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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 the author of Faith and the Ballot: A Christian's Guide to Voting, Unity, and Witness in Divided Times. He was born and raised in Jacksonville FL, and went to Edward H white High School,l 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 is still in good standing as well as a Minister for the American Marrige 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 awards 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 was also 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 went to school for psychology at American Military University and for criminal justice at ECPI University.
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Send us a text Some rules sound perfect until they meet real life. Zero tolerance promises order and fairness at work, but what happens when a punch lands, security is minutes away, and your kids still need you home tonight? We pull this apart with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and military veteran whose day job straddles IT, investigations, and loss prevention. Together we stress-test the policy from both sides: the case for clear rules that protect non-fighters, and the case for proporti...
Send us a text The ground shifted under America’s political feet, and you can feel the rumble from City Hall to Capitol Square. New York—long the altar of finance—just elected a socialist mayor on a platform of affordability, transit access, and universal childcare. Virginia flipped every top office behind a former CIA officer who campaigned on paychecks, federal jobs, and dignity at work. Two wins, two styles, one unmistakable signal: voters are rewarding leaders who meet real life where it ...
Send us a text Sirens, hymns, and a hard choice at the curb outside a detention center: that’s where our story begins. We trace the line from candlelit vigils at “Alligator Alcatraz” to pulpits blessing immigration raids, and ask what Christian faith actually demands when families are torn apart at 2 a.m. Some clergy call ICE agents to repentance and take pepper balls for their trouble; others preach a “theology of borders” that imagines Jesus smiling at a van packed with migrants. History is...
Send us a text A farm-town promise met a ledger full of losses. We open with the hard math of tariffs and trade wars: higher equipment costs for growers, soybean sales to China evaporating overnight, and a puzzling turn to importing Argentinian beef just as America’s cattle herd hits historic lows. Add four packers controlling most of the beef market and record profits at the top, and it’s fair to ask whether “America First” ever reached the people it named. Then we step onto the hardwood, w...
Send us a text A mayoral debate that felt like a prize fight. A White House wing torn down for a 9,000-square-foot ballroom. Sanctions that squeeze Russia’s oil lifeline while summits dissolve overnight. And a healthcare shock that sends families scrambling to schedule surgery before premiums explode. We pull these threads together to show how spectacle keeps crowding out strategy—and how that choice lands on everyday people. First, we take you ringside at New York City’s final debate: Cuomo...
Send us a text A seven-year sentence becomes 84 days, and the country learns a lesson it won’t soon forget: when loyalty becomes currency, justice gets priced. We break down George Santos’s commutation, why it happened, and what it signals about how power is exercised and rewarded. The receipts are not in dispute—wire fraud, identity theft, donor deception—but the outcome reframes the rules of accountability. We talk through the GOP’s split response, the electoral math in Long Island swing di...
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Send us a text Missed paychecks, spiking premiums, and a Capitol gone quiet—this conversation pulls back the curtain on a shutdown with life-or-death stakes. We walk through why a quick “reopen first” deal won’t cut it, why a one-year ACA fix is a political mirage, and what ink-on-paper protections are needed to stop millions from losing coverage and middle-class families from seeing premiums explode. We get into the mechanics of power: a Senate that needs 60 votes, a House leadership that w...
Send us a text A hawk who preached secrecy now stands accused of mishandling it. We open with the Bolton indictment—18 counts, thousands of pages, and a century-old Espionage Act stretched to fit modern data—and ask a hard question: can selective prosecution and real accountability coexist? We walk through the legal thresholds, the political optics, and the five flashpoints likely to define the case, from pre-trial classification fights to the quiet calculus of a plea. From there, we pivot t...
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Send us a text Cameras love a finish line. Real peace rarely offers one. We open with a bold victory lap and press on the brakes, examining what a signed deal in Gaza can and can’t do while weapons remain, hostages return in tears and coffins, and leaders pull in opposite directions. I walk through Netanyahu’s conspicuous absence, Abbas’s calculated presence, and Trump’s push to scale the Abraham Accords into something bigger—maybe even stretching toward Tehran—then ground it in the only thin...
Send us a text One line lit the fuse: leaked texts from a statewide nominee invoked “three people, two bullets,” forcing Virginia’s race into a referendum on responsibility, tone, and what leaders are willing to condemn—and what they’re not. We walk you into the Norfolk clash where Abigail Spanberger stayed steady and Winsome Earle-Sears swung for the knockout, then map how that posture war—calm competency versus disruptive force—plays with early votes already in the bank. From abortion frami...
Send us a text The cameras were hot, the questions were sharp, and the answers—when they came—raised more doubts than certainty. We walk you through the pivotal moments of a combative Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, from the still-murky $50,000 cash handoff to the whiplash over an “Epstein client list.” Beyond the viral clips, we unpack what real oversight should look like, why carefully chosen words matter, and how deflection corrodes public trust faster than any...
Send us a text The curtain rises on a familiar stage: a high-profile indictment, a hungry news cycle, and a country eager to assign heroes and villains. We walk through the case against James Comey—two counts linked to testimony on the Russia probe and the Clinton Foundation—and the claim that he denied authorizing press contacts. Then we pull back the camera to see what really matters: how prosecutions turn into symbols, and how symbols can warp the public’s faith in law. We talk candidly a...
Send us a text What if the shutdowns, shadow rulings, forever-war language, and state-federal knife fights aren’t separate storms but gears in the same machine? We walk through how Washington’s rituals of crisis drain trust, how the Supreme Court’s high-stakes term and shadow docket reshape rights without sunlight, why declaring “armed conflict” against cartels stretches executive power, and how federal funding freezes and lawsuits turn federalism into a tug-of-war that leaves citizens with r...
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Send us a text The headlines arrived first, tidy and late, but the weight beneath them is harder to hold: Jane Goodall is gone, and so is a voice that made science feel like conscience. We sit with the loss and the indictment it delivers—how institutions that once ignored her now rush to borrow her moral light, how applause became a habit while forests thinned and habitats fractured. What begins as an obituary quickly widens into a reckoning with the lines she erased between “us” and “nature,...
Send us a text A courtroom trembles, a forest goes quiet, and a Capitol locks its doors and somehow they all tell the same story about trust. We start with the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and examine what happens when the Justice Department looks like an instrument of revenge rather than a referee. We weigh the evidence, the reported push from political appointees, and the practical stakes for congressional testimony, prosecutorial norms, and the fragile belief that law can ...
Send us a text Charlie Kirk’s assassination has shaken America. A 31 year old conservative commentator gunned down while addressing students in Utah now joins the tragic roster of public figures lost to violence. But what may be just as troubling is our divided response, with some mourning, some weaponizing, and some celebrating. This episode reflects on the crisis of political violence and the quieter, yet significant, civilizational fault line of delayed marriage. Can we still see one anoth...
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