“There awwta be a law requiring … businesses to provide family leave with pay.” That’s the latest proposal to hamper the private economy and individual / private property rights in favor of a political leader’s need for applause and to … Continue reading
The “Making Caring Common” project at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students about what was more important to them, “achieving at a high level, happiness, or caring for others.” Almost 80 percent of students … Continue reading
The following appeared in the New York Post online on 6/23/14: Hillary Clinton insists she isn’t “well-off” and now daughter Chelsea, according to a recent interview, claims she couldn’t care less about money. “I was curious if I could care … Continue reading
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor E. Frankl Be sure to “friend” Dr. … Continue reading
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He wrote a fascinating article entitled, “Obama isn’t an Introvert, He’s a Narcissist.” [Published at FrontPageMag.com 6/21/14] Greenfield writes: That undertone … Continue reading
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king … … We fear … Continue reading
As Iraq predictably falls apart, Obama and his supporters quickly blame the problem on, you guessed it, former President George W. Bush. Their premise is that if Bush had never started the war to overthrow Saddam Hussein in the first … Continue reading
James Madison, a major architect of the U.S. Constitution and fourth U.S. President, said it best, all those years ago: If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls … Continue reading
Increasingly, I hear parents and grandparents talk about an entitlement mentality in their grown children. This mentality manifests in many different ways. Sometimes it’s righteous and angry, but more often it’s simply a quiet expectation. “I can’t do this. You’ll … Continue reading
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
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