The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Tis the season for all things impeachment, so stuff your stockings accordingly. Although don’t forget that Congress is now in recess for the Christmas and New Years holiday. So we will all have to take a break from that news until an agreement can be reached between…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Now here’s a revelation. An evangelical Christian magazine with widespread circulation founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham published an editorial on Thursday calling for President Donald Trump’s removal from office by the Senate or popular vote in 2020. An Associated Press story about it being shared…
By Glynn Wilson – In a drama fit for a country that seems stuck in a bad reality television show, reality TV star President Donald J. Trump became the third United States president to be impeached on Wednesday when a clear majority in the House formally charged him with abuse of power by a vote…
By Glynn Wilson – In what could be a historic vote if not for the hyper partisan divide in American politics, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted 23-17 along party lines on Friday to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump, setting up a vote in the full House next week and a…
By Glynn Wilson – In a historic move designed to take on the out of control White House and curb abuses that could lead to tainted elections in 2020 rife with foreign influence, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee formally announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday for abuse of power…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CONECUH NATIONAL FOREST – It makes me happy to report that it’s 65 degrees in mid-December here about 1,000 miles from Washington, D.C., proving that our climate change escape travel strategy is working. But even here in the woods along the Alabama-Florida line, it’s hard to escape…
By Glynn Wilson – There is little doubt that Donald Trump abused his power as president by pressuring officials in Ukraine to help him in the 2020 election by investigating a potential political rival in exchange for releasing military aid in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution and election law, according to a report released…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Everybody who is anybody knows by now that Donald Trump is a liar, a cheat and a bad president. Even the Republicans who are afraid of Trump and his friends in the Russian Mob know this, even if they won’t admit it in public. The 200 million…
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971 Fear and Loathing – By Glynn Wilson – Sorry straight news fans. I woke up in the middle of an acid flashback this morning and there’s nothing I can do but tell the story. The…
By Glynn Wilson – President Donald J. Trump didn’t waste any time in showing his true priorities just a day after he and the country learned of his apparent exoneration in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of his involvement in conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election. Trump and his Department of Justice reversed…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Let’s be clear. Mueller punted. Mueller failed. Scream all you want to the high heavens for the release of the full Mueller report. It won’t matter. We know the key findings. I’ve been biting my lip, so to speak, for days, weeks and months, refusing to engage…
Mueller Report Delivered to Congress, Attorney General Barr Releases Summary Letter – By Glynn Wilson – In one of the most disappointing moments in the history of American democracy and jurisprudence, Attorney General William Barr released a short, four-page letter to Congress on Sunday summarizing the key findings in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report after…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It’s the last day of winter on Wednesday, March 20, and the blue sky is finally visible here after months of foggy, rainy weather and overcast skies. Mobile has taken over from Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon as the rainiest city in America. I’m…
A new report released by the U.S. Department of Labor provides solid evidence that raising the minimum wage in states tends to spur job growth, the opposite of what conservative critics claim. The state-by-state hiring data, released Friday by the Labor Department, provides ammunition to the camp in favor of raising the minimum wage. In…
