Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Stewart Rhodes, 58, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was sentenced by a federal judge on Thursday to 18 years in prison for his conviction on seditious conspiracy charges and the role he played in leading the mobilization of the pro-Trump insurrection and attack on the Capitol…
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Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville Mounts a One-Man Blockade of Anti-MAGA Military Promotions
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if it were not embarrassing enough to hang around in the nation’s capital and admit to people that you are originally from Alabama, this bad football coach joke of a United States Senator Tommy Tuberville is running a one man filibuster against the…
#BoycottCNN: Do Not Give the Criminal Trump a Platform for Lies
“Our government … teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” – Justice Louis Brandeis “The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the…
Jury Convicts Four Leaders of the Proud Boys of Seditious Conspiracy for Planning Revolution and Leading the Attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A jury returned guilty verdicts on multiple felonies against five members of the Proud Boys, finding four of the defendants guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. According to the evidence at trial, in the months…
Take a Break From More Pressing Thoughts to Contemplate the End of the Universe
The Future of Politics, the Internet and a Coming ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ in Public Opinion
President Joe Biden Announces Candidacy, Officially Kicking Off the 2024 Race for President
Political Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â While public opinion data shows the American people do not seem ready or excited to begin the official campaign season for president in 2024, especially if the campaign is going to be a rematch between President Joe Biden and loser Donald Trump, Biden announced his…
Even in Losing, Are Trump, Putin and Fox News Still Winning?
Seven More Trump Supporters Sentenced to Federal Prison for Roles in Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to track down, arrest and seek convictions against radicalized supporters of former President Donald Trump who heeded his call for insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and came to the nation’s capital to try to halt the peaceful transfer of power and overturn the…
A Day of Reckoning is Coming
Six More Oath Keepers Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Obstruct Certification of the 2020 Presidential Election
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six more members of the right-wing Oath Keepers domestic terrorist group were found guilty in the District of Columbia this week for their actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and breach of the U.S. Capitol, which disrupted a joint session of Congress convened to certify the electoral votes…
Operation Zap: A Novel and Film by Aaron Murphy
Editor’s Note: In 1992, while working as a staff writer and reporter for a chain of newspapers on the Gulf Coast, I stumbled onto a dangerous story involving electromagnetic fields and pulses being developed by Naval Intelligence in Pensacola, Florida. The stories I wrote about it were so controversial that a rogue agent working for…
War in Ukraine Drags On: Is it Time for ‘Regime Change’ in Russia?
Celebrating Nine Years of Publishing News in the Nation’s Capital
President Biden Delivers 2023 State of the Union Address
Watch the Video – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Read the Full Text – Remarks of President Joe Biden â State of the Union Address as Prepared for Delivery – The United States Capitol – Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Leaders of our military. Mr.…
Attorney General Merrick Garland Should Learn a Lesson About History from Bill Barr
Elon Musk Comes to Washington as a Republican ‘Deep Throat’
Four More Oath Keepers Convicted of Sedition for Jan. 6 Insurrection
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Four more members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia found themselves being declared guilty of seditious conspiracy on Monday by a D.C. jury for their roles in trying to halt the peaceful transfer of power in the United States for the first time, and prevent the rightful winner…
Food for Thought: Political-Religious Strife from the Vikings to Jan. 6
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On a cold, dreary winter day in the nation’s capital, I’m thinking maybe I’ve finally hit the old man codger wall. When you live for nearly three-quarters of a century, they say, there are some things you don’t recognize about this world anymore; also…
Attorney General Merrick Garland Should Bring the Hammer of Justice Down on Trump — Or Step Aside and Let Biden Appoint Someone Who Will
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the House Republicans get ready to launch a partisan, political investigation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice, many Democrats and liberal commentators also find themselves wondering what in the hell is going on with Attorney General Merrick Garland. When Garland…