Mike Lindell, the founder of “MyPillow,” an amazingly successful merchandiser of (wait for it) “pillows,” was once so addicted to crack cocaine that his three drug dealers ran an intervention and refused to sell to him. I had no idea. Frankly, I had begun to develop a bit of resentment against this perpetually good humored salesman and his pillows  intruding on television. And now here he was on my TV telling his own recovery story to Mark Levin on his conservative Life Liberty and Levin … [Read more...]

                Just before the stock market crash of 1929, my father decided to strike out on his own and founded a publication in New York called “Our Town.” He published one issue, the market crashed and so did “Our Town.” The future looked grim. He was broke, and he had a wife, Edythe, and a six month old baby, me, to care for. As luck would have it, my mother had a few bucks stashed away, enough to sustain them when the … [Read more...]

Navy medical corpsman, Jack Gutman, was one of thousands of allied troops who landed on France's Normandy beach on June 6, 1943—seventy six years ago. It would take another two years to finish the job, but it was the beginning of the end of Germany, its allies and World War II. Now 92, Gutman survived the physical and emotional horrors of the war, both during and in the years following. He suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and alcoholism for many years but overcame both of … [Read more...]

“America needs help right now, and Americans know it.” So said conservative columnist, Peggy Noonan in her Wall Street Journal column in early May. “ It has been enduring for many years,” Noonan says, “a continuing cultural catastrophe—illegitimacy, the decline of faith, two family formation, child abuse and neglect, drugs, inadequate public education and so on. All this exists along side an entertainment culture on which the poor and neglected are dependent and which is devoted to … [Read more...]

                  Sorry to say, there are unscrupulous organizations who seek to prey upon individuals desperately seeking help for themselves or a loved one. Do your research. With this in mind, a good place to begin your research, is with the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, whose roots go back to the 1940's and Dr. Phil, whose broadcasts on addictions and recovery are long established, widely available and offer … [Read more...]