A few months ago, I started noticing that the minute my feet hit the floor (after I’d hit the snooze button 2 or 16 times or so) a sharp pain would shoot through the heels of my feet and up into my leg. “Well crap,” I thought, hobbling to the coffee maker and remembering that…
Her efforts have been called “McCarthyism” by fellow Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison. And, just like Senator McCarthy, time will likely prove her to be correct. . . sadly. Just slightly over a decade after 9/11, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann had the “nerve” to suggest the there might be a problem with radical Islamic infiltration in the United…
I want to start out today by posing two questions. What is a “human right”? Is something a “right” if it encroaches upon the rights of another? The concept of “human rights” is defined wonderfully in our own Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that…
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…
As I sat pondering my two previous posts regarding the recent, rather hypocritical actions of the Plymouth City Council, I wondered what kind of response I might get if I flat-out asked them if they would have given the same permission to a Christian Church. So, here’s the letter: My prediction? A blasé, perhaps auto-generated response…
A Future Free 