Everyone knows the innate dread of visiting the dentist. With each visit to the tooth doctor we’re met with the same basic set of questions . . . followed by the same set of lectures. Dentist: “Are you brushing after every meal?” You: “Well I, uh . . .” Dentist: “You really should be brushing…
My great-grandfather was an incredible man. He kept his family fed and clothed at the expense of hard physical labor and long hours—for menial pay. To the uninformed observer, he was simply another body in America’s vast sea of blue collar laborers. To those who knew him, he was an honorable, upstanding, hardworking man who…
I attend church with a woman whose life story is anything but conventional. In fact, her epic tale of war, terror, tragedy and survival is the stuff Hollywood often turns into blockbuster films. Her name is Veronika, and her family lived under the threat of not one, but many dictatorships spanning four countries and several…
There’s an iconic photo depicting a harried firefighter—helmet #28—in narrow, jam-packed stairwell. In the midst of chaos someone had the presence of mind to capture a tragic piece of our nation’s history. The day was September 11th, 2001. As terrified workers run past, the firefighter was running UP towards the inferno, not DOWN towards…
Just over a month ago, the North Metro Tea Party Patriots (NMTPP) found themselves quite homeless, when the restaurant which had graciously served as their gathering place had to sell to new ownership. Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and Jack Rogers, the NMTPP President soon found his group taken in by the equally…
“Our country’s like a car broken down at the side of the road. You open up the hood and see that all the hoses and wires have been slashed. You don’t know why; you don’t know how. . . all you know is they are inoperable. So, you simply change drivers, hoping that this will…
The following is a letter I sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on January 8th, 2013 in response to his leadership in the Fiscal Cliff Debates. Dear Speaker Boehner, My name is Mary Ramirez. I am 26 years old. The man in the picture is my husband Gilberto, and he is 29.…
Just as I require myself to watch the Passion of the Christ every Easter week so that I’m reminded of exactly what it took for Jesus to earn my eternal salvation, I require myself to stop amidst the fireworks, carnivals, parades, grill-outs, and think about exactly what it took to earn my EARTHLY freedom. Our…
Can you recall the very first resolution passed by the very first Continental Congress in September of 1774? I’ll give you a hint- they agreed to meet with their preeminent adviser and counselor in a few brief moments of sincere reflection and heartfelt supplication. They resolved to pray. “Tuesday, September 6, 1774- Resolved, that the…
“I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is the biggest problem on the bench is judicial activism or a…
A Future Free 