By Glynn Wilson – With only six months to go before the midterm elections on November 8, Republicans are still more enthusiastic to vote than Democrats, although the party in power is gaining some ground thanks to a recent leak of a draft ruling on abortion out of the United States Supreme Court. The share…
By Glynn Wilson – As carbon emissions rise and the planet continues its warming trend, climate change and energy are increasingly on the public’s mind, according to public opinion surveys from Morning Consult. For good reason, according to the latest data. There is a 50-50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°…
The First Amendment Guarantee of ‘Free Speech’ Only Applies to Government Censorship, Not Moderation by Private Social Media Companies – By Glynn Wilson – In an important ruling that should make it clear to the American people why the Constitutional right of free speech does not apply to private companies, including social media platforms like…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — On this rainy day in Maryland when I won’t be traveling to Churchill Downs, donning a sear sucker suit or even watching the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby on television — or drinking mint juleps with Mitch McConnell for that matter —…
Escape Global Warming and Climate Change in Summer – Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The New York Times magazine recently assigned a woman who had never been camping in her life to travel around in a camper van and write about the experience. The trip was a disaster, and the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a period in American politics when being openly racist and a German Nazi fascist sympathizer would have automatically disqualified a candidate from being elected to any office in the United States. Some political scientists and historians might give some of the credit…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Trump supporter from Missouri and an admitted member of the right-wing domestic terrorist group the Proud Boys pleaded guilty this week in federal court to a felony charge for obstructing police during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions disrupted a joint session…
We can’t plant enough trees to stop run amok deforestation – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if the world needed another reason to be down on Russia, the widespread wildfires that raged across Russia in 2021, burning vast swaths of forest and sending smoke as far as the North Pole, unleashed massive…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Everyone, it seems, is up in arms about Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter. With the possible exception of all those stockholders who are about to make a fortune when he has to buy them out to take the company private. And there’s the…
By Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Kirsten Berg – ProPublica – By the time Leamsy Salazar sat down in front of a video recorder in a lawyer’s office in Dallas, he had grown accustomed to divulging state secrets. After swearing to tell nothing but the truth so help him God, he recounted that he…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Too see how the cause of Ukraine has captured the attention of the American people, check out the latest Gallup poll on the subject, which found that 78 percent say they approve of “allowing up to 100,000” Ukrainian refugees into the United States. The poll was based on a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marjorie Taylor Greene. That’s all you have to say on Facebook to get Democrats fired up to hit like and comment. There must be a political lesson in here somewhere. Democrats appear burned out on politics in general and say they are tired of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of people all over the world came out on April 22, 1970 to celebrate the first Earth Day, and the era of environmental activism was launched. The movement was an evolution from the non-violent activism for civil rights and against the war in…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — An overwhelming majority of American voters, 83 percent, say the world would be a better place without Russian President Vladimir Putin in power, according to a new Morning Consult poll. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the other hand, gets high marks from all voters, with 64 percent saying the…
Endeaver to Persevere – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From humble beginnings in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, where I was not even expected to live after my premature birth in a Southside hospital, I’ve climbed and clawed my way out of what seemed destined to be a mundane…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Another Trump supporter from Florida was arrested and charged this week for assaulting police officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob breached the building and disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of certifying the electoral votes confirming Joe Biden as president.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If the long arc of history bends towards justice, it just took a major turn this week. If Barack Obama was America’s political Jackie Robinson, the first African American president just as Robinson was the first Black player to make the major leagues in…
Guest Column – By George Zadigian – As our hearts break for the people of Ukraine, it is imperative that we wrap our heads around the fact that this is the price of supporting a president who stridently promoted “America First”. This is the price of supporting a president that cast doubt on American’s commitment…
History in the Making – Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate as the first African American woman to the United States Supreme Court on Thursday in a somewhat bipartisan vote of 53-47. Three Republicans joined Democrats…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maybe the American public is finally seeing the evidence of climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels where they live. That as well as the heightened news coverage about it and concern being shown by politicians and agencies in Washington again has the…
