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You Can’t Beat Me Into Feeling Like You Do One of the things I can’t understand about what’s going on in America right now is this idea that if someone opposes you, you have to beat them into feeling like you do. What happened to the freedom to feel differently? I was talking with the gentleman in the video last night on my podcast. The conversation really got me thinking. We are quickly devolving into a society that is so afraid to feel or to accept that someone else can fee

Follow The Money Reading through threads this morning, I see Lane County, Oregon, is about to collapse as it faces major budget problems. The Springfield School Board meets tonight to start chopping its budget back. The same story in school districts, counties, and cities all over the state. The reasons are varied, but if you listen to the voters, these entities did a bad job and continue to fail when it comes to money management.  They continue to choose “feel good” over doi

A World of Natural Consequences We live in a world of naturally occurring consequences. I was thinking about this yesterday while hiking 9 miles up 2k feet into a canyon six miles from Yellowstone National Park. You understand the risks, take bear spray and a gun, and keep your eyes open. Nature is unforgiving, and if something goes wrong by putting yourself in danger, it is on you, not nature. With nature fancy works and twisting the truth won’t save you. We live in a world

Their Goal is Chaos Take a deep breath. The extreme left has been waiting for this moment for months. Like with George Floyd, they will exploit what they need to, to create chaos and unrest in the United States of America. The legacy media is on their side. FBI Director Cash Patel is going after the funding mechanism that fuels these highly organized “protests.” When you figure out who’s behind it, you can cut off the funds, and many of the so-called activists will dry up. Th

Government Dross Rising Under Heat To purify gold, one must increase the heat so that the impurities, known as dross, can rise to the top and be scraped off as waste. Dross is defined as something regarded as worthless; rubbish. That clearly defines the current leadership in Oregon. We see headlines about the Medicaid fraud in places like Minnesota, Maine, Ohio, California, and Washington State, and suspect Oregon is just as filthy, and guess what, we’re right. It’s not makin

Justice For All For many years, the words “Justice For All” have not meant a whole lot to people who lean more to the right. We watched the last administration target and even jail those who hold the more conservative view of the world. I could list case after case, but instead, let’s talk about the house of cards that is falling daily. The Bongino Report had some interesting headlines. Trump says he’s going after California to look for fraud, the likes of which is bankruptin

America Is Moving On We’ve all experienced people in our lives who drag us down. We look at the sky and see blue. They look up and find the one black cloud in the sky. Americans are ready to move on. People on the left and right are done with the nay-sayers and doomsday sour mouths that seem to be more like Eeyore than Winnie the Pooh. Yes, the country is in a rough place. Corruption and liars seem to grease the system, and it’s easy to get socked into the web of despair. The

The Last Minute Misunderstood is just a way of life for someone who lives in the public eye. It didn’t give me much grief until I left the television industry and started speaking out about what I saw happening on my podcast and social media. People liked the guy who never made waves and fed them what they wanted. When the menu changed, the challengers threw fiery darts to try to silence me. It hasn’t worked. I stopped explaining myself for the sake of understanding years ago

Let Them Say What They Will Kathy and I were enjoying a beer together last night when she said to me, “Do you see what people are saying about you online?” There it was on a Facebook page, an Eugene tabloid blasting me, for of all things, living in Montana and speaking out on what’s happening in the state I had lived in for over 60 years. How dare I? LOL The same people who accuse me of gaslighting and clickbaiting, gaslight me and use me for clickbait. I scroll through the c

2026 The Year of Truth? When you’re hiking in the wilderness, you have a lot of time to think. When you clear your head and look, not at what’s being said, but the motivation behind it, you start to see a trend towards truthfinders in America. I’m watching legacy media scrape and claw at independent journalist Nick Shirley for breaking the biggest story of last year. Oh, he wasn’t the first to expose the Medicare fraud, but he dug the deepest and took America into the sewer w

Assimilation, Ignored For Too Long. It is not racist, mean, or cruel to expect people who come into your country to assimilate. I don’t care what color your skin is, where you are coming from, or what religion you follow, but you are moving to our home, so please remember that. In most countries, it’s the unspoken expectation. You don’t move to Italy, Mexico, or South America and expect them to change for you; you adopt their way of life. In many Western societies, the idea o

Oregon, You Must Put Your Foot Down. Oregon has done some pretty stupid things, but this one is right up there near the top. The majority of the Salem City Council appointed a convicted killer to its police review board. That’s right. The board that reviews complaints against police. WTF are you thinking, Salem? Kyle Hedquist shot Nikki Thrasher  in the back of the head in 1994. The only reason he got out of jail is that former Oregon governor Kate Brown did a mass clemency o

The Final Nail In The Media Coffin The legacy media is, as my mother used to say, as useless as tits on a boar. A 20-something kid with a camera and the desire to find out what is really happening just slapped all the networks in the face by simply asking questions, digging, and uncovering the truth about Somalis ripping off the American taxpayers in Minnesota, in a multi-million dollar scam. (fake daycare) Nick Shirley makes me chuckle. Good for him. He’s gotten more hits of

It Really Does Matter You can have the heart of a lion and the tenderness of a lamb, even when the world tells you it’s not possible. Culture aims to limit our expectations by whispering words of discouragement and flat-out lies about what’s possible. People seem hopeless as they are easily sucked into a commercialized sense of what it means to have success. We just got back from visiting family in Portland, Oregon. There are many beautiful aspects of the city, but its greatn

Come On Donald It’s hard for those of us who support much of what President Trump is doing to restore our country to be critical of the man. Not because we agree with him all the time. Not because he doesn’t make mistakes that cause us to cringe. But because some of you are so blinded by hate for the guy, you jump all over us for critiquing him. You and the media jump to your own conclusions that we are turning against his agenda, when in fact, that is wishful thinking on you

Why Do Visionaries Scare Some? If you want to control a society, rather than creating a vision, you bog it down with rhetoric and lies to keep the masses confused and divided. As I speak with candidates, hope to be leaders, I find that a lack of vision is the biggest problem. There are plenty of people who think they can lead, but not very many who can paint a picture of what the future could look like. Obamana was great at creating a myth; the problem is, he never delivered.

The Chair In The Corner Outside my grandson’s bedroom sits a rocking chair. It’s not just any chair. This is the rocking chair my grandmother rocked my mom in when she was a baby. Grandma gave it to me when I was in my early 20s. She probably shouldn’t have, I was a young man who liked to have parties at my house. How that chair survived, I will never know. Grandma knew the importance of memories and left me many in the old things she passed down to me. Not just the chair, bu

I Have A Good Feeling About 2026 As I sit here at my son’s house in Portland, Oregon, my two grand puppies by my side, I’m thinking about the year to come. The unknown can be scary but also exhilarating. Already, I can see the trolls jumping down my throat for the headline  “I have a good feeling about 2026.” My “good feeling” isn’t that everything is going to turn around or that unity will be brought to the world. For me, and many who believe as I do, a restoration is needed

The Great Awakening Is Upon Us Something is happening. People who were once satisfied with silence are waking up. As a news reporter, I observed, for years, the squeaky wheels, manipulating processes, creating a one-sided conversation. For instance, the Eugene City Council would make a decision, and if the loudest mouths didn’t like that decision, they’d push and shove until councilors folded, leaving the general public scratching their heads, wondering, “How did that happen?

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