Psychology

UPDATE 2/11/20: Thank the Lord Rush Limbaugh’s on! ORIGINAL POST 2/9/20:  A great leader, like a great parent, doesn’t lead so much as instruct others how to take the reins for themselves. This is the essence of the Conservative worldview: independence, autonomy, responsibility, initiative, take pride in and defend what is yours, live and...
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To understand nihilistic Leftists and their perverse talent for smashing good things and retooling them into bad things, go no further than two seemingly disparate personalities making recurrent headlines nowadays. One is old, one is young, but both were dysfunctional, deadened young people brought to life early on by the excitement of intoxicating celebrity,...
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On this Thanksgiving weekend (like EVERY minute of our lives), the blessings of being American remain firmly obvious to the honest and rational. However difficult personal or economic circumstances may be, this bustling free marketplace of goods, services and ideas provides each one of us the opportunity to work, to create, to earn, to...
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If a family is a tyranny ruled over by its weakest member (attributed to G.B. Shaw),  a society can just as easily be tyrannized by its losers, naysayers and malcontents. All Americans (and much of the Western world) are granted the fundamentals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but for many, particularly...
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Is the time far off when the majority of American Jews change course and fully embrace America (and Israel) in all  the rich variety and freedom it has bestowed upon them and to which they have contributed a disproportionate share here and worldwide? To do so, they must cast off the chains of their...
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Bring in the fainting couches, stock up on the smelling salts! Are you ready? It’s official! Influential, talented men often tender unwanted sexual overtures to women other than their wives or steady girlfriends. The shocking word is just out: Paul Gauguin slept with many of those beautiful Polynesian girls he immortalized on canvas! Placido...
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Breathes there a Conservative who has not had to deal with the hatred and irrationality of a Leftist friend, neighbor or relative when confronted with the choice of individual liberty vs. one-size-fits-all, Big Gov collectivism? So entrenched are millions in the dark hoaxes of Global Warming (planet extinction) and Identity Politics (permanent civil war)...
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As the Dem Party 2020 wannabes  continue to scramble over one another for the most insane, impossible $MultiTrillion promises to the masses, one can only wonder what has happened to the electorate they’re wooing: Green New Deals that outlaw the fossil fuel energy that runs our modern world;  Universal Guaranteed Income/weekly checks from Uncle...
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UPDATE 8/12/19: A few facts and figures with regard to guns. The gun-grabbers, immune to facts, will undoubtedly continue to create their own reality surrounding the fundamental rights of Americans to defend themselves. ORIGINAL POST 8/11/19: Liberalism/Socialism/Marxist/Leftism/Progressivism is replete with ideas about controlling people’s lives, taking away their basic Constitutional rights and private property....
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There was a time when even avowed communists had a startling recognition among their utopian, delusional Soviet dreams that there was undeniable greatness at the heart of America. Take the case of Abel Meeropol, writing under the pen name Lewis Allan, who crafted the lyrics to the inspiring Frank Sinatra wartime movie short “The...
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