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…
“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…
“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…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â The political and legal quagmire gripping Washington, the country and the world just grows weirder by the minute. I’m developing a new theory about why Donald Trump is doing what he’s doing, but first I want to talk about Rudy. Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, that is, who…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What if it could possibly be true that we have more in common than we think, and the partisan divide in America is a man made wedge fed by corrupt politicians on both sides and a media that thrives on “conflict” as a so-called news value? Not…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The closest Donald Trump has ever come to a swamp or a live alligator is no doubt on one of his golf courses, where he probably ignored laws to protect wetlands and endangered species. If Batman ‘s dreams were filled with bats, Trump’s dreams must be full…
“Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” – John Adams – “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly…” – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis – Jump On The Bus: Make Democracy Work Again – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While House Speaker Nanci Pelosi recently came out for a quick, short impeachment investigation focusing only on President Donald Trump’s abuse of power with regard to withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for a “favor” of an investigation into his political rival Joe…
Editor’s Note: This is an open letter to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, the Republican from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, published here as an editorial opinion column. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dear Senator Shelby: You and I go way back, when I covered your earliest political campaigns for Alabama newspapers and the wire service UPI. You’ve been around awhile…
Climate Change Protests and Impeachment Inquiry Give Us Some Hope — The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Well this is extraordinary. Since I came down from the mountain in the Catoctins, crossed through the nation’s capital and setup camp on the Potomac River in Virginia, the people woke up and…
The Muddled Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MONTROSS, Va. — An American bald eagle just flew by overhead, going north up the Virginia bank of the Potomac River. Its white crown, yellow beak and brown feathers were unmistakable shining in the early Autumn sun with a powder blue sky as a background filled with…
The Muddled Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s the 18th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 and I’m still not sure what to say. Some historians say give it 20 years. There’s a pretty good column about the world we lost…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — If I had the power to change the national debate away from Trump’s distracting tweets, this is what I would have us all talking about. In recent years, with all the climate change related coverage of impacts from global warming, including massive hurricanes and…
By Glynn Wilson – CUNNINGHAM FALLS BY CAMP DAVID, Md. — In an extraordinary revelation set to change the subject of the news away from President Donald Trump’s sharpie scandal over changing the track map for Hurricane Dorian to show a threat to Alabama, the president revealed Saturday that he had been planning a secret…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you have an interest in the national seat of power in this broken American democracy, as I do, your path will take you here to the nation’s capital. There’s lots to see and do here. If you also have an interest in saving…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the nation’s capital in reprieve this weekend from the summer heat waves, heat domes and thunderstorms pounding in from the southwest, what locals like to think of as a harbinger of fall, turning away from the news it might be easy to forget…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s hot as hell could be inside the Beltway again, with a projected high on Sunday of 96 degrees and a low of only 75 tonight, a harbinger of the future for cities along the Eastern Seaboard. As I hit the button to publish this…
By Phil Rockstroh – The U.S. is less of a nation than a collective, psychotic episode. Within day to day life in the nation, a cultural aura exists that shifts, mingles, and merges between a sense of nervous agitation and displaced rage, in combination with a sense of weightlessness. The fragmented quality of daily life…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – Is it possible the promotion of a false political myth that democracy and capitalism are one and the same, and a layman’s view of Social Darwinism as a good thing, has spawned a nation of psychopaths and elected a Psychopath-in-Chief? According to experts, the…
