I’ve met and talked politics and policy with all three of the commissioners for my county. I thought they were a fairly conservative group, but appear to have been mistaken. Five years ago, a local church established a mobile needle and syringe exchange program here in Lewis County. Such programs enable drug abusers to maintain a safer, but still addicted, lifestyle. Enabling drug addiction and the related homelessness and crime is not what I want for this county.

My Son Hunter is a satire of Hunter Biden’s drug addiction and the alleged corruption that permeants the entire Biden family. Indeed, the movie starts with Joe Biden sniffing the hair of a Secret Service agent, played by Gina Carano. After he walks away she turns to the camera and states, “This is not a true story…except for all the facts.”

Toward the end of his 325-page memoir, Mike Lindell quotes a billionaire acquaintance as saying, “You’re not like any other CEO we’ve ever seen.” For thirty years, cocaine and gambling controlled his life. My wife read the book first and told me that his addictive habits continued even after he founded his now-famous pillow company. I wondered how anyone could start such a company, have it flourish, and keep it while addicted.