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12/24/2025

I Have A Good Feeling About 2026

As I sit here at my son’s house in Portland, Oregon, my two grand puppies by my side, I’m thinking about the year to come.
The unknown can be scary but also exhilarating.

Already, I can see the trolls jumping down my throat for the headline “I have a good feeling about 2026.”
My “good feeling” isn’t that everything is going to turn around or that unity will be brought to the world.
For me, and many who believe as I do, a restoration is needed and well underway.

One of my favorite activists of all time changed the world, but many of His followers mistakenly took His message as one of peace when in fact, He said He came to divide, good from evil.
People love to quote His comments they agree with or that they can use to turn the other cheek, but cringe at the thought of a revolution, fought with a sword that separates.

As the year 2025 comes to a close, I’m ready for a fresh start in 2026.
The last year has been quite the education for all of us.
If you slow down and really look at what’s happened, you see institutions and organizations called out for their lies.
There’s so much misinformation, it boggles the brain.
I don’t always know what or whom to believe, but I trust this is all part of God’s grander plan to educate you and me.

He’s teaching us to stick up for each other, refuse to ride the fence, be kind when you can, and firm when you have to be.

If you watch closely, story by story, news organizations, liars, and cheaters are being exposed.
For my more left-leaning readers, I’m not just talking about folks on the left; I see the same thing happening to the far right.
Cleansing battles w**d out fake narratives.
Some call it disunity, I call it housecleaning.
As the fabric of cancel culture, the worthlessness of woke, and the ridiculousness of the timid unravel, we simply need to stay engaged, seek His will, and hold on for dear life.

12/23/2025

Oregon is often reduced to what needs to happens in Portland, forgetting about all those who live in the rural parts of the state. We talked about this and much more with the Republican candidate for governor, Christine Drazan. Here's the rest of the interview. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BCGpVny8w/

12/23/2025

Christine Drazen is no stranger to Oregon politics. She ran for Governor last go around and is back in the pack to try to win the primary. Tonight, we talk with her, and you, too, can ask questions if you like.

12/22/2025

Why Lack of tarrifs is hurting U.S. Plywood/ Truth about Timber

Buying American-made products sounds simple, but are consumers willing to seek them out? Bill Childress explains why the absence of tariffs on softwood plywood is undermining the U.S. plywood industry. Low-priced, low-quality imports have forced American manufacturers to close, and tariffs are needed to give domestic plywood producers like Freres Engineered Wood a fair chance to compete.

12/22/2025

The Great Awakening Is Upon Us

Something is happening.
People who were once satisfied with silence are waking up.

As a news reporter, I observed, for years, the squeaky wheels, manipulating processes, creating a one-sided conversation.
For instance, the Eugene City Council would make a decision, and if the loudest mouths didn’t like that decision, they’d push and shove until councilors folded, leaving the general public scratching their heads, wondering, “How did that happen?”

A new saying sprouted that went like this: “Only in Eugene.”
Weirdness became trendy and cool as it quietly destroyed the fabric of the community.
More people felt alienated from the process, and over time, the silent majority gave up.

The overreaction to COVID did us all a big favor.
People would shun you in the grocery store for not wearing a mask.
Neighbors called the police on neighbors if they saw what they determined were too many cars in the driveway.
Oregon’s governor grew more power hungry as each week she determined which counties could open for business and which had restrictions.

We had the Biden administration preaching democracy, yet taking it away as it forced people to get the COVID vaccine.

Here we are, days from a new 2026, and so much has changed.
The people are back in charge.
Those who had given up are open and engaged, not just in the conversation, but in taking action to turn our nation around.
As this great awakening deepens, all Hell will come against us.
The cultural monitors refuse to give up power and will fight to keep what territory they’ve owned for decades.

You recognize the desperation when their arguments turn to name-calling because they don’t have the facts to back up their theories.
The real panic set in as people started leaving their party in droves, because it’s wish list and theirs are heading in polar opposite directions.

Over the weekend, I had dozens of messages from folks ready to speak out against this group or that.
Silence is safer, but being quiet is no longer an option.
Plus, the public sees the loudmouths only hold power if you let them.
The names they call us don’t matter because they’ve overused and misused terms like racism, clickbait, troll, and all of the “phobes” to the point that those words have no meaning.
The sting is gone.
We must take back the conversation.
Please don’t allow them to make it about a party.
I recently saw the opponents of free speech trying to twist the immigration issue to hide the illegality of it all.
That used to work, but we’re on to them.

There’s a growing number of us left of center, right of center, and right in the middle who no longer care about the farthest left or the most extreme right.
We care about one thing, truth.
And we are smart enough, learned enough, and brave enough to fight for it.

12/21/2025

You guys know my friend Dr Michael Bratland at Crisdental Eugene?
Turns out not only is he a great dentist and patriot, but the guy knows how to leverage A.I. to help you and me buy the perfect last-minute Christmas gift for that hard-to-please person.
Here's the link.
Go try it out.
http://wibbly.ai

12/21/2025

Hey, remember when my shut-up meter died? It happened even before the pandemic. Back then, I lived in a very liberal community in Oregon, and you learned quickly how much truth to tell. The cultural wave was definitely against you, so you pushed here and there, never lied, but held your tongue when asked what you truly believed.

One year, I was asked to give a holiday gift to the City of Eugene. My boss at the time was a more liberal guy, but he loved my heart and liked the idea of challenging his liberal friends. So, that day I gave the city “The Free Lunch Program.” Basically, it was this: If you think you don’t like a conservative, take a conservative to lunch. If you think you don’t like a liberal, take a liberal to lunch.

But I went on to every other marginalized group and got very pushy in my presentation.

My gift was met with mixed reviews. But it did stir the leadership of what they described as a mostly white, grey-haired, one-party organization. They asked me to be president of the club for a year, which I accepted. They wanted me to bring in new members, including more conservatives and moderate thinkers. Long story short, it didn’t work. I was a rather closeted conservative at the time, but still, some of the hardcore liberals could smell blood in the water and quit the club.

One of the first things I did was talk with a friend of mine who had a market for members of the Latino community. We had a special evening at the market with the club. My friend, the owner, came up to me during the party and said, “Your friends seem very uncomfortable.” To which I answered, “Good.” And they were. The folks at the market were not members of the club, Rotary, or the Hispanic Chamber. These were just regular folks; most didn’t speak English, and it pushed the club to its edge. It exposed their true heart. We never did anything like it again. The club members are the same folks who today are probably pushing to stop ICE and protect illegals from being deported. What’s the irony in that?

The two people who brought me in as president no longer speak to me. One of them, I blocked on all my websites and social media. I refuse to put up with that kind of hate.

A few years later, my patience wore thin. I saw the city, county, and state let lawlessness take over the streets, and they did nothing to stop it. Instead of enforcing laws, like bad parents, they ignored rules and let drug addicts and criminals take over our community. They were more concerned about their virtue than the well-being of these people. That’s when the trolls, minions, and demons unleashed their wrath on me and others who dared to question.

We each have a point of no return. A place where the lies are so obvious we can’t ignore them any longer. The ridiculousness of the COVID lockdowns was the final straw for most people.

When the shut-up meter no longer works, those who’ve always owned the message will panic. They’re not used to sharing the spotlight. Their past cries for unity and diversity are exposed for what they are: bu****it. When the truth sets one group of people free, it imprisons another.

America seems to be in a downward spiral of chaos and dysfunction. Remember, to get better, sometimes conditions must first decline. Hold on because 2026 promises more clarity for those seeking the truth and more exposure for those trying to hide it.

Proverbs 21:15 To do right-ruling is joy to the righteous, but ruin to the workers of wickedness.

12/20/2025

You Can’t Rebuild Without Some Demolition

When Kathy and I were in Oregon, we remodeled our 1904 farmhouse twice.
Both times were awful.
I remember when the contractor finished ripping the roof off 75% of the house, my wife looked at her ceilingless kitchen and cried.

During both remodels, we’d find unexpected problems.
There was dry rot, cracks in the foundation, and the first time we had to crawl under the house and spend hours digging giant holes so that a more solid foundation could be built.

That’s what’s happening in America right now.
It’s not pretty, it’s not fun, and it’s messy.

As our nation begins to unpack the damage done by years of corruption and lies, there’s a stench that permeates the air.
Sometimes we look at the next step, recoil, and wonder if we should slow down and cut a few corners.
If the rot is not removed completely the cancer will eventually come back.

Each day, our newsfeeds are plugged with more bad news from the contractor, explaining why the remodel is going to take longer and cost more.
Unexpected, unexplained, and underestimated damage done, that must be dealt with before things get better.

Americans are not known for their patience.
We like things fixed fast, or we ignore them and let the next guy fix them.
The long haul is how our forefathers saw things, but modern conveniences spoil us into a false sense of expectation, and that means get it done or get it out of my mind.

We have a chief contractor who understands, remodeling anything is a process.
I remember our contractor coming to us and sharing the bad news of another unexpected setback.
He never held back but had a plan to get us on board with as little resistance as possible.
He used to remind us of our goals.
He told us not to look at the setbacks but to look beyond the horizon to a warm, cozy farmhouse preserved for another one hundred years.

Imagine overhauling a nation.
You have a percentage of the country saying, What we have has value and needs to be overhauled, but not kicked to the curb.
You have others who know the foundation is cracked and needs repair, but would rather ignore the problems because they are afraid to do what needs to be done.
And then you’ve got this group, with narrow vision, that refuses to crawl under the house and look at the structural problems and instead seeks to blow up the house and start over.

Whenever you start a remodel of a house or a nation, what also gets remodeled is you and me.
We need a vision of what could be, and we have a contractor/president who understands that.
When you’re in the middle of a remodel, it’s easy for hopelessness and turmoil to tempt us into defeat.
There’s always a neighbor or naysayer reminding you how terrible it is and telling you that you should have never started this never-ending process.
At times, you wonder why.

If we don’t complete what we’ve started, I believe we will never save what we have.
There are those hoping that happens, but far more of us see value in our nation, our freedom, and rebuilding what made America great.

Hold on.
You won’t be eating on stacks of sheetrock or celebrating Christmas in an unfinished living room forever.
And when it’s done, it’s never really done; you will have helped create something beautiful that can last another 250 years.

12/19/2025

The Crisis Over Affordable Housing
Cause & Effect

So many of the problems plaguing our country right now were caused by the very people who claim to want to fix them.
A friend just sent me an article he wrote on the housing crisis.
I’m going to have him on the show next month to talk about his findings.

When I was a reporter, we often discussed the scarcity of buildable land in the county where I lived in Oregon.
At the time, and that’s pre-2008, Lane County was 20 years behind in planning for urban growth.
The progressives were the ones putting up roadblocks and refusing to consider expansion, even though all the statistics showed the area was desperate for housing.
Here we are in 2025, and those same progressive leaders are crying for more housing.

Look at immigration.
Creating a more efficient plan for immigration has been put on the back burner for decades.
Then, under the Biden administration, 10 to 20 million people were not just allowed into our country, but given free room and board and more access to healthcare than those of us who pay for it and live here legally.
Those same progressive folks, who turned a blind eye to what was happening, or worse, supported it, are now trying to make those of us who speak out against it the problem.
We wonder why our kids can’t afford to buy a home.
Many experts point to illegal immigration as part of the problem.
Yet, still, people like Oregon’s governor throw money at the problem, money that does nothing.

The problem is, the chickens have come home to roost.
Those who caused these problems, on purpose or out of ignorance and refusal to heed the warnings, are being exposed.
Oh, they will continue to deflect, point fingers, and water down the facts to support their claims, but much of America has lost its tolerance for ignorance and no longer cares about the narrative and instead wants the truth.

There are many other causes for the housing crisis.
Development charges are created by the same city leaders who claim to want to bring housing costs down.
The cost of timber is high right now because of all the restrictions placed on the industry by people who want to protect an owl over people.
Turns out people weren’t the problem for the owl; it was another owl, and now the solution they say is to murder thousands of birds.

There are other causes for sure.
I leave that up to the experts.
Feel free to share your opinions, but when tempted to belittle others’ thoughts or ideas, just don’t.
Give your two cents without having to take away from others’ opinions or facts.

These are just a few of the issues I saw come up in my years reporting on the issue.
There is a cause and effect for everything we do.
You can’t say you want to solve a problem and ignore that your ideology is what created the mess.

12/18/2025

The Nonconformists Are Evil’s Worst Nightmare

Evil likes nothing better than to inhabit the weak so it can attempt to take down the strong.

The human vessel most susceptible to evil is usually someone who is over-educated in worldly matters and under-educated in matters of common sense and the heart of God.
Evil prowls like a lion, seeking out individuals who crave acceptance and are willing to conform to its demands.
People who crave acceptance and will do anything to be seen as virtuous and kind, but don’t have to really do anything to earn it.
A message is created, based on lies but with just enough truth, just a tiny bit, so evil can fool its prey into the snare.

For the nonconformist, the person who won’t succumb to ignorance, who refuses to conform to stupidity, the road is a rocky one.
If you refuse to regurgitate the message of the minions, you must be destroyed or at least canceled into silenced.

I had a text from a guy who follows me who is being torn apart by conformists who want him to swallow their bu****it or face destruction of his business, his reputation, and his livelihood.
Yes, these are the same people who have “Choose Kindness” bumperstickers on their cars and love to be seen at “peace marches” that line up with the cause of the week, the one all their friends have fallen for.

Now, because he aligns more with my way of thinking, they’re using the old “Guilt by association” BS to bring more cultural charges against him.
He is guilty, not just because of what he understands, that they don’t, but he’s being blasted for following my page.

Can you believe this bu****it?
Desperation is the M-R-I that detects evil hearts.
Evil can hide, but not forever; eventually, its boasting ego exposes its evil deeds.

Some amazing people find themselves left of center, and some that are right of center.
Millions occupy the middle and see how extreme both sides have become, and want nothing to do with their bullying.
But to speak used to be a death sentence.
To question, grounds for cancellation.
Not anymore.
Evil refuses to give grace to anyone who is not as far to the extreme as is humanly possible.
Evil doesn’t care if it’s right or left, as long as you agree, follow the lines, and when you don’t, words become their weapon of choice, and they’ll bury you as quickly as possible to hide the evidence.

But there’s a problem for evil.
It overplayed its hand.
Evil got greedy.
Evil pushed too hard, too far, and for too long.
Evil’s arrogance blinded its followers, and in the process, goodness got a glimpse into the darkness.
Goodness began speaking up and speaking out, and has discovered in doing so, the truth is setting them free.

So remember, nonconformists, you are evil’s worst nightmare.

12/18/2025

Brian Miskimins was a weatherman in Portland, Oregon, but now lives in Montana. He still follows the weather closely and will explain the storm's impact from the Pacific Coast to Montana.

12/17/2025

There Will Be Days Like This

The wind is whipping all over the Pacific Northwest, including here in Montana.
But the storm trying to garner my attention is nothing compared to the battle going on in my brain.
Some personal things are happening right now that don’t need to be discussed online.
Nothing life-threatening, nothing I need pity or sympathy for.
Just real life stuff, you know?
But to write it out helps me process my thoughts.
As is usual with this pattern, some new haters on my social media chip away at super personal aspects of my life, things they would not know the triggers they switch, but the enemy of my soul understands just how to get me.

I’m not looking for sympathy, just working through my feelings, trying to keep my head from slipping into the land of despair.
I’m a person who believes in the spiritual world and understands, from life experience, that this is not a battle of flesh and blood, but an enemy that knows exactly how to hit our most vulnerable places.
When you stand up for what you believe to be right, there’s a cost.
You become a target.

There are patterns evil follows because evil knows us so well and has been attacking us, the same way, since we were kids.
To write this down, to speak it out loud, puts me on notice, giving me traction so I don’t slide slowly down the ravine.

There’s a great song by Van Morrison that reminds me there will be days like this.
When it's not always raining
There'll be days like this
When there's no one complaining
There'll be days like this

Everything falls into place
Like the flick of a switch
Well, my mama told me
There'll be days like this

[Verse 2]
When you don't need to worry
There'll be days like this
When no one's in a hurry
There'll be days like this
When you don't get betrayed
By that old Judas kiss

Oh my mama told me
There'll be days like this

[Verse 3]
When you don't need an answer
There'll be days like this
When you don't meet a chancer
There'll be days like this
When all the parts of the puzzle
Start to look like they fit
Then I must remember
There'll be days like this

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