Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another … Continue reading
Being wrong tends to lead people to become defensive. Defensiveness and hostility, frozen in place in a person’s mind, leads to irrational stubbornness and intellectual dishonesty. This is what happens in the demise of many marriages and relationships, or even … Continue reading
Fear is the great inhibitor. When rational, fear is life-serving and life-protecting. However, the purpose of fear is avoidance. You rationally avoid things in order to obtain what life has to offer. You avoid an oncoming car when crossing a … Continue reading
Dear Dr. Hurd: I have two good friends who live in a “red” state, where gay marriage (or even civil unions) are not recognized. They decided in September to exchange vows in New York City when they were visiting. They … Continue reading
Q: In your post “Life Affirming Ideas”… You discuss affirmations to work toward happiness as an end, but in your next post, “Americans Lowering the Bar on Themselves,” you present how America is tragically headed for difficult times. So I … Continue reading
Since the awful election, Republicans are now resorting to character. They’re doing what they have always done best: Caving. They’re about to roll over on tax increases and all the other things Obama demands to further strengthen the hold of … Continue reading
I am in the driver’s seat of my life. I won’t run others down on the road, and I will respect others who are on the road; but where I go is entirely up to me. I won’t forsake either … Continue reading
Conclusion of yesterday’s column. The nanny state authorities create (and rely upon) the myth that some are invulnerable. Those who are ‘the rich,’ who have a seemingly unlimited amount of wealth, will pay for it all. All that’s necessary is … Continue reading
The following is an excerpt from Daren Jonescu’s article Infantilizing Leftist Morality, published at Americanthinker.com 7/19/12: Progressivism, in the Marxist and post-Marxist forms that have been swallowing the world for a century, is, in its methodology, nothing but the moral … Continue reading
Bill O’Reilly said it well—and honestly: ‘It’s not a traditional America anymore, and there are 50 percent of the voting public who want stuff. They want things. And who is going to give them things? President Obama.’ Twenty years ago, … Continue reading
A Wall Street Journal commentary on 8/27/12 states the following: Meanwhile, another ObamaCare godfather, the surgeon and influential New Yorker magazine writer Atul Gawande, has further instructions for the medical masses, this time from — believe it or not — … Continue reading
Some people actively strive for success and happiness in life. Others consciously give up, and resort to the bare minimum or even outright destruction. Most default somewhere in between. Their subconscious or conscious mental state is, “It would be nice … Continue reading