The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is it folks. Another major turning point in our lives in this crazy 21st century hellscape world. It’s been a strange week since I came down from the mountains and set up camp inside the Beltway again just in time for Halloween and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do you ever find yourself asking: Why does this crap (whatever crap you are dealing with) have to be so hard? I know I do, and see it all the time in others. Another way to put the question: Why does life have to…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – What would you do if you knew you had just one week more to live in a place that feels like home, knowing there are more stories to discover and tell? Maybe vow to come back next year and tackle the other stories?…
The Big Picture - By Glynn Wilson - THURMONT, Md. — If you are reading this today, October 15, 2022, then I’ve defied the odds and outlived the curse of 64. I’m now alive and well and 65-years-old. According to my doctor here, I’ve got the heart rate of a professional tennis player and the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — It’s totally understandable that people get tired of hearing and seeing sensational clickbait threatening another existential crisis emergency. But please don’t allow this one to go unheeded. In my life and times, I’ve reported on all kinds of politicians who warned the public of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Sometimes, like when it rains for three days and nights without stopping and I get a little tired of being cooped up in an RV space the size of the average efficiency apartment in Tokyo, I vow to simply curl up on the futon mattress and rest,…
Editor’s Note: The New American Journal is dedicated to publishing a diversity of ideas, and we believe the harsh partisan divide is not good for democracy. Guest Column – By George R. Zadigian – As a conservative Republican for more than 40 years, it has been disheartening to watch the unraveling of the Republican Party…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – When French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician René Descartes first posited his theory, Cogito, ergo sum, “I think, therefore I am,” he could not have foreseen a Wizard of Id like Donald Trump taking over America and saying just because he thinks documents are declassified, therefore they are…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — It’s drizzling rain in the mountain woods, hovering around 72 degrees on this last day of summer. We will transit the autumn equinox about 8 p.m. tonight, and fall will officially begin — with only six weeks to go until the critical midterm…
How Climate Change Might Wipe Out the Human Population – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For all the bromides and self-help scams flooding the market these days for gullible people seeking the secret to living longer or at least living more healthy lives, I’ve long suspected that the number one killer is…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What’s the point of jumping on the bandwagon and sharing memes on Facebook or even writing a news column on remembering Sept. 11, 2001? Those days are long gone and I say “Never Forget” Jan. 6, 2021. The number one threat of “terrorism” these days does not…
Stay Tuned to See if Trump Will Face the Music, or Not… Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — Down in Washington, D.C. at the National Archives a team of investigators are combing through all the classified documents seized by the FBI in the recent raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Outside the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What humanity needs is a shared, factual narrative. Not just a myth to live by, as Joseph Campbell articulated in a series of interviews with Bill Moyers on PBS way back in the 20th century. I’ve written about this before, even in my own book. The Power…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Mother Nature doesn’t care what your political opinion is, what side you take in the current partisan political divide in the United States. She is malevolent, and will not even bother to laugh at you on Facebook when you prove to be such a moron that you…
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…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – If I was going to hop aboard a worm hole jumping space ship to travel back in time to visit another galaxy, I think I would pick the Cartwheel Galaxy, 500 million light-years from Earth. I figure if there is a heaven in the expanding universe for…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – Imagine how damaging it would be for the national security of the United States, for public confidence in American institutions, not to mention how embarrassing for the Secret Service, if text messages emerged revealing a plan by agents loyal to “Mogul,” the agency code name…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For some reason I had a little trouble falling sound asleep on Saturday night. So after watching a couple of shows on Netflix, dozing off a few times and waking back up, I went outside for a few minutes for some fresh air between 1 and 2…
Why is this such a mystery to other news outlets? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – If ever there was any doubt that “Sloppy” Steve Bannon was a key architect of Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” strategy and that it was developed even before Election Day on November 3, 2020, new sensationalized…
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…
