Sports are a Unifier, Which is Why Politics in Sports is so Troublesome Sports are not supposed to be political. Yes, there are times when sports get political, and there are even times when sports must get political, but when you constantly inject politics into sports you are doing a disservice to the nation. Sports are [...]
Mark Cuban Loves Money, Gets Dunked on by Ted Cruz If you had Ted Cruz and Mark Cuban get into a Twitter battle on your 2020 Bingo Card, mark it down. The senator from Texas and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks are in the midst of a Twitter war over Cuban's refusal to condemn [...]
How The Wire Character's "Library Card" Comment Teaches a Dire Life Lesson in 2020 Brother Mouzone is one of the best characters from one of the best television shows of all-time; HBO's The Wire. An enforcer, who in appearance, is anything but. In a world of drug dealers, corruption, and killers, Brother Mouzone stands out [...]
Why Was the Obama DOJ So Interested in Silencing Michael Flynn Late this past week a peculiar thing happened; Jerusalem Post reporter Lahav Harkov broke one of the biggest stories of the last three years and nobody seemed to notice. Harkov reported that the Obama administration not only was the driving force behind U.N. Resolution [...]
Which Statues Make the Cut? None? When statues are torn down for noble reasons, the act and the accompanying video of that act can feel like a cleansing of past evils. Merely seeing the footage can send people into ecstasy and an overwhelming feeling of joy can spread throughout a liberated nation or group of [...]
Don Rickles' Comedy Teaches Lessons We Need to Learn Today Comedy is near and dear to my heart. My pops brought me up on Jack Benny, Laurel & Hardy, and the Three Stooges. As I got older, that grew to include the movies and bits of comedic gods like Mel Brooks, Chris Farley, and Don [...]
History Tells Me "Do Not Start Kneeling... Ever" History has a funny way of repeating itself. The old adage from George Santayana, that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," is more true today than it ever was. So when I started to see images of people and police officers kneeling [...]
Why Systemic Racism and Black Lives Matter Eats Its Own By now you have heard all the cries from the Black Lives Matter movement--and others--that there is systemic racism in America. People like to point at the criminal justice system, the rate of poverty between the black and white communities, as well as decades olds [...]
Steve King Out of Congress is Something We Can All Rally Behind Lost in all the tumult, protesting, and rioting in the aftermath of George Floyd's death was one supremely awesome development; Steve King lost his primary. The embattled congressman from Iowa lost his primary to Iowa State Senator Randy Feenstra. In a country where [...]
David Dorn's Death Highlights the Godlessness of Excusing Rioting As I watched the first couple of seconds of a video showing David Dorn lying dead on the street in a pool of his own blood, my immediate reaction was an utter lack of surprise. I watched the video for the same amount of time I [...]
