By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defying critics and in an effort to bring the United States back to its leadership role on the world stage in fighting climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy, the Biden administration announced major new regulations to limit greenhouse pollution from…
Government Declares Covid National Emergency Over: But Is It?
How has your life been changed by this global pandemic? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It feels like a scary movie of a lifetime has passed in the past three years since March, 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic national emergency was declared in the United States. While the…
Jury Convicts Four Leaders of the Proud Boys of Seditious Conspiracy for Planning Revolution and Leading the Attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A jury returned guilty verdicts on multiple felonies against five members of the Proud Boys, finding four of the defendants guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. According to the evidence at trial, in the months…
Take a Break From More Pressing Thoughts to Contemplate the End of the Universe
Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School: Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition
By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and…
The Future of Politics, the Internet and a Coming ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ in Public Opinion
Trump’s Domestic Terrorist Followers Continue to be Arrested, Convicted and Sent to Prison
Editor’s Note: This is a weekly roundup of results from cases related to the seditious conspiracy that led to the insurrection and attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021 when Trump refused to concede his loss in the 2020 election and incited followers to violence in Washington to try to keep him in power. We are…
President Joe Biden Announces Candidacy, Officially Kicking Off the 2024 Race for President
Political Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â While public opinion data shows the American people do not seem ready or excited to begin the official campaign season for president in 2024, especially if the campaign is going to be a rematch between President Joe Biden and loser Donald Trump, Biden announced his…
A Story of Soul: Grappling With Mental Illness
EDITOR’S NOTE – YOU ARE NOT ALONE. That is the slogan for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a non-profit organization based in Arlington, Virginia. According to this group and other sources, millions of people in the United States and all over the world are affected by mental illness each year. They say itâs important…
Biden Administration Scores With the Public as Americans Celebrate Earth Day 2023
Politics and the Environment – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In sharp contrast to the previous administration in Washington, and in spite of some compromises on domestic oil and gas production in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico that angered environmentalists, it is important to report on this Earth Day 2023 that the…
Global Warming’s Effects Have Begun: Only 60 Percent of Americans Believe It
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of Earth Day 2023, public opinion on the very real problem of global warming appears stagnant. What will it take to get past the majority of 60 percent of Americans who consistently say global warming and its effects on the climate…
Even in Losing, Are Trump, Putin and Fox News Still Winning?
Seven More Trump Supporters Sentenced to Federal Prison for Roles in Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to track down, arrest and seek convictions against radicalized supporters of former President Donald Trump who heeded his call for insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and came to the nation’s capital to try to halt the peaceful transfer of power and overturn the…
A Day of Reckoning is Coming
Biden Administration Proposes Tough New Pollution Standards for Cars and Trucks
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration announced the most ambitious federal vehicle emissions standards ever on Wednesday that will accelerate the ongoing transition to a clean vehicles future by requiring that two-thirds of new passenger cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032.…
Illinois and Massachusetts Men Charged With Felonies For Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is continuing to hunt down Trump supporters and arrest those who took an active role in the seditious conspiracy and insurrection by breaching the United States Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. This past week the United States Department of Justice announced an arrest…
Pennsylvania Man Arrested on Felony Charge For Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is continuing to hunt down and arrest Trump supporters who took part in the seditious conspiracy and insurrection by breaching the United States Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. A Pennsylvania man has been arrested this week on felony and misdemeanor charges for his…
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and A Cozy Friendship With Billionaire Harlan Crow
By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski – ProPublica – In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago…
Biden Administration Proposes Stronger Mercury and Air Toxic Standards for Power Plants
New standards would reduce hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants, further protect public health and advance environmental justice – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration released a set of proposed new pollution standards on Wednesday to update the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants, advancing tougher requirements to…
Everyone Stands Equal Under the Law: Trump Charged With 34 Felony Counts
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â All over the country and the world, people who doubted that Donald Trump would ever be held accountable under the law for any of his crimes against humanity and the Constitution of the United States celebrated on social media. Meanwhile most of the press and media covering the…