By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – Vice President Kamala Harris opens her campaign for president with a two-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday. The national poll shows her leading…
Breaking News – By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden announced on Twitter (X) on Sunday afternoon that he would comply with the wishes of many Democrats and abandon his bid for re-election, endorsing his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to replace him at the top of the ticket. The move may sooth some of the…
By Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented – ProPublica – A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump. These previously…
But there will be a party on the Fourth of July anyway, with fresh, locally grown tomatoes and plenty of good beer and vodka – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN PARK, Md. — As the sun rises in the forest down the street from Camp David, where President Joe Biden…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald J. Trump was convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal on Thursday by a New York jury, becoming the first former president to be tried and convicted of a felony. The conviction will no doubt reverberate around the country and impact the presidential election…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Predictably and with righteous arrogance, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. declined to recuse himself on Wednesday from two cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after reports that flags displayed outside his houses appeared to support Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement to…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats on Capitol Hill are demanding that religious conservative Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito recuse himself on all cases related to Donald Trump’s incited insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, including the immunity motion before the court, after it was reported that an upside down American flag was photographed…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Never in all my years of covering public affairs and the courts did I ever imagine a day when the Supreme Court in this country would be taken over by fascists and support an American dictator in overturning an election and attempting to halt…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Please forgive me, sensational news readers, for taking a Spring Break from all the clickbait over the past few days to sit outside and drink in the clean air and sunshine after months of being cooped up inside hiding from the winter cold, the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The stakes could not be higher for the future of the United States and humanity. There is a consensus based on an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence that continuing to burn fossil fuels for energy and transportation will doom the next generation of humans to living through a…
Federal agencies react positively to proposed federal budget even though it’s dead on arrival in the Republican House – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not wasting any time and showing what federal leadership looks like, President Joe Biden released a $7.3 trillion budget proposal on Monday for fiscal year 2025 that is packed with…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The moment could not have been more critical for American democracy and the future of the planet. President Joe Biden rose to the occasion, seeming to summon a Super Hero power in standing up to the anti-democracy forces sitting in the United States Capitol building sneering, and jeering…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The god damn United States Supreme Court announced its agreement on Wednesday to take up the case of whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution on charges of engaging in a seditious conspiracy and inciting a violent insurrection in a corrupt plot to overturn the results…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal appeals court has rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim that he was immune to charges of engaging in a seditious conspiracy to subvert the results of the 2020 election, ruling that he must go to trial on a criminal indictment accusing him of seeking to overturn…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you take an in-depth look at any of the right-wing fascist dictators who rose to power in their countries or states over the past century — from the most widely known instances of Adolph Hitler in Germany to Benito Mussolini in Italy, Francisco…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — FBI Director Chris Wray began the new year with a public appearance to assure the American public and the academic community that, in spite of a growing number of foreign actors and nation-states seeking to disrupt the democratic process in the U.S., the Bureau is well-positioned to defend against…
Video and full text below… By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The sting of Trump’s violent insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 that nearly brought down a shroud and a pall over American democracy is still fresh like an open, bleeding, infected wound that refuses to heal after three years of Covid and political strife.…
By Ashley Murray – Maryland Matters – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s one man filibuster of President Joe Biden’s top military appointments effectively came to an ignominious end Tuesday night when the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the remainder of the senior generals and admirals on hold for the past year in a…
By Jennifer Shutt – Maryland Matters – WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. senators voted 87-11 to approve legislation Wednesday that would fund the government into next year, clearing the measure for President Joe Biden’s signature. The stopgap spending bill, sometimes called a continuing resolution or CR, would fund part of the government until mid-January and the…
Public Opinion – National Politics – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wait just a doggone minute. Did The New York Times just bury the lede? In the Sunday Times, a banner headline promoting a public opinion story about the 2024 presidential election proclaimed that President Joe Biden was trailing former President Donald Trump…
Camping, Hiking and Boating at Kymulga Grist Mill and Covered Bridge Park
