The Unites States of America Won: The Confederates Lost – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – So it appears we will end this trip about where we started it, talking about the damn Civil War, one more freaking time. Historians say history runs in cycles and often repeats itself. I…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – Satire Meets Academic Research – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was cold and pouring down rain on that day in 1989 or 1990 in Mobile, Alabama, when I wrote my first news story about the greenhouse effect, a phenomenon where carbon dioxide, methane gas, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons combine with…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – “So now what?” asks the New York Times editorial board in an unsigned editorial under the headline: The High Court Brought Low: Don’t let Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh have the last word about American justice. “Having first sickened the White House and then…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A fragile nation, beacon to the world, is on the verge of cracking like a giant arctic ice sheet splitting in half due to warming seas. Meanwhile the lack of informed political leadership in America keeps us distracted by the high school beer drinking…
Is Doug Jones Running for President in 2020? – “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” – Poverb By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room was described as “hell” last week by not only President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.…
Dear Senator Flake: You would be doing your county, as well as your party, proud if you were to vote no on Kavanaugh on Friday. Consider the source of the appointment — a liar full of bluster appointing another liar full of bluster. Then, consider the near treasonous activities of Mitch McConnell, leaving the Court…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s a beautiful day in the campground on the last day of September. As the calendar turns to October overnight, we are looking at a high of 73 and a low of 60 with a low humidity of 55 percent. It’s camping weather. In…
Critics Question Whether Judge Kavanaugh Has the Character or Temperament for the Supreme Court – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Proving that national politics has become a sensational, ratings busting reality show in the era of President Donald J. Trump, people in the nation’s capital and all over the country and the world…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Charges of sexual assault have changed the political calculus in the Unites States Senate on conformation of President Donald J. Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court. The charges by a California college professor against Judge Brett Kavanaugh just add more fuel to the fire for Democrats who were…
Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the midterm elections loom in November, the nation’s attention is focused on the election maps and races for the U.S. Senate and House. It is a critical election year in determining the direction of American democracy and whether the Democrats will have the votes…
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice – Robert Frost The…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So you’re a patriotic American or an international admirer of the United States and you’ve always wanted to visit the nation’s capital city? The Neo-classical architecture? All the buildings, memorials and other sites related to the United States federal government? All the Smithsonian museums? Maybe you’ve hesitated, thinking…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From heat wave to flooding rain, the weather in the nation’s capital does not seem normal. But of course it’s not. We are in the new era of climate change now. Not that they believe it in the White House or on one side…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Greenbelt National Park just north of the nation’s capital was the scene of a historic gathering of Native Americans, Japanese Buddhist monks and Americans interested in bringing about an era of spiritual peace 40 years ago in the summer of 1978. David Williams of Santa Barbara California was…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The hot ground is crumbling under President Donald Trump’s feet, opening up a crevice in the political landscape like an earthquake after the eruption of a super volcano. The Washington swamp is about to come out of a heat wave, but the political heat…
Following the Vietnam war hero and Senator John McCain’s death, Rick Davis, Senator McCain’s former presidential campaign manager and a family spokesman, read the following farewell statement at a news conference at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Monday. “My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six-term Senator and Vietnam war hero John McCain exits stage left just at the moment when unlikely President Donald J. Trump is on the verge of committing his Saturday Night Massacre to get him in the history books alongside Richard M. Nixon as a…
Senator Lindsay Graham Says Trump Will Fire Sessions Soon – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – After many months of rolling along at a snail’s pace, with new revelations coming out in dribs and drabs, it appears the investigation steam roller threatening Donald Trump’s presidency is picking up speed as August comes to a…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The right-wing Republican pro-Russia National Rifle Association (NRA) is interfering with our democratic, electoral process again, this time targeting U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama in television ads trying to get people to pressure him to vote for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Many Democrats…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been obvious for two years that Donald Trump had no business being president of the United States. He’s clearly corrupt, an autocratic character who aspires to be an anti-democratic dictator like Russia’s Putin. But I guess in this crazy world, you have to…
