Public Opinion – By Analyst Glynn Wilson – As the nation faces a pandemic, a weakened economy and political unrest that spiraled out of control under the rein of Donald Trump, President Joe Biden appears to be enjoying a honeymoon with the American People and the press as the hellscape year of 2020 rolls into…
Staff Report – More charges and arrests are coming to light in the violent attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to press releases just out from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in spite of a report out from The Washington Post over the weekend that…
Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – It’s been two and a half weeks since the traumatic events in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 when a violent insurrection was staged at the United States Capitol building in an attempted coup to take over the government and overthrow democracy itself. While the insurrection was thwarted in…
By Glynn Wilson – Can we please just not sugar coat it? Donald Trump was the worst, most corrupt president ever, and this will hold true in the history books. No doubt about it. New public opinion polls just out show that a significant percentage of Americans know that already, if some are still living…
Staff Report – The FBI Jacksonville Field Office has taken Jesus Rivera of Pensacola, Florida, into custody for his role in the riot and assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has charged Rivera with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or…
What a difference a day makes Twenty-four little hours Brought the sun and the flowers Where there used to be rain My yesterday was blue, dear My lonely nights are through, dear Since Trump ran to Florida, dear And Biden was sworn in. By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Glory hallelujah. What a difference…
By Glynn Wilson – Editor and Publisher – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As the day broke, it was cold, grey and foreboding in Washington, D.C. on January, 20, 2021, as it was in Knoxville, Tennessee, when the cloud cloaked dawn came up over the Smoky Mountains. Somehow, someway, we survived one more final night with Rat…
Staff Report – More and more participants in the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 are being investigated and arrested every day, and law enforcement officers are focusing on right-wing militia groups and Republicans for leading the unprecedented acts of sedition and coup attempt in the nation’s capital. Kentucky Man Arrested and Charged…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The news has been churning for a solid a week and a half since 8,000 marauding militiamen and bleary-eyed neo-Nazi thugs marched from the National Mall to the Capitol steps and somehow, with a little help from Republicans and their racist friends in the Capitol Police, actually…
Staff Report – Two off-duty Rocky Mount, Virginia police officers were charged this week in federal court in the District of Columbia in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson were charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building…
By Glynn Wilson – House Speaker Nanci Pelosi didn’t waste any time in pursing a second article of impeachment against lame duck president Donald Trump after coming very close to being assassinated in the United State Capitol building last Wednesday by an armed and dangerous insurrectionist militia ordered to storm up Capitol Hill by a…
Hate Breeds Hate – Violence Breeds Violence- “Violence never brings permanent peace.” – MLK The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s tragic that Joe Biden cannot say what I’m about to say. Even if he did, at least a third of “the people” would not listen. They won’t listen to me either. But…
Evidence Suggests The Insurrection on Jan. 6 was Not a Spur of the Moment Accident: It was An Attempted Overthrow of American Democracy and Almost Succeeded Breaking News Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – There is no way that the failure of law enforcement and the military to protect the United States Capitol building on…
By Glynn Wilson – Two more men were charged in federal court in the District of Columbia on Monday in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Larry Rendell Brock, of Texas, was charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in…
By Glynn Wilson – Thirteen rioters have been charged so far with crimes committed at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after a rally and march led by outgoing President Donald J. Trump turned into an insurrection that led to violence and death like nothing ever seen on American soil. In addition to those who have…
Democrats Win Historic Victories in Georgia and Take Control of Power in the Senate – By Glynn Wilson – On a historic day when all Americans should be celebrating a great victory for democracy, that news according to the visual media at least was overshadowed by a gang of delusional rednecks led to a fake,…
Democrats Projected to Win Both U.S. Senate Campaigns in Georgia – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — My eyes eased open just before sunrise this morning to that pre-sunrise orange glow coming up over the smoky mountains in view from the upstairs window facing east toward the peaks. You know,…
By Glynn Wilson – So much for the “law and order” president and his law and order friends, fans and followers and Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud by Democrats. The lawlessness from the Republican White House that dominated the presidential campaign of the hellscape year of 2020 continued into 2021 on Sunday when Trump…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – We made it. It may seem like a miracle. But in the clear morning light of day on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, the passing of the new year from 2020 to 2021 may seem a bit anti-climactic, especially if you wake up with a hang over. The…
By Glynn Wilson – EDITOR’S NOTE – You may not see much of this in the mainstream media’s year in review stories, which quite frankly so far have made me gag, literally. And want to gouge out my own eyes like a scene from King Lear. Maybe jump out a third story window. Never fear.…
