Editor’s note: This post originally appeared as a Facebook note penned a few days after the Zimmerman verdict was rendered. To my beloved brothers Timothy and Stephen: I’m sorry that you still live in a society where you are deemed “suspicious” simply due to the color of your skin, your style […]Continue Reading →
After a crushing loss at the polls, many in the conservative movement are soul-searching about why, despite an abysmal economic recovery, high gas prices, and other indicators, the GOP got drubbed at the polls. One of the more salient points made by more than a few commentators is the racial makeup of the GOP […]Continue Reading →
Last Wednesday morning, on the way to a meeting, my car stopped accelerating. Then the engine died altogether. I was able to direct the car into the central turn-lane of Roosevelt Road, the major thoroughfare on which I was driving, but I was stuck. My gasoline gauge had been near empty for several days, […]Continue Reading →
The lenses that we wear certainly affect the way we see the world. The fifteen years that my wife Kim and I lived in Latin America have greatly affected my vision. Today I love to get acquainted with immigrants, especially with those that have only recently arrived in our country. Often I imagine myself […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Robert Chao Romero We have all suffered a tragic loss this week in the untimely passing of “Dreamer” Joaquin Luna. Joaquin was an 18-year old senior at Juarez Lincoln High School in Mission, Texas. He had aspirations of going to college and becoming an engineer so that he could improve his […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by Cindi Peterson A Better Life, PG-13, a drama released in limited theaters on June 24, 2011, is insightful, authentic, engaging, and much more than a search for a truck. My heart broke and my stomach grabbed in enough scenes to move me to a fresh appreciation of the value of […]Continue Reading →
