By Glynn Wilson – The top cabinet leaders in charge of every United States intelligence agency, all appointed by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by the Senate, directly contradicted the president’s claims about the existence of a national security threat on the country’s Southern border Tuesday in testimony before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.…
SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – Many journalists and pundits have been scrambling for the past two years to try to understand the mass popularity of TV reality star Donald Trump and how he somehow managed to fool enough of the people into voting for him for president in 2016. We know a little…
By Glynn Wilson – One day before U.S. President Donald J. Trump blinked and caved into demands by Democrats in Congress to reopen the federal government with no agreement on funding for his ill-conceived border wall, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists board met in Chicago and kept the hands on the Doomsday Clock set…
By Glynn Wilson – Congressional leaders reached a tentative agreement to temporarily reopen the federal government on Friday, and President Donald J. Trump caved into Congressional demands and agreed, averting a growing disaster at the nation’s airports and national security threats. The deal would lift the federal shutdown for three weeks and does not include…
Federal agents served warrants Friday at Stone’s residences in New York and South Florida – By Nicholas Sakelaris – Jan. 25 (UPI) — Roger Stone Jr., a political operative and friend of President Donald Trump, has been indicted on seven criminal charges in the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, including making false statements and witness tampering.…
By Glynn Wilson – The United States Senate took up two bills on Thursday to try to bring an end to the federal government shutdown orchestrated by President Donald J. Trump nearly six weeks ago on Dec. 22. On day 34 of the shutdown, the Democrats needed 12 Republicans to join them to get the…
From inside the White House – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – “We will take America without firing a shot….” It’s almost too bad that there’s no truth to the long-held rumor that Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev used some form of this quote while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the…
By Glynn Wilson – On Day 27 of Trump’s government shutdown, U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama held a conference call with reporters on Thursday and compared the failing negotiations to a “hostage crisis.” He said his colleagues in the Senate are more than willing to debate and fund border security measures, but only “if…
Staff Report – Inspector General Carol Fortine Ochoa of the independent General Services Administration released a report on Wednesday announcing its legal finding that the GSA ignored guidelines spelled out in the U.S. Constitution’s Emoluments Clause and related agency guidelines by allowing President Trump to keep the lease on the old post office building in…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The impacts of the ongoing threat to national security from the federal government shutdown orchestrated by President Donald J. Trump continued to widen and grow even more critical this week as the implications began to trickle out in news coverage, even threatening to lead to an economic recession,…
By Robert Reich – The only redeeming aspect to Trump’s presidency is he brings us back to basics. And what could be more basic than the difference between democracy and dictatorship? Democracy is about means, not ends. If we all agreed on the ends (such as whether to build a wall along the Mexican border)…
Experts say the nation’s cybersecurity could be deeply impacted with federal government workers on furlough and private contractors going without pay. SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson — Celebrity President Donald J. Trump the propaganda master and magician is using his slight of hand again to command all the attention of the national news media…
By Glynn Wilson – On Day 20 of the Trump federal government shutdown, U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, held a media conference call with reporters on Thursday to provide an update on what’s going on in Congress and Washington to end the shutdown and other national legislative issues, including the latest on…
Science can help us make sense of the president’s seeming political invincibility – Mind In The Machine – Bobby Azarian Ph.D. – Whether we want to or not, we must try to understand the Donald Trump phenomenon, as it has completely swept the nation and also fiercely divided it. What is most baffling about it…
By Julie Slama and Glynn Wilson – The race for president in 2020 has already begun, and a number of Democrats are already testing the waters to take on President Donald J. Trump, 72, assuming he will still be the Republican nominee and is not impeached, indicted or forced to resign due to all the…
PUBLIC OPINION ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – There are three new polls out worth mentioning as we look at where the American electorate stands in 2019 after two years with President Donald J. Trump in the White House. We know that polls are unpopular now since people think the polls got the election of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s unclear if impeaching the mother fucker is the right way to go at the moment for Democrats in the House. But somehow, someway, Trump must go. Share this: #TrumpMustResignNow The damage he has already done to the country and American democracy is so great that we…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, is calling for an investigation into student loan debt. As the lead author of a letter to more than 100 key stakeholders nationwide to solicit feedback on how to help improve federal policies for student borrowers of color and make access…
By Glynn Wilson – Welcome back on the first work day of 2019, that is unless you work for the federal government. In case you missed it traveling over the holidays, the government is still shut down thanks to President Donald J. Trump’s intransigence over border wall funding. The impacts of the government shutdown are…
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.…
