By Abrahm Lustgarten – ProPublica – On a 110-degree day several years ago, surrounded by piles of sand and rock in the desert outside of Las Vegas, I stepped into a yellow cage large enough to fit three standing adults and was lowered 600 feet through a black hole into the ground. There, at the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — It’s 79 degrees here in the campground near Camp David, about a mile as the crow flies, and once again, we are breaking down to head back into the suburbs of Washington, D.C. for the weekend. While disasters strike much of the world,…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A domestic terrorist from Oklahoma was arrested on Aug. 19 for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of Congress that was in the process of counting the electoral votes in the presidential election of 2020 that certified Joe…
By Glynn Wilson – While a theory of a possible leak from a government science lab in Wuhan, China has dominated the news coverage especially on social media on the origin of the novel coronavirus that led to the global Covid-19 pandemic and how the strain SARS-CoV-2 jumped from animals to humans, and this was…
Editor’s Note: As a media scholar, I have been writing about this for years. Guest Column – By Robert Reich – The mainstream media has historically tried to balance left and right in its political coverage, and present what it views as a reasonable center. That may sound good in theory. But the old politics…
Originally published July 31, 2005, as an introduction to our web publishing ventures in The Locust Fork News-Journal. Editor’s Note: Editor and Publisher Glynn Wilson usually writes a weekly column on Sunday. By Glynn Wilson – Editor and Publisher – LOCUST FORK RIVER, Blount County, Ala., July 30 – “I am haunted by waters,” author…
Staff Report – A Texas man and Ohio man were arrested last week for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of counting the electoral votes in the presidential election of 2020. Steven Cappuccio, 52, of…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of children just in the United States have been diagnosed with some form of attention deficit disorder and/or hyperactivity disorder by psychiatrists and psychologists, and are often treated with pharmaceutical medication or behavioral therapy. But what if these problems are not genetic or cultural psychological issues, but…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — The drizzling rain has stopped outside the camper van window for now, although more rain from Tropical Storm Fred is on the way to the mid-Atlantic region after making landfall along the Florida panhandle. Fred Hits the Southeast: Possible Tornado Leaves Damage in…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s official, and one for the record books. July was the hottest month ever recorded in human history, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information.. “In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” NOAA Administrator Rick…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Love versus hate. Peace versus war. Empathy versus apathy. Altruism versus selfishness. These are the fundamental struggles between humans and their evolutionary nature on planet Earth. There’s always lots of talk about love going on, but it never seems to hold the power to conquer hate. In…
Defendants Repeatedly Assaulted Police and Stole Riot Shields and Batons to Aid in Violent Attack – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The first two felony guilty pleas for assaulting police officers in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection came this week, when two men from Washington State and New Jersey admitted to assaulting police officers…
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” – Thomas Jefferson By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Thomas Jefferson said that, newspapers were the only means of communicating with citizens about…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Back in the 1980s, into the 1990s and as recently as this year, scientists, science writers and environmental activists warned people and governments that human industrial activity fueled a catastrophic greenhouse effect that was warming the planet and changing the climate. The United Nations led the early warning…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – We’ve become so inured to Donald Trump’s proto-fascism that we barely blink an eye when we learn that he tried to manipulate the 2020 election. Yet the most recent revelation should frighten every American to their core. Last Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the risk of giving Georgia’s nut job Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene more of the kind of press and attention she craves, and her followers more reason to double down and give her money like they do former White House con man Donald Trump, let’s just say Green…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some say the world will end in fire. Maybe they are right. Whether you cling to Biblical prophesy or believe the science of global warming and climate change, much of the world does seem to be on fire these days, and it seems to…
They are neither patriots or political prisoners, judges say – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal judges of both parties are harshly scolding defendants charged for their actions during the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, saying they are neither patriots or political prisoners, then letting them out of jail on minimum sentences…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Where else in America can you see in person a painting by Leonardo da Vinci? No where. Ginevra de’ Benci is a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the 15th-century Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de’ Benci. The oil-on-wood portrait was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in…
Editor’s Note: How can we open up the eyes and ears, hearts and minds of human beings to face facts and help deal with humanity’s most pressing problems, like wearing masks and getting vaccines to avoid infection from the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 and to prevent spreading the virus to others, or realizing that global…
