The Big Picture

Going Around in Circles, Chasing Trump’s Tail

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“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…

Will the F.B.I. and Congress Now Act to Remove Trump from Power?

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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…

The Big Show in Washington: Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

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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…

Breaking Out of the Spiral of Silence

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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…

Michael Cohen was There the Day Trump Began Breaking Bad

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The Big Picture -  By Glynn Wilson -  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…

Say it Ain’t So: A Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump?

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  The disconnect from reality is palpable. It makes me dread waking up, turning on Matilda the Mac (the pet name for my computer) and scanning the headlines online. Not a day goes by in the era of Twitter and Trump without a story coming down the pike…

Are the Country and the World Savable?

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  MOBILE, Ala. — What would you rather read? A story of gloom and doom or a tale of human hope for the future? Or must we cover both sides? Reading the news online and watching what’s left of the Sunday morning news talk shows on broadcast television…

James Comey Forgot: Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  As an educated lawyer, former FBI director James Comey should know the Latin legal phrase, “Fiat justitia ruat caelum,” which means: “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” He apparently forget that under the pressure of the election in 2016 and in trying to serve President…

The Beginning of the End of Trump’s Presidency

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The Big Picture -  By Glynn Wilson -  FLORENCE, Ala. — For all practical purposes, the presidency of Donald J. Trump is over. It’s time for someone to inform him that he should resign now before the FBI has to arrest him and escort him from the White House on live national television. This Trump…

So Trump Wants to Establish a Press Blacklist Database?

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Add my name to the top of the list. I say Trump should be arrested and removed from the White House, now. – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – If Donald Trump’s crazy tweets, undignified behavior, unqualified cabinet appointments, disastrous policies and authoritarian bashing of the press has not been…

I Don’t Mean to Toot My Own Horn, but…

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  I lost a friend on Facebook this week. Not a real friend, mind you. Just a friend on Facebook. The relationship was so short I don’t even remember his name. All I remember is that his profile picture was the logo for the Auburn Tigers football team.…

How Wrestle­ Mania Trumped Intelligence in U.S. Politics

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“The day I realized it can be smart to be shallow was, for me, a deep experience.” – Donald J. Trump – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – So the news broke with the usual urgency late on a Friday that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe of the FBI, prompting…