By Robert Frost – Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim,…
Whatever You Do, Look Up. Otherwise We’re All Going to Die
Movie Review: ‘Don’t Look Up’ – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some streaming movie fans are reeling away from the outrageous silliness of one of the top watched films on Netflix this year, “Don’t Look Up.” It’s an American satirical science fiction film written, directed and produced by Adam McKay, another in a…
New American Journal 2021 Year in Review in Stories and Pictures
By Editor Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – This time last year, we were experiencing the snow on the ground after the white Christmas in Knoxville, Tennessee, where I wrote: “As the sun comes up over the smokies, reflecting the first morning light off a thick layer of Christmas white snow covering the ground and…
National Park Service Announces Entrance Fee-Free Days for 2022
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Park Service will offer five entrance fee-free days in 2022, free admission days designed to encourage discovery and visitation of the country’s variety of national parks. With at least one in every state, national parks are accessible places to visit to refresh the body, mind and spirit, according to…
E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology and Scientific Studies of Ants and Human Behavior, Dies at 92
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If ever there lived a scientist who came closest to figuring out the essence of human nature and what we need to do to survive on planet Earth, it was Edward Osborne Wilson from Birmingham, Alabama, who reached the zenith of the biological sciences at Harvard and provided…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Launches on Christmas Day
Staff Report – GREENBELT, Md. — Early on Christmas morning, when many Americans were just waking up wondering if this would be the Christmas when Donald Trump would end up behind bars, the good scientists at NASA were busy at work as the new James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST on an…
A Christmas Carol for Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All in 2021 and 2022
The Big Picture – Story and Photos By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Merry Christmas from the New American Journal, no matter how you celebrate the holiday — or whether you celebrate at all. While Christians around the world celebrate Christmas as an annual festival commemorating the alleged birth of God’s son Jesus, we…
House Select Committee Hints of Recommending a Charge Against Trump to DOJ for Obstructing Congress
The American People Want to See Trump on Trial for Insurrection – Letters to Santa: The Number One Wish is to See Trump Behind Bars for Christmas – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Clearly the American people want to see Donald Trump, the former Republican president, prosecuted for his…
A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clark Moore – ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of sugar-plums…
Letters to Santa: The Number One Wish is to See Trump Behind Bars for Christmas
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – We have exclusive, breaking news to report on the Eve of Christmas Eve. Inside sources with Santa’s elves tasked with reading letters to St. Nick and compiling the results for the jolly old man at the North Pole say the number one wish from…
More New Evidence Surfaces That Police and Military Officials Side With Trump Against American Democracy
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If Donald Trump and his so-called “conservative” Republican followers — especially police officers and members of the military — really want to do away with any semblance of American democracy and install a white nationalist dictatorship here in the United States, I really wish…
Winter Solstice 2021: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night – Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning…
Florida Trump Supporter Sentenced to 5 Years for Attacking Capitol Police
FBI Arrests Other Insurrectionist from Florida and Colorado – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A man who watched and cheered the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, then moved to the front of the Trump mob and hurled a fire extinguisher, a plank and a long pole at police officers, was sentenced Friday to…
Charles Sams Sworn In as First Native American National Park Service Director
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON. D.C. — The National Park Service got its first Senate confirmed director in five years Thursday when Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland swore in Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The National Park Service languished under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to Roll…
Democrats Govern by Raising the Debt Ceiling, Republicans Bash Them for Not Governing
What’s Wrong With This Picture? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In this continuing fantasyland of two realities we find ourselves living in these days in the United States of America, no controversy sheds more light on the absurdity of it all than the battle to keep the government…
House Upholds Vote by Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol to Hold Mark Meadows in Contempt of Congress
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House voted 222 to 208 to recommend holding Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress Tuesday night after the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted unanimously on Monday to hold the former White House Chief of Staff and member of Congress…
How Winter Could Replenish Us If We Could Get a Break from Crazy News
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – So I woke up Sunday morning as I often do, listening to the show “On Being” on NPR. While spirituality is the subject of the show, it is a far cry from all the noisy preachers on radio and television pushing their denominational brand…
The Coors Light Insurrectionist: Texas Man Busted Due to Facebook Posts Showing Him Drinking Beer Inside Capitol
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If you’re planning a trip to the nation’s capital to join an insurrection and storm the Capitol, you want to choose your drink of choice carefully. And don’t forget to post photos and videos of yourself in the act on Facebook to make the job of the FBI…
It’s the Worst of Times, the Best of Times, a New Gilded Age
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…
The Last Thing We Need is Another Day Which Will Live in Infamy
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – No one should aspire to being in a state of infamy. Yet it seems human beings have a genetic predisposition to end up there whether they plan it or not. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl…
