It Could Cost the Republicans in the Midterms – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – It’s beginning to look a lot like a sad Christmas indeed, especially for Democrats with SNAP benefits and Obamacare and Republicans who want to get reelected next year. Grinch in chief Donald Trump and his…
You said a road trip would do us some good Despite every instinct I said that I would It’s been six years since you put on that ring Maybe the road will fix everything When all that remains is the gas in the tank The tread on the tires and what’s left in the bank…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – These in many ways are dark days that try people’s very souls, when celebrating traditional holidays seems almost pointless and quaint. Many Americans will go through the motions this week of traveling to visit relatives and consuming traditional meals of turkey and dressing with cranberry sauce and…
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About It – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – In a world battered by one instantaneous crisis after another, where attention spans are cut short from years of propaganda spread on phones and every other medium of communication by so-called social media, what…
Guest Column – By U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland – Starting today, Donald Trump and Republicans planned to intentionally withhold food and nutrition assistance (SNAP benefits) from over 42 million Americans, including 16 million children. In Maryland, that translates into 680,000 people, including nearly 270,000 children, 120,000 seniors, and 130,000 individuals with disabilities.…
Guest Column – By James Rhodes – Special to the New American Journal – When I was discharged after my tour of combat in Vietnam in November, 1969, I did not realize then I was literally “walking dead.” I had a tumor a year for 21 years – none of which have ever been treated…
“For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.” – Luke 8:17 – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – I’ve been singing a song by The Animals my whole life. “We Gotta Get Out of This Place.” For…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The most awesome scene in nature and American national parks, at least in my traveling experience, is still Bear Tooth Pass into Yellowstone from the Northeast. For sheer jaw dropping wow, give me the snow capped Rocky Mountains over azure blue lakes, clear as…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Ca. – Never in my wildest dreams of making the move nearly 3,000 miles across the country to the Golden State of California did I imagine landing in the nicest small town in America. But due to preparation, opportunity, timing, good friends and little luck, it’s…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WILSON LAKE, Ka. – It seems I’ve found the center of the country. It’s a salt water lake in central Kansas where you would not expect to see sea gulls. Yet they are here. After a good night’s sleep by the lake, with no broadcast noise pollution…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – TOPEKA, Ks. – Oh, to have the patience of the great white egret I can see fishing outside the media camper van window as I sip the morning coffee, read the New York Times and post on Facebook. It stealthily moves along the bank of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Five years ago, hunkered down for the winter north of Pensacola, Florida in Donald Trump’s mostly disastrous first term as president and keeping up with the news as Covid-19 spread over the world and across the United States, I embarked on a special research…
“Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – ST. LOUIS, Mo. – As a writer and traveler it’s near impossible to cross over the Mississippi River without thinking of Mark Twain, and back…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Like Honest Abe and Honest George, I can’t lie. I’ve moved around and seen a lot in my life, but I’ve long planned to make my final move to the West Coast. Call it my own personal manifest destiny, or simply riding off into…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Something woke me up early on Labor Day 2025. I slept deep and well after an afternoon of fun at the Labor Day Fest in Greenbelt, Maryland, 10 miles due north of the White House and Capitol. I went out of my way to…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Editor’s Note: Shakespeare had his prayers. Muir and Thoreau too. I don’t think Charles Darwin prayed much, or Edward Abbey for that matter. The man in the White House said he wants to get to heaven, while taking orders from the right hand of…
But you don’t have to watch or listen. Read the news in the morning, then go for a hike – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It must have been just another ho-hum day on the job for Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. Board…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – You never know when the day will come when the final piece of a big picture puzzle will show up, bringing higher knowledge into focus and taking you over a plateau in your thinking. Like a guitar player or pianist who studies and practices…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Reading the Sunday New York Times is not what it used to be. Nothing is as good as it used to be. But on occasion, if you look closely enough, you will run into a cogent thought or two that puts things in context and allows you…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If it keeps on raining shit, the levee is going to break. By the levee I mean the world. By shit I mean the distortions, disinformation, misinformation and out right lies spouted on an hourly basis by Donald Trump and his minions of chaos…
