Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee opened a formal investigation into the Trump Justice Department’s unconstitutional surveillance of Members of Congress, journalists, and others who were perceived enemies of Donald Trump when he was president in a move reminiscent of Nixon’s “enemies list” from the Watergate era. New York Democrat Jerrold…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Abandoning the cities and suburbs for a camper van or other type of Recreational Vehicle in nature is becoming a reality for hundreds of thousands of people, and not just because of the coronavirus pandemic, the changing climate and economy and the movie Nomadland. It doesn’t have to…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The era of the great American newspaper columnist went out with the end of the 20th century and the era of the mass circulation daily newspaper, roughly in the 2004-2005 time period as George W. Bush campaigned for and won reelection as president, a period I often…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Why are we so afraid to simply state the truth for the American people to see? Why do we always have to tip toe around it and spin the facts to serve a political purpose? Is it just a naïveté that a police and justice system is supposed…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Those of us who somehow survived the hellscape year of 2020 and the first half of 2021 and came away with a victory in the presidential election, made it through the Capitol insurrection, and beat COVID, deserved a break. We got one after receiving…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a continuing series of executive actions to reverse damaging anti-environment policies of the Trump administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service under President Joe Biden announced new plans this week to re-strengthen the Endangered Species Act, the law and a series…
The New American Journal Editorial Board – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS and other news outlets won’t take a strong stand on this, we will. The time is now for national action to pass a federal voting rights law. If that means eliminating the filibuster in the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration suspended oil and gas drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska on Tuesday, reversing another pro-big business, anti-environment move by former President Donald Trump and delivering on a promise by presidential candidate Joe Biden to protect the amazing and critical ecosystem from…
Ohio Trump Supporter Arrested in Alabama for Beating D.C. Police in Jan. 6 Capitol Riot – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to issue indictments and make arrests in the 1-6-2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection, advancing some of the Trump supporting rioters to the FBI Most Wanted list, where the…
By Glynn Wilson – As Memorial Day Tribute, I am memorializing this here on the web to be archived in a more prominent and permanent place than Facebook. This is a picture of my dad, Eschol Wilson, who served as a corporal in the U.S. Army near the end of World War II. He was…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration submitted the President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 to Congress on Friday, and it calls for a new investment of $3.5 billion in the National Park Service to help modernize the parks and park infrastructure. It calls for new investments in conservation efforts, expanding visitor access…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — It’s Friday morning in the campground, the beginning of Memorial Day weekend, and I’ve taken my Nexium for acid reflux and I’m eating my daily banana with Jif creamy peanut butter for breakfast, trying not to get peanut butter on the keyboard. You…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Vietnam Army veteran and Trump supporter from Lacon Mountain in Falkville, Alabama who got caught and arrested in the nation’s capital on Jan. 6 with 11 Molotov cocktails and a cache of guns and ammunition was denied bond this week by a federal judge. In a 24-page…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — When Americans and people from all over the world think of visiting a national park, or camping in the great outdoors in the United States, they often think of the big, famous parks out West like Yosemite in California, the Grand Canyon in…
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…” – Henry David Thoreau Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — Thousands of Americans are waking up to the advantages of traveling and immersing themselves in nature and even living full time in Recreational Vehicles, making the transition…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It must have seemed like a Biblical plague of locusts in May, 1715, when the Reverend Andreas Sandel of Philadelphia’s “Gloria Dei” Swedish Lutheran Church first described the emergence of billions of brown and black cicadas with bugged-out red eyes. But in 1732, botanist John Bartram wrote a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – An amazing thing happened at the time of our return to the nation’s capitol region in May. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a surprising announcement on Thursday, catching many people by surprise, including those who work in the White House. “If…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – America prefers to look forward rather than back. We’re a land of second acts. We move on. This can be a strength. We don’t get bogged down in outmoded traditions, old grudges, obsolete ways of thinking. We constantly reinvent. We love innovation and disruption. The downside is a…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee had their first shot this week at questioning Trump’s acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller about his role in botching the military response to the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6., along with the questionable advance intelligence handling of…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – What a difference a respect for science makes. After four years of being gutted and corrupted by the influence of polluting industry insiders with their heads all stuck up the hole in Donald Trump’s cult of personality backside, the Environmental Protection Agency is back in the Biden administration.…
