‘God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Probably the most significant victory to celebrate on Memorial Day is the defeat of fascism and the Nazis…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a rare, one of a kind case proving that there was indeed law enforcement involvement in the seditious conspiracy leading up to the violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a Metropolitan Police Lieutenant was arrested last week after being indicted by a grand jury and…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Stewart Rhodes, 58, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was sentenced by a federal judge on Thursday to 18 years in prison for his conviction on seditious conspiracy charges and the role he played in leading the mobilization of the pro-Trump insurrection and attack on the Capitol…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Arkansas man who became famous for being pictured reclining with his feet on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office desk in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Trump insurrection and Capitol Breach, with the government arguing that…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In another disastrous ruling destroying decades of established legal precedents, the conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of Idaho farmers and against the Environmental Protection Agency in a case involving the protection of wetlands near waterways. In response to the decision…
Lone Offenders and Small Groups Continue to Pose a Persistent Threat – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Be on the lookout for violent threats from domestic and foreign terrorists, according to a new National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin issued Wednesday. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas issued the National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Texas Trump supporter who joined rioters in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and tried to break into the Speaker’s Lobby and shut the power off in the Capitol was sentenced by a federal judge on Tuesday to nearly seven years in prison. Christopher…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — New Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts went on the offensive against the MAGA House Republicans on Tuesday and was joined by fellow House Democrats, veterans, families, local lawmakers and the non-profit activist group Courage for America in speaking out at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol against the…
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” ― Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From the very beginning of this…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if it were not embarrassing enough to hang around in the nation’s capital and admit to people that you are originally from Alabama, this bad football coach joke of a United States Senator Tommy Tuberville is running a one man filibuster against the…
“Our government … teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” – Justice Louis Brandeis “The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defying critics and in an effort to bring the United States back to its leadership role on the world stage in fighting climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy, the Biden administration announced major new regulations to limit greenhouse pollution from…
How has your life been changed by this global pandemic? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It feels like a scary movie of a lifetime has passed in the past three years since March, 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic national emergency was declared in the United States. While the…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A jury returned guilty verdicts on multiple felonies against five members of the Proud Boys, finding four of the defendants guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. According to the evidence at trial, in the months…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — I don’t know about you, but deep math problems have never seemed so fun to me. They burn too much energy. Energy that could be utilized doing something much more fun, like playing baseball or the drums. Some of the smartest people I know…
By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and…
Camping, Hiking and Boating at Kymulga Grist Mill and Covered Bridge Park
