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 who just could not keep his mouth shut even though he rarely knew what he…
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 stop arguing about it and start doing something to at least slow it down from…
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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 so-called meteorite near the No. 8 green at Audubon Park is a chunk of iron…
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 my television set, reinforcing an idea that seems to be growing among the American population.…
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 North Carolina and the other in Tennessee on Sept. 2, 1940 at the official opening…
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 naturalist Charles Darwin, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated far and wide this year, a…
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 for the scenic boating and stayed to raise a family and start his own canoe…
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 and the courts need to investigate and prosecute all the crimes of the Bush years.…
Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson A couple of weeks ago, when not one single Republican took up our new President Barrack Obama’s call for “bipartisanship” to vote for his stimulus package to aid the faltering economy — a measure backed by virtually every economist in the land as a needed step to avert a…