Tales from the Mark Side: Indoctrination in our schools is just the tip of the iceberg
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Tales from the Mark Side: Indoctrination in our schools is just the tip of the iceberg

ByMark Young

mark.young@manateeherald.com In today’s episode of Captain Obvious, the House Judiciary Committee has determined Biden’s justice department had no basis to target parents who were raising educational concerns across America. How shocking. The report said, “This weaponization of law-enforcement powers against American parents exercising their First Amendment rights is dangerous.” Ya think? It’s pretty amazing common…

Tales from the Mark Side: Denial of the truth doesn’t make it false
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Tales from the Mark Side: Denial of the truth doesn’t make it false

ByMark Young

mark.young@manateeherald.com It was no surprise this week that a paper trail led Congress to discover that the Biden family received $3 million from a Chinese government owned energy company. It adds to the millions of dollars given to the family by Russia, China and of course Ukraine which paid Hunter Biden millions for doing nothing….

Criminal Corner: Anna Maria Island Party Gets Out Of Control, One Officer Hurt
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Criminal Corner: Anna Maria Island Party Gets Out Of Control, One Officer Hurt

ByManatee Herald Staff Report

According to the Holmes Beach Police Department, officers were dispatched to 127 50th St. at around 10 p.m. in response to a noise violation this week. Police cited the renter for the violation and remained outside the residence to ensure the volume was reduced, but it was not so a second citation was issued. While…

Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee
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Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee

ByPublisher

If we leave the education of our children to liberal public school and prep school teachers, we should not be shocked when they ignore our constitution and suppress freedom of speech. These children have been indoctrinated  to believe that you should not be allowed to offend anyone with your speech unless the offended person is conservative.

Tales from the Mark Side: Do liberals ever do a good job? It’s a rhetorical question
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Tales from the Mark Side: Do liberals ever do a good job? It’s a rhetorical question

ByMark Young

mark.young@manateeherald.com I’m sure you’ve had your fill of my personal banking issues given my rant during our last visit, but my first attempt at transitioning to a new bank wasn’t what I expected. Long story short, I walked into my potential new bank and it was me, one teller, and the branch manager. There wasn’t…

Criminal Corner: 10-time convicted felon strikes again
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Criminal Corner: 10-time convicted felon strikes again

ByManatee Herald Staff Report

A 25-year-old Manatee County man who has already piled up 10 felony convictions in his life is facing multiple new felonies after terrorizing at least two people with a firearm on the afternoon of March 2. According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, Kyle Cartwright was at the Fountain Lake Apartments in the 5500 block…

Tales from the Mark Side: An apology – of sorts – to liberals
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Tales from the Mark Side: An apology – of sorts – to liberals

ByMark Young

mark.young@manateeherald.com If you’ve lived long enough, then you know loyalty isn’t what it used to be whether it’s relationships, so-called friends, some family members, politics or a plethora of other life aspects. With age comes the understanding that some people in your lives either have or will burn you at some point. But we, for…

Too Many Chiefs Ruin The Tribe
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Too Many Chiefs Ruin The Tribe

ByPublisher

Each week we see more examples of the woke cancel culture advocates using the tactics of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Stalin’s Purges to cause people to lose their livelihoods. The latest example comes from Harvard University where the college world was shocked to discover that the women’s hockey  team coach had used abusive language.  Today,…

Tales from the Mark Side: Life sure used to be a lot more simple
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Tales from the Mark Side: Life sure used to be a lot more simple

ByMark Young

mark.young@manateeherald.com Life sure used to be a lot more simple. Remember when honesty was the best policy? You never had a single thing to worry about as long as the truth was on your side. But that doesn’t seem to matter anymore and that, my friends, is perhaps the scariest thing out of all the…