Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – You must know by now that I read a lot. Always have. When I was a kid I went through the school library and left little unread. In the summer months, back when there was a such thing as a book mobile, very little escaped my attention. I…
Connecting the Dots
Webb Telescope Reveals a New Vision of an Ancient Universe – But Will the Images Hold the Power to Change Us?
Steve Bannon Was a Key Architect of Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ Strategy
Trump Supreme Court Dismantles Wall of Separation Between Church and State
There goes democracy … monarchy anyone? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – Donald Trump always said he wanted to “build a wall.” Instead he tore one down, the wall separating church and state. Just like his hero Putin, he pandered to the Christians, and almost became the dictator he always…
Conservative Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Power to Fight Global Warming and Climate Change
Is this the fatal blow in law that will doom human life on planet Earth? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Since it is now plainly obvious that the conservative majority on this Supreme Court is packed with biased, politically partisan, “activist judges” who have demonstrated that they feel unbound in their…
Supreme Court Dismantles Liberty, Rights and Freedoms, and Not Just for Women
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For half a century, two Supreme Court cases, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, protected the liberty and equality of women in the United States of America. Roe held, and Casey reaffirmed, that the Constitution safeguards a woman’s right to decide for…
When Liberty is Truly Threatened, Who Will Actually Stand Up?
Father’s Day 2022 and the 50th Anniversary of Watergate
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – On June 17, 1972, when Nixon’s CREEP burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington looking for psychological dirt on Democrats — 50 years ago Friday — school was out in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. I was only 14 and listening to “School’s Out” by Alice…
Steve Bannon Dares Merrick Garland to Indict Trump: Me Too
Charge Trump With Inciting an Insurrection and Prevent Him From Running Again – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – After the House Select Committee investigating Trump’s insurrection adjourned the prime time hearing Thursday night, the first in a series of hearings that seem destined to end in a call for the first ever…
Americans On the Move: Climate Change and the Great Political Divide Drive Mass Migration
Will Conservative North Carolina Voters Stand by Nazi Sympathizer Madison Cawthorn?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a period in American politics when being openly racist and a German Nazi fascist sympathizer would have automatically disqualified a candidate from being elected to any office in the United States. Some political scientists and historians might give some of the credit…
Marjorie Taylor Greene and the 14th Amendment: A Way to End the Civil War
Justice Jackson’s Confirmation to the Supreme Court is a Major Turn in the Arc of History
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If the long arc of history bends towards justice, it just took a major turn this week. If Barack Obama was America’s political Jackie Robinson, the first African American president just as Robinson was the first Black player to make the major leagues in…
War in Ukraine: The Price We’re paying for Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Stance
Guest Column – By George Zadigian – As our hearts break for the people of Ukraine, it is imperative that we wrap our heads around the fact that this is the price of supporting a president who stridently promoted “America First”. This is the price of supporting a president that cast doubt on American’s commitment…
Project Protect Democracy – Georgia: Raphael Warnock vs. Herschel Walker
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Remember watching the election returns in November, 2020 as Georgia became the one state in the American South to go blue and help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump? The people of Atlanta, of all places, not only helped save democracy from corporate, capitalist fascism.…
The Ideal of Justice on Trial: The Rise of Judge Jackson and the Fall of Clarence Thomas
Somehow We Made It to the First Day of Spring 2022: Get Outside
Senate Sherpa Doug Jones Says He’s Confident of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — At 11:33 a.m. Sunday, we cross the vernal equinox from winter into spring, and it feels like it’s about time, y’all. The Japanese cherry blossoms are blooming along the Tidal…
To Be or Not to Be, That is The Question: Zelensky Addresses UK Parliament
Thoughts On Life and Social Media During a Snow ‘Bomb Cyclone’ – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thick, wet white snow covers the ground again. The wind out of the northwest continues to howl outside, causing the RV to shake a little sometimes. The tall pine and hardwood trees…
Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Committed One of the Few Cases of Voter Fraud in the 2020 Election
Sometimes You Eat the Bear, and Sometimes the Bear Eats You
Coronavirus Originated in Wuhan Market – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes you might see news outlets playing catchup with each other on an important story by citing another news outfit. We all feel a responsibility to provide our unique collection of readers, our audience, with certain information. Even…