“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” – Sinclair Lewis The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST — Before I talk about the year and decade in review in this final column of this eventful year of 2019, I would like to…
“The day I realized it can be smart to be shallow was, for me, a deep experience.†– Donald J. Trump – The Big Picture - By Glynn Wilson - So the news broke with the usual urgency late on a Friday that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe of the FBI, prompting…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fascist white nationalist showboat victim Richard Spencer and his gang of alt-right neo-Nazi klan members are coming to Washington on Sunday, June 25, to “educate” us all about the First Amendment right of “free speech” and how it’s under attack — even though they have their favorite Republican…
Donald Trump Affirmed as President With 304 Electoral College Votes – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – After all the screeching and howling, sharing and protesting, weeping and gnashing of teeth, Donald J. Trump was affirmed as the 45th president of the United States on Monday with 304 Electoral College votes to Hillary…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In the Huge wave washing over the American landscape after the tsunami of Donald Trump’s surprising ride to president of the United States on a surfboard constructed of bullshit, mainstream news organizations and Democrats are beating up on Mark Zuckerberg and poor Facebook, blaming the widespread sharing…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Like it or not, we live in Trump’s America now. And it looks a whole lot like Alabama. Thank you Jeff Sessions, George W. Bush and George Wallace for setting the stage for this. Thank you Democratic Party for being so pathetically weak and inept. Sorry for…
By Juan Cole – Informed Comment – I argued that President Obama’s carbon-reduction plan wasn’t anything to write home about. He want to reduce our annual emissions from 5.4 billion metric tons of CO2 annually from the US to 4.7 billion metric tons by 2030. It isn’t an insignificant reduction, but it doesn’t at all…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number one reaction from Americans when asked their feelings on Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election was “surprise.” A large majority of Americans, 75 percent, say they were shocked to see how the election came out, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. Perhaps…
By Glynn Wilson – America’s long national nightmare just got a whole lot worse. New York’s own George Wallace, Donald Trump, managed to get himself elected the 45th president of the United States in what the Washington Post called “the stunning culmination of a campaign that defied expectations and conventions at every turn and galvanized…
