Adult points of interest (18+yrs only)

This Memorial Day, as we honor the brave who gave everything for our freedom, let’s remember: True leadership means never leaving our troops in harm’s way without the tools and resolve to win. From Grenada to Bosnia to the Middle East, I’ve seen it firsthand.

In a dangerous world with real threats like Iran, we must back our military 100% and reject the reckless disregard of the past.

God bless our fallen, our veterans, and the United States of America! As you fire up the grill next weekend, put the beer on ice, busting out your best burgers or steaks, please remember why we honor Memorial Day. I’m remembering several friends and colleagues. Today, I remember my friend, Mike Hodge.

My roommate and best friend, Mike was also an Air Force pilot. We met in C-141 initial pilot qualification in Altus, OK, and decided to rent an apartment together in downtown Charleston, SC. Two single guys, living in a cottage on one of the Antebellum homes South of Broad, flying around the world, and enjoying our bachelor lives. We’d walk to the Market area of Charleston, have a few drinks, and chat up the College of Charleston girls. It was an awesome life.

Mike died on takeoff from Sigonella, NAS in Sicily. He was flying a Navy mission to Nairobi, Kenya. On takeoff, they shelled an engine. The shrapnel penetrated the airframe and set pallets of hazardous cargo on fire. The pilots donned their oxygen masks but it was too late. They tried to execute an immediate return to the runway and were halfway through their turn. The fumes from the burning cargo overcame them. They never completed the turn and hit a mountain side. Everybody perished.

I received a call from our wing commander and walked across our apartment complex to inform his girlfriend. They’d just become engaged. Mike was dead. And then, I told his parents, who lived in nearby Columbia, SC. The most sorrowful moment of my long career.

A few weeks later, I flew to escort Mike’s remains to his internment in the national cemetery in Beaufort, SC. I presented the flag to his mother on behalf of a grateful nation.

I’ll be pouring one out for Mike. Til Valhalla, Mike.

What’s one way you’re honoring service this weekend? 🇺🇸

#MemorialDay #Veterans #USA

“ARE YOU REALLY NOT SEEING WHAT’S HAPPENING, OR ARE YOU JUST PRETENDING NOT TO?” Adam Sandler said firmly, his voice calm but loaded with force.

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The studio hesitated. Cameras kept rolling. Sandler leaned forward, eyes locked on the panel with the same laser-focus he usually reserves for a performance.

“Let me be clear,” he continued. “This chaos you keep talking about isn’t spontaneous. It’s being amplified. Weaponized. Used for political gain.”

A panelist tried to jump in, but Sandler raised his hand, halting the interruption with professional poise.

“No—look at the facts. When streets are allowed to spiral out of control, when police are restrained, when the rule of law is weakened, ask yourself one question: who benefits?”

He paused, then answered it himself.

“Not Donald T.r.u.m.p.”

“This disorder is being used to scare Americans. To convince them the country is broken beyond repair. And then—conveniently—to blame the one man who keeps saying the same thing: law and order matters.”

Someone muttered, “That sounds authoritarian.”

Sandler snapped back immediately.

“No. Enforcing the law is not authoritarian. Securing borders is not authoritarian. Protecting citizens from violence is not the end of democracy—it’s the foundation of it.”

The camera zoomed in.

“The real game here,” Adam Sandler said, his voice sharpening, “is convincing Americans that demanding order is dangerous, while celebrating chaos as progress.”

He spoke slowly, deliberately.

“Donald T.r.u.m.p isn’t trying to cancel elections. He’s trying to defend the voices that the political and media elites ignore—the people who just want a safe country and a fair system.”

Sandler finished, staring straight into the lens.

“America doesn’t need more fear-driven narratives. It doesn’t need apocalyptic monologues. It needs truth, accountability, and leaders who aren’t afraid to say that order is not the enemy of freedom.”