We can’t plant enough trees to stop run amok deforestation – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if the world needed another reason to be down on Russia, the widespread wildfires that raged across Russia in 2021, burning vast swaths of forest and sending smoke as far as the North Pole, unleashed massive…
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National Park Service Adds New Listings to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Park Service has added 16 new listings to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom across 11 states, joining 700 sites, facilities and programs already in the network. They all provide insight into the diverse experiences of freedom seekers who bravely escaped slavery and those who assisted…
How Winter Could Replenish Us If We Could Get a Break from Crazy News
Shows to Watch on Netflix – ‘Turn: Washington’s Spies’
Thanksgiving 2020: Goodbye Donald Trump
It’s A Mystery: Why Would 71.6 Million Americans Vote for Donald Trump?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The votes are still being tallied in Arizona and North Carolina, and there will be a recount in Georgia. Joe Biden has surpassed 76.3 million votes, the highest vote total in American history. Electoral College Map But that’s not the big mystery of this…
With the Election All But Over, the Coronavirus Rages Out of Control
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As we broke camp on Sunday feeling victorious about the declaration of Joe Biden as president-elect and drove south on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway into the city, my mind began to wander back to the biggest story of them all, the raging coronavirus. While the Trump administration’s total failure…
How Can You Learn From History if Nobody Tells You the Story?
Common Sense For a Modern Audience
Trump Must Go #TrumpMustResignNow
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s unclear if impeaching the mother fucker is the right way to go at the moment for Democrats in the House. But somehow, someway, Trump must go. Share this: #TrumpMustResignNow The damage he has already done to the country and American democracy is so great that we…
Pouring Syrup on the News Doesn’t Make it More or Less True
Rare White Fawn Spotted in Greenbelt National Park
Secret Vistas- By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In late 2016, on the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service in the United States, a rare white fawn was born in the woods of Greenbelt National Park, where visitors come from all over the country and the world to see the the neo-classical architecture,…
Michael Cohen was There the Day Trump Began Breaking Bad
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â When the neo-western crime drama Breaking Bad first hit Netflix, I watched the first episode and said “no,” I don’t want to watch this. But after Donald Trump was somehow elected president of the United States and the drug cartel-related money laundering plot of the show seemed…
Spring Bird Migration on the Gulf Coast in Full Swing
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — The spring bird migration is in full swing along the Gulf Coast, an annual event when thousands of species of birds make their annual trans-Gulf flight from South and Central America back to North America for the summer and hundreds of birders make it here for one…
To Build A Wall
By Rowland Scherman – Mr. Trump has tried very hard to implement his campaign promises, the tax cut for the richest, the dismantling of Obamacare and many others. His idea to build a wall is his plan to protect national security. “Good fences make good neighbors.” Most people, it seems, choose to regard those words…
Gutting the EPA Confirms Trump’s Damning ‘Alabamafication’ of America
ANALYSIS By Glynn Wilson – President Trump needs a new slogan. Instead of declaring that he wants to “make America great again,” if he was an honest man he would say instead: “Let’s make America more like Alabama.” That’s what’s going on as his administration guts the Environmental Protection Agency. If it was possible to…
Google Discontinues Panoramio for Maps: Our Photos
Bipartisan Group of U.S. Senators Reach Deal to Reopen Federal Government
By Glynn Wilson – On the first full work day of a federal government shutdown caused mainly by a lack of competent leadership from the White House, a bipartisan group of Senators forged a compromise Monday morning to end the filibuster over government funding and debate pressing issues related to immigration and border security. The…
President Trump, Senate Republicans Fail to Make a Deal: U.S. Government to Shut Down
#Trumpshutdown By Glynn Wilson – One year to the day after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president of the United States on a promise to “make America great again,” he proved to be a failure as a deal maker and only made the governing crisis in Washington, D.C. worse. Republicans and Democrats proposed…
A Modest Proposal: #ProtectTheTruth
By George Lakoff – America’s tweeter-in-chief plans to attack the free press next week. He desperately needs your help to succeed. You can help him by repeating his words and lies. You can help him by focusing outraged attention on his antics. Or we can work together to redirect the energy, counteract rather than react,…