By Glynn Wilson – Carl Bernstein, one of the Washington Post reporters of Watergate fame who brought down President Richard Nixon, says the New York Times‘ report on Trump’s business losses and tax evasion schemes is the “smoking gun” that should take down Donald Trump as president. He said it as an analyst on CNN.…
Donald Trump, His Followers and These Times Through the Lens of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How many of you have read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby and watched one or more versions of the movie adaptations of the story? This…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama says in no uncertain terms that he does not support voting on a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this close to the 2020 presidential election. “It is a poor reflection of the state of our national politics that, just hours after Justice…
Staff Report U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama introduced a bipartisan bill on Thursday to help combat suicide among America’s veterans. The bill, which is also cosponsored by Republican Senators Joni Ernst of Iowa and Democrat Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, would designate one week per year as “Buddy Check Week” to organize outreach events…
By Robert Reich – This November, we have an opportunity to harness your energy and momentum into political power and not just defeat Trump, but also flip the Senate. Here are six key races you should be paying attention to. 1. The first is North Carolina Republican senator Thom Tillis, notable for his “olympic gold”…
Staff Report The National Park Service will provide free admission to all national parks on September 26 for National Public Lands Day — one of the nation’s largest annual celebrations of the great American outdoors. Established by the National Environmental Education Foundation in 1994, National Public Lands Day encourages environmental stewardship and access to public…
By Robert Reich – People in public life tend to fall into one of two broad categories – those who are motivated by principle, and those motivated by power. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday night at the age of 87, exemplified the first. When he nominated her in 1993, Bill Clinton called her…
“War is the continuation of politics by other means.” – Carl von Clausewitz “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must…
By Glynn Wilson – Could it be that the national public opinion pundits are at it again, over estimating the support for Democrat Joe Biden and underestimating the stealth support for reelecting President Donald Trump? Before I could grab the results from the latest Morning Consult poll and write a story about it, New York…
By Glynn Wilson – The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the political fight over her replacement could jolt the presidential race and the competitive battle for control of the United States Senate just six weeks before the election, prompting survey research company the Morning Consult Poll to question whether Democratic or…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama and other Senators returned to Washington this week to face a power play by President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the Supreme Court seat left open by last week’s death of popular liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 87. “I’m saddened…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Back in the late 20th century, when the written word and truth still seemed to matter, I was hanging out in the Great Smoky Mountains and came up with a cool title for a travel-nature column for The Southerner magazine, something I still use from time to time…
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” — Mark Twain The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Cool air in the wake of the wind and rain from Hurricane Sally has now cleared the smoke from wildfires out west mostly out of the Blue…
By Robert Reich – The air outside my window is yellow today. It was orange yesterday. The Air Quality Index is over 200. The Environmental Protection Agency defines this as a “health alert” in which “everyone may experience more serious health effects if they are exposed for 24 hours.” Unfortunately, the index has been over…
Letter to the Editor MOBILE, Ala. — We dodged a bullet from Hurricane Laura. Hurricane Sally is headed this way, expected to be a Category 2 Hurricane when it makes landfall on Tuesday. Once again, we will be on the wet side. Meteorologists are predicting catastrophic and life-threatening rain and resultant flooding. Is this the…
By Jimmy Lanier – Special to the New American Journal – PORTLAND, Ore. — The air surrounding Portland is thick with smoke, hanging like a blanket of yellow tinted fog from the Riverside Fire about 20 miles east of the city. The limited visibility created by the smoke requires headlights on to drive in the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The view of Mount Mitchell is obscured by rain clouds and fog on this Saturday afternoon in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ken Burns is talking about Hank Williams as “the epitome of country music” on “Live From Here” on National Public Radio out of Ashville, North Carolina.…
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration’s blatant disregard for protecting the environment has landed in court again. Attorneys general for Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, asserting the executive branch federal agency neglected to enforce a decade-old agreement to reduce water pollution…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Anxiety and stress in people trying to resolve inconsistent thoughts has been around since the dawn of time. In the throes of a global pandemic and economic uncertainty with confusing mixed signals coming from officials on high is sending the psychological problem soaring. Our world is now…
Biden Leads in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Colorado – By Glynn Wilson – Democrats should be able to issue a collective sigh of relief at least for a few minutes in the first week of September as the Democratic Party’s ticket for president, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, still holds an eight point lead nationally…
