By Glynn Wilson – VALLEY FORGE, Pa. – When George Washington moved the Continental Army of colonial militias 18 miles west of Philadelphia on a ridge overlooking the Schuylkill River in the winter of 1777, the motivation that kept a sick and starving rag tag group of soldiers together was the prospect of being governed…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Under normal political and media circumstances, we would never run raw PR from a federal agency that has had it’s share of legal slip-ups and intelligence blunders and abuses over the years. But at this time with the Federal Bureau of Investigation under such a major political assault from the president to Republicans…
“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” – – Hunter S. Thompson – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – An image haunts me as I consume the news this morning, an image of…
Attorneys General Allege That Trump’s Business Enterprises Violate U.S. Constitution – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a major blow to President Donald J. Trump and a historic court ruling, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that a lawsuit alleging that Trump’s business enterprises violate the emoluments clauses of the U.S. Constitution may proceed…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump’s insistence on fighting a trade war against the entire world all at once for political purposes is on the verge of casting a pall over the global economy that could depress global economic growth and result in the loss of American jobs…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Try to imagine the reaction inside the Hoover building at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue as arguably the most corrupt and incompetent president in American history openly committed treason on foreign soil in Helsinki, Finland on Monday. If anyone other than Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Alabama was in charge…
Guest Column – By Doug Jones – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From Florence to Dothan, Mobile to Huntsville, and every stop in between, Alabama is a proud producer and exporter of goods to countries around the world. In fact, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, more than 567,000 Alabama jobs are supported by global trade.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Let there be no equivocation. If Donald Trump as President of the United States meets with Russian dictator Vladmir Putin on Monday as planned, he is a traitor to this country, he’s guilty of treason, and MUST be arrested and removed from office immediately.…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Democrats and independents: Listen up! The fate of the country and the world are in your hands. Before I go off on a stream of consciousness rant here many average IQ Americans will never understand, I need to say this one thing everyone should be able to get. It doesn’t take much abstract…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Fourth of July holiday week is over and the soothing cool front is moving out. It’s about to get hot again in the nation’s capital in more ways than one, just in time for President Donald J. Trump to turn the country even…
Between the Idea and the Reality … Falls the Shadow. – T.S. Eliot The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sitting here in the woods between Annapolis, Maryland and the Trump White House this week I had the distinct feeling of hunkering down in the eye of a category 5 hurricane,…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration’s plan to use illegal immigration as the cornerstone political issue in the midterm elections to try to get more Republicans elected to Congress blew up in its face this week. While Democrats were planning to focus on health care and expanding Medicaid, crying babies being…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Attorney General and former Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama went on the road recently to try to sell the Trump administration’s cruel and unusual policy of separating immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexican border to law enforcement officers and the country by quoting the Bible,…
By David Underhill – In an inscrutable Oriental blink the mirage of Korean peace begins to fade. North Korea’s “Little Rocket Man”, whose grim regime was a target for fire and fury like the world has never seen, according to last year’s Trumpet blasts, yielded to the Bigger Man with the Bigger Nuclear Button. The…
By Glynn Wilson – One day after President Donald J. Trump went on national television to announce that he would unilaterally withdraw the United States from a deal with Iran negotiated by the Obama administration to prevent that country from developing nuclear weapons, threats to homeland security are already being announced, oil and gas prices…
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…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The disconnect from reality is palpable. It makes me dread waking up, turning on Matilda the Mac (the pet name for my computer) and scanning the headlines online. Not a day goes by in the era of Twitter and Trump without a story coming down the pike…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — What would you rather read? A story of gloom and doom or a tale of human hope for the future? Or must we cover both sides? Reading the news online and watching what’s left of the Sunday morning news talk shows on broadcast television…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As an educated lawyer, former FBI director James Comey should know the Latin legal phrase, “Fiat justitia ruat caelum,” which means: “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” He apparently forget that under the pressure of the election in 2016 and in trying to serve President…
By Robert Reich – The petulant adolescent in the White House – who has replaced most of the adults around him with raging sycophants and has demoted his chief of staff, John Kelly, to lapdog – lacks adequate supervision. Before, he was merely petty and vindictive. He’d tweet nasty things about people he wanted to…
