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…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, will vote for the conviction of President Donald J. Trump in the Senate impeachment trial and in favor of his removal from office, even though most pundits still say the Republicans have the votes to acquit the president. It would take 67 votes…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Reacts to the Dershowitz Argument – By Glynn Wilson – In a press conference call with reporters on Thursday morning before the U.S. Senate was to go back into session to continue the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, Senator Doug Jones of Alabama hinted that the odds…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â It’s hard to know what the Chinese astrologers were thinking when they came up with the Chinese zodiac, but sometimes their system creates opportunities for word games that also tend to possess political and/or social insight. Take 2020, for example, the Year of the Rat. The Rat…
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…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – The power of fear and a social media program named after a bird call cowed a majority in the United States Senate on Tuesday to bow down to the wishes of a corrupt dictator who has taken over the once great democratic republic of America, a new kind of…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – We are this close to the midterm elections and the goddamn GOP is about to close it hard on irrational fear. Isis and Ebola. Fear porn. How did we get here? Completely random elaborately imagined clusterfucks that would not survive the advent of oxygen or sunlight if applied.…
