As Obama’s endless time in office drags on, he seems increasingly candid about just how much he loathes any form of disagreement or opposition. At a summit on poverty, the president is quoted as saying: I think that the effort … Continue reading
Category: Society & Culture
The Road to Hell (not Mecca) as Paved by Juan Williams
The road to hell is paved with a single word. A word that expresses a corruption in concepts and thinking almost too horrendous to explicitly name. The latest horror? Fox News commentator Juan Williams’ recent rant about how Pam Geller, … Continue reading
Why the Lights of Times Square are a Beautiful Thing
From the U.K. Daily Mail on 5/6/15: The dimmer could be turned on the bright lights of New York City as the Big Apple is facing pressure to remove its iconic oversized billboards from Times Square. A 2012 federal transportation … Continue reading
Bosch Fawstin vs. Facebook and The Religion of “Peace”
A typical conversation between a psychotherapist, such as myself, and a client, will go like this: Client: “My husband (or wife) makes me feel this way.” Or: “My boss makes me feel like an incompetent person.” Or: “My mother used … Continue reading
For the Last Time: “Provocation” IS Freedom of Speech
In the aftermath of the Garland, Texas, shootings at The Muhammad Art Exhibit & Contest, Pamela Geller, contest organizer and president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an anti-Islamic organization, was interviewed by CNN. In the interview, Geller’s opponent repeatedly … Continue reading
Hatred of Mohammad … Or Love of Liberty?
HuffingtonPost.com reports: Two men were shot dead after opening fire outside an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in Garland, Texas on Sunday. The two men fired towards the Curtis Culwell Center and hit security guard Bruce Joiner, who … Continue reading
When the Law Abandons Reason, Marilyn Mosby is What You Get
Baltimore’s top prosecutor acted swiftly, charging six officers in the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a grave spinal injury as he was arrested and put into a police transport van, handcuffed and without a seat belt. [Maryland] State’s Attorney … Continue reading
Islamophobia: Mental Illness or Political Bias?
To criticize Islam — or even Islamic terrorism — puts one at risk for being labeled “Islamophobic.” In Canada and elsewhere, there are laws against expressing opinions the authorities consider to be “Islamophobic.” I’d like to coin my own disease … Continue reading
Progressive Ideas: Not Just Wrong, But Potentially Deadly
I wrote this article right after the de Blasio fiasco in New York City, and before the recent Baltimore fiasco. It applies to both of them; along with the next one. They’re all caused by the toxicity of so-called progressive … Continue reading
“The Great Society” Meets Its Waterloo in Baltimore
Nothing happens in a vacuum. It’s easy enough to call the rioters in Baltimore “thugs;” and it’s entirely true. But when they take the actions they do, they are acting on ideas. Personally, they are acting on their own impulses … Continue reading
The Mayor of Baltimore’s Not-So-Freudian Slip
Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made a stunning admission Saturday in the aftermath of violent protests over the recent death of Freddie Gray, saying she wanted to give space to those “who wished to destroy.” “I’ve made it very clear that … Continue reading
It Takes a Village … to Arrest Parents for No Reason
The society we live in just keeps getting crazier and crazier. Read the following from Slate.com 4/21/15: The Meitiv family of Maryland—scientists Danielle and Alexander, their 10-year-old son, and their 6-year-old daughter—became the national faces of the “free-range parenting” movement … Continue reading