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…
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 – 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…
“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…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Try to imagine the reaction inside the Hoover building at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue as arguably the most corrupt and incompetent president in American history openly committed treason on foreign soil in Helsinki, Finland on Monday. If anyone other than Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Alabama was in charge…
Guest Column – By Doug Jones – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From Florence to Dothan, Mobile to Huntsville, and every stop in between, Alabama is a proud producer and exporter of goods to countries around the world. In fact, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, more than 567,000 Alabama jobs are supported by global trade.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Let there be no equivocation. If Donald Trump as President of the United States meets with Russian dictator Vladmir Putin on Monday as planned, he is a traitor to this country, he’s guilty of treason, and MUST be arrested and removed from office immediately.…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Democrats and independents: Listen up! The fate of the country and the world are in your hands. Before I go off on a stream of consciousness rant here many average IQ Americans will never understand, I need to say this one thing everyone should be able to get. It doesn’t take much abstract…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Fourth of July holiday week is over and the soothing cool front is moving out. It’s about to get hot again in the nation’s capital in more ways than one, just in time for President Donald J. Trump to turn the country even…
Between the Idea and the Reality … Falls the Shadow. – T.S. Eliot The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sitting here in the woods between Annapolis, Maryland and the Trump White House this week I had the distinct feeling of hunkering down in the eye of a category 5 hurricane,…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — So it’s been two weeks since I arrived back in the nation’s capital, right on time to visit the federal district courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland just north of D.C. where one of the trials of the century — or maybe the millennium — will…
By Robert Reich – I keep hearing that if Trump fires Mueller we’ll face a constitutional crisis. Or if Mueller subpoenas Trump to testify and Trump defies the subpoena, it’s a constitutional crisis. Or if Mueller comes up with substantial evidence that Trump is guilty of colluding with Russia or of obstructing justice but the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been 13 years since I first wrote a column from here. It was 2005 and I was house sitting for a close friend in Silver Spring, Maryland. The newspaper and magazine freelance business had already started to tank in the early days of…
By Robert Reich – Imagine that an impeachment resolution against Trump passes the House. Trump claims it’s the work of the “deep state.†Fox News’s Sean Hannity demands every honest patriot take to the streets. Rightwing social media call for war. As insurrection spreads, Trump commands the armed forces to side with the “patriots.†Or…
By David Underhill – In an inscrutable Oriental blink the mirage of Korean peace begins to fade. North Korea’s “Little Rocket Man”, whose grim regime was a target for fire and fury like the world has never seen, according to last year’s Trumpet blasts, yielded to the Bigger Man with the Bigger Nuclear Button. The…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The Alabama primary election is only three weeks away on June 5. If one were to compare the level of voter participation and enthusiasm to a sound, it might be the sound of crickets. “If a cricket was on the ballot he’d win without a runoff because that…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â When the neo-western crime drama Breaking Bad first hit Netflix, I watched the first episode and said “no,” I don’t want to watch this. But after Donald Trump was somehow elected president of the United States and the drug cartel-related money laundering plot of the show seemed…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – I don’t want to disparage any people with diagnosed mental illness here, especially those who actually take their meds and work hard to overcome. But I just cannot resist commenting on the latest zany episodes in the crazy Trump reality show presidency. Every news outlet in the…
