Karen recently broke the news to all of you that she and her fellow staffers had decided to step down from their positions at T4AT, and that I would be taking over the running of the website as owner and administrator. I wrote this article to make known my plans for the website and what the future of Truth For American Teens will consist of, as well as a brief summary of how this change came to be for me.

Karen made clear her reasons for her departure from the website.

First and foremost, let me make clear that I am extremely excited for Karen and wish her all the best in her future endeavors and her work with the Glenn Beck Program. I can't wait to see the great things that she does with her future.

Second, I am extremely grateful for the offer that I recieved from Karen to take over running of the site. She chatted me up one night on gmail. She began the conversation this way:

"Hey... we need to have a chat."

Now, if you are ANYTHING like me, when you hear that, you automatically assume the worst. It makes me chuckle now, but I was going through my head searching for anything I may have done wrong. Thankfully, the news was good news. Of all the things I would've expected Karen to say, the LAST thing would've been for her to offer me the website. I was floored. I told her that I needed time to consider. After consulting with friends and family, and praying on the subject, I decided that I would accept and take over T4AT.

I am very excited about the future of the website under my care. Before I tell you any of the changes that will be taking place, let me tell you what will stay the same:

- Kelly will be staying on as contributor. She will be doing the same thing she did before, and nothing will change in the transition from Karen's leadership to mine regarding Kelly.

- Taylor has decided to stay on as a staff member until she turns 18 in July 2012. I look forward to a prosperous relationship with her as a fellow staffer.

- The site's name and overall design will remain the same, no huge changes visually, though there may well be minor differences.

- Above all, the message of the site will remain the same. T4AT was, is, and will ALWAYS be commited to promoting the message of conservative, limited government, personal freedoms, liberty, history, and all other great principles upon which America was founded. Karen and co. did not shy away from promoting a message of conservatism and religion. This message will not change on my watch. If anything, it will become stronger and better represented.

I don't want any readers of the site to fear the transition or changes that will occur as a result. I am confident that T4AT will still be the same website that you love, and I will do all I can to keep it that way.

Now, there are fresh changes that WILL be occuring as a result of my ownership of the site. I'll go over the biggest ones now:

- I have hired a close friend of mine to be a member of the staff and to assist me in managing of the site, effectively being one step lower than a co-owner. His name is Kaleb Henry, and I am confident that you will thoroughly enjoy his confident, logical, and entertaining style of writing. He is an incredibly smart guy, and I am grateful to have him helping me.

- I have the option of adding new staff and contributors at my discretion. If I happen to find someone I wish to hire, I retain the right to and will exercise it if I wish.

- I am seeking to increase the frequency of articles written and published on the site to better solidify it as a great and entertaining beacon of conservatism. Kaleb, Taylor, Kelly, myself and any others I hire will be working as hard as we can to ensure this is the result.

Those are the big things that I felt you all needed to know about the site's future. I am grateful for this opportunity, and am confident that you all will enjoy the site in the future just as you have in the past. I will dedicate myself to making this site just as good a site as it was when it was operated by Karen, Matt, Victor, and Taylor, if not a better one. Thank you, and I look forward to a long and prosperous future with Truth For American Teens.

- Brendan M. Wren