I want to challenge you. Could the United States—the beacon of freedom, economic and military superpower, and perhaps history’s greatest anomaly—ever fall as far as Venezuela? Before we get back to that, let me give you a brief crash course in what South American friends are currently enjoying. There’s no food. Imagine being so…
Dear Unborn Child of Mine: We’ve been waiting for this moment ever since the day we saw those beautiful pink lines. In just two weeks we’ll walk into the doctor’s office to see your ultrasound that’ll answer the big question: whether you’re a boy or a girl. Yet today, an increasing number of people believe…
My daughter’s favorite movie is Disney’s “The Jungle Book” –and she absolutely adores Baloo the bear. In the next to last scene, everyone thinks Baloo’s been killed by Sher Khan the tiger in an effort to save the man cub Mowgli. As Mowgli realizes what’s just happened, Bagheera the panther comforts him: “Now, now,” says…
I’ve been posting a graphic like this since this past year. (Here’s a refresher in case you missed the last four graphs.) Why? Because the numbers simply do not support the narrative that cops are targeting and needlessly killing African Americans en masse. And you’re not hearing this anywhere. But don’t let me sway you –…
I remember seeing a music video once where, as the song starts, it pans to a scene where one of the guys holds up his U.S. passport and says, “As long as I have this … it really doesn’t matter.” Meaning—his U.S. passport was his most important possession. That idea was running through my mind…
The video is heartbreaking. Moments after she live-streamed the death of her boyfriend at the hands of a police officer, a woman cries as she sits in the back of a squad; her young daughter comforting her, saying “it’s ok, Mommy, I’m right here with you!” The little girl herself begins to cry moments later.…
As tensions heat up between North Korea and the rest of the world, we’re reminded once again of how the tiny despotic regime operates. Among many other disturbing practices, the North Korean starts the anti-American propaganda young. In kindergarten, the children learn to hate the “American b*******.” The principal of the kindergarten “pulls out a…
To my friends on the left: You talk a lot about children (ironically in spite of your views on children not yet born). In fact, you reference this group nearly every time you want to combat something a Republican is doing; that some policy is killing our children’s futures. Here’s the deal: I’m going to…
It happens at least a dozen times a day. I take something away from my kid; I tell her she can’t do something; I place limits on how far she can go. Limits are hard precisely because they limit—and often my daughter lets me know that with a good crying fit. Still, someday when she’s…
Luvs Diapers has a hilarious set of commercials out about the marked difference between first time moms … and what happens when #2 rolls around. You know—the hyper-sanitized, super safe, ultra-cautious little bubble we moms live in with our first kid? Yeah, we all chill out a little when we realize not to sweat the…
A Future Free 