By Glynn Wilson – Nanci Pelosi’s House approved the amended Senate version of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan on Wednesday by a vote of 220 to 211, sending the historic anti-poverty legislation to the president for his signature. It could be signed and become law by the weekend, with $1,400 coronavirus pandemic…
House to Vote on Changes Tuesday – By Glynn Wilson – In a historic vote of epic proportions that demonstrates the paramount importance of voting and elections in a democracy, Democrats in the Senate voted 50-49 on Saturday to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan for coronavirus pandemic relief without a single…
By Glynn Wilson – After working late into the night on Friday, the House passed a $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus bill called the American Rescue Plan advocated by President Joe Biden by a party-line vote of 219 to 212, including an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. The bill…
Editor’s Note: We are happy to report that the new Biden administration has begun to restore factual email announcements from federal agencies to allow news organizations to once again provide reliable information to readers. For four years under the previous administration, all the public relations functions of federal agencies had been coopted by Trump loyalists…
By Glynn Wilson – An independent commission will be established by Congress to investigate the Capitol insurrection on January 6 and the interference with the peaceful transfer power, according to a letter sent out Monday to Democrats in the House and posted online by House Speaker Nanci Pelosi. “Security is the order of the day:…
By Glynn Wilson – Political courage was seriously absent in the United States Capitol on Saturday as only seven Republicans could find it in themselves to join 48 Democrats and two independents to find former president Donald Trump guilty of inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021 as Congress affirmed the Electoral College votes…
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three part series on the death of the American Dream and the one last chance we have to save it. Part II: The Early Days of the Internet – What Went Wrong Part III: Government Regulations and Objective Journalism Redefined Part I: Death of an Empire –…
What a difference a day makes Twenty-four little hours Brought the sun and the flowers Where there used to be rain My yesterday was blue, dear My lonely nights are through, dear Since Trump ran to Florida, dear And Biden was sworn in. By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Glory hallelujah. What a difference…
By Glynn Wilson – Editor and Publisher – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As the day broke, it was cold, grey and foreboding in Washington, D.C. on January, 20, 2021, as it was in Knoxville, Tennessee, when the cloud cloaked dawn came up over the Smoky Mountains. Somehow, someway, we survived one more final night with Rat…
By Glynn Wilson – House Speaker Nanci Pelosi didn’t waste any time in pursing a second article of impeachment against lame duck president Donald Trump after coming very close to being assassinated in the United State Capitol building last Wednesday by an armed and dangerous insurrectionist militia ordered to storm up Capitol Hill by a…
Evidence Suggests The Insurrection on Jan. 6 was Not a Spur of the Moment Accident: It was An Attempted Overthrow of American Democracy and Almost Succeeded Breaking News Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – There is no way that the failure of law enforcement and the military to protect the United States Capitol building on…
Democrats Win Historic Victories in Georgia and Take Control of Power in the Senate – By Glynn Wilson – On a historic day when all Americans should be celebrating a great victory for democracy, that news according to the visual media at least was overshadowed by a gang of delusional rednecks led to a fake,…
By Glynn Wilson – So much for the “law and order” president and his law and order friends, fans and followers and Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud by Democrats. The lawlessness from the Republican White House that dominated the presidential campaign of the hellscape year of 2020 continued into 2021 on Sunday when Trump…
By Glynn Wilson – EDITOR’S NOTE – You may not see much of this in the mainstream media’s year in review stories, which quite frankly so far have made me gag, literally. And want to gouge out my own eyes like a scene from King Lear. Maybe jump out a third story window. Never fear.…
By Glynn Wilson – Like a modern day Scrooge, Lame Duck President Donald J. Trump came around in the wake of Christmas criticism from across the land, had a change of heart and mind, and decided to sign the bipartisan $900 billion pandemic relief bill after all from his Florida vacation resort Sunday when it…
As the story goes, for more than 100 years, the two statues chosen by the Virginia Legislature to represent the state in the Capitol were prominent citizens George Washington, and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. With all the controversy over glorifying Civll War figures, I wondered why Lee was still there. He is no more.
By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 may go down in history as a pivotal turning point from the darkness of 2020 to the light coming to America and the world in 2021. It would be hard to find anyone to argue with the statement that 2020 was the darkest, worst…
By Glynn Wilson – Senator Doug Jones of Alabama is still in the running to be picked for President-Elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet, in the Department of Justice perhaps as U.S. Attorney General, according to knowledgable sources in Washington. Jones’ three main advantages are his well established record on civil rights, his long standing personal relationship…
SATIRE – By Glynn Wilson – Yes, folks. It was a massive conspiracy, with the “deep state” dumping on Trump to “steal” the election, as the lame duck president said on Fox News over the Thanksgiving weekend, accusing Democrats of taking “massive dumps” on him to take the presidency away. That’s a big load of…
By Glynn Wilson – Outgoing President Donald J. Trump didn’t exactly concede to losing the election on Twitter or TV on Monday, but he bowed to a growing wave of public pressure from American business leaders, national security officials and some Republicans and effectively surrendered his three-week protest of the election results by agreeing to…
