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Connecting The Dots: Writing, Art and Freedom…

Good writing is good writing … it sets you free, if you are an artist. – Anonymous by Glynn Wilson TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Nov. 11 – It is an almost surreal feeling to be standing in the cold fog within earshot…

It’s A Sweep: Democrats Take The Senate and House

Rumsfeld Ousted As Secretary of Defense by Glynn Wilson The sweep is final and complete. The Democrats will now control a majority in both the Senate and the House for the first time since 1994 as the two close races…

Wilson’s Krystal Ball: Election 2006 Predictions

by Glynn Wilson Turning to the polls online to look for hope or impending disaster on election day 2006, it is surprising to find the online pollsters more optimistic for the Democratic Party than even the national corporate broadcast media…

Important Elections Only One Week Away

by Glynn Wilson BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 30 – For the better part of the past month, it’s been a blast on the road “cowboying” in the Chevy van enjoying the fall weather and taking a break from television and politics…

Vote and Matter: Don’t and You’re ‘Mad as the Hatter’

Editor’s Note: Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men is routinely listed in the top five novels in American literature, although it appears to have dropped off the radar screen of the masses in today’s so-called “conservative” TV-driven American culture.…

You Can’t Fake It AND Make It

You can’t fake it. If you’re gonna make it you’ve gotta live it. – Hank Williams Jr. by Glynn Wilson There is no way to escape it. It is too late. America is a car country, especially in the American…

President Bush Needs To Watch Hidalgo

Maybe Condi Can Explain It To Him by Glynn Wilson Do you ever wake up in the morning with a start from a dream and find yourself calling the president a dumbass? Oh, I suppose not. That’s my curse. I…

Internet Politics

by Ronald Sitton NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Life got me thinking today, reassessing if you will. I’m finding I’ve shifted over time. For one thing, I find I love reading banned books. Click on the button and find out…

Hold Bush Accountable For Osama’s Stone Cold Trail

by Glynn Wilson BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 10 – On the eve of the five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on America, you have to read between the headlines in the Washington Post to get the point. Osama bin…

Labor Day Celebrates Workers, Not Work

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 4, 2006 – Waking up early to a cooler morning on Labor Day 2006, and with some important labor tasks out of the way that have kept me busy and distracted from the journal in recent days,…