As promised in my piece featured on TheBlaze, below are the stories I asked you to come and read. I’ve left them in my interviewees’ own words to give you a far more personal glance into the lives of our law enforcement community. Note: Select edits have been made to protect these individuals. Emphases are mine.…
If you’re regular listeners to The Chris Salcedo Show on TheBlaze, you’ve probably heard by now that the Ramirez family is soon to grow by one. Here’s an interesting concept: How ironic is it that the people who claim that little Baby Ramirez isn’t a life (just because s/he is hanging out this side of…
Note: This is a continuation of the piece I’ve written for TheBlaze, which you can find by clicking here. These are the stories in their entirety, divided just as they are in the original piece. Wayne Scholes (United Kingdom) (Courtesy of Wayne Sholes, via email) “I became a citizen of the United States of America…
I once had a Twitter argument with someone who – during the Trayvon Martin incident – wrote off my point of view almost immediately because I was just some white girl who didn’t know what it was like to walk around as a black person and fear for my life. The man had a point,…
If Hobby Lobby doesn’t have to go against its convictions, neither should anyone else. Over two years ago, a small business owner’s life was turned upside down by seemingly simple request: “We’d like you to bake us a wedding cake.” Despite turning down financial gain and simultaneously setting himself up for legal woes, Jack Phillips…
As children, we are masters at the art—or at least the attempt of—circumvention. Simply put, kids are in the business of getting what they want. Parents in the business of running block against some of those (often ill-planned) things that children want. Enter the Art of Circumvention. The child will either bypass the more “difficult”…
(Originally posted at TheBlaze.com for The Chris Salcedo Show.) Recently I had the privilege of getting to know an immigrant from Eastern Europe. The man told me a story of survival and escape so incredible that it had me on the edge of my seat—literally—for the duration. He and his family fled the Soviet Union’s…
As a resident of arguably one of the coldest states in the lower 48, I can attest to the fact that winter can be miserable. Here, we can go weeks at a time with temperatures solidly below zero, and days on end of relentless, howling north winds. As we skate—almost literally—into work or school every…
Yesterday (or rather . . . Sunday), we spoke of two starkly different leaders; one who overcame societal odds to later lead her nation away from economic collapse, and another who also overcame societal odds to change his nation . . . but by drastically different means. One fought with ideas; the other with necklacing…
A Woman for the Ages It was an era in which women were expected to be housewives and little more. Men were not simply considered different in terms of strengths and abilities (and certainly they are created with unique abilities) but actually superior to women in virtually every sense. If you wanted to do anything…
A Future Free 