“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle
Know Thyself (Aristotle)
Category: Daily Dose of Reason
Suicide
In my twenty-five years as a psychotherapist, I have probably had more conversations and thoughts about suicide, this week, than any other one-week period of my career. Robin Williams’ death by suicide no doubt brought up quite a lot of … Continue reading
Isn’t an Islamic State Even Worse than al-Qaeda?
People who insist Obama is a good commander-in-chief brush aside the claim that he’s more than a little sympathetic to Islamic totalitarianism. Yet consider these words on the whitehouse.gov website, explaining Obama’s recent policy of becoming militarily involved in Iraq: … Continue reading
Robin Williams
When you learn of the suicide of a talented person, the typical reaction is, “How could this happen?” Underlying the question is the idea, “Someone with all this talent, success, wealth and accomplishment could not have done this.” If the … Continue reading
College Tuition: The Next Great Bubble
College tuition and resulting student loan debt are past the crisis point. Does anyone seriously disagree? According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the number of post-secondary enrollees increased from 12.2 million students to 21 million from 1985 to … Continue reading
Economics in One Lesson … via The Today Show
People who are sick of the welfare-regulatory-entitlement nanny state do have perfectly legal means of fighting back. You have more options than simply shrugging and asking, “What can I do?” Case in point? Consider this story recently reported at Media … Continue reading
“Common Core” and Public School Thuggery
We’re told that public education is about the illumination of young minds, preparing them for life in a free society. When it’s suggested that the government should not be involved in funding or controlling the content of education, those of … Continue reading
The Human Animal (Ayn Rand)
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. — Ayn Rand
The Disturbing Implications of “Economic Patriotism”
What does it mean to be “economically patriotic” – or economically “unpatriotic”? President Barack Obama says a loophole that lets companies dodge U.S. taxes by moving their headquarters overseas is unpatriotic. Obama is denouncing “tax inversions” in his weekly radio … Continue reading
Whatever Happened to the National Debt?
Nobody talks about the national debt any longer. Has the problem gone away? No, the debt is higher than ever before. The total federal debt of the U.S. government has now increased more than $7 trillion during the slightly more … Continue reading
“Tough Love” Isn’t Really All That Tough
We generally assume that holding people accountable for their actions—even when they are accountable—is harsh and tough. Many of us call it “tough love.” Some use the term favorably, and many do not. It’s considered bleak, “Calvinistic” (I’ve heard this … Continue reading
Donald Trump’s Ebola Comments Were Right
Missionaries who fall ill from deadly diseases, such as the American doctor who contracted the Ebola virus in West Africa, should not return to the United States and should have to “suffer the consequences,” Donald Trump told “Fox & Friends” … Continue reading