The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GULF SHORES, Ala. — It is common knowledge in the bar rooms along the golden sands of the Redneck Riviera that Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and other country music artists are modern day American poets. They are just as important to understand as the English playwright William…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It felt like history was being made to many in the audience Friday night when Georgia Congressman John Lewis joined Doug Jones on the campaign trail and urged people to exercise their hard fought right to vote. When I asked Levon Manzie, a member of the Mobile City…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — So we rolled into the laid back land of live oaks, Spanish moss and historic McMansions this week after spending half the year in another swamp, Washington, D.C., and what a surprise we found. Everywhere you look, even on streets occupied by families with…
Trump’s Approval Drops Below 50 Percent – By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrat Doug Jones has pulled even with Republican and former judge Roy Moore in the U.S. Senate campaign in Alabama with less than two months to go before the special election, and even President Donald Trump’s reputation is suffering in the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new public opinion survey of likely voters in an Alabama special election to fill Jeff Sessions’ U.S. Senate seat indicates that Democrat Doug Jones is in a virtual dead heat with Republicans Judge Roy Moore and Senator Luther Strange. The poll, conducted by the communications department at…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Democrats in bars and coffee shops around the nation’s capital and across Alabama are asking each other an implausible question: Is 2017 the year a Democrat might get elected to the U.S. Senate from the conservative state? The 63-year-old former federal prosecutor Doug Jones, who jailed a couple…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Vice President Joe Biden has endorsed former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones of Birmingham in his bid to replace Jeff Sessions in the United States Senate. Former Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange now occupies the seat held by Sessions for 20 years. Strange was appointed by disgraced former…
Trump makes headlines criticizing Sessions: Observers wonder when the Attorney General will go — By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In another explosive story from the New York Times out Thursday, President Donald J. Trump made a statement criticizing his pick for Attorney General, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, for recusing himself from any investigation…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The surprise announcement on Wednesday that Birmingham attorney Doug Jones filed the qualifying papers to run for public office as a Democrat in the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat long held by now Attorney General Jeff Sessions currently occupied by former state Attorney General Luther…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, is calling for an investigation into student loan debt. As the lead author of a letter to more than 100 key stakeholders nationwide to solicit feedback on how to help improve federal policies for student borrowers of color and make access…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Social media. What is it? What good is it? Does it help the public become more informed and enhance democracy? Or does it just help spread fake news, misinformation and disinformation and help the spread of authoritarianism and fascism? Is it a good way…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Uh, I’m not sure this is what politicians usually have in mind when they talk about “kitchen table” issues. I asked former Senator Doug Jones of Alabama about this on Twitter(X). He talked a lot about kitchen table issues back in 2017. But there…
“Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” – Genesis 2:7 Fetuses and frozen embryos don’t breath air. Under the Microscope – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — You can’t fix stupid. There…
A Deep Dive into when Ronnie Vann Zant asked Wayne Perkins to join the band – Blast From the Past – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s only Rock ‘n’ Roll, but I like it. Yes I do. One of the gods of rock once wrote that in the early 1970s and sang…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal appeals court has rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim that he was immune to charges of engaging in a seditious conspiracy to subvert the results of the 2020 election, ruling that he must go to trial on a criminal indictment accusing him of seeking to overturn…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s a sad day in Alabama and across the land, except in Auburnland. The god of the football religion in these parts Nick Saban has apparently made the decision to retire, according to leaks from his inner circle to ESPN and other news sources. It will be the…
“I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.” – John Adams The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s no good excuse these days to be ignorant about anything. Any information you want or…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After spending some time this week thinking about the world of 1687, when Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Society of London published Principia Mathematica — with a little MAGA Republican distraction thrown in — I’ve stumbled on to another epiphany. Newton’s Laws Work:…
“Tuberville lives in Auburn, Alabama, with his wife Suzanne.” — website of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — We’ve often reported that former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville is not a resident of Alabama. Republican voters elected him as a U.S. Senator anyway. Now the Washington Post Fact Checker has proved…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden reverses Donald Trump’s decision to move the headquarters of U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama, senior military officials announced Monday. Former Democratic Senator from Alabama Doug Jones said while he is disappointed, the decision was best for national security and was not a political…
