Politics
“God help us all.”
“It was Reagan’s fault.”
This was the expected response to my essay, “The Politics of Mental Health”:
“Ronald Reagan pursued a policy toward the treatment of mental illness that satisfied special interest groups and the demands of the business community, but failed to address the issue: the treatment of mental illness.”
How did he do this?
“Conventional wisdom suggests that the reduction of funding for social welfare policies during the 1980s is the result of a conservative backlash against the welfare state.”
The only problem is that Reagan didn’t cut funding for social welfare …
Read MoreThe politics of mental health
Joe needed his meds or bad things would happen.
I met him several times. Nice guy.
A buddy of mine employed him in his little restaurant in a food court downtown, kind of an act of Christian charity. Here’s the thing: Joe could do the job when he was on his meds.
But he lived at the YMCA and had no one to monitor whether or not he took the pills that kept him sane. You see, Joe had some sort of severe mental illness.
One day, Joe didn’t show up for work. He was never heard from again. Ever.
Read MoreStarbucks asks customers to leave their guns at home
You’re sipping on a cup of coffee at the coffee shop with friends.
You look up. A guy just walked in with a shot gun to buy a cup of coffee. Does this make you feel comfortable or uncomfortable?
Be honest.
Read MoreThe “ghoulish glee” of the gun grabbers
“I’m not a gun guy.
You don’t see me writing a whole lot about the Second Amendment. I react like most every American when I hear about the latest gun violence in the Navy Yard in Washington D.C.. I am sickened beyond words …
Read MoreThe politics of revulsion
The public doesn’t like Democrats. They like Republicans even less.
All of this revulsion doesn’t bode well for Republicans in the latest round of “continuing resolution” discussions to fund the government at sequester-spending levels …
Read MoreThe dignity of man
The great movements of our time have been driven by the dignity of man.
Here’s what I mean: dignity is all about being worthy of honor or respect. The civil rights movement, in the words of Martin Luther King, JR, called for white America to judge, not by the color of a person’s skin, but by the content of a person’s character …
Read MoreVogue Magazine’s embarrassing love letter to Mrs. Assad
Liberal chic is built on fluff.
How you feel trumps how you act.
Style supersedes substance.
Thought conformity is valued more than intelligent thinking.
Four media outlets help mold modern liberalism: the Huffington Post; the New York Times; Newsweek Magazine; and Vogue Magazine.
Vogue, with its 11.7 million readers, looms particularly large since liberal chic is such a fashion statement. Vogue has lovingly advanced the status of Michelle Obama and Texas human abortion advocate, Wendy Davis on their pages. They championed another emerging icon two short years ago in a lavish spread, which, mysteriously, has been scrubbed from the internet …
Read MorePutin and Obama actually agree on America’s lack of exceptionalism
President Obama suggests that American exceptionalism is based on our “policies.”
He misses the point. Our policies flow, imperfectly, from our values that define our character …
Read MoreRemembering the Twin Towers
I remember sitting on the top floor of the World Trade Center very well. The date was July 19th, 1989 …
Read More“Over-the-top” news coverage of the webcam abortion debate
The real difference between the Iowa Board of Medicine decision two years ago on webcam abortions and the most recent board overturning that decision is not Gov. Branstad’s appointed board. It’s the Register’s over-the-top, biased coverage …
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