Real American Heroes

The year was 1985. I had arrived in Washington, D.C., as a junior at Indiana University-Bloomington to serve as an intern to Sen. Dan Quayle, R-Ind. With great eagerness, I was ready to jump into my new assignment in our nation’s capital.…

A massive Labor Day frat party might be the most impressive display of raw American patriotism since the Republican National Convention. On September 2, 2024,“Pints For Patriots” threw a giant frat party and country concert called…

Corey Comperatore will be remembered by the media and many simply as the Trump rallygoer who was struck and killed by a bullet meant to assassinate the former president. His wife and daughters, however, say he’s a “real-life superhero” who…

As a combat veteran, I always feel a bit awkward when someone wishes me “Happy Memorial Day.” Oftentimes, I do not correct them because I know they mean well. The misplaced gratitude stems from a misunderstanding of what Memorial Day is all…

During the “recent unpleasantness” of 2021, I was lucky enough to live in a state whose shelter-in-place directives were not as severe as others. Already being someone not accustomed to sitting around, I began to take road or bike trips by…

On my drive home from an overdue stop at the dry cleaners early Friday evening, I had a random urge to listen to Jimmy Buffett. I cranked up the volume on “Margaritaville” and belted out the chorus, transported back to my Florida childhood…

On Sept. 1, 2001, I started a lumber company in Memphis with only $17,000 to my name. I had borrowed everything I could borrow, we were literally eating ramen noodles again, and then the terrorists flew the planes into the buildings 10 days…

It is the year of our Lord 2023, and I’ve finally read the most obsequious feature story that has ever been written about a politician in a major publication. Wired magazine was once home to thought-provoking writing on technology and…

Shortly before police bravely closed in on Audrey Hale, the apparently transgender shooter who killed six people, including three children, at a Nashville Christian school on Monday, another hero was already heading toward the murderer.…

“Y’all’s campaign is about fear,” a D.C. man told Dr. Anthony Fauci and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in newly released footage of the pair parading around an impoverished D.C. area in 2021, pushing people to receive the failed Covid…