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Faith at Work Isn’t Weird. It’s Real Life.
Let’s be honest. Talking about your faith at work feels awkward.
Nobody wants to be “that guy” in the break room who hijacks a normal lunch and turns it into a sermon. Especially if you’re young and trying to establish credibility. Early in your career, you already feel like you’re being evaluated on everything. The last thing you want is to be written off as unprofessional or out of touch.
6 days ago3 min read


The State of the Union Rebuttal: A Stark Divide in Perceptions
The State of the Union rebuttal is a notoriously thankless assignment. It follows the pageantry of a presidential address to a joint session of Congress, arriving when viewer energy has ebbed and the response setting feels comparatively modest. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, fresh in her new role, did what she could with the platform. Yet her remarks underscored a deeper national fracture. Americans are confronting the same set of facts but drawing sharply different conclu
Feb 253 min read


Making Housing More Affordable Starts with Building Credit
Again initiative, I am encouraged by the growing momentum behind policies aimed at addressing America’s housing shortage. Efforts such as investing in Opportunity Zones, excluding building materials from tariffs, and reducing burdensome local regulations are essential to increasing the supply of affordable single-family homes.
Feb 72 min read


Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks; Silence is not Golden When Addressing Damaging Stereotypes
***Free To Distribute on Your Media Platforms*** by Dee Dee Bass Wilbon and Deana Bass Williams Racist caricatures should be roundly condemned from the left and right. For those who follow us, you know our mantra is #AttackPolicyNotPeople. That has never been a slogan of convenience. It has been a standard we have applied consistently, even when it would have been easier or more profitable to do otherwise. We are not in the business of cataloging every ad hominem insult the p
Feb 73 min read


Mocha-Latte Warriors AWOL: Storming Campuses for Gaza, Ghosting Iranian Women Fighting for Their Lives
Where are the No-Kings protesters now? Where are the pink-hat-wearing women’s rights activists now? Where are those over-educated double-decaf-mocha-latte-sipping $7-coffee-guzzling internet warriors now?
Jan 101 min read


National Park Fee-Free Days: Context Over Outrage
The NPS fee-free day program began in 2008 under President George W. Bush. From 2008 through 2017, spanning the final year of the Bush administration and all eight years of the Obama administration, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was never designated as a fee-free day. The same was true during the Clinton and George H.W. Bush presidencies.
Dec 8, 20253 min read
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