Like the sun rises in the east, and infants will always save their diaper blowouts until you’ve put them in their car seat, there’s just some things you can always count on. It’s like, well, clockwork. After the tragic shootings in Wisconsin and Maryland over the last few days, like clockwork the gun control narrative…
There’s a picture hanging on the wall at my parents’ house—it’s a beautifully ornate wedding certificate that makes mine look like a piece of trash (no seriously—mine looks a piece of paper you might find on the floor of the copy room at work, whereas this one looks like this). It’s got to be at…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece imploring my fellow Americans to—if we truly want to protect our children—do three things in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting: Stop spreading false information Seek truth Deal in reality I missed one … a big one. Care about human life no matter…
“You’re either with us or against us,” said one student attending the anti-gun rally in Tallahassee this week. Today, as one wise relative recently expressed to me, “the opinions/biases of progressive, anti-gun parents and community organizers are being given national front page limelight attention through the ‘innocent’ voices of thoroughly-coached, so-called ‘non-political,’ highly emotional high school…
Pregnancy’s a real trip. The heartburn, the aches, the pains, the sleepless nights—it’s a real carnival. One of these sleepless nights this past week as I was flipping through my phone at 3 am wishing desperately that I could fall back asleep, I saw a story popping up across my newsfeeds (yes, I read news…
When you become a parent, everything takes on new meaning. Especially when it comes to what your every action teaches your child. You start thinking about everything you do, and what your kid is going to learn from it. I may now be in charge of a little human being, but I’m still learning, too.…
In the popular flick Marley & Me, the protagonist’s friend—a fellow journalist—is sent to Colombia for to write a piece on the drug trafficking, because he’s got a guy that can “put him next to Pablo Escobar.” Pablo Escobar, as you may know, was the infamously violent Colombian drug warlord that put his nation on the…
Yesterday the President Obama announced and publicly signed 23 executive actions in response to the violence at Sandy Hook, as well as called for Congress to restore a ban on military-style assault weapons and to implement 10-round limit for magazines. As New York Magazine correctly noted, he did not signed executive orders, but rather executive “actions”…
The days and weeks following the tragedy at Aurora, Colorado and Sandy Hook Elementary school have been rife with debate over just how the 2nd Amendment is meant to be read. While it is certainly easy to become caught up in the emotions surrounding such horrific tragedies, I implore you to take a moment to…
A Future Free 