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…
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…
Hate Breeds Hate – Violence Breeds Violence- “Violence never brings permanent peace.” – MLK The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s tragic that Joe Biden cannot say what I’m about to say. Even if he did, at least a third of “the people” would not listen. They won’t listen to me either. But…
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 – 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…
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…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The sky is clearing over the Great Smoky Mountains here Saturday morning, making way for a brilliant sunrise, and the dark clouds shrouding American democracy are beginning to blow aside to offer a glimmer of light at the end of the tumultuous tunnel of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, N.C. — So if you are like many of my vocal Facebook friends, fans and followers, you may be chomping at the bit to see Donald Trump frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs or a straight-jacket and hauled off to a padded or…
By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH, Va. — It’s a bit early for a year in review story, but for me, it’s been one hell of a year. A humbling year. I’ve long known that we are all just like tiny grains of sand in the long run of history, here on this special beach of…
CAMP DAVID, Md. — Editor’s Note – A few inspirational thoughts on Election Day while we hold our breaths and wait for the results to start coming in Tuesday night. Today I will fly my American flag proudly in my campsite in the same mountain woods as Camp David, because I will not concede the…
By Glynn Wilson – On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the 10th anniversary of the BP oil disaster, and a couple of months into the coronavirus pandemic and economic collapse, I’m not feeling so well or very optimistic about the future of human life on planet Earth. It’s similar to how I feel about…
By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — If you are feeling cooped up or claustrophobic and locked up in your suburban home glued to the bad news on cable television about coronavirus, you may want to consider another way to get away from other people: Visit a national park during this time of national crisis.…
By Glynn Wilson – The National Park Service will host special events and provide free entrance to all national parks this year in honor of the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 20. The Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. is an official day of service in remembrance of the man whose…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the world is focused on President Donald Trump’s latest crazy tweet, pulling U.S. troops out of Syria and allowing Russia and Turkey to release ISIS fighters and destroy the Kurds, U.S. allies, along with the impeachment investigation in the House, there are all kinds of under the…
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…
“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us,…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a significant blow to Donald J. Trump’s legal attempt to block a lawsuit and investigation into how his private business practices violate the anti-corruption emoluments clauses in the U.S. Constitution, a federal court denied a series of motions by attorneys for the president this week and allowed…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Lurking on a wooded little island in the Potomac River just across the water from Georgetown, there lie important lessons for progressive Democrats from the most progressive president in American history. In continuing our exploration of the U.S. capital region, not just the partisan politics,…
Friend, friend Here you come again Empty handed like A pauper in the cold You found, my friend That lonely road again Where the world has left Your wounded soul I have said I will be with you till the end But sometimes the weight Is more than I can hold Forgiveness comes But not…
Mueller Report Delivered to Congress, Attorney General Barr Releases Summary Letter – By Glynn Wilson – In one of the most disappointing moments in the history of American democracy and jurisprudence, Attorney General William Barr released a short, four-page letter to Congress on Sunday summarizing the key findings in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report after…
