The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What a difference a day can make? That’s why you don’t want to go anywhere just yet. Things can turn around overnight. That’s in part what keeps me going, anyway. Like Joe Biden stepping down from his reelection campaign and passing the torch to Kamala Harris. Trump…
Guest Column – By Doug Jones – It was the spring of 1978, and I was a second year law student when we had as a guest speaker a young, first-term Senator from Delaware. To say that he made a lasting impression is an understatement. I had a feeling then what I know to be…
By Glynn Wilson – Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris hit the campaign trail in her first week with a series of appearances in strategic places, appealing to key constituency groups to fire them up to get onboard and help power her campaign. In Indianapolis on Wednesday, she spoke at a rally of more than 6,000 Black…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – Vice President Kamala Harris opens her campaign for president with a two-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday. The national poll shows her leading…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Donald Trump’s campaign to return to the White House is now in big, big trouble. No one else I’ve seen is reporting it this way yet. But I’m here to tell you, it’s true. Why? Because all of a sudden, overnight, the game has changed. Kamala Harris…
Breaking News – By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden announced on Twitter (X) on Sunday afternoon that he would comply with the wishes of many Democrats and abandon his bid for re-election, endorsing his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to replace him at the top of the ticket. The move may sooth some of the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Who does not want peace and quiet? Apparently kids, bots and Trump supporters. Maybe New Yorkers. Sitting outside for hours on a mountaintop this week, the quiet only broken by birds and frogs singing in the trees and an occasional whoop across the…
On the eve of Independence Day, six right-wing justices issued an unhinged and dangerous ruling – Guest Column – By Mitchell Zimmerman – If you hadn’t read the news in four years — or just arrived from another galaxy — the Supreme Court’s de facto grant of immunity to Donald Trump for his alleged federal…
American workers are not stupid. They’re getting fleeced and they know it. But until we rebuild large scale working-class power, it’s going to be a very rough ride – They’ll stone you when you’re at the breakfast table. They’ll stone you when you are young and able. They’ll stone you when you’re tryin’ to make…
Guest Column – By Joe Conason – Among right-wing Republicans, the incarceration of Stephen K. Bannon has provoked a torrent of sputtering rage. “I stand with Steve Bannon!” was the defiant slogan barked by scores of prominent figures on the right, after a federal judge ordered the fascist media personality and adviser to former President…
Our Journey Continues… The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – After suffering through a brutally hot global warming day on Tuesday, making our way back to the top of the mountain in the morning before noon to escape it somewhat, there’s a cool breeze up here on Wednesday morning at…
By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – While violent crime has dropped to pre-Covid pandemic levels nationwide, according to the latest crime report from Federal Bureau of Investigation, the changes weren’t the same everywhere. The crime rates remained elevated in dozens of cities around the country, including my home town of Birmingham, Alabama, which…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – Not since the King and the Duke fooled the townspeople along the Mississippi River in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have so many people been fooled into believing in a scam by a bunch of grifters. I just had to laugh out…
By Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented – ProPublica – A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump. These previously…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – What a world. It may be the perspective of getting out of Washington and hanging out in the mountain woods, but I’m having a hard time remembering a time quite like this. It’s not hard to appreciate that people are mad at CNN…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – There has to be a better way. A better way to live. To eat. To communicate. To govern. To lead. To love. As many of you already know, from picking up on my hints, I am in search of these things for myself…
Connecting the Dots – By Glynn Wilson – Computer hacker-programmers have been creating bots to do various things since the 1990s. Bot is short for robot, although these bots don’t look like the robots from science fiction going back to the 1950s. If you use any search engine to ask “what is a bot?” you…
Should Joe Stay or Go? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Lord a-mighty this is exactly why I did not want to remain in Washington and wade into the middle of this Biden-Trump rematch. Well, that and the heat and humidity, the bureaucracy and the sheer burnout on being in one place…
To the editor, Joe Biden’s decision to stay in the presidential race at this point is incredibly selfish. He’s risking American democracy for the sake of his ego. I don’t know if Kamala Harris or whoever else would defeat Donald Trump, but I’m confident they have a better chance than an elderly man who can’t…
By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – While hunkered down in the mountains at the presidential retreat of Camp David last week preparing president and candidate Joe Biden to “debate” Republican challenger Donald Trump, what appears in retrospect to be a bad plan that went horribly awry, some members of the Biden campaign came…
