Public Affairs - National Politics

Liz Cheney, Law Enforcement Officials, Respond to Trump’s Threats on NBC

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Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who helped lead a Congressional investigation into the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, called President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to imprison her and other members of the select House committee an “assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic.” Responding to comments Trump made in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cheney said…

Opinion - Editorial Columns

Game of Riddles: The Thing that Devours All Things

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Game of Riddles No. 9 This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In chapter five of J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, and…

Ignorance is Bliss: The Word of the Year is Brain Rot

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – If we had only known that ignorance really was bliss, that human stupidity was the ultimate goal in life, that to be “woke” was not just a bad thing but the worst thing a person could strive to be,…

Travel - Tales From the MoJo Road

A Curve Into Birmingham: I Will Not Back Down

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – This feels surreal, like much going on in the world these days, even without hallucinogens. Everything feels like a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy, like the world depicted by artist M.C. Escher. And apparently that’s the…

Many Rivers to Cross Before I Find My Way Home

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST, Missouri – “How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man,” Bob Dylan once sang in another anxious time. He found the answer, “blowin’ in the wind.” How many rivers must…

Legal Affairs

House Ethics Report Accuses Matt Gaetz of Being A Bad Boy

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Just No Strict Punishment Recommended for His Alleged Crimes – Staff Report – A House Ethics Committee report accuses former House member Matt Gaetz of Florida, and President-elect Donald Trump’s former pick for attorney general, of paying for sex, possessing illegal drugs and having sexual relations with an underage girl.…

The Proposal to Break Up Google Is Finally Here

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Guest Column – By Matt Stoller – Big Tech On Trial Three and a half months ago, D.C. district Judge Amit Mehta found that Google broke antitrust law in monopolizing search and search advertising. In a tightly reasoned 277-page opinion, Mehta’s conclusion was that Google, by controlling the means of…

Science - Space - Technology

The Folly of Dreaming About Winning a Space War With Russia or China

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Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Buried under all the latest news dominating the cable news talk and social media traffic about President-elect Donald Trump’s insane choices of unqualified loyalists to serve in his cabinet, clearly a team designed to destroy the United States government from within,…

The Arts - Music

Nobody Really Knows Me: A Rock and Roll Journey

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By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Close to 300 friends and followers of Birmingham musician Wayne Perkins, many from the east side of town who came of age in the 1970s listening to the Alabama Power Band play at The Crossroads in Roebuck, nearly filled the Steiner Auditorium…