Sports, Homosexuality and Real Courage

With the NFL combine underway, there has been a somewhat unusual focus this year, not so much on who’ll go quickly in the first round, but on Michael Sam—a defensive end from the University of Missouri—who used the pre-draft spotlight to announce his homosexuality. It’s not the first time media outlets have bombarded us with…

In a Welfare State of Mind

If you watched the 2014 State of the Union speech the other night—or read the transcript, like I did—you might have noticed how broad and sweeping was the range of topics the president covered. He talked about childhood obesity, education funding, homelessness, “marriage equality,” everyone having access to a middle class job and a ladder…