Click the map to create your own here – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — It’s the day after Election Day 2020 and there’s still no declared winner in the presidential race, although as the absentee and mail-in votes are counted today and this week in key battleground states, experts are still giving the…
CAMP DAVID, Md. — Editor’s Note – A few inspirational thoughts on Election Day while we hold our breaths and wait for the results to start coming in Tuesday night. Today I will fly my American flag proudly in my campsite in the same mountain woods as Camp David, because I will not concede the…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — These are the last words I will write and publish before the election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, and I have to be brutally honest. There will be no pretense or posturing here. I could turn out to be wrong, but I don’t think so.…
Or we can keep fighting it for another four years – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The election of 2020 is one week away and I’m driving up Highway 15 toward Gettysburg thinking about the Civil War we still seem to be fighting 155 years after the bloody war…
Secret Vistas – By Brooks Boliek – FROSTBURG, Md. — I have nothing against Charles Mason or Jeremiah Dixon. As a matter of fact, I admire and esteem both men for their scientific contributions and service. Mason and Dixon were both scientists who were asked to resolve a land dispute between Thomas Penn and Fredrick…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of American voters, 54 percent, who tuned in to the final presidential debate in Tennessee Thursday night tell pollsters that Joe Biden was the clear winner over Donald Trump. Only 39 percent said Trump won, although many pundits gave him credit for not being as much…
“Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways.” – Solomon, Proverbs Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CAMP DAVID, Md. — A serene fog hangs thick in the trees here on Thursday morning, muting the Autumn colors and making the forest seem still and quiet. The weather…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of registered voters in the United States, 56 percent, believe President Donald Trump does not deserve to be reelected, while just 43 percent say he does, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. The percentage of voters who say Trump deserves reelection to a second…
By Glynn Wilson – Editor and Publisher – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The biased, right-wing conservative Republican fake news site Yellowhammer, considered the Breitbart News of Alabama, is lying about what’s going on in Washington again, slamming U.S. Senator Doug Jones with two weeks to go before the election simply for standing up for “the people”…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From the beaches of Gulf Shores to Lookout Mountain, Alabama has one more chance to be something and matter in the United States of America in something other than football. But first the people must reject electing a former football coach with no experience in politics, government and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It won’t be so long now. The excruciating wait will be over in a few days. Exacerbated by the stress, anxiety and existential dread of the coronavirus pandemic and economic uncertainty, it will all be over soon one way or another. We should know…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Counting down to the final days of the 2020 election, public opinion is holding steady in favor of overturning Donald Trump’s alt-right view of the world, if only by a slim majority. In the latest Morning Consult poll, Democrat Joe Biden holds onto a 9 point lead among…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — Well, truth be told, it’s not exactly a secret. This is one of the well known national parks, one of two Crown Jewels of the East along with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. Yet it always feels like an amazing…
This Will Not Stand – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since October 15, 1957, I’ve been fortunate to live on this amazing planet Earth as a citizen of the great country of the United States of America. When I first came out kicking and screaming in that little hospital…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All over the district and beyond, there is a growing fantasy in the land among Democrats that Donald Trump is not only going to lose the 2020 election in a massive landslide, but that when he tries to cling to power anyway, he is…
By Glynn Wilson – ASHEVILLE, N.C. — In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, fall is in the air and the people are starting to pay attention to politics with less than 30 days to go before the election November 3. And just as white supremacy has come to the fore in Donald…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As the clock ticks down in the final quarter of 2020, the year of the “converging crisis” as some experts are now calling it, for millions of people survival feels like a daily ordeal either physically, economically or psychologically. Of course I’m human. I feel it all…
By Glynn Wilson – Editor-in-Chief – For the past seven months, responsible Americans have endured the psychologically trying times created by the rampaging coronavirus pandemic, by staying at home as much as possible, abiding by the social distancing guidelines recommended by medical experts, staying at least six feet apart from other people, wearing masks when…
By Glynn Wilson – A whopping 80 percent of American voters now say Donald Trump’s business interests have influenced his decisions as president, according to a new Morning Consult poll. And 50 percent now say that’s a bad thing, up 6 points this week after critical revelations came out in the The New York Times…
Why or why not? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – To find the roots of this most basic of questions in American politics, go back 40 years. Georgia peanut farmer Jimmy Carter was president, and while he was a good man and turned out to be the best of ex-presidents, he had…
