Good morning! I hope that you're all awakening to a beautiful day, wherever you are. Here, it's quite overcast, and it looks like we're going to have a cozy, rainy, cooler day today.

I have the all-clear from my surgeon to start physical therapy again next week, so I'm looking forward to the progress I will be able to make doing that. Physical therapy is such a miraculous tool for healing and adapting.

As per the doctor, my tendons are all healed up and though I have a long road ahead, it's time to start that journey. He said my lower leg looked like it belonged to a very hungry 12-year-old girl, and he's right. It's shocking how much muscle loss there is. Everyone who has been through something similar assures me that it comes back quickly, but currently, my left leg is just skin and bones.

Anyway, all of that is very good news, and I'm glad to be able to do something other than sit around with my foot elevated.

Next on the agenda is something that isn't such good news - at least not for our economy.

I don't know if you saw the debate between Kamala Harris, two ABC moderators, and Donald Trump last week. I found it very disturbing for a few reasons. First was the blatant cheating. The moderators disliked Trump, and it showed. They threw him more difficult questions, live-fact-checked him, and circled back to their original questions if he gave a rambling answer.

On the other hand, they allowed Kamala Harris free reign with the facts and her extremely scripted-sounding replies. They let her change the subject from their original questions and never pinned her down for real answers. They let her lie outrageously with nary a word said to bring her back to reality.

Because of all this, it appeared that Harris "won" the debate. She sounded strong, calm, and rational. Trump sounded agitated and angry - and it's difficult to blame him when he faced this situation.

I would argue that nobody won that debate. Harris did not provide any real policy except "giving businesses $50,000." We are to guess where that comes from, wonder about her foreign policy, and just believe she's "joyful" and vote for her anyway.

On the other hand, this was not Trump's best performance. Perhaps he underestimated Harris, or maybe he underestimated ABC employees' willingness to demonstrate their outright bias.

But what stands out to me is Harris's later interview, which is her first solo one since being placed on the original ticket. It was carefully edited to make her seem like the polished and well-rehearsed individual we saw on the debate stage, but the actual footage shows something very different.

If what's happening now is anything to go by, the media is conspiring to do everything possible to make her the next President of the United States. And if that happens, I'm extremely concerned for our future. Multiple threats loom: an insecure border, our cities being taken over by refugees from other places who refuse to conform to our culture, a terrible economy that's bound to get worse, outright communist ideas like price controls, and a gun grab.

Personally, I'm very concerned about the freedom to continue reporting on things like this and the future of my website. I've put almost thirteen years of my life into building my business, and it has been under extreme threat since 2020. A Harris presidency just might finish it off. I have a few ideas on surviving this potential disaster that I'll share in the weeks ahead.

We're Americans. We have survived terrible presidents before. I have to believe that we'll survive it again should Harris be "elected." Our ingenuity, sheer stubbornness, and independent natures will get us through, though probably not without some scars.

May our country be blessed and protected in the years ahead.

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We're facing threats to our food supply from many different angles: supply chain breakdowns, drought, food facilities being ravaged by fires, skyrocketing inflation, and outright shortages. No longer can we live in the comfort of unthreatened abundance. We're learning exactly how delicate the system really is.

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