Tag Archive for Midterm Elections

The Big Picture: On Winners and Losers

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“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…

Alabama Democrats Blame Democratic Party for Election Losses

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Election Analysis –  By Glynn Wilson –  MOBILE, Ala. — Democrats all over the country are buoyed by a surge in voters in enough places to take back a majority in the U.S. House, inspired by what they see as a mortal threat to Democracy by the divisiveness of President Donald J. Trump. More than…

Pouring Syrup on the News Doesn’t Make it More or Less True

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But just maybe it could get more people to swallow the medicine – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  ALABAMA – What do you get when you crush sugar cane and boil the juice? Molasses, of course. The thick, brown syrup still used in the American South for baking pies, cookies and other…

Holding Our Breath to See if We Have a Democracy After Nov. 6

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  MOBILE, Ala. — By some miracle we swerved along on the mountain backroads south of Washington, D.C. and dodged the pipe bombs and bullets, making it back to the Gulf Coast this week to find fall weather in the air with highs in the ’70s and lows…

Going Around in Circles, Chasing Trump’s Tail

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“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…

Will the F.B.I. and Congress Now Act to Remove Trump from Power?

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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…

Key Republican Issue of Illegal Immigration Becomes a Winner for Democrats

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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…

I Know What Boys Like

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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.…