“I Waited Until My Wedding Night To Lose My Virginity And I Wish I Hadn’t.” So reads the title of an interesting article published recently at thoughtcatalog.com, by Samantha Pugsley. The article details the hazards, at least for this woman, … Continue reading
The recent fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man (Michael Brown) by a police officer near St. Louis, Missouri, offers a good example of the issue of individual rights vs. civil rights. The facts are in dispute. What we do know … Continue reading
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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