I Could Be Wrong.

  COMMON SENSE IS NOW A RADICAL ACT I don’t know when it happened, but somewhere along the line, using plain old common sense started feeling like a rebellious act. Not because it’s extreme. Not because it’s political. Just because it cuts through the nonsense that so many people seem to depend on now. You look at something with your own eyes, you say what you see, and suddenly you’re the problem. Suddenly you’re “causing trouble.” Suddenly you’re the villain in somebody’s story. It didn’t used to be like this. You didn’t need a news anchor to explain reality to you. You didn’t need a politician to tell you how to think. You didn’t need a “breaking news alert” every ten minutes to know when something didn’t add up. You just used your head. You trusted your gut. You asked questions when something smelled funny. Now? You ask a simple question and politics jumps in your face like, “Sit down, piggy,” or whatever insult they’re throwing around that day. Anything to shut you up. Any...

  THE ALLY WE KEEP KICKING: WHY CANADA DESERVES BETTER FROM US You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat their friends. Same goes for countries. And if we’re being honest with ourselves, America hasn’t been treating one of its best friends very well lately — especially under Donald Trump. I’m not talking about some complicated foreign policy dispute or a fight over trade numbers. I’m talking about something simpler: respect. Canada has never been our enemy. They’ve never tried to undermine us, never threatened us, never tried to take advantage of us. They’ve been our closest neighbor, our biggest trading partner, and one of the most loyal friends we’ve ever had. But Trump talks about Canada like it’s some rival he needs to beat, or a weak country he needs to push around to look tough. And here’s the truth that should matter to everyone, no matter who they voted for: no modern American president has ever treated Canada this way. Only Trump. Not Reagan. Not Bush. No...

  It Is the Lies That Are Breaking Our Politics Political conversations don’t feel like conversations anymore. They are more like collisions, not between ideas, but between realities. We are drowning in lies. Not ordinary lies, not exaggerations or spin, but full-blown alternate-reality lies that millions of Americans sincerely believe. You can’t debate policies when you can’t agree on facts. You can’t fix a country when half of it is living in a world that doesn’t exist. I keep hearing that we have to find common ground. How do you find common ground with a lie? Some of the most damaging falsehoods that Republicans are pushing have reshaped our political landscape entirely. These are not fringe theories being pushed by off-the-wall conspiracy theorists. They are claims repeated by elected officials, media personalities, and political influencers. The courts, bipartisan officials, scientific bodies, and documented evidence have rejected them. Yet millions believe. Here are only...

  Growing up, every morning in school, my whole class would recite the Pledge of Allegiance. As a young man, I thought I was swearing loyalty to a flag, some piece of cloth. As I grew older, I realized that I was swearing loyalty to the Republic and to what that Republic stood for, as defined in the Constitution. I wasn’t swearing loyalty to Eisenhower, Kennedy, or Johnson. I was swearing loyalty to the nation and what it had stood for since the Constitution was ratified. I was swearing loyalty to do what was right. Today, there is a lot of talk about loyalty, but most of it seems to be centered on loyalty to one man. I look at it as loyalty given and the loyalty that Trump didn’t return. Whether it is our service members or our allies, it seems Trump is not living up to the promises this nation has made. Just yesterday, I was reading about Trump saying that he has ordered the scaling back of our participation in the U.S. – ROK exercises that were supposed to be held with South K...

  When Loyalty Only Flows One Way There’s a pattern running through the last several years of American leadership, and it’s time we stop pretending not to see it. It shows up in foreign policy, in military decisions, in the way allies are treated, and even in the way his own staff is handled. The pattern is simple: loyalty only flows one way. Trump demands it from everyone around him — sailors, diplomats, allies, and administration officials — but when the cost of loyalty falls on them, he doesn’t return it. And the consequences aren’t abstract. They’re happening to real people, right now. I still feel that Trump thinks that our military is suckers and losers First there was the USS Ford. The Ford was originally on a routine deployment, then everything changed . The Ford left Virginia in June 2025 for a standard Mediterranean/NATO rotation. That was supposed to be the whole mission.   But within months, the administration began redirecting her again and again as globa...

  When a Party Has No Record, It Turns to Cruelty There’s a point in American politics where desperation stops looking like politics and starts looking like cruelty. You can see it clearly with today’s Republican Party. When they have no record to run on, no achievements to point to, no plan to make people’s lives better, they reach for the one thing they’ve mastered: destroying innocent people. And nothing shows that better than Pizzagate. Pizzagate wasn’t just a wild rumor. It was a political weapon. Republican‑aligned influencers pushed it because it stirred outrage. They didn’t care that it wasn’t true. They didn’t care that it targeted a small pizza shop, its workers, and families who just wanted a slice. They cared that it created a villain. And when you invent a villain, someone eventually tries to “fight” it. That’s exactly what happened. A man walked into Comet Ping Pong with an AR‑15 because he believed Republican‑aligned voices who told him children were being to...

  What Real Freedom Looks Like — And Who Walked Away from It Freedom is supposed to be simple. But somewhere along the way, the people in charge made it complicated. They turned it into a slogan, a TV line, a talking point. They made it something you hear in speeches instead of something you feel in your everyday life. But if you walk through real neighborhoods — the places where people work, raise kids, and try to build a future — you can see who actually believes in freedom and who just talks about it. Some people talk about freedom. Some people build it. And some people walked away from it. The Democrats used to be in the neighborhoods. There was a time when Democrats were everywhere — union halls, church basements, community centers, front porches. They didn’t just show up during election season. They showed up all year. They listened. They talked with people, not at them. They knew the families on each block. That’s how trust grows. That’s how freedom grows. But...