The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For nearly four long years, America has endured Donald Trump’s deceit. On a daily basis, he has lied in OUR White House, on Twitter and television, at times surrounded by MAGA cap wearing white fans in football stadiums. From the day he first came…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CAMP DAVID, Md. — Just before the results from Pennsylvania were updated Friday morning, I was sipping coffee in the Maryland campground getting ready to head back into the city and found myself in a bit of a flashback to the year 2000. When the election between…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — These are the last words I will write and publish before the election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, and I have to be brutally honest. There will be no pretense or posturing here. I could turn out to be wrong, but I don’t think so.…
Or we can keep fighting it for another four years – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The election of 2020 is one week away and I’m driving up Highway 15 toward Gettysburg thinking about the Civil War we still seem to be fighting 155 years after the bloody war…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It won’t be so long now. The excruciating wait will be over in a few days. Exacerbated by the stress, anxiety and existential dread of the coronavirus pandemic and economic uncertainty, it will all be over soon one way or another. We should know…
This Will Not Stand – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since October 15, 1957, I’ve been fortunate to live on this amazing planet Earth as a citizen of the great country of the United States of America. When I first came out kicking and screaming in that little hospital…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All over the district and beyond, there is a growing fantasy in the land among Democrats that Donald Trump is not only going to lose the 2020 election in a massive landslide, but that when he tries to cling to power anyway, he is…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As the clock ticks down in the final quarter of 2020, the year of the “converging crisis” as some experts are now calling it, for millions of people survival feels like a daily ordeal either physically, economically or psychologically. Of course I’m human. I feel it all…
Why or why not? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – To find the roots of this most basic of questions in American politics, go back 40 years. Georgia peanut farmer Jimmy Carter was president, and while he was a good man and turned out to be the best of ex-presidents, he had…
Donald Trump, His Followers and These Times Through the Lens of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How many of you have read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby and watched one or more versions of the movie adaptations of the story? This…
“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…
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” — Mark Twain The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Cool air in the wake of the wind and rain from Hurricane Sally has now cleared the smoke from wildfires out west mostly out of the Blue…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The view of Mount Mitchell is obscured by rain clouds and fog on this Saturday afternoon in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ken Burns is talking about Hank Williams as “the epitome of country music” on “Live From Here” on National Public Radio out of Ashville, North Carolina.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Anxiety and stress in people trying to resolve inconsistent thoughts has been around since the dawn of time. In the throes of a global pandemic and economic uncertainty with confusing mixed signals coming from officials on high is sending the psychological problem soaring. Our world is now…
If Donald Trump is So Dumb, Why is He Still in the White House with a Chance to Win Again in 2020? – “We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper … Consider how little this village does for its own…
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” – H. L. Mencken The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Time is running short. There’s only a couple of months left in the campaign to see who will emerge as the winner in the presidential election of 2020. No pressure. At stake…
On the Road Again – By Glynn Wilson – CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Everyone thought the Republican National Convention had moved from here to Jacksonville, Florida and was then canceled and moved to Washington, D.C., so no one was quite prepared for what happened Monday. We got word over the weekend that some Republican delegates were…
Will the Right Wing Militia Let Him Get Away With It? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It was December 6, 2017, and we were breaking news from Mobile, Alabama, when we found out tea party hero Steve Bannon was coming to Fairhope across the bay to campaign for the Ten Commandments…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Sitting here in the Appalachian mountains watching the sunset, thinking about our modern communications dilemma, I feel like I’m surrounded by people who are so uninformed about reality that they resemble the chained up prisoners in Plato’s cave. If you’ve never heard the story, watch the video…
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand – “We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we’re right in the vortex you want to quit … You must realize that we’ve found the main nerve.” I know,” he said. “That’s what gives me the Fear.” – Hunter S. Thompson “By disgracing…
