Tales from the Mark Side: My Thanksgiving history isn’t for everyone
| | | |

Tales from the Mark Side: My Thanksgiving history isn’t for everyone

By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com Yeah, yeah, I get it. You didn’t even want to visit today considering it’s a day of turkey, family, football … and for some … political arguments around the table because your liberal relative is in town. Fortunately you also had a couple of days to visit with me before I…

Tales from the Mark Side: DOJ or Dukes of Hazzard?
| | | |

Tales from the Mark Side: DOJ or Dukes of Hazzard?

By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com It’s a sad and scary time in America when we have reached the point of losing complete faith in what are supposed to be our most trusted law enforcement agencies. We’ve gone into great detail about the long history of corruption that has plagued the FBI and we know from the…

Tales from the Mark Side: Can we talk about the big Red elephant in the room?
| | | |

Tales from the Mark Side: Can we talk about the big Red elephant in the room?

By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com It’s been a busy couple of days and so much that is worthy of discussion, but how in the world do we not address the big Red elephant in the room? President Donald J. Trump’s Tuesday announcement that he will launch a bid to retake the White House was impressive and…

Tales from the Mark Side: Cheer up Patriots. Here’s why the election wasn’t that bad
| | | |

Tales from the Mark Side: Cheer up Patriots. Here’s why the election wasn’t that bad

By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com It’s fair to admit that I’ve had some time to simmer down. Had I knocked on your door for today’s visit as the national election results rolled in, I wouldn’t have been very good company. There would have been a need to attach a warning label for excessive use of profanity….

Tales from the Mark Side: Democracy isn’t on the ballot Joe. The ballot is ‘democracy’.
| | | |

Tales from the Mark Side: Democracy isn’t on the ballot Joe. The ballot is ‘democracy’.

By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com Like everything the liberals do these days, this ridiculous narrative that democracy is on the ballot – and that democracy will be destroyed if Republicans are elected – is hilarious and unnerving at the same time. But hear me out, because there is some accuracy to what liberals are saying. It’s…

Tales from the Mark Side
| | | | |

Tales from the Mark Side

Here’s why Amanda Ballard and Cindy Spray must win in November By Mark Young The Conservative Voice in Manatee County mark.young@manateeherald.com We’ve talked a lot about the two most important races left that will be decided in the General Election. Though I have already endorsed both of these candidates, let me tell you why. It’s…

Tales from the Mark Side: We don’t need the Anti-Crist as governor. State endorsements are here
| | | | |

Tales from the Mark Side: We don’t need the Anti-Crist as governor. State endorsements are here

Tales from the Mark Side The Conservative Voice in Manatee County We don’t need the Anti-Crist as governor. State endorsements are here By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com Well, we blinked and all of a sudden the primary races are over and early voting for the November General Election is fast approaching. We have a lot to…