By Glynn Wilson – WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. – The actor Wendell Pierce who played the Rev. Hosea Williams in the move “Selma,” trombone player Antoine Batiste in “Treme” and Detective Bunk Moreland in the acclaimed HBO drama series “The Wire,” broke off from traveling the country campaigning for Democrats with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz…
Staff Report – JONESBORO, Ark. – Republican Congressman Rick Crawford was a no show Thursday night in his home town televised debate by Arkansas State University Television, as Democrat Rodney Govens and Libertarian Steve Parsons went back and forth on the critical problems facing the people in U.S. House District One and potential solutions for…
By Glynn Wilson – If justice was indeed blind and fair in all cases, Donald Trump would be standing trial today for his crimes against the United States Constitution and American democracy, not running for president again as a major party’s nominee. New evidence disclosed in a court brief made public on Wednesday by Federal…
By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – Minnesota Governor and Vice Presidential contender Tim Walz shamed Senator and Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance of Ohio Wednesday night in the only vice presidential debate of 2024 on CBS, when Vance had no answer for the most basic of questions: Did Trump lose the 2020 election?…
By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – A federal judge from Indonesia who attended Auburn University and the University of Alabama School of Law and was appointed to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims by Ronald Reagan in 1986, ruled last week that a lawsuit filed by a Republican Congressman from Arkansas against the government…
Staff Report – JONESBORO, Ark. – No one thought it could be done. Every president and Congress since the administration of Ronald Reagan has talked about passing a national infrastructure bill to rebuild America’s crumbling roads and bridges and more. They could never agree and get it done. That all changed in 2021, however, when…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – With only five weeks to go until the election on Nov. 5, the stakes could not be higher as the latest public opinion polls still show a close race for president. Although the latest compilation average of all the polls show that Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican…
The New York Times Editorial Board endorsed Kamala Harris as the only patriotic choice for president of the United States. The editorial board of the New American Journal concurs in that endorsement, and finds no flaw in the reasoning of this group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and longstanding…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – HARDY, Ark. – It takes time to get oriented in a new place as a writer, especially after experiencing nearly catastrophic trauma on the road. But less than two weeks after leaving Maryland and passing through Virginia, West Virginia, a sliver of Missouri and crossing the Mississippi…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – The rain and wind from Hurricane Helene is lashing out even here in the Delta on Friday night, and that’s an actual fact. There are no two partisan sides to report in this story. This storm was huge, covering most of the Gulf of…
Editor’s Note – It came near the end of my decade long run living in the Washington, D.C. area and covering our federal government with democracy in peril and the world seemingly on fire. A Facebook friend request from a cousin I didn’t know, John Sansom of Marietta, Georgia. He found me on Ancestry dot…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – TRUMANN, Ark. – When the Mississippi River bridge came into view with cotton fields as far as the eye could see, and then the Welcome to Missouri sign came into view, I began to relax a little after a trying ordeal that already had me thinking about…
Staff Report – Foreign actors, especially Iran, Russia and China, are actively involved in trying to sow discord, create chaos and influence the elections coming up in the United States to undermine American democracy for their own nefarious purposes. That’s according to a joint statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The last thing I would ever want to do is compare myself to a Biblical character like Job. Job was a rich man in his time, if he really existed, which is a scholarly dispute to this day among Christians, Jews, Mormons and even within Islam, since…
Editor’s Note – Samuel Langhorne Clemens was once so down and out, broke and desperate in San Francisco that he took a loaded pistol and aimed it at his head. He couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger, maybe out of sheer cowardice. He picked up a pen instead and wrote The Celebrated Jumping Frog…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CHARLESTON, W.V. – After we left the campsite Monday morning by that creek in Maryland where I had the amazing spiritual experience in nature, what could be the last time in that enchanted forest by Camp David, Ramsey the Roadtrek Media Camper Van headed south and west. Secret Vistas:…
Trump Says He Won’t Debate Harris Again. She Hauls in $47 Million in 24 Hours – By Nathaniel Rakich – ABC/538 On Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris met for their first, and potentially only, presidential debate, with each candidate hoping to gain a crucial advantage over the other in…
By Glynn Wilson – Now that Vice President Kamala Harris has dispatched Donald Trump in the presidential debate event Tuesday night on ABC, live from Philadelphia – the birthplace of American independence, freedom and democracy – it’s time to think about which party might control the closely divided Congress next year. Related: A Majority of…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – This column has been several days in the planning, but I needed to wait until after the ABC presidential debate to finalize it. That’s done, and what a great performance by Vice President Kamala Harris and a relief for all of us in this…
By Glynn Wilson – From the first moment when Vice President Kamala Harris walked on stage in Philadelphia, approached Donald Trump and extended her hand to shake his in their first face-to-face meeting, to the last when she talked about the Biden administration’s work to fight climate change and create millions of high paying jobs,…
