I spent this past weekend in the Smoky Mountains attending a DeBartolo cousins family reunion in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. We had a great time reconnecting and reminiscing. Love and laughter filled the house. President Trump’s assassination attempt took place during the reunion. It contrasted the unity we were experiencing and the division our country is...
Category: opinion
1 in 3 Democrats believe Trump faked assassination attempt. I talked to one
If some polls are to be believed, one in three Democrats think that Donald Trump faked his own assassination attempt. When I read that, I thought, could this possibly be true? But this weekend on my drive home to West Virginia from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, I got the theory first hand. And...
Classroom teacher's view: Cellphone ban likely more trouble than it's worth
They’re supposed to be paying attention, but some are on their smartphones instead. The instructor is a little annoyed, as she should be. But this is not aclassroomfull of students obsessed with their smartphones and their devices – it’s a faculty meeting. Yes, some of the sameteachers, myself included, who don’t allowphones in class, are...
Democrats plot coup to 'save democracy,' but what happens if they fail?
The Democrats seeking to remove President Joe Biden from the 2024 White House race promise that this is not a coup attempt by elites to thwart the will of their party’s primary voters, but boy, it sure looks like one. It would be one thing if Democratic leadership en masse decided that Biden was no...
I went from Trump staffer to Trump detractor and back to supporter. JD Vance's journey makes sense to me
In our current political climate, it is rare for someone, especially an elected official, to publicly admit they misjudged an issue, took the wrong position, or supported the wrong candidate. Since being announced as the Republican vice presidential nominee, JD Vance has endured an onslaught of attacks – primarily centered around previous comments he made...
Trump did something he's never done before with RNC speech. Now, the election may already be over
Donald Trump may well have sealed the outcome of the 2024 election with a performance on Thursday night in Milwaukee that has largely been unmatched in recent American political history. The former president eschewed the polarization and division that has marked much of his rhetoric in the past. In his speech officially accepting the Republican...
Can't make this up: Alec Baldwin saved by shocking Hollywood ending to ‘Rust’ shooting trial
In a surprising turn of events, charges against actor Alec Baldwin were dismissed with prejudice on Friday, July 12, 2024, with the trial ending before it even really began. Per the judge’s ruling, Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case cannot be filed again, a decision which brought the actor to tears as he sat in the courtroom....
Biden is clearly in poor health. We deserve an honest and transparent report
Presidential fitness is a serious matter, and we in the media are not doing the American public any favors by speculating about what is going on with President Biden, just as the White House is not doing us any favors by obfuscating the truth. We do know that he currently has COVID-19, with mild upper...
Trump assassination attempt shows to Putin and Xi the West on Biden’s watch is vulnerable, unfocused
As we still digest how in the world a random 20-year-old, armed with a high-powered rifle, could have walked up within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally, climbed onto a rooftop, in full view of Secret Service snipers, set up and fired multiple rounds, nearly assassinating a former U.S. president. And while the shooter,...
Donald Trump appears to a be a changed man. And that's a big deal for both Republicans and Democrats
Donald J. Trump is different. His close brush with death last Saturday has changed him. As he walked into the Finserv Forum on Monday night, the first night of the GOP convention in Milwaukee, the former president was quite clearly moved by the roar of the crowd; he looked on the verge of tears. As...









