Editor’s Note: We are happy to report that the new Biden administration has begun to restore factual email announcements from federal agencies to allow news organizations to once again provide reliable information to readers. For four years under the previous administration, all the public relations functions of federal agencies had been coopted by Trump loyalists…
By Glynn Wilson – The American public is gradually turning against the big California technology companies and is coming around to the view that more government regulation of big tech and the internet is warranted, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. A large majority of 57 percent of Americans now say the…
Staff Report – A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday in Los Angeles charges three North Korean computer programmers and a Canadian-American citizen with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks and financial crimes that make them the world’s most wanted bank robbers. According to a press release from the…
Editor’s Note: We are happy to report that the new Biden administration has begun to restore factual email announcements from federal agencies to allow news organizations to once again provide reliable information to readers. For four years under the previous administration, all the public relations functions of federal agencies had been coopted by Trump loyalists…
By Glynn Wilson – A prominent Congressman from Mississippi and the NAACP filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday under a historic law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act charging the 45th president and his lawyer with conspiring to incite the violent Capitol insurrection to prevent the official certification of election results. The…
By Glynn Wilson – An independent commission will be established by Congress to investigate the Capitol insurrection on January 6 and the interference with the peaceful transfer power, according to a letter sent out Monday to Democrats in the House and posted online by House Speaker Nanci Pelosi. “Security is the order of the day:…
By Kay Newton – Here lately I’ve been having far too many hot fudge sundaes—I stop by Sonic’s drive-through every time I’m out that way, just in case the covid catches me. No one knows better than I do how fast this fat will fall away when stricken by pneumonia; I learned the hard way:…
By Glynn Wilson – Political courage was seriously absent in the United States Capitol on Saturday as only seven Republicans could find it in themselves to join 48 Democrats and two independents to find former president Donald Trump guilty of inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021 as Congress affirmed the Electoral College votes…
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining…
Pennsylvania Lawyer Indicted For Threatening To Murder Members of the Senate – Staff Report – In a case of clear evidence that the right-wing, racist Trump insurrection against American Democracy is not over, a Conservative Pennsylvania lawyer has been arrested and indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening to murder members of the United…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Well, the Year of the Rat is over, and the Year of the Ox is here, as of Feb. 12, 2021, the Chinese lunar New Year’s Day. In America, the Rat King Donald Trump has been dethroned, but not banned from running for public office again, and…
Shelby Could Do the Right Thing and Swing the Impeachment Vote Against Trump – But He Won’t – Editor’s Note: In our continuing series showing how the press should be operating in America, as opposed to how it operates now and how it has failed in the 21st century, here is our take on the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – So I’m sipping the second cup of coffee Tuesday morning, watching the sun come up over the Smokies, scouring the web looking for an expert to quote, when it finally dawns on me like an epiphany: I must be the nation’s top expert on the press and…
By Glynn Wilson – A solid majority of 58 percent of American voters say former president Donald Trump should be banned from seeking public office ever again, according to the latest Morning Consult poll. And 54 percent say he should be convicted in the U.S. Senate on the House’s charge that he incited an insurrection.…
Staff Report – A man from Lebanon Maine was arrested Thursday and appeared in U.S. District Court Friday on charges stemming from his assault on local law enforcement officers, as well as other crimes, during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 that disrupted a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress in the…
Guest Column – By James Rhodes – It is evident that some news readers are confused and baffled by the actions of many Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate, as their policy positions do not line-up with long standing Republican principles. I resided in Alabama when being a Republican was not only rare, but…
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three part series on the death of the American Dream and the one last chance we have to save it. Part I: Death of an Empire – Did Trump’s Reality Show Presidency Finally Kill the American Dream? Part II: The Early Days of the Internet – What…
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three part series on the death of the American Dream and the one last chance we have to save it. Part I: Death of an Empire – Did Trump’s Reality Show Presidency Finally Kill the American Dream? Part III: Government Regulations and Objective Journalism Redefined “We are…
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three part series on the death of the American Dream and the one last chance we have to save it. Part II: The Early Days of the Internet – What Went Wrong Part III: Government Regulations and Objective Journalism Redefined Part I: Death of an Empire –…
Staff Report – Another member of the Proud Boys, a nationalistic, chauvinist domestic terrorist organization, was arrested Thursday and charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding, among other charges, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Ethan Nordean, aka Rufio Panman, 30,…
