Alabama Governor Robert Bentley seems to like the taste of his own toes. He sticks his foot in his mouth so often that people down south have taken to calling him “Goober” after the character on the Andy Griffith Show…
How to Save the Planet and Fix the Economy Too The Big Picture Just how hot does it have to get before the people of the United States finally acknowledge that global warming is happening? When are we going to…
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Glynn Wilson by the mythical “meterote” on Audubon Golf Course in New Orleans. It’s really a chunk of iron ore from Alabama, most likely Birmingham’s Red Mountain. by Glynn Wilson This may come as a surprise to some, but the…
Glynn Wilson There’s an empty spot on the walk of fame at Alabama for Nick Saban, who brought Alabama back to the national championship in the Rose Bowl and coached the university’s first Heisman Trophy winner, Mark Ingram by Glynn…
Connecting the Dots by Glynn Wilson I almost lost my breakfast in my plate as I watched CNN’s John King interview Dick Cheney on his “State of the Union” show this Sunday. It made me want to get rid of…
National Park Celebrates 75th Anniversary Glynn Wilson A rock tunnel beckons as you enter the Great Smoky Mountains National Park… by Glynn Wilson GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS — When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood at Newfound Gap with one foot in…
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species Turns 150 Glynn Wilson The famous Rhea County Courthouse, where the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial took place Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson DAYTON, Tenn. — Forty-three years after the death of British…
Glynn Wilson A coal ash island visible in the Emory River with the smokestacks of TVA’s coal fired power plant at Kingston, Tennessee in the background. by Glynn Wilson KINGSTON, Tenn. — Steve Scarborough came to East Tennessee from Georgia…
Evidence of Bush-Rove Crimes Hidden Away in Southern Town? by Glynn Wilson CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Hidden away in the basement of a bank building on Broad Street here, there is a bank of computer servers containing all the evidence Congress…