Public Affairs - National Politics

Teddy Roosevelt’s Family Urges Republicans to Protect Public Lands

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By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Ted Roosevelt IV doesn’t like to put words in his great-grandfather’s mouth. But according to a letter signed by himself and three other decedents of the former Republican president, he’s pretty sure that President Theodore Roosevelt would have been “appalled” by an effort by House Republicans to allow mining near an expanse of wilderness in Minnesota. He and his relatives visited Washington on the eve of the President’s…

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Remembering Three Dog Night the Band and Their Music

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – One of the main reasons I fled Washington, D.C. last year and traveled to California in the first place was a determination to stop spending so much time paying attention to partisan politics and issues that never…

Democracy and Capitalism Are NOT One and the Same

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A Review of Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ Editor’s Note: This column first ran in The Locust Fork News-Journal on October 17, 2009. It also ran on the Alternet website in San Francisco at the time, as well as other news sites and blogs in those days. The subject…

New Right-Wing Murdoch Tabloid Launches in L.A.

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Man, this is all we need. A new right-wing sensational tabloid newspaper and news website (no paywall) owned by Rupert Murdoch in California. According to reporting from The New York Times on Thursday, the California Post just…

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You Can’t Call It A Civil War If One Side Refuses to Fight

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The war for democracy is over. Trump’s authoritarianism won. So many Democrats were so worried about another Civil War that they refused to engage in the fight. Now what are the rest of us supposed to do?…

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want: The A.I. Bubble Will Burst

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – From the Golden Gate Bridge crossing San Francisco Bay to Apple’s iconic round “Spaceship” campus in Cupertino near San Jose, there lies an ideal place in the universe that embodies the American Dream in the 21st century. Driving north from San…

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