Defunding Obamacare is Not Unconstitutional

…surance companies. Insurance companies don’t impose restrictions like that simply to be mean. They do it to keep the policies solvent, so that the insurance companies may stay in business and continue to pay claims to paying policyholders. Obamacare proceeds as if all health insurance and medical services are property of the government. It’s not a law that actually passes socialized medicine. Instead, it proceeds as if socialized medicine already… Continue reading

Rational Confrontation can be Good for your Mental Health

…want to risk a confrontation.” The major error in this line of thinking is simply this: Confrontation need not be painful or irrational. Many people have had bad experiences with confrontation in the past and they fear the same will continue to happen. Not necessarily so! For example, if you had bad experiences with your parents, family or a romantic relationship, it is simply because you (and they) did not know any better. And it also possible yo… Continue reading

In Relationships, “Not Fighting” Isn’t Really the Goal

…most successful relationships consist of two people getting what they want simply because they are being who they are. In good relationships, conflicts are viewed as temporary and resolvable. Dealbreakers are not as issue, because each party sees evidence that the other is getting from of the relationship what’s satisfactory to him or her. Because of this mutual security, it’s automatically expected that conflict will be resolvable, and is the exc… Continue reading

Can Anxiety Be a GOOD Thing? (DE Wave)

…mselves to have, shields us from many dangers we might otherwise face. Put simply, it’s a lot less dangerous to live in a society with automobiles, grocery stores and satellite technology than to eke out an existence in a primitive jungle as a hunter-gatherer. Danger is an objective term, but also a contextual one. What we consider dangerous in a contemporary society is different from the dangers faced daily by someone unfortunate enough to be bor… Continue reading

Anxiety: Maybe Not So Bad After All (DE Coast Press)

…mselves to have, shields us from many dangers we might otherwise face. Put simply, it’s a lot less dangerous to live in a society with automobiles, grocery stores and satellite technology than to eke out an existence in a primitive jungle as a hunter-gatherer. Danger is an objective term, but also a contextual one. What we consider dangerous in a contemporary society is different from the dangers faced daily by someone unfortunate enough to be bor… Continue reading

The Psychology of Anger (Part 1 of 4)

…ve what some psychologists call a ‘low tolerance for frustration,’ meaning simply that they feel that they should not have to be subjected to inconvenience or annoyance. They can’t take things in stride, and they’re particularly infuriated if the situation seems somehow unjust: for example, being corrected for a minor mistake. What makes some people this way?  A very popular explanation these days is physical. ‘My brain chemistry makes me angry.’… Continue reading

It’s Not Healthy to Run from Conflict

…most successful relationships consist of two people getting what they want simply because they are being who they are. In good relationships, conflicts are viewed as temporary and resolvable. Dealbreakers are not as issue, because each party sees evidence that the other is getting from of the relationship what’s satisfactory to him or her. Because of this mutual security, it’s automatically expected that conflict will be resolvable, and is the exc… Continue reading

Bipartisan Plunder

…an’s local pet project. That’s what it has come to, in the land of the once-free and the home of the previously brave. America must do more than change parties. It has to change — and by change I mean make a complete U-turn reversal — with respect to its whole philosophy of government. Entire government agencies and cabinet departments are going to have to be shut down. Entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) will have to be curbed and/… Continue reading

Economics Doesn’t Explain the Housing Market Collapse

…end? Sooner or later they have to end, don’t they? Or will the government simply keep passing new laws and creating policies on top of old ones that got us into this mess in the first place!? Nobody has an answer to this question, including the voters themselves. In 2008, voters overwhelmingly rejected any remnants of free-market capitalism and voted in favor of socialist government controls — the more the better. Now, two years later, the voters… Continue reading

What Many Don’t Get About Addiction

…t entirely expected objection of significant others, the simplest route is simply to keep it a secret. Because secrecy is not always possible, then lying fills the void where the secrecy fails to prevail. People who don’t have an addiction look at the person with addiction and think, “I haven’t normally known her to be a liar. I’m questioning my judgment here. Am I imagining it, or is the problem behavior still there?” Some addictions are easier t… Continue reading

Conflict Isn’t Always Bad

…most successful relationships consist of two people getting what they want simply because they are being who they are. In good relationships, conflicts are viewed as temporary and resolvable. Dealbreakers are not as issue, because each party sees evidence that the other is getting from of the relationship what’s satisfactory to him or her. Because of this mutual security, it’s automatically expected that conflict will be resolvable, and is the exc… Continue reading

Greatness Unrealized

…ow caring and compassionate it is. The CEO of the company, dressed in a top-of-the-line suit, stands in front of the television cameras with his arms around a homeless man who has not bathed for several days. This, we are supposed to believe, makes the company’s CEO a good person. A political leader is exposed for deceitful behavior. The day after the exposure, he and his wife volunteer in a soup kitchen. We’re supposed to believe that he is still… Continue reading