Many folks play the lottery across the country. The odds of winning remain approximately 1 in 292 million, yet nearly 500,000 purchase at least one ticket every day – often by those who can afford it the least. A study from Duke University found that one-third of the poorest households in the U.

But sometimes, it doesn’t feel that way. Do you ever feel like quitting? Feel as though you’ve given it everything you’ve got, and it’s still too overwhelming and difficult? Ever want to “throw in the towel”? Sure you do – we all do.

FDR understood that the fear of fear causes more problems in our lives than fear itself. It is why, during his first inaugural address in March of 1933, with the nation slipping into the Great Depression, he famously said, “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Back in 2008, just five days before his presidential election, candidate Barack Obama said, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren says we must “fundamentally transform our government.

When Americans are clamoring for Democrats to put Americans first, Democrats are not only turning a deaf ear, they are working to silence the voices of more and more Americans. Parents are showing up in droves to their local school boards to push back on vaccine mandates, mask-wearing and a curriculum filled with propaganda and obscenities.

There are always motivations to do what is wrong in order to gain something. Maybe it’s lying on a resumé to get a job or taking something from someone that doesn’t belong to you just because you needed it.

And yet, less than a year after being inaugurated, there’s not much debate the Biden presidency is an abject failure. A charade. A scripted display of arrogance rooted in the supposition that the American people are too ignorant – too apathetic – to notice otherwise.

Do you ever have a hunch or gut feeling where you are convinced, almost instantly, by feelings that you cannot always explain? Some folks call this intuition, which comes from the Latin word “intuir,” meaning “knowledge from within.