketry in the state, could compare to those…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two Birmingham lawyers and an Alabama coal company executive were indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday on charges of conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud and money laundering for paying a state legislator to fight the cleanup of a Superfund site in north Birmingham. U.S. attorneys, IRS and…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former Alabama legislator Oliver Robinson pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to accepting bribes from a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in exchange for advocating their employers’ opposition to EPA actions in North Birmingham, according to a press release just out from the U.S.…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So it seems someone else has noticed the statue of Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol building. We broke the story that it’s there on Thursday, August 10. Why is Robert E. Lee’s Statue in the U.S. Capitol Not Yet the Subject of Controversy? Now Senator Cory…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thomas Jefferson’s home town of Charlottesville, Virginia has taken over the spotlight from New Orleans as the key battleground city in a new verbal civil war between activists on the left who want Confederate monuments removed from public property and neo-Nazi white nationalists who are fighting to preserve…
By James Rhodes – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Victoria Siciliano, communications coordinator for the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, recently hosted a community informational forum at the Civil Rights Institute downtown. The primary purpose of the gathering was to raise awareness regarding the plight of the resident immigrants as well as to showcase their personal stories…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Are you sick and tired of living in a land of idiocy and mediocrity? What if I told you there is a way to escape it and see excellence rise to the top? The answers are right in front of our faces, like a long pass for…
