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Independent media that won't reinforce tribalism. We have one Planet; nobody's leaving, so let’s reason together!! Darrell McClain is a Military veteran with an abnormal interest in politics, economics, religion, philosophy, science, and literature. He's a Doctor of Philosophy in Human Services, and the author of Faith and the Ballot: A Christian's Guide to Voting, Unity, and Witness in Divided Times. Darrell is a certified Counselor. He focuses primarily on relationships, grief, addiction, and PTSD.  He was born and raised in Jacksonville, FL, and went to Edward H white High School, where he wrestled under Coach Jermy Smith and The Late Brian Gilbert. He was a team wrestling captain, District champion, and an NHSCA All-American in freestyle Wrestling.  He received a wrestling scholarship from Waldorf University in  Forest City, Iowa. After a short period, he decided he no longer wanted to cut weight, effectively ending his college wrestling journey. Darrell McClain is an Ordained Pastor under the Universal Life Church and remains in good standing, as well as a Minister with American Marriage Ministries. He's a Believer in The Doctrines of Grace, Also Known as Calvinism.  He joined the United States Navy in 2008 and was A Master at Arms (military police officer). He was awarded several medals while on active duty, including an Expeditionary Combat Medal, a Global War on Terror Medal, a National Defense Medal, a Korean Defense Medal, and multiple Navy Achievement Medals. While in the Navy, he also served as the assistant wrestling coach at Robert E. Lee High School. He's a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under 6th-degree black belt Gustavo Machado. Darrell Trains At Gustavo Machado Norfolk under the 4th-degree black belt and Former Marine Professor Mark Sausser. He studied psychology at American Military University and criminal justice at ECPI University. 

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Send us Fan Mail Gas prices jump and we’re told to accept it as the unavoidable cost of war, inflation, and uncertainty. But when the same conditions deliver enormous quarterly earnings to oil giants, the tone flips overnight from “crisis” to “success.” We dig into that contradiction and ask the question most coverage avoids: if everyday Americans are supposed to be suffering, who exactly is thriving and why? We walk through headline numbers like ExxonMobil’s roughly $15.4B and Chevron’s rou...
Send us Fan Mail The loudest fights in American politics often have nothing to do with your life, and that is the point. We start with the viral Obama joke about White House renovations and the Cheesecake Factory, then pull the camera back to ask why a country struggling with inflation, housing costs, and grocery bills keeps getting dragged into made-for-TV distractions. If leaders can keep us arguing about marble, they do not have to answer for mortgages, wages, and whether anyone can still ...
Send us Fan Mail They’ve got the wins they demanded and they’re still raging. That’s where we start, with a question that feels almost too obvious to ask out loud: if the right has major power in Washington, a Supreme Court that keeps expanding executive latitude, and policy victories that hit DEI, affirmative action, books, and Black history, what is the anger actually for? We talk about resentment that doesn’t fade with control, and the deeper desire for respect, cultural embrace, and valid...
Send us Fan Mail The most provocative question we can ask about democracy right now is also the simplest: who gets to define it? We start with a blunt challenge to Western political assumptions, arguing that for much of the global south the real measure of legitimacy is good governance that cuts poverty, reduces violence, and improves everyday life, not whether a country conforms to the liberal democracy template. We also confront why “democracy promotion” is treated with deep suspicion in ma...
Send us Fan Mail The funniest political moments are often the ones that make you feel a little sick afterward, because they reveal what gets rewarded in public life. We start with the gap between what voters say they need (lower prices, stability, less chaos) and what campaigns keep serving up instead: spectacle, scapegoats, and applause lines that dodge real accountability. Along the way, we dig into Islamophobia resurfacing as a familiar tactic, the absurdity of cheering corporate oil profi...
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