John Hinckley: Is He Really Cured?

…s mother on regular visits to his family home. Is this the same context as freedom, even freedom under more careful watch? There’s no way to know for sure until you give him years of freedom and see if he develops, and starts to act upon, the same kind of violent fantasies that he was drawn to back in the 1970s and 1980s. The New York Times also reports: More recently, they cited a July 2011 incident in which he was supposed to go see a movie in W… Continue reading

Chris Christie and Marxism, Republican-Style

…make $201,000 a year were forced to hand over their payroll taxes just as compellingly as those who make $199,000 a year, or $50,000 a year. If a private, real insurance program told its members, upon time to legitimately claim their benefits that, “You make too much money, so you don’t need the benefits now,” that insurance company would – properly – be denounced and put out of business as a fraud. If Social Security really isn’t an “insurance”… Continue reading

Why “Ego” — Falsely Defined — Gets Such a Bad Name

…mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity. When people attack or disparage “ego,” do they realize what they’re saying? If we go by the Oxford Dictionary definitions (good ones, in my view), then what they’re really saying is, “I don’t want this to be for the sake of self-esteem;” or, “It’s all about his orientation to reality; it should be something higher.” Putting… Continue reading

Sovereign Over Your Body and Mind

…They do a drug test and find traces of an unmetabolized illicit drug. For example: someone smokes a joint 2 weeks ago and tests positive, and gets sent to jail. A: First of all, we are all sovereign over our own minds and bodies. What we put into our own bodies is our own business. It is not government’s job to prevent us from doing so — and even though it tries, government fails at doing so the more it tries. The principle of the welfare state i… Continue reading

“Opposites Attract” and the Desperate Seeking of Completion

…ake away from this relationship.’ It has been said that love is the art of compromise. This is true, but not a compromise of self or your basic values. You value truth, honesty, integrity or productivity? Then you won’t be tempted to settle for the opposite of these things. If you are tempted, you’re compromising your own values, things you previously thought you could not live without. Why do so? The only possible motivation would be the desperat… Continue reading

The Road to Hell (not Mecca) as Paved by Juan Williams

…recognize that the analogy of peaceful protest does not even apply. Unlike open protestors (even peaceful ones), Geller was hosting a private event. She was so concerned about safety and security that she reportedly spent tens of thousands of dollars on it. Her concern probably saved her own life and the lives of those attending the event, along with the crucial and heroic help of the police. Geller was minding her own business, trying to make a p… Continue reading

Turning Teachers into Counselors Makes No Sense

…othing more than distractions from the failings that no doubt permeate our command-and-control, communistic, federalized behemoth of a ‘school system’ run by a combination of corrupt politicians and out-of-touch academics in doctoral programs for education and politically-connected universities. They have nothing whatsoever to do with teaching or, for that matter, the development of self-esteem in any young individuals. If I were you, I’d concentr… Continue reading

Education: “The Unfolding of the Human Soul”

…ual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment. The task of the teacher becomes that of preparing a series of motives of cultural activity, spread over a specially prepared environment, and then refraining from obtrusive interference. Human teachers can only help the great work that is being done, as servants help the master. Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and to the risi… Continue reading

How Children Can Survive Bad Schools (Part 2 of 2)

…ional and false. The world is full of irrational and even insane ideas—the latest being the hilarious mythology of ‘Barack the Great’ and environmentalism. I’m sure you’ve all seen the TV clips of the classroom full of little glassy eyed kids reciting the Allegiance to Obama in an oddly frightening monotone. Rest assured, while this may be indoctrination, it’s in no way thought. Children who learn to think will learn to shed such government-foster… Continue reading

Deterministic Thinking is Bad For Your Health (Part 1 of 2)

…oblem. Why? Because thinking you are less in control of your life than you really are is a distortion of reality. Specifically, it’s a distortion of reality that can lead one to feel unduly angry, anxious, depressed or otherwise psychologically disordered. From the point of view of a psychologist, the specific source by which an individual feels determined is less important than the presence of this feeling in the first place. For example, some pe… Continue reading

Some People Like Big Government

…of it. A government “big enough” to do this is no government that I want. Freedom is not your enemy. Free people are not your enemy. Unless you hate the sight of success, or feel that it threatens you in some way, you have nothing to fear or loathe in a free society, including a capitalist society. All you need protection from is the force of thugs, thieves, terrorists and con artists. You claim that without big government we are governed by the… Continue reading

Environmentalism and Psychology: A Marriage Made in Hell (Part 1 of 2)

…rbon emissions.’ One wonders: What will the emotional state of Americans become when air conditioning and heat become too expensive? When the food supply is threatened as business tries to keep up with impossible government-mandated standards for carbon emissions? When flying on airplanes becomes too expensive to make vacations possible, and when driving becomes a luxury that fewer people enjoy at all? Outlawing or restricting carbon emissions is… Continue reading