The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The biggest threat to the future of humanity, democracy and the inherent rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the muddled thinking of men. Feel free to quote me on that. For example, as I was re-reading the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Something in the tumblers of the universe just shifted, and at least here in the United States, shockwaves began moving across the landscape between the waning hours of Thursday, June 23, and hit the land hard on Friday afternoon and Saturday, June 24-25, 2022. Days that will…
O wondrous youth Through this grand ruth Runs my boy’s life, its thread The General’s fame, the battle’s name The rolls of maimed and dead I bear with my thrilled soul astir And lonely thoughts and fears And am but history’s courier To bind the conquering years A battle’s ray, through ages gray To light…
Staff Report – Donald Trump’s attempt to hold onto power even though he knew he lost the 2020 election was described as “a coup in search of a legal theory,” according a conclusion drawn by Adam Schiff of California, who led the questioning of witnesses Tuesday in the fourth gripping hearing of the Select House…
A majority of Americans also think the Select Committee has been fair – Staff Report – Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. The same number…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – On June 17, 1972, when Nixon’s CREEP burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington looking for psychological dirt on Democrats — 50 years ago Friday — school was out in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. I was only 14 and listening to “School’s Out” by Alice…
By Glynn Wilson – Donald Trump’s big lie about the 2020 election and his big ripoff that continues remains a “clear and present danger to American democracy,” according to testimony before the House Select Committee investigating Trump’s insurrection by J. Michael Luttig, a retired conservative federal appeals court judge who advised Vice President Mike Pence…
Staff Report – As Congress moves closer than it has in years to passing gun safety legislation following the recent mass shootings in Texas and New York, a new Morning Consult/Politico poll shows voter support for gun control has reached a new high. According to the June 10-12 survey, 68 percent of voters support stricter…
Surely There is a Crime Here Somewhere – By Glynn Wilson – It’s the biggest grifter con in history, and it’s still going on. If the public doesn’t get this by now, American democracy is doomed. Maybe that’s Trump’s intent. Even the most creative writer in the world could not make this stuff up. Only…
Charge Trump With Inciting an Insurrection and Prevent Him From Running Again – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – After the House Select Committee investigating Trump’s insurrection adjourned the prime time hearing Thursday night, the first in a series of hearings that seem destined to end in a call for the first ever…
It Was Trump’s Plot All Along: Will We Hold Him Accountable? – By Glynn Wilson – The American experiment in democracy has been saved at critical points over the past 246 years by a number of brave actions, yes, but also a fair number of haphazard accidents — and a few political ironies. If this…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump’s criminal presidency will be back on the news tube front and center Thursday night when the House Select Committee investigating the seditious insurrection and unprecedented attack on the United States government and Capitol convenes the first hearing to begin showing its evidence to the American people.…
Editor’s Note: This article is published here for educational purposes only from information published in the public domain on the web – Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — The birds arise first. They will sing you awake if you let them. The star singer here is the wood thrush, although…
Staff Report – It’s that time of year again when the weather begins to grow hotter and the hurricanes start forming off the west coast of Africa and swirling across the Atlantic Ocean toward the United States. And yes, the planet is still growing hotter due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…
The massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, highlights disparities in how federal laws regulate rifles and handguns. The shooter bought two rifles days after his 18th birthday. By Kiah Collier and Jeremy Schwartz – ProPublica and The Texas Tribune – Co-published with ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. The fact that the gunman responsible…
By Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Irena Hwang, ProPublica – Photography by Kristyna Wentz-Graff, Oregon Public Broadcasting – CARSON, Wash. — The fish were on their way to be executed. One minute, they were swimming around a concrete pond. The next, they were being dumped onto a stainless steel table set on an incline.…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Maryland man who was among the youngest charged with participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison. Matthew Ryan Miller, 23, of Cooksville, Maryland, was sentenced in the District of Columbia for assaulting law enforcement officers and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – APPALACHIA – People are packing up their tents and RVs in the campground on Sunday to head back home or on down the road, and over coffee here in the woods, I can’t stop thinking about all the ways Americans are on the move these days. Paying…
The latest public opinion on gun control, white nationalism and the future of democracy – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Here’s a novel theory: What if people at least tried to be nicer? Boring, I know. And of course it won’t work, because so many people are, let’s face it, basically dumbasses…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Sometimes, when sitting outside in the Appalachian Mountains in the shade thinking about what to write about on Sundays, I wonder how to go about writing splendid, pretty sentences. Perhaps the key is writing about pretty things, not bad news. I don’t know. I’ve even Googled it, and…
