Staff Report – GREENBELT, Md. — Early on Christmas morning, when many Americans were just waking up wondering if this would be the Christmas when Donald Trump would end up behind bars, the good scientists at NASA were busy at work as the new James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST on an…
The Big Picture – Story and Photos By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Merry Christmas from the New American Journal, no matter how you celebrate the holiday — or whether you celebrate at all. While Christians around the world celebrate Christmas as an annual festival commemorating the alleged birth of God’s son Jesus, we…
The American People Want to See Trump on Trial for Insurrection – Letters to Santa: The Number One Wish is to See Trump Behind Bars for Christmas – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Clearly the American people want to see Donald Trump, the former Republican president, prosecuted for his…
By Clement Clark Moore – ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of sugar-plums…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – We have exclusive, breaking news to report on the Eve of Christmas Eve. Inside sources with Santa’s elves tasked with reading letters to St. Nick and compiling the results for the jolly old man at the North Pole say the number one wish from…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If Donald Trump and his so-called “conservative” Republican followers — especially police officers and members of the military — really want to do away with any semblance of American democracy and install a white nationalist dictatorship here in the United States, I really wish…
Do not go gentle into that good night – Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning…
FBI Arrests Other Insurrectionist from Florida and Colorado – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A man who watched and cheered the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, then moved to the front of the Trump mob and hurled a fire extinguisher, a plank and a long pole at police officers, was sentenced Friday to…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON. D.C. — The National Park Service got its first Senate confirmed director in five years Thursday when Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland swore in Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The National Park Service languished under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to Roll…
What’s Wrong With This Picture? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In this continuing fantasyland of two realities we find ourselves living in these days in the United States of America, no controversy sheds more light on the absurdity of it all than the battle to keep the government…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House voted 222 to 208 to recommend holding Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress Tuesday night after the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted unanimously on Monday to hold the former White House Chief of Staff and member of Congress…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – So I woke up Sunday morning as I often do, listening to the show “On Being” on NPR. While spirituality is the subject of the show, it is a far cry from all the noisy preachers on radio and television pushing their denominational brand…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If you’re planning a trip to the nation’s capital to join an insurrection and storm the Capitol, you want to choose your drink of choice carefully. And don’t forget to post photos and videos of yourself in the act on Facebook to make the job of the FBI…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – No one should aspire to being in a state of infamy. Yet it seems human beings have a genetic predisposition to end up there whether they plan it or not. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eleven months after the violent attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 by fired up Trump supporters that came harrowingly close to stopping a peaceful transfer of power for the first time in American history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice are still…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Scientists for decades have been warning that climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy would cause more destructive and costly hurricanes to hit the continental United States with increasing ferocity. Study after study show this to be the case. But as…
Congress Averts Another Costly Federal Furlough – “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans in Congress who still actively support Trump’s insurrection…
“When you are finished changing, you are finished.” – Benjamin Franklin The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – I must not be finished, because I feel a change coming on, a change in the way I feel about America’s national holidays. For most of my adult life, I tended to feel…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The endangered California spotted owl has long been a symbol in the battle between preserving the environment and allowing the cutting of trees in the American West, a political football between those who want to protect the environment for wildlife and those who believe private profits for people…
