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CORNELIUS MICHAEL ANDERSON III: People are usually upstanding citizens or criminals. Yet with Cornelius Michael “Mike” Anderson III, both descriptions were accurate of his past and present life.
Mike was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, and he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison. However, no one ever enforced his sentence. This second chance at a normal life...
Ronald Reagan: Whether in sports, politics, or life in general, the path to victory is rarely straight. Ronald Reagan is a perfect example of this reality.
Reagan was born in a small midwestern town to a poor family. Hard work and determination moved him from this environment to the lights of Hollywood, where he embarked on a successful acting career. He was then...
Today, Mark Wahlberg is a successful actor and producer. He’s worked in many genres, including comedy, drama, and action.
While many know of Wahlberg's past as a rapper, some may not realize that before "Marky Mark," he went to jail for a hate crime in the 1980s. Wahlberg, then a teenage drug addict who dropped out of school, committed multiple racially motivated attacks and was...
In the late 1990s, the film American History X won critical acclaim and took Edward Norton’s career to the next level. Many people don’t know, though, that this film is based on a real former skinhead and criminal, Frank Meeink.
As a teenager, Meeink was sort of a spokesperson for the neo-Nazi movement until he went to prison for kidnapping and assault. During his time in...
Living through the last few months of this election cycle makes me think of REM’s “It’s the End of the World As We Know It.”
If you listen to the partisans on the cable networks, talk radio, or your X feed, you certainly believe that the world will never be the same if (Trump/Harris) is elected.
It’s very...
