Every time I bring up Erica’s race, I hear the same thing from some self-professed “experts”… “Chuck, AD9 has more registered Democrats than Republicans. I don’t think she can win.” Absolutely not true. And here’s why. Registration tells you who’s on the voter rolls. It doesn’t tell you who ...

  Here’s the bottom line: You just can’t trust Nevada Assembly District 9 candidate Ryan Hampton. With him, the fine print is the main event. If he says “let me be clear,” brace yourself for a San Francisco fog. And when he says he’s fighting for “working families,” he’s only ...

  There’s a scene near the end of All the President’s Men where “Deep Throat,” sitting in that parking garage in shadow, tells Bob Woodward the only three words that matter: “Follow the money.” Everybody remembers the line. What everybody forgets is that Woodward and Bernstein didn’t get to the ...

  For eleven seasons, television audiences tuned in to watch Sam Malone pour drinks, crack jokes, and hold court behind the bar at Cheers – all while carrying, in the background of the show’s mythology, the label of a recovering alcoholic. It was played as one of the show’s quiet ...

  Before starting this chapter, I want to make something perfectly clear. Recovery from heroin addiction is not a small thing, and Ryan Hampton deserves real credit for getting to the other side of it. Overcoming that kind of dependency takes a level of discipline and resilience that most people ...

  As I’ve written previously, before this series, the paperback version of Ryan Hampton’s book includes an updated section to his story in which he demonizes pharmaceutical companies and blames them for his addiction without acknowledging his own role in creating his own problem. He wrote that pharmaceutical companies were ...

  There’s a great scene in the 1970 World War II – or as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D–Minn.) calls it, World War Eleven – epic movie “Patton.” General Patton is awakened and advised that German Field Marshal Rommel was planning an attack at El Guettar. The scene ends with the ...

  In the 1972 Western classic The Cowboys, Wil Andersen, played by John Wayne, has just lost his regular cattle drive crew to a gold rush and is desperate for hands to drive his herd to market. So he recruits a group of schoolboys. And while the kids are on ...

  Greetings from beautiful downtown Dallas, Texas, where the kids and I are attending an AI (artificial intelligence) marketing conference being hosted by our AI guru and coach, Perry Belcher. But before checking into our hotel room yesterday – which happens to overlook the infamous Dealy Plaza – we paid ...

  Lyn Nofziger was one of Ronald’s Reagan most trusted and influential strategists, dating back to the days of the Gipper’s stint as governor of California. He and I met at a political convention in Reno sometime in the mid-1990s and became email “pen pals.” He ended up on my ...