CAMP DAVID, Md. — Editor’s Note – A few inspirational thoughts on Election Day while we hold our breaths and wait for the results to start coming in Tuesday night. Today I will fly my American flag proudly in my campsite in the same mountain woods as Camp David, because I will not concede the…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — These are the last words I will write and publish before the election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, and I have to be brutally honest. There will be no pretense or posturing here. I could turn out to be wrong, but I don’t think so.…
Or we can keep fighting it for another four years – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The election of 2020 is one week away and I’m driving up Highway 15 toward Gettysburg thinking about the Civil War we still seem to be fighting 155 years after the bloody war…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It won’t be so long now. The excruciating wait will be over in a few days. Exacerbated by the stress, anxiety and existential dread of the coronavirus pandemic and economic uncertainty, it will all be over soon one way or another. We should know…
This Will Not Stand – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since October 15, 1957, I’ve been fortunate to live on this amazing planet Earth as a citizen of the great country of the United States of America. When I first came out kicking and screaming in that little hospital…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All over the district and beyond, there is a growing fantasy in the land among Democrats that Donald Trump is not only going to lose the 2020 election in a massive landslide, but that when he tries to cling to power anyway, he is…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As the clock ticks down in the final quarter of 2020, the year of the “converging crisis” as some experts are now calling it, for millions of people survival feels like a daily ordeal either physically, economically or psychologically. Of course I’m human. I feel it all…
Why or why not? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – To find the roots of this most basic of questions in American politics, go back 40 years. Georgia peanut farmer Jimmy Carter was president, and while he was a good man and turned out to be the best of ex-presidents, he had…
Donald Trump, His Followers and These Times Through the Lens of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How many of you have read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby and watched one or more versions of the movie adaptations of the story? This…
By Robert Reich – This November, we have an opportunity to harness your energy and momentum into political power and not just defeat Trump, but also flip the Senate. Here are six key races you should be paying attention to. 1. The first is North Carolina Republican senator Thom Tillis, notable for his “olympic gold”…
By Robert Reich – People in public life tend to fall into one of two broad categories – those who are motivated by principle, and those motivated by power. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday night at the age of 87, exemplified the first. When he nominated her in 1993, Bill Clinton called her…
“War is the continuation of politics by other means.” – Carl von Clausewitz “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must…
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” — Mark Twain The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Cool air in the wake of the wind and rain from Hurricane Sally has now cleared the smoke from wildfires out west mostly out of the Blue…
By Robert Reich – The air outside my window is yellow today. It was orange yesterday. The Air Quality Index is over 200. The Environmental Protection Agency defines this as a “health alert” in which “everyone may experience more serious health effects if they are exposed for 24 hours.” Unfortunately, the index has been over…
Letter to the Editor MOBILE, Ala. — We dodged a bullet from Hurricane Laura. Hurricane Sally is headed this way, expected to be a Category 2 Hurricane when it makes landfall on Tuesday. Once again, we will be on the wet side. Meteorologists are predicting catastrophic and life-threatening rain and resultant flooding. Is this the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The view of Mount Mitchell is obscured by rain clouds and fog on this Saturday afternoon in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ken Burns is talking about Hank Williams as “the epitome of country music” on “Live From Here” on National Public Radio out of Ashville, North Carolina.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Anxiety and stress in people trying to resolve inconsistent thoughts has been around since the dawn of time. In the throes of a global pandemic and economic uncertainty with confusing mixed signals coming from officials on high is sending the psychological problem soaring. Our world is now…
If Donald Trump is So Dumb, Why is He Still in the White House with a Chance to Win Again in 2020? – “We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper … Consider how little this village does for its own…
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” – H. L. Mencken The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Time is running short. There’s only a couple of months left in the campaign to see who will emerge as the winner in the presidential election of 2020. No pressure. At stake…
By Robert Reich – My wife and I have been warned that we may need to evacuate because of fires ravaging the Bay Area. The climate crisis is to blame for these fires, which are growing in number and intensity every year. It’s also to blame for the increasing number and virulence of hurricanes now…
