The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Mother Nature doesn’t care what your political opinion is, what side you take in the current partisan political divide in the United States. She is malevolent, and will not even bother to laugh at you on Facebook when you prove to be such a moron that you…
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On Leaving Alabama and the Future of Humanity and Nature
NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals Star Formation in the Cartwheel Galaxy
Missing Secret Service Texts Could Reveal a Coup Plot to Remove Vice President Mike Pence to a ‘Secure Location’
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – Imagine how damaging it would be for the national security of the United States, for public confidence in American institutions, not to mention how embarrassing for the Secret Service, if text messages emerged revealing a plan by agents loyal to “Mogul,” the agency code name…
Webb Telescope Reveals a New Vision of an Ancient Universe – But Will the Images Hold the Power to Change Us?
Steve Bannon Was a Key Architect of Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ Strategy
Trump Supreme Court Dismantles Wall of Separation Between Church and State
There goes democracy … monarchy anyone? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – Donald Trump always said he wanted to “build a wall.” Instead he tore one down, the wall separating church and state. Just like his hero Putin, he pandered to the Christians, and almost became the dictator he always…
Conservative Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Power to Fight Global Warming and Climate Change
Is this the fatal blow in law that will doom human life on planet Earth? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Since it is now plainly obvious that the conservative majority on this Supreme Court is packed with biased, politically partisan, “activist judges” who have demonstrated that they feel unbound in their…
Supreme Court Dismantles Liberty, Rights and Freedoms, and Not Just for Women
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For half a century, two Supreme Court cases, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, protected the liberty and equality of women in the United States of America. Roe held, and Casey reaffirmed, that the Constitution safeguards a woman’s right to decide for…
When Liberty is Truly Threatened, Who Will Actually Stand Up?
Father’s Day 2022 and the 50th Anniversary of Watergate
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – On June 17, 1972, when Nixon’s CREEP burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington looking for psychological dirt on Democrats — 50 years ago Friday — school was out in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. I was only 14 and listening to “School’s Out” by Alice…
Steve Bannon Dares Merrick Garland to Indict Trump: Me Too
Charge Trump With Inciting an Insurrection and Prevent Him From Running Again – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – After the House Select Committee investigating Trump’s insurrection adjourned the prime time hearing Thursday night, the first in a series of hearings that seem destined to end in a call for the first ever…
Americans On the Move: Climate Change and the Great Political Divide Drive Mass Migration
A Novel Theory: Try Being Nice, People
The latest public opinion on gun control, white nationalism and the future of democracy – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Here’s a novel theory: What if people at least tried to be nicer? Boring, I know. And of course it won’t work, because so many people are, let’s face it, basically dumbasses…
‘My Old Kentucky Home’ Song Depicted as ‘Racist’ — Really?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — On this rainy day in Maryland when I won’t be traveling to Churchill Downs, donning a sear sucker suit or even watching the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby on television — or drinking mint juleps with Mitch McConnell for that matter —…
Will Conservative North Carolina Voters Stand by Nazi Sympathizer Madison Cawthorn?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a period in American politics when being openly racist and a German Nazi fascist sympathizer would have automatically disqualified a candidate from being elected to any office in the United States. Some political scientists and historians might give some of the credit…
Elon Musk Makes Bid to Take Over Twitter: Why Should We Care?
Marjorie Taylor Greene and the 14th Amendment: A Way to End the Civil War
Ranger Program: Welcome to Washington
Endeaver to Persevere – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From humble beginnings in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, where I was not even expected to live after my premature birth in a Southside hospital, I’ve climbed and clawed my way out of what seemed destined to be a mundane…
Justice Jackson’s Confirmation to the Supreme Court is a Major Turn in the Arc of History
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If the long arc of history bends towards justice, it just took a major turn this week. If Barack Obama was America’s political Jackie Robinson, the first African American president just as Robinson was the first Black player to make the major leagues in…