The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Just two months from now, Americans will go to the polls to vote on Nov. 5 to decide the fate of this experiment in democracy of the people one more time. If that sounds dramatic, it’s because it is dramatic, or traumatic, depending on your point of…
Staff Report – The case that could have done in Trump for good came up in federal court in Washington today, and it does not look good for any kind of active prosecution before the Nov. 5 election. The federal judge accused former President Donald Trump’s lawyer of more stalling tactics. But since any decision…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Have you ever thought you lost something and then discovered it wasn’t lost after all? That’s how I felt Wednesday night winding down for sleep after watching a show on Netflix. Checking the calendar on the iPhone, it occurred to me it’s coming up on 10 years…
Staff Report – SHENANDOAH, Va. – The federal government’s management of the National Park Service in Shenandoah National Park in Luray, Virginia has proposed to completely privatize all commercial operations in the park, including the campgrounds, without notifying the public or allowing public comments. The privatization plan is buried down in a press release about…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – It’s Labor Day weekend, not Memorial Day or Veterans Day, I know. It would be great if the unions could help us save democracy in November. But I’ve spent enough time working with unions to know the rank and file are largely with…
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT – CNN’s Dana Bash speaks with Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Part 1 of Dana Bash’s interview with 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz, their first since the Democratic National Convention. In part 2 of the interview with CNN’s…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. —- I heard the Marine One helicopter landing at Camp David on Friday, Aug. 16, after flying overhead right above the Owens Creek campground in Catoctin Mountain (National) Park. President Joe Biden arrived for another weekend preparing his speech for Monday night, Aug. 19,…
Editor’s Note: In case you haven’t been paying attention, the critical 2024 election is just over two months away. There is good news for Democrats as surveys show a surge in voter enthusiasm since President Joe Biden dropped out and Vice President Kamala Harris took over the campaign, and polls already show her catching Trump…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – So I had just made it back up to the mountain top from D.C. and setup in a regular campsite on Tuesday at 1,700 feet above sea level when the iPhone went off with a text message from a strange, international number. At first…
Nearly eight in 10 Democrats say they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Measuring voter enthusiasm is one way to gauge trends in the run up to an election, and on that front thanks to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, enthusiasm among Democrats to vote in November…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump and his campaign staff distastefully used the war dead at Arlington National Cemetery for political purposes on Monday, in direct violation of federal law, clashing with an official at the cemetery who confronted them and demanded that they stop taking pictures. The military cemetery said in…
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In one more effort to save American democracy from Donald Trump and his conservative Supreme Court, special prosecutor Jack Smith filed another indictment against the former president in federal court on Tuesday, once again accused him of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.…
Maybe Giant Egos and the Same Spray On Tan Brand? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Bobby Kennedy’s son has fallen off his rocker. I’m renaming him RKJ, instead of RFKJr. How did this happen? Did the worm really eat part of his brain? I considered doing a big…
By Glynn Wilson – Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president Thursday night in Chicago in a near perfect presidential address peppered with calls for national unity and a prosecutor’s arguments against electing former President Donald Trump as an “unserious man” whose return to the White House would have devastating consequences…
Staff Report – It’s important to make a good first impression, they say, whether you’re on a first date, interviewing for a job – or running to be vice president of the United States. And the two men who recently joined the Republican and Democratic presidential tickets have made very different first impressions. JD Vance…
By Glynn Wilson – The third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was mostly about telling the story of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the vice presidential nominee and keynote speaker, with the theme of American freedom. But it was not the laissez-faire economic free market capitalism of libertarians and conservative Republicans of old…
By Glynn Wilson – Michelle Obama stole the show on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. She delivered a rousing call for Democrats to get behind the campaign of Kamala Harris and work harder than they’ve ever worked before, while also giving Republican candidate Donald Trump, the former president, the tongue…
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden finally took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and delivered an energetic address urging people to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to defeat the hateful selfishness of Donald Trump one more time, to save…
Editor’s Note: If the November election does not go their way, installing a white nationalist dictator in the person of Donald Trump, what will the radical, right wing militia do? Try to create more chaos and attack the United States government like they did on Jan. 6, 2021? If you know active members in your…
By Glynn Wilson – As the Democrats begin arriving in Chicago for a national convention like no other, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, are arriving by way of a bus tour through Pennsylvania, a critical swing state with the potential to decide the presidential election in November. They…
