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Joe Biden Reemerges as Democratic Front Runner on Super Tuesday

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Republican Tommy Tuberville Tops Jeff Sessions, Likely to Win Runoff and Face Senator Doug Jones in November – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — Joe Biden came back from the political dead on Super Tuesday and reemerged as the front runner in the Democratic Party’s primary race to take on President Donald Trump in…

How Existential Anxiety Leads to Authoritarianism

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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Part II: Case Studies — Donald Trump and George Wallace – “He who does not oppose evil, commands it to be done,” the great artist Leonardo Da Vinci once said. By…

Bernie Sanders and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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“The necessaries of life for man in this climate may, accurately enough, be distributed under the several heads of Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel; for not till we have secured these are we prepared to entertain the true problems of life with freedom and a prospect of success.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden The Big…

Senate Votes Along Party Lines to Acquit Trump in Impeachment Trial

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By Glynn Wilson – The Republicans in the United States Senate showed just how partisan Washington has become on Wednesday by voting along strict party lines to acquit President Donald J. Trump of two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, even though a number of Republicans had admitted publicly that Trump…

Right and Truth Matter: Otherwise We Are Lost

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  House prosecutors made their closing arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump on Friday, with lead House manager and Congressman Adam Schiff of California taking to the podium in the Senate at the end of the night to make an impassioned appeal for Senators to…

House Prosecutors Hit Their Stride in Impeachment Trial

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Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Says House Managers Are Making A Compelling Case – By Glynn Wilson – The House legal team prosecuting President Donald J. Trump in the Senate impeachment trial seemed to hit its stride somewhere between the half way point of day two and into day three. They must have gotten the…

How Much Evidence is Enough?

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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…