There Is A Gender Gap In Education
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There Is A Gender Gap In Education

The gender gap in education has flipped over the past 40 years. Today, for every 100 bachelor’s degrees awarded to women, 74 degrees are awarded to men. This was not the case a half century ago.  Richard Reeves, a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, has written a book, Of Boys And…

Tales from the Mark Side: Deciphering the liberal lies
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Tales from the Mark Side: Deciphering the liberal lies

mark.young@manateeherald.com If “liar, liar pants on fire,” was a real thing, this current administration would set a daily fire that could be seen from the farthest reaches of space. It’s certainly not shocking that politicians and their staff lie, but I’ve never lived through a presidential administration where the lies are so big, and come…

Tales from the Mark Side: Election fraud: Fact or fiction? Here’s what we know
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Tales from the Mark Side: Election fraud: Fact or fiction? Here’s what we know

mark.young@manateeherald.com Liberals have the uncanny ability to deny reality. They say things like the Obama/Biden administration was the only scandal-free administration in U.S. history. Well, we previously outlined 18 documented Obama scandals and those didn’t include what we now know about Biden’s scandals as VP, as well as his Senate scandal involving stolen classified documents….

Chicago: Today’s Fire Is Worse Than The One Started By Mrs O’Leary’s Cow
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Chicago: Today’s Fire Is Worse Than The One Started By Mrs O’Leary’s Cow

This past weekend our nation recoiled in horror as the young people of Chicago terrorized the downtown area. Businesses were vandalized and innocent drivers were pulled from their cars and attacked. Several people were shot during the rioting and looting that occurred.  Sadly, this is an all too common occurrence in the Windy City. The…

Tales from the Mark Side: Independents and the challenges Conservatives face
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Tales from the Mark Side: Independents and the challenges Conservatives face

mark.young@manateeherald.com Let’s face it, it’s only been in recent years where Independents have been noticed in the political arena. For years prior to the recent elections, Independents were viewed as that thorn-in-the-side third party that were only effective in taking votes away from either a Republican or a democrat. Independents now outnumber both major parties…

A Chick With A Dick Screwed Anheuser Busch
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A Chick With A Dick Screwed Anheuser Busch

How can a major corporation allow a young “woke” advertising executive to destroy its brand and cause billions of dollars of lost sales? It’s simple. Hire a Harvard graduate as your VP of Marketing and allow her to decide how to market your product to middle America. Corporations across the nation are following in lockstep…

Tales from the Mark Side: The latest game of “Where’s Biden” during a crisis
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Tales from the Mark Side: The latest game of “Where’s Biden” during a crisis

mark.young@manateeherald.com Do you remember the old show, “Get Smart,” where the opposing agencies were “Control” – the good guys, and “Chaos” – the bad guys? How do we draw the line between control and chaos in the midst of a Joe Biden administration that puts us through one disaster after another? Is the chaos maliciously…

Tales from the Mark Side: Ah, That Sweet Taste of Liberal Tears
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Tales from the Mark Side: Ah, That Sweet Taste of Liberal Tears

mark.young@manateeherald.com I started out this visit with you on Saturday and was heading in a completely different direction until I sat down on this blessed Easter Sunday to complete this latest step of our journey together. I threw on my headphones and turned up some Christian music and felt a calling to do some testifying,…

The Lazy Ballerina: A Special Restaurant
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The Lazy Ballerina: A Special Restaurant

Someone once said “Soul food is a passport to the past. It is much more about heritage than it is about hominy.” The Lazy Ballerina Bistro is a transport to those southern dinners your mother lovingly prepared for you. West Bradenton’s newest eating establishment will capture your palate with its eclectic menu. Becky Kern-Garbus and…