Dr. Azadeh Khatibi grew up in Tehran in the early 1980s. Her father wanted sons; he got two daughters. “He was like, ‘What is their future going to be like?’” she says.
The birth of a child is a sacred experience in a mother’s life. How and where she chooses to bring her baby into the world is a deeply personal decision that should be free from government interference.
In the mid-nineties, Jerry Thompson was headhunted for a Texas company that paid good money. He was a whiz at sales. So he moved his wife, Theresa, and two kids from Michigan to Texas.
Dana’s son displayed concerning behavior from a very young age. It was a lot for Dana to handle—and she also had two other children. She reached out to services that provide “respite care”: part-time help for parents and other caregivers who need occasional breaks. Respite care is a game changer for parents of special needs children. A good respite caregiver can make a struggling mom feel like she’s not alone.
Beloved American Chef Julia Child learned to cook in France, where butter is indispensable. When she taught her recipes to American audiences in the 1960s, she had a favorite mantra: “With enough butter, anything is good.”
“I have a searing memory of a day in my childhood.”
William Leuchtenburg was a boy living with his family in New Jersey during Prohibition. His father, a postal worker, commuted into Manhattan to work at a post office near Penn Station. But Mr. Leuchtenburg’s salary was modest, so he supplemented the family income by running a small still in the basement of the family home and selling his liquor locally.
On days when Mark Shirley serves lunch at his food truck, Ole Time Smokehouse, he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. By the time most people in Farmville, North Carolina, are just getting out of bed, Mark’s barbeque has already been cooking for hours.
Ask your average environmental activist about their impression of commercial sea fishing and you’re likely to hear about turtles caught in plastic soda can rings or dolphins trapped in drift nets.
At Goodwood Brewing, the food is comforting, the beers come in flights, and the atmosphere immediately makes you feel like a regular. “I’m in the hospitality industry,” says Ted Mitzlaff, CEO of Goodwood Brewing & Spirits. “There’s nothing I love more than providing food, safety, and fun for my patrons.”
The growing company has three locations in Kentucky and is adding a fourth. Their Louisville taproom hosts live music every weekend, including a Saturday afternoon “Bluegrass Jam,” where anyone is invited to bring an instrument, pull up a seat, and join in.
Wednesdays are board game and bingo nights. Kids are welcome in the taproom. Sometimes Goodwood even hosts yoga classes, where they serve “beermosas.”
“This place has personality and funk.”
- Vyvian, Yelp review, Louisville
Goodwood started with beer. “We were kind of at the forefront of the craft beer movement,” Ted explains.
“We're just following the science.” That simple and seemingly unobjectionable statement has been used over the past year to justify every policy, regulation, and law related to COVID-19, no matter their scope or the length they’re in place.
“Everybody watched it burn to ashes,” said Anmol Khindri. Khindri, a Kenosha, Wisconsin, resident, watched helplessly as his family business burned down. Rioters destroyed the business, a car dealership. “Nobody did nothing about it—nothing.”
There is a growing chorus of academics, politicians, and activists around the world today espousing the belief that, while capitalism and individual liberty have made the world richer, wealth has come at the expense of equality, compassion, civility, and morality.
We shouldn't be surprised that people are turning to radical solutions like socialism, considering how many are finding modern life in America so wanting.
There's a common refrain in the modern calls for socialism: It’s up to government to prevent markets from failing and corporations from taking advantage of us.
When government regulations for America’s coastline go too far, there are real consequences. As you’ve read, many beach homeowners can be forced to give up their property or acquiesce to absurd bureaucratic rules.
Michael Cefali in San Juan Capistrano, CA, and Scott McLean in Alexandria, VA, just wanted to sell their cars. So they did what any American might do and put a “for sale” sign in their car windows. But until PLF stepped in, local bureaucrats fined both men merely for advertising their vehicles for sale, claiming that the First Amendment didn’t protect the sellers because they were engaged in commercial activity.