ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – President Barack Obama faced the national press corps on Friday in his final press conference of the year and one of the last of his presidency. The American people might want to watch this for themselves to see a class act at work before the vulgar loose cannon Donald…
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.” — Hunter S. Thompson By Glynn Wilson – Allow me to give fools…
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again. – Humpty Dumpty – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – America has fallen and it can”t get up. Unfortunately there is no “life alert” button hanging around…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — President-elect Donald J. Trump is planning to bring his “victory tour” or “thank you tour” to Mobile on Saturday, Dec. 17. The event will take place at ​Ladd–Peebles Stadium beginning at 3 p.m. You can obtain tickets here. This was first reported by the local CBS News affiliate…
By Glynn Wilson – Apparently President Obama is not quite ready to bow out as a lame duck just yet and give President-elect Donald J. Trump all the Twitter fun. His administration announced Sunday afternoon that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to deny a request for an easement so the Dakota Access…
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – Most American cities have official sister cities sprinkled around the globe. Mobile’s include Havana, Cuba. This happened three decades ago through the unorthodox efforts of a few Mobilians. They decided to ignore the chronic Cold War anti-commie fevers of the time and focus instead on the three centuries…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What is the Obama administration waiting for? It is time to call up the National Guard and deploy it to Standing Rock to protect the water protectors. At the height of the civil rights struggles in Alabama during the tumultuous 1960s, President Johnson was waiting on the…
By Glynn Wilson – A line has been drawn in the snow and December 5 is the do or die day for the historic Standing Rock Sioux protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline “black snake,” as the water protectors call it. Sources who have been involved in the discussions in and out of the camp…
By Glynn Wilson – A historic confrontation in the war for human rights and social justice on the magnitude of Bloody Sunday in Selma is looming at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers in North Dakota on Dec. 5, and the whole world really is watching this time, live on Facebook. More than…
The media must not excuse the racism, misogyny, nativism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia because we think Trump voters have legitimate gripes. By Neal Gabler – It didn’t take a clairvoyant to predict that President-elect Donald Trump would be almost instantly normalized by the press since he had already been normalized by them when he was a…
By Derek Scally – The Irish Times – Donald Trump’s ancestral home in southwestern Germany has no interest in being the next Moneygall. Instead locals in Kallstadt, a Palatinate town of 1,200 people from where Trump’s grandfather Friedrich left in 1885, say they have as little interest in Trump as he apparently has in them.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In the Huge wave washing over the American landscape after the tsunami of Donald Trump’s surprising ride to president of the United States on a surfboard constructed of bullshit, mainstream news organizations and Democrats are beating up on Mark Zuckerberg and poor Facebook, blaming the widespread sharing…
By Glynn Wilson – Bernie Sanders’ new political revolution is calling on the American public to get involved to help stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, by putting pressure on the Obama administration to designate a “Standing Rock National Monument” on the site of the protest by the Lakota Sioux reservation…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Like it or not, we live in Trump’s America now. And it looks a whole lot like Alabama. Thank you Jeff Sessions, George W. Bush and George Wallace for setting the stage for this. Thank you Democratic Party for being so pathetically weak and inept. Sorry for…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number one reaction from Americans when asked their feelings on Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election was “surprise.” A large majority of Americans, 75 percent, say they were shocked to see how the election came out, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. Perhaps…
By Glynn Wilson – America’s long national nightmare just got a whole lot worse. New York’s own George Wallace, Donald Trump, managed to get himself elected the 45th president of the United States in what the Washington Post called “the stunning culmination of a campaign that defied expectations and conventions at every turn and galvanized…
By David Underhill – When Caesar made himself emperor of Rome he spayed and neutered the senate – but kept it alive as a pet in remembrance of the extinguished republic. When the Alabama legislature put constitutional Amendment 2 on the ballot for this year’s general election, it set in motion the mechanism for privatizing…
By Glynn Wilson – SANTA FE, N.M. – On our recent journey out west, we ran across Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for president, speaking in The Plaza. On a beautiful autumn day, with the aspen trees beginning to shed their yellow leaves, we listened to the former governor of New Mexico knock Republican…
By Glynn Wilson – With only four days to go until voting commences in the 2016 presidential election, surveys show the contest for the White House is too close to call, with Democrat Hillary Clinton barely leading nationally with 45 percent of support compared to Republican Donald Trump’s 42 percent, well within the 3 percentage…
Standing Rock Sioux Protest is About More than Stopping One Pipeline – By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – Justice Rowland, a young Lakota man camped out in the overflow Sacred Stone camp here, grew up in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. But back in April when he heard about the Standing Rock Sioux protest…
