A leftist blog recently ran the headline, “Sarah Palin Incites Hatred By Lying About President Obama’s Hiroshima Speech.” Palin, like a lot of people, criticized Obama for going to the site of Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb … Continue reading
Blame and shame are not reasonable, healthy motivators. People will sometimes try to motivate you via shaming and blaming. Sadly, these methods are such a part of daily life that most of us take them for granted and tolerate them … Continue reading
Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the victims of the world’s first atomic bomb attack and sought to bring global attention to his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons, as he became the first sitting US president … Continue reading
A self-identified IRS employee admitted he would go after, target and try to end conservative groups who wanted to abolish the IRS, to Cleta Mitchell, an attorney representing those groups, while on a Washington Journal segment on C-SPAN. Mitchell, a … Continue reading
We hear a lot about the “entitlement mentality” in politics and government. But probing deeper, what does a sense of entitlement actually mean? To be entitled to something means to feel or believe that you deserve it. A sense of … Continue reading
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. — Joseph Campbell
A website visitor writes to complain about a “smart slacker” in her office. I suspect many of us have known a smart slacker; pushing the limits, just as children often do, to see how much he or she can get … Continue reading
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Many of the day-to-day topics in my office have to do with grief and grieving. I received an email from a reader who asks why people sometimes back away from friends who are very sick or who are mourning the … Continue reading
You have to feel sorry for Catholics. Their new Pope seems more excited about Islam than his own religion. Pope Francis also thinks that the Muslim-inspired attacks on Paris last year were due to income inequality, not religious or ideological … Continue reading
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. — Mark Twain
First Lady Michelle Obama is making sure we eat healthy. Go Michelle! How lucky are we, to live in a society where our masters take such good care of us. I don’t know about you; but I sleep soundly knowing … Continue reading