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 ...

  Let me hit you with a couple numbers that should make every Nevada Republican politician, donor, and party official physically ill. In 2022, Republican Adam Laxalt lost the U.S. Senate race in Nevada by 7,928 votes. In that same election, over 150,000 registered Nevada Republicans stayed home and did ...

Political Consultants Are Going to Hate Me (Even More) for Writing This Hoo-boy. I was doing the ol’ “should-I-or-shouldn’t-I” thing in bed at four o’clock this morning. And I know I shouldn’t write this one. It’s gonna p*ss off a lot of political insiders. But then I remembered something my ...

  The Tea Party Wanted Freedom. The DSA Wants a Babysitter. This is gonna be a long one, but it’s critically important – especially for youngsters whose public school indoctrination has left them ignorant of our founding history and reality. So grab a big cup of coffee or tall lemonade ...