Tales from the Mark Side: ‘Another brick in the wall,’ the battle for justice in schools
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Tales from the Mark Side: ‘Another brick in the wall,’ the battle for justice in schools

mark.young@manateeherald.com Every generation seems to argue that “their music” is the best, but sorry to tell you that the music of the 60s-80s is the best of all time and there will likely never be anything like it again. It was a time when music fueled – whether good or bad – cultural revolutions, called…

Tales from the Mark Side: Durham report shows the left’s ‘serial killer’ mentality
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Tales from the Mark Side: Durham report shows the left’s ‘serial killer’ mentality

mark.young@manateeherald.com Ever wondered what happened to serial killers? We really haven’t seen a national media frenzy relating to a serial killer since Ted Bundy. Estimates today say the number of serial killers operating in the U.S. have gone from several hundred in the 1970s and 80s to a few dozen today. But we don’t hear…

Tales from the Mark Side: Trump vs. Desantis: where do you stand?
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Tales from the Mark Side: Trump vs. Desantis: where do you stand?

mark.young@manateeherald.com If you’ve been following this journey for a while, you know my worst nightmare is playing out in front of me with this showdown between our great former president and our great governor. It’s like watching your two best friends fight. It’s hard to root for either one and you just hope that neither…

Tales from the Mark Side: Just another week of liberal craziness
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Tales from the Mark Side: Just another week of liberal craziness

Zzzzzz. Another slow news week. All we’ve had this week – so far – is actual banking evidence of Joe Biden’s financial corruption and the selling out of America, California’s insane slavery reparations recommendation and the equivalent of another Salem witch trial against President Donald J. Trump. Oh, and Tucker Carlson announces he’ll do his…

Tales from the Mark Side: End times or end of America?
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Tales from the Mark Side: End times or end of America?

mark.young@manateeherald.com I admit that I wonder from time to time in the midst of today’s global insanity if we are nearing the end of days. “The end is near,” has been a warning cry dating back to the beginning of recorded history. There was even a doomsday prediction involving a hen in 1806 where the…

Tales from the Mark Side: Tucker Carlson’s firing is a sign of a bigger problem
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Tales from the Mark Side: Tucker Carlson’s firing is a sign of a bigger problem

mark.young@manateeherald.com We have talked some about how the left’s internal battle was won by the crazy socialist progressive wing of the democratic party. It’s a party that is simply unrecognizable from just a decade ago and whether we want to admit it or not, there is a similar internal battle taking place within the Republican…

Government Suppression Of Free Speech
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Government Suppression Of Free Speech

The Global Engagement Center (GEC) was established by President Obama to “counter the messaging and diminish the influence of international terrorist organizations.” What seemed like a noble and necessary endeavor to fight terrorism became the spark that lit the wildfire of government sponsored suppression of free speech. As with many government actions with noble intentions,…