Live with that if you can – “In absolute government, the King is law.” – Thomas Paine The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The news business is dead. Just ask The Washington Post: The latest news? Not right now, thanks. Long live the news writers who braved to tell it…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – It makes me a little sad that I could not be there at Gettysburg this year for the 161st anniversary of a legendary two minute speech that hinted at the end of fighting during the Civil War and began to move the United States…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It should come as no surprise that the news of Donald Trump’s election again was greeted with glee in Moscow. Russian dictator president Vladimir Putin sent his congratulations to Trump after the news was announced, but not for the reasons you may imagine. According to Russian journalist…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – When the present goes wrong, hope for the future – or retreat into the past. Mark Twain didn’t say that. I just did. More on that in a minute. But on October 2, 1876, a speech of Twain’s was covered by The New York…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – Covering politics for the past 44 years, for the past decade mostly in Washington, D.C., I’ve seen some crazy, outrageous things in my time. But Republican Congressman Rick Crawford’s federal lawsuit for a pay raise and back pay may just take the cake. After…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – Election Night 2024 is two days away and even 966 miles west of Washington, D.C. the tension in the air is so heavy it makes me seriously regret giving up my predilection for Xanax 20 years ago, about the time Hunter S. Thompson killed himself…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – “These are the times that try men’s souls,” Tom Paine once wrote in a famous essay drumming up support for the American Revolution. The American Crisis: By Thomas Paine – 1776 Now a woman writer named Margaret Sullivan, formerly the media columnist for The…
By Glynn Wilson – No matter how this election turns out, my retirement from political news and journalism is imminent. Social media has made news, journalism and facts irrelevant, even as Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are making the first big social media program Facebook irrelevant, by ignoring and downplaying news and politics. No matter that…
Will people finally wake up when they finally feel the hurt? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – They say life is a journey, and you never know where you might end up. For many people, life seems more like a slog, from one hard day of work for a bad boss and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – HARDY, Ark. – It takes time to get oriented in a new place as a writer, especially after experiencing nearly catastrophic trauma on the road. But less than two weeks after leaving Maryland and passing through Virginia, West Virginia, a sliver of Missouri and crossing the Mississippi…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – The rain and wind from Hurricane Helene is lashing out even here in the Delta on Friday night, and that’s an actual fact. There are no two partisan sides to report in this story. This storm was huge, covering most of the Gulf of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – TRUMANN, Ark. – When the Mississippi River bridge came into view with cotton fields as far as the eye could see, and then the Welcome to Missouri sign came into view, I began to relax a little after a trying ordeal that already had me thinking about…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The last thing I would ever want to do is compare myself to a Biblical character like Job. Job was a rich man in his time, if he really existed, which is a scholarly dispute to this day among Christians, Jews, Mormons and even within Islam, since…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Rarely in American political history has a moment been as charged with salience and import as the so-called “debate” that is to take place in Philadelphia Tuesday night on ABC between Democrat Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. On the face of it, Harris should have the clear…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Just two months from now, Americans will go to the polls to vote on Nov. 5 to decide the fate of this experiment in democracy of the people one more time. If that sounds dramatic, it’s because it is dramatic, or traumatic, depending on your point of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – It’s Labor Day weekend, not Memorial Day or Veterans Day, I know. It would be great if the unions could help us save democracy in November. But I’ve spent enough time working with unions to know the rank and file are largely with…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. —- I heard the Marine One helicopter landing at Camp David on Friday, Aug. 16, after flying overhead right above the Owens Creek campground in Catoctin Mountain (National) Park. President Joe Biden arrived for another weekend preparing his speech for Monday night, Aug. 19,…
Maybe Giant Egos and the Same Spray On Tan Brand? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Bobby Kennedy’s son has fallen off his rocker. I’m renaming him RKJ, instead of RFKJr. How did this happen? Did the worm really eat part of his brain? I considered doing a big…
Editors Note: Back in time I dreamed of becoming a syndicated columnist. But the internet changed the news writing business. Well now I’ve taken Snoop’s advice and made it happen anyway. This column was written on deadline for The Progressive Populist newspaper in time to come out before the Democratic Party’s convention in Chicago starting…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – There was a time in this country, in this world, when most people were probably good people willing to go out of their way to help their neighbors. There are still good people out there for sure, helping others every day. But some…
