Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The east-facing window in this humble abode was enshrouded in fog the first thing Sunday morning, not the famous smoke you sometimes see in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Since it’s National Public Sleeping Day and the weather was not conducive to…
Shelby Could Do the Right Thing and Swing the Impeachment Vote Against Trump – But He Won’t – Editor’s Note: In our continuing series showing how the press should be operating in America, as opposed to how it operates now and how it has failed in the 21st century, here is our take on the…
Will my colleagues in the Senate uphold that? – Editor’s Note: U.S. Senator Doug Jones lost his father on Saturday, Dec. 28, as he reported on Twitter: “Yesterday we lost the Jones family patriarch. My dad, Gordon Jones, died as my mom, his wife of 70 years, held his hand. He was of impeccable character,…
“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…
SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – Many journalists and pundits have been scrambling for the past two years to try to understand the mass popularity of TV reality star Donald Trump and how he somehow managed to fool enough of the people into voting for him for president in 2016. We know a little…
On the Media – Â By Glynn Wilson -Â There is a groundswell of public sentiment on social media that perhaps the White House press corps should run a boycott on Trump. Before we go any further, let me make it clear up front that this is never going to happen, for economic reasons if…
“Be it life or death, we crave only reality.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oh how things have changed since Henry David Thoreau’s 1854, when he first published Walden. How things have changed since 1896, when Adolph Ochs purchased and began transforming the New…
By Robert Reich – With congressional Republicans in the majority in Congress and unwilling to cross Donald Trump, the job of containing Trump’s incipient tyranny falls to three centers of independent power: the nation’s courts, its press and a few state governments. Which is why Trump is escalating attacks on all three. The Judiciary After…
By Robert Reich – Tyrants don’t allow open questioning, and they hate the free press. They want total control. That’s why, according to three senior officials on the transition team, the incoming Trump administration is considering evicting the White House press corps from the press room inside the White House and moving them – and…
