Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he won’t attend a Washington Redskins home game until the football team changes its controversial name. In a letter late last week to the team’s president, Reid called the Redskins name a racial slur … Continue reading
It’s time to get rid of the term “depressed.” The concept “depression” started out as a term used by psychiatry to designate a clinical syndrome or condition. In other words, it was supposed to describe the abnormal, the unusual, or … Continue reading
Have you noticed how we humans tend to value something less if we didn’t work for it or earn it somehow? If you work hard for your car or success in your job, these things mean a lot more than … Continue reading
One of the questions I regularly encounter in my office is how a person can approach a loved one or a friend about their drinking without the loved one or friend going on the defensive. Years ago, one of those … Continue reading
It’s finally happening. The movement for slave reparations is here. More than 150 years after slavery ended, the descendants of its deceased perpetrators will — if it passes Congress — be forced to pay subsidies to the descendants of its … Continue reading
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas A. Edison
There he goes again. Pope Francis, that is. First, he endears himself to American “progressives” by semi-tolerating homosexuality and blasting capitalism. Now he’s morally condemning people who choose not to have kids. He recently said, You can go explore the … Continue reading
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government … Continue reading
Vice President Joseph Biden said that the United States needs a “constant, unrelenting stream” of new immigrants, “not dribbling [but] significant flows,” to strengthen the economy, The Hill reported. In remarks to the National Association of Manufacturers in Washington, Biden … Continue reading
“Do you have any articles about why love makes you stupid?” a reader asks. Love does not actually make you stupid. Here’s what sometimes does happen. You meet someone. You’re attracted to them — physically, of course, but for more … Continue reading
I get so many emails and questions about coping with changes in life. Part of it is that so many of us who live here are transplants, having left familiar places behind in favor of living here on the Delaware … Continue reading
I apologize ahead of time for the quote I’m about to cite. It’s one of the most decisively evil things I’ve ever read. The first ten words say it all. Don’t reason in the mind. Just obey in the spirit. … Continue reading