Tag Archive for White House

What A Difference A Day Makes: Coronavirus Peaks, Biden Signs Executive Orders Reversing 45’s Destructive Course

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What a difference a day makes Twenty-four little hours Brought the sun and the flowers Where there used to be rain My yesterday was blue, dear My lonely nights are through, dear Since Trump ran to Florida, dear And Biden was sworn in. By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Glory hallelujah. What a difference…

Larceny: The True Story of How the Deep State Stole the Election from Trump

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SATIRE – By Glynn Wilson – Yes, folks. It was a massive conspiracy, with the “deep state” dumping on Trump to “steal” the election, as the lame duck president said on Fox News over the Thanksgiving weekend, accusing Democrats of taking “massive dumps” on him to take the presidency away. That’s a big load of…

With the Election All But Over, the Coronavirus Rages Out of Control

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As we broke camp on Sunday feeling victorious about the declaration of Joe Biden as president-elect and drove south on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway into the city, my mind began to wander back to the biggest story of them all, the raging coronavirus. While the Trump administration’s total failure…

It’s All Over But the Shoutin’ – The Trump Reality Show is Canceled With 74 Million Votes

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — For nearly four long years, America has endured Donald Trump’s deceit. On a daily basis, he has lied in OUR White House, on Twitter and television, at times surrounded by MAGA cap wearing white fans in football stadiums. From the day he first came…

Biden Leads Trump, Set to Take the Presidency

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Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania Expected to Flip Biden’s Way – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American people are waiting on pins and needles and in many cases with strong drink to find out who won the presidential election of 2020, as most states have reported results that show Joe Biden leading Donald…

Nature Abhors a Vacuum: From Aristotle to Thoreau

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Here’s what you get when you combine the wisdom of Aristotle and Henry David Thoreau. You’ve heard the idiom, “nature abhors a vacuum,” right? So what does that mean, how does it apply to the current state of our democracy, and why am I…

Melting Ice on Antarctica Triples Increase in Rising Seas in Just Three Years, New Study Shows

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The continent of Antarctica on Earth’s South Pole is losing its ice cover so fast that NASA and the European Space Agency just sent out an email blast about a new study showing that the impact is already contributing to an increase in rising global sea levels in…

President Trump’s Withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal Creates Terror Threats, Job Losses

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By Glynn Wilson – One day after President Donald J. Trump went on national television to announce that he would unilaterally withdraw the United States from a deal with Iran negotiated by the Obama administration to prevent that country from developing nuclear weapons, threats to homeland security are already being announced, oil and gas prices…

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…

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…

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…

U.S. Government Faces National Crisis Due to Lack of Leadership from the White House

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Members of the National Park Service Advisory Board Resign in Protest – By Glynn Wilson – Due to a lack of leadership from President Donald Trump and the compromised members of his cabinet, the government of the United States is in a full-scale national crisis. If a compromise is not reached by Friday, which seems…

Trump is Running a Criminal Enterprise Out of the White House

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By Glynn Wilson – It has been clear for some time now that President Donald J. Trump is running a criminal enterprise out of the White House. Finally, a credible source said it out loud on TV. During a segment an MSNBC on Tuesday, Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said President Trump is…

Scientists Issue Statement Opposing Trump Order Withdrawing from Global Climate Change Fight

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By Glynn Wilson – Just as the Trump administration moves to roll back environmental protection regulations and withdraw the United States from the growing world community of countries joining the major battle against climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels, the American Association for the Advancement Science has issued a…

Celebrate National Park Week April 16-24

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Experience Nature in the Wild on the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service – America’s national parks, monuments and lands are uniquely different — in their make-up and their locale — but they all seek to tell a part of America’s story. National Park Week is coming up April 16-24 in one of the…

Unforced Errors, Miscalculations End Jeb Bush’s White House Hopes

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By Steve Holland – CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Before Donald Trump’s put-downs and the stumbles in presidential debates, and before the profound frustration of voters became so unmistakably apparent, Jeb Bush appeared to be best positioned to win back the White House for Republicans in 2016. He amassed a $150 million war chest in 2015,…

Marine One Drops President at the White House on Fourteenth Anniversary of September 11, 2001

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – After realizing it was the 14th anniversary of 9/11 on Friday, I rode the mountain bike to the College Park Metro station and took the train downtown. I decided to ride around the White House and see what new vantage points I could find to photograph. After hanging…

White House Releases Report on the Cost of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change

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The signs of climate change are all around us, according to a new report just released by the White House. The average temperature in the United States during the past decade was 0.8° Celsius (1.5° Fahrenheit) warmer than the 1901-1960 average, and the last decade was the warmest on record both in the United States…

President Obama to Sign Memo Strengthening Overtime Protections for American Workers

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By Glynn Wilson – After weathering the Bush “Great Recession” and five years of hard work and determination by the Obama administration, the United States of America is creating jobs and rebuilding its economy. But as a result of shifts that have taken hold over more than three decades, too many Americans are working harder…