“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…
“My country when she is right.’ Because patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government only when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It had been awhile since I entered the hallowed corridors of Bryant-Denny Stadium, one of the premier cathedrals…
Reportedly He Will Not Have Trump’s Support – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Apparently it’s no longer a trial balloon, and Alabama is now back in the national spotlight. Word began to leak out Wednesday on Twitter, then on CNN and other news outlets on television and the web, that President Donald Trump’s…
“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…
“Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” – John Adams – “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly…” – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis – Jump On The Bus: Make Democracy Work Again – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — An estimated four million people around the world walked off the job, skipped school and joined marches and rallies on Friday to protest inadequate government action to address climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels in what youth organizers called a Climate Strike.…
The Muddled Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MONTROSS, Va. — An American bald eagle just flew by overhead, going north up the Virginia bank of the Potomac River. Its white crown, yellow beak and brown feathers were unmistakable shining in the early Autumn sun with a powder blue sky as a background filled with…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A three judge panel of federal appeals court judges has overruled a lower court and allowed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to go forward for violations of the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution by Trump hotels and restaurants for illegally profiting from business with foreign…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After skirting Puerto Rico and flattening and inundating the Bahamas, where the death toll is rising to more than 30, Hurricane Dorian flooded the east coasts of Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and made landfall at Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks as a Category 1 storm Friday…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you have an interest in the national seat of power in this broken American democracy, as I do, your path will take you here to the nation’s capital. There’s lots to see and do here. If you also have an interest in saving…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s hot as hell could be inside the Beltway again, with a projected high on Sunday of 96 degrees and a low of only 75 tonight, a harbinger of the future for cities along the Eastern Seaboard. As I hit the button to publish this…
By Glynn Wilson – SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. — Looking back on it now, with all the turmoil we face these days in the United States and American publishing, it must have been grand to be the first American writer to make a living with the pen — and to be acknowledged by critics the world…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. – Imagine this: What if, back in the 1960s, you could have been reading John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley: In Search of America in daily bytes on a website and found out when he posted something new with a social media platform like Facebook? Would…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Remember the other day when I said it’s not the destination, or the journey, but what you learn from it? Picture this. A Cherokee and a Polack from Alabama and a redneck Jew from Maryland are standing in an alleyway in a suburban neighborhood.…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The verdict of “the people” is in: “It was the worst Fourth of July ever.” That’s the conclusion I heard the most out of locals from Virginia, the District and Maryland about Independence Day 2019 that will be known forever as the day President Donald Trump took over…
Only the Alabama Coal Ash Pollution is Not Being Covered as a National Crisis – Interactive Map By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – Coal is mostly carbon. When burned it turns into carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that merely heats the planet and sends the climate into a gradual, though accelerating, death spiral. But…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The ghosts of Jefferson Davis and George Wallace must live in the old capitol building in Montgomery. How else to explain why the fundamentalist Christian Republicans who somehow control all three branches of the state government still in the most retrograde state in the Union managed to…
Food-system collapse, sea-level rise, disease. In his new book Falter, Bill McKibben asks, “Is it Too Late?” – Excerpted from FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben. Published by Henry Holt and Company April 16th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Bill McKibben. All rights reserved. By Bill McKibben –…
Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights, by Doug Jones, All Points Books, a division of St. Martin’s Press and MacMillan Books. Book Review – By Glynn Wilson – The inspiration for the title of Doug Jones’ emotional, inspiring and detailed account of the legal cases that brought…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — When Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate here Wednesday night and mentioned “Alabama values,” it made me stop to ponder what he was talking about. Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne Announces Run for U.S. Senate Against Democrat Doug Jones In his extemporaneous speech at…
