Scientists are reporting the hottest November on record – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It’s a bit hard to write about the latest news on global warming and climate change when your fingers are just cold enough for the arthritis itch to tingle in your knuckles, the temperature gauge outside says it’s well…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — For a few minutes on Saturday night life in America seemed almost normal. The red, white, blue and yes orange Christmas lights blinked on and off downtown in this World’s Fair university town. The drinks flowed. Gumbo was served. And a live jazz band…
SATIRE – By Glynn Wilson – Yes, folks. It was a massive conspiracy, with the “deep state” dumping on Trump to “steal” the election, as the lame duck president said on Fox News over the Thanksgiving weekend, accusing Democrats of taking “massive dumps” on him to take the presidency away. That’s a big load of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – I must admit that I was not watching when No. 1 Alabama beat No. 22 Auburn on Saturday in the not the Iron Bowl game anymore. But it was impossible not to find out about it on Facebook, where some of my friends still make a big…
By Glynn Wilson – Beginning around the time of the first Thanksgiving harvest feast in North America in the 1620s, European settlers almost wiped out native wild turkeys on the continent by the early-20th century. Conservation efforts since the 1970s, however, have been successful, and the population has made a comeback to an estimated 7…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, N.C. — To all the people out there alone on this Thanksgiving holiday (and even those who are not alone or don’t celebrate) it must be said that we all have one big thing to be thankful for this year in the winter of our…
By Robert Reich – Joe Biden has decisively won the presidency. There is no way for Trump to overturn the results of the election, and his campaign’s post-election lawsuits have gotten dismissed left and right. That hasn’t stopped him from launching an “Official Election Defense Fund” and bombarding his supporters with fundraising appeals to supposedly…
By Glynn Wilson – Outgoing President Donald J. Trump didn’t exactly concede to losing the election on Twitter or TV on Monday, but he bowed to a growing wave of public pressure from American business leaders, national security officials and some Republicans and effectively surrendered his three-week protest of the election results by agreeing to…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, N.C. — So if you are like many of my vocal Facebook friends, fans and followers, you may be chomping at the bit to see Donald Trump frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs or a straight-jacket and hauled off to a padded or…
By Glynn Wilson – This is something I’ve been thinking about and writing about for a long time, but now former President Barack Obama and The Atlantic are talking about it. In an exclusive interview by Jeffrey Goldberg, the former president identifies the greatest threats to the American experiment in democracy, explains why he’s still…
Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – So I’m following the light, doing what I do, and somehow with assistance from Mother Nature, my Cherokee ancestors and smarter aliens on some exoplanet, I made it back to North Carolina this week from a month-long trip to the Nation’s Capital just long enough to see Donald…
By Glynn Wilson – In case you’ve still been holding your breath this week and you’re not quite sure that Democrat Joe Biden really is president-elect, maybe thinking that Donald Trump could still find a way to remain president embattled behind high security walls the White House, let’s just put this stake through his heart…
By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH, Va. — It’s a bit early for a year in review story, but for me, it’s been one hell of a year. A humbling year. I’ve long known that we are all just like tiny grains of sand in the long run of history, here on this special beach of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The votes are still being tallied in Arizona and North Carolina, and there will be a recount in Georgia. Joe Biden has surpassed 76.3 million votes, the highest vote total in American history. Electoral College Map But that’s not the big mystery of this…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As we broke camp on Sunday feeling victorious about the declaration of Joe Biden as president-elect and drove south on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway into the city, my mind began to wander back to the biggest story of them all, the raging coronavirus. While the Trump administration’s total failure…
Uncle Joe Declared President-Elect: Trump Refuses to Concede – How Will the Courts React? – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The long national Trump nightmare is almost over. After an excruciating three days and nights of waiting on the results from Election 2020, the mail-in ballots have finally been counted in most key…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For nearly four long years, America has endured Donald Trump’s deceit. On a daily basis, he has lied in OUR White House, on Twitter and television, at times surrounded by MAGA cap wearing white fans in football stadiums. From the day he first came…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CAMP DAVID, Md. — Just before the results from Pennsylvania were updated Friday morning, I was sipping coffee in the Maryland campground getting ready to head back into the city and found myself in a bit of a flashback to the year 2000. When the election between…
Click the map to create your own at 270toWin.com By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrat Joe Biden pulled ahead of Republican Donald Trump overnight in Georgia and Pennsylvania and his lead is holding up in Nevada, putting him in a position to potentially take the presidency in the Electoral College. His lead shrank…
Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania Expected to Flip Biden’s Way – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American people are waiting on pins and needles and in many cases with strong drink to find out who won the presidential election of 2020, as most states have reported results that show Joe Biden leading Donald…
