Tales from the Mark Side: The window to the real world is open. Will you look?
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Tales from the Mark Side: The window to the real world is open. Will you look?

mark.young@manateeherald.com Forty dead babies with their heads chopped off. Full stop. Do we even need to expand on the savagery of Hamas terrorists? Paragliding into a music festival and executing hundreds of young, unarmed festival goers? Slaughtering entire Israeli families in their sleep including their pets? Kidnapping, raping and murdering Israeli women and then parading…

Tales from the Mark Side: Even CNN calls Joe Biden a liar
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Tales from the Mark Side: Even CNN calls Joe Biden a liar

mark.young@manateeherald.com Load up your skis, fuel up the snowmobile, brush off the spider webs on your snow shovels and head due south to hell because it has frozen over. The lies flowing out of this White House have gotten so bad that even CNN had to finally call it out for what it is. And…

Tales from the Mark Side: Hope for the future relies on our ability to understand history
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Tales from the Mark Side: Hope for the future relies on our ability to understand history

mark.young@manateeherald.com Footage of the 9-11 attacks never fails to bring back the exact emotions I felt on that day 22 years ago. It was our generation’s Pearl Harbor – a day that only lived in infamy for a couple of generations as America moved on from the historical consequences of Dec. 7, 1941. How many…

Tales from the Mark Side: : Part two of the Manatee Herald’s VP interview
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Tales from the Mark Side: : Part two of the Manatee Herald’s VP interview

mark.young@manateeherald.com (Editor’s note: In the second half of our interview with Kamala Harris we discuss the southern border, foreign policy and the alleged MAGA threat.) ME: Madam VP, before we get into the heart of our remaining topics, gender identity seems to be a hot topic in America. Everytime the subject comes up, I’m reminded…

Tales from the Mark Side:A 200th column surprise! Meet the VP
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Tales from the Mark Side:A 200th column surprise! Meet the VP

mark.young@manateeherald.com It’s always amazing to reach a milestone and that is definitely what our 200th visit is all about! According to Larry Elder anyway. I had no idea 200 columns was a big deal until I heard Elder talk about it during one of his egotistical rants about how Larry Elder thinks Larry Elder is…

Tales from the Mark Side: Post GOP debate polls: The winners and losers
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Tales from the Mark Side: Post GOP debate polls: The winners and losers

mark.young@manateeherald.com I admit that I get a little giddy when I see something that shows Americans are paying attention. It does my heart good and the post GOP debate polls were pretty much along the lines of what I expected, assuming that Americans were indeed focused. If it was the intention of Vivek Ramaswamy to…

Tales from the Mark Side: And the winner of the first GOP debate is …
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Tales from the Mark Side: And the winner of the first GOP debate is …

mark.young@manateeherald.com It was a little laughable watching Fox News brag about how 13 million people tuned in to watch the first GOP debate. I laughed the next day when they released their numbers because Tucker Carlson’s X (formerly Twitter) interview with President Trump began with 75 million views and at last check was up to…

Tales from the Mark Side: The wolves are at the gate and they are hungry
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Tales from the Mark Side: The wolves are at the gate and they are hungry

mark.young@manateeherald.com Unfortunately our scheduled visit this week isn’t timed well with the Republican debate airing on the day I write this, so you can bet I’ll have a lot to say in our next visit on Monday. Spoiler alert: I’ll remind Chris Christie that given his scandals as NJ governor that he does not hold…