The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The biggest threat to the future of humanity, democracy and the inherent rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the muddled thinking of men. Feel free to quote me on that. For example, as I was re-reading the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v.…
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The Big Picture: On Winners and Losers
“Winners and losers, which one will you be today?” — Social Distortion Winners and Losers Video The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The California punk rock band Social Distortion summed it up in this song by Michael Ness. “We’re all good and evil … there’s cowards and heroes … lovers…
So Life Comes Down to This: A Trump Supreme Court Justice Who Doesn’t Even Believe in Democracy
The Great Gatsby: You Can’t Repeat the Past
Donald Trump, His Followers and These Times Through the Lens of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How many of you have read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby and watched one or more versions of the movie adaptations of the story? This…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama: A Beacon in a Dark Place
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A fragile nation, beacon to the world, is on the verge of cracking like a giant arctic ice sheet splitting in half due to warming seas. Meanwhile the lack of informed political leadership in America keeps us distracted by the high school beer drinking…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Could Cast Deciding Vote Against Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
Is Doug Jones Running for President in 2020? – “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” – Poverb By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room was described as “hell” last week by not only President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.…
To the Editor: Open Letter to Senator Jeff Flake
Dear Senator Flake: You would be doing your county, as well as your party, proud if you were to vote no on Kavanaugh on Friday. Consider the source of the appointment — a liar full of bluster appointing another liar full of bluster. Then, consider the near treasonous activities of Mitch McConnell, leaving the Court…
Senator Doug Jones Calls for FBI Investigation in Sexual Assault Allegations Against Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Charges of sexual assault have changed the political calculus in the Unites States Senate on conformation of President Donald J. Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court. The charges by a California college professor against Judge Brett Kavanaugh just add more fuel to the fire for Democrats who were…
The Big Show in Washington: Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Working People Basic Legal Rights
By Glynn Wilson – Where are the howls of protest in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington? Where are the denunciations from unions and the trial lawyer associations? Where are comments from Democrats on Facebook and Twitter denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Monday gutting the rights of workers to collectively bargain…
When It Was Done Right: Justice Hugo Black, Religion and Alabama
By Roger Newman – Exclusive to the New American Journal – âAlabama has a history of great senators,â said the greatest of them all. Not even Lister Hillâs exceptional accomplishments in expanding hospital care, medical research, libraries and education, or John J. Sparkmanâs in housing and establishing rocketry in the state, could compare to those…
Voting is a Right: Stop Republican Voter Suppression
By Robert Reich – A crowning achievement of the historic March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his “I have a dream” speech, was pushing through the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Recognizing the history of racist attempts to prevent black people from voting, that federal law forced a number of southern…
Tell Your Senators to Do Their Job and Confirm President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
President Obama Nominates Moderate Judge for Supreme Court
By Glynn Wilson – President Barack Obama nominated veteran appeals court judge Merrick Garland of Illinois to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, a moderate intended to head off a political showdown with Senate Republicans who vow to block any nominee to the high court by this controversial Democratic president. Garland, 63, now serves as…
Earth’s Climate May Benefit From Justice Scalia’s Death
By Glynn Wilson – The death of conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, may be the best thing to happen for the future of the planet than anything since the national Sierra Club and 350.org convinced President Obama to take on climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…
We Must Fight Economic Apartheid in America
By Robert Reich – Almost lost by the wave of responses to the Supreme Court’s decisions last week upholding the Affordable Care Act and allowing gays and lesbians to marry was the significance of the Court’s third decision – on housing discrimination. In a 5-4 ruling, the Court found that the Fair Housing Act of…
Escape the City, Summer Heat and Bad News: Visit Shenandoah
Who Needs Clean Water?
Lordly Lobby Is Not a Hobby: Courts and Corps Running History Backwards
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. – Voltaire, 1694-1778 – By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – Newly captured Africans bound for slavery in the Americas often didn’t arrive directly. They stopped in the Caribbean islands for “seasoning.” There they lost their culture, language, religion.…
The Latest Jobs Report and the Supreme Court’s ‘McCutcheon’ Debacle
By Robert Reich – What does the Supreme Court’s “McCutcheon” decision this week have to do with today’s jobs report, showing 192,000 new jobs for March? Connect the dots. More than five years after Wall Street’s near meltdown the number of full-time workers is still less than it was in December 2007, yet the working-age…