Several years ago, we decided to bring my family with us to visit my husband’s relatives in Mexico—and I’ll never forget the look on their faces when they saw children and the elderly begging in the streets. It’s not that they’ve never seen poverty in our country. (In fact, on one bizarre occasion my dad…
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…
In this country, we enjoy quite a few freedoms. We enjoy freedom of speech. We enjoy freedom of the press. We enjoy freedom of assembly. Very importantly, we also enjoy freedom of religion. Specifically, that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” We are also well…
