“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” – Sinclair Lewis The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST — Before I talk about the year and decade in review in this final column of this eventful year of 2019, I would like to…
By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – It is with a heavy heart that I must report this morning the death of my loyal companion Jefferson, the most beautiful Springer Spaniel I have ever seen and the smartest and best dog ever. He was 13, or 91 in human years. I watched him take…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Tis the season for all things impeachment, so stuff your stockings accordingly. Although don’t forget that Congress is now in recess for the Christmas and New Years holiday. So we will all have to take a break from that news until an agreement can be reached between…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Now here’s a revelation. An evangelical Christian magazine with widespread circulation founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham published an editorial on Thursday calling for President Donald Trump’s removal from office by the Senate or popular vote in 2020. An Associated Press story about it being shared…
By Glynn Wilson – In a drama fit for a country that seems stuck in a bad reality television show, reality TV star President Donald J. Trump became the third United States president to be impeached on Wednesday when a clear majority in the House formally charged him with abuse of power by a vote…
By Glynn Wilson – In what could be a historic vote if not for the hyper partisan divide in American politics, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted 23-17 along party lines on Friday to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump, setting up a vote in the full House next week and a…
By Glynn Wilson – Margaret Louise Walrond-Wilson, my mother and a long time resident of Jefferson County, Alabama, died in her sleep of natural causes in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Dec. 10. She was 93. Born on Sept. 12, 1926 in Birmingham, she was employed at Trussville Utilities for more than 30 years…
By Glynn Wilson – In a historic move designed to take on the out of control White House and curb abuses that could lead to tainted elections in 2020 rife with foreign influence, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee formally announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday for abuse of power…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – It makes me happy to report that it’s 65 degrees in mid-December here about 1,000 miles from Washington, D.C., proving that our climate change escape travel strategy is working. But even here in the woods along the Alabama-Florida line, it’s hard to escape…
By Glynn Wilson – There is little doubt that Donald Trump abused his power as president by pressuring officials in Ukraine to help him in the 2020 election by investigating a potential political rival in exchange for releasing military aid in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution and election law, according to a report released…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – The contrast could not be greater from where we spent this Thanksgiving and the past five on that noisy Texas Street in Mobile, Alabama, where you can’t see the sky for the city lights and the blinking RSA tower and where it rains…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Birmingham, expressed concerns about some aspects of the impeachment inquiry in a press call with reporters on Thursday, while continuing to rebuff media questions about how he might vote. “I cant’ say how I’m gonna vote, because I don’t know, one, if it’s coming,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In any other democratic country where the underlying principle is that we are all about creating “a nation of laws, not men,” any president who committed as many atrocities as Donald J. Trump would have been long gone by now, piled on the trash heap of history…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones will host a forum on environmental justice and community development in the Black Belt at Wallace Community College in Selma, Alabama on Monday, Nov. 25 at 12 noon in coordination with the League of Conservation Voters and The Nature Conservancy. Senator Jones, the Democrat from Birmingham, will moderate a panel of…
By Glynn Wilson – Editor and Publisher – MOBILE, Ala. — Long-time activist and writer David R. Underhill, Associate Editor of the New American Journal, died in the Mobile Infirmary Medical Center of heart failure after a battle with a series of other health issues early Friday morning, November 8. He was 78. A native…
“My country when she is right.’ Because patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government only when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It had been awhile since I entered the hallowed corridors of Bryant-Denny Stadium, one of the premier cathedrals…
Reportedly He Will Not Have Trump’s Support – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Apparently it’s no longer a trial balloon, and Alabama is now back in the national spotlight. Word began to leak out Wednesday on Twitter, then on CNN and other news outlets on television and the web, that President Donald Trump’s…
“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…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – The scariest thing about this Halloween is that Donald Trump is still president. The good news on Thursday is that the Washington Nationals stunned the betting favorite Houston Astros in game seven of the World Series Wednesday night, bringing home a maiden national championship to the nation’s…
In the wake of the impeachment inquiry being launched, public support also jumps for Congress – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A clear majority of the American people now support the impeachment and removal from office of President Donald J. Trump, and we don’t even have a report yet from the House investigation…
