Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice – Robert Frost The…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So you’re a patriotic American or an international admirer of the United States and you’ve always wanted to visit the nation’s capital city? The Neo-classical architecture? All the buildings, memorials and other sites related to the United States federal government? All the Smithsonian museums? Maybe you’ve hesitated, thinking…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From heat wave to flooding rain, the weather in the nation’s capital does not seem normal. But of course it’s not. We are in the new era of climate change now. Not that they believe it in the White House or on one side…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Greenbelt National Park just north of the nation’s capital was the scene of a historic gathering of Native Americans, Japanese Buddhist monks and Americans interested in bringing about an era of spiritual peace 40 years ago in the summer of 1978. David Williams of Santa Barbara California was…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The hot ground is crumbling under President Donald Trump’s feet, opening up a crevice in the political landscape like an earthquake after the eruption of a super volcano. The Washington swamp is about to come out of a heat wave, but the political heat…
Following the Vietnam war hero and Senator John McCain’s death, Rick Davis, Senator McCain’s former presidential campaign manager and a family spokesman, read the following farewell statement at a news conference at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Monday. “My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six-term Senator and Vietnam war hero John McCain exits stage left just at the moment when unlikely President Donald J. Trump is on the verge of committing his Saturday Night Massacre to get him in the history books alongside Richard M. Nixon as a…
Senator Lindsay Graham Says Trump Will Fire Sessions Soon – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – After many months of rolling along at a snail’s pace, with new revelations coming out in dribs and drabs, it appears the investigation steam roller threatening Donald Trump’s presidency is picking up speed as August comes to a…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The right-wing Republican pro-Russia National Rifle Association (NRA) is interfering with our democratic, electoral process again, this time targeting U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama in television ads trying to get people to pressure him to vote for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Many Democrats…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been obvious for two years that Donald Trump had no business being president of the United States. He’s clearly corrupt, an autocratic character who aspires to be an anti-democratic dictator like Russia’s Putin. But I guess in this crazy world, you have to…
Guest Column – By U.S. Senator Doug Jones – Joshua Hillman, a bright young man from Prattville, Alabama, is heading to law school this fall with the hopes of someday becoming an advocate for others who need help. Joshua knows firsthand what it’s like to face a daily struggle and to do so with a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forgive my Trump news burnout. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 68 percent of Americans feel worn out by the amount of crazy news there is these days thanks in large part to the Trump Twitter storms and the way…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jason Kessler and his tiny band of white boys from Virginia, described as white nationalists, white supremacists or neo-Nazis, tried to make a show of bringing their racist message to the nation’s capital on Sunday to allegedly “Unite the (political) Right.” Instead their “rally” of about 10 guys…
They don’t believe in rising seas while they watch their island go under water – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The world really has gone crazy now, literally. Old men have been saying this since Biblical times. Maybe a third of the people have always been crazy and we’re…
By Glynn Wilson – PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — When Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743, 33 years before he signed the Declaration of Independence as a member of the Continental Congress, he recognized the need for an organization that would bring together the brightest thinkers of the day to share their scientific experiments…
By Glynn Wilson – VALLEY FORGE, Pa. – When George Washington moved the Continental Army of colonial militias 18 miles west of Philadelphia on a ridge overlooking the Schuylkill River in the winter of 1777, the motivation that kept a sick and starving rag tag group of soldiers together was the prospect of being governed…
Our Future May Very Well Be Decided in This Election – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – While standing in line to enter the hallowed grounds of Independence Square and Independence Hall, I heard a family speaking French behind me. We struck up a conversation in English, and I thanked…
Practical Apps Are Being Developed to Tackle Ecological and Economic Disasters – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Before there was Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, before the Trump-Putin “treason summit” in Helsinki, before the end of the Cold War in 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Under normal political and media circumstances, we would never run raw PR from a federal agency that has had it’s share of legal slip-ups and intelligence blunders and abuses over the years. But at this time with the Federal Bureau of Investigation under such a major political assault from the president to Republicans…
“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” – – Hunter S. Thompson – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – An image haunts me as I consume the news this morning, an image of…
