By Danielle J. Brown – Maryland Matters – President Donald Trump is unleashing almost daily executive orders to reshape the federal government — and opponents, including the state of Maryland, are just as quickly filing legal challenges to block policies that put “Marylanders and Americans at risk.” That’s how Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) described…
‘We must all hang together or we will all surely hang separately.’ – Ben Franklin Guest Column – Dr. Timothy D. Snyder – Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University – “What is a country? The way its people govern themselves. America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – “Listen to my story about a man named” … Not Jed, Dick. Not sure exactly why this popped into my head on Sunday morning. Maybe because I’ve been immersed in Southern music for the past few months, hanging out down the street from Nashville, Tennessee in Muscle…
By Glynn Wilson – To whom it may concern at the Freedom of the Press Foundation: You should be aware of the real story behind the Elon Musk-Hacker-Trump invasion of the Treasury Department and Social Security System data. The real story is Trump’s “Enemies List” – which was unconscionable even in Richard Nixon’s corrupt time…
Staff Report – A coalition of civil society groups sent a letter to interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Edward R. Martin, Jr. and congressional leaders on Tuesday demanding that Martin clarify public statements suggesting he would use his public office to threaten critics of Elon Musk and the new Department of Government…
It’s not clear who that might be now that he has the power of the presidency, complete with Supreme Court Immunity, and a guaranteed pardon for any crimes he commits with this massive breach of privacy and imminent threat to national security – By Glynn Wilson – MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – Well folks, it was…
He has the power of the presidency now, complete with Supreme Court Presidential Immunity, and a guaranteed pardon for any crimes he commits with this massive breach of privacy and imminent threat to national security – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BREAKING NEWS – Get ready for the worst. Do not assume…
What about Christian charity? – “You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which…
There for the Birth of Southern Rock in 1969, he took the Muscle Shoals swampy sound to London and blended it with the Rasta island beat, creating a new sound that transformed Reggae for mainstream audiences in Europe and America. He then added this flavor to The Rolling Stones sound, after helping to create it…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – (Jan. 2, 2021) – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around Los Angeles, and it’s not even fire season. In Washington,…
“Do not take what I say as if I were merely playing, for you see the subject of our discussion — and on what subject should even a man of slight intelligence be more serious? Namely, what kind of life should one live … the unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Sunday Reader…
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden delivered his last political speech on Wednesday evening in his last address to the nation from the Oval Office, issuing a dire warning about the state of the country with an “oligarchy” of the ultrawealthy on the verge of taking over and destroying American democracy in a “dangerous…
Jack Smith’s Final Report Justifies the Charges and Dropping the Case Against Trump – By Glynn Wilson – The complete failure of the American justice system to stop Donald Trump from hijacking the United States government with profound and corrupt lies and deceit does not bode well for the future of American democracy and places…
Outline of an Idea Emerges With First Snow of 2025 – “All of a sudden, there was Southern Rock.” – Jimmy Johnson, about the day Wilson Pickett covered the Beatles’ “Hey Jude” with Duane Allman on guitar, 1969. Tales from the MoJo Road – By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – ARGO, Ala. – A rare blanket…
By Daniel Rothberg for ProPublica and Dayvid Figler, City Cast Las Vegas – Elon Musk’s Boring Company spent years pitching cities on a novel solution to traffic, an underground transportation system to whisk passengers through tunnels in electric vehicles. Proposals in Illinois and California fizzled after officials and the public began scrutinizing details of the…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – ARGO, Ala. – Well, I’ve been out walking some, since I don’t do that much talking or partying anymore, these days. Out back there’s an old native trail through the woods they say was the original road from Trussville to Springville. I don’t know about…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – We have only 16 days to go until you know who will be sworn in again in Washington, so time is of the essence. President Joe Biden and his White House staff, along with all the federal agencies, are taking steps to try to prevent the destruction…
Editor’s Note: The sun is shining on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, as we get ready to pass through the vortex of a new calendar year. In our never-ending cycle of life in the Milky Way galaxy, Earth is circling around the Sun and will reach the perihelion – or Earth’s closest pass…
“Death comes for us all… And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. It is the law of nature, and the will of God.” ― Robert Bolt, “A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts” The Big Picture –…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – News photography is a dying field just like news itself. That started with the invention and release of the iPhone by Apple in 2006. But at least the New York Times still keeps the tradition alive with news pictures from all over the world. The Year in…
