All talking ceased when I opened the door to the conference room, and I thought I sensed a foreboding undercurrent of doom. As I entered the room, everyone tried to act either as if they were making small talk or looking at their notebooks. These were members of my staff, and I could tell they…
Why You Should Choose Love Over Fear
Reject fear, choose love. This is a popular refrain and wonderful advice. Many believe that there are only two primal emotions in the human being, love and fear, and that we can’t feel both at once. And in the same way that light removes darkness, love can remove fear. The choice to reject fear and choose love can feel…
Crimes of Compassion: Their Toll on Children
Commentary It’s natural and normal to feel sadness and sympathy at the suffering of others and to want to alleviate it. The paradox of compassion in that sense is that it often becomes a rhetorical device for justifying action that harms those it’s supposed to help. If you had compassion, this kind of sanctimonious advocate…
Why Young Adults Are the Most Frightened of COVID, Even Though They Are the Least at Risk
Nearly 3 million Americans are being vaccinated against COVID-19 each day, but the “return to normal” may not be as close as many hope. A new survey shows many Americans have concerns about interacting with others once the pandemic is over. “A YouGov poll of more than 4,000 people finds that two in five (39%) Americans say…
Mask-Wearing Represents Fear and Blind Obedience, Not Science
Commentary When I see people walking outside, often alone with no one anywhere near them, wearing a mask, my primary reactions are disappointment and sadness. I am disappointed because I expected better from my fellow Americans. I never thought most Americans would be governed by irrational fears and unquestioning obedience to authority. I have come…
Making Choices Out of Fear
Pandemic fear has gripped the globe for an entire year, and it continues to hold tight. Warnings of even more contagious and deadly disease variants are suspected just over the horizon, as constant coverage of case numbers and death counts urge us to stay diligent or risk certain doom. The goal of this incessant message…
Mainstream Media Helps to Create Mass Hysteria to Bring About Radical Changes to American Society
Commentary We live in an age where political elites are deliberately creating mass hysteria through the corporate-owned mainstream media by relentlessly pushing false narratives to foment drastic changes on American society. To take away cherished constitutional rights from ordinary citizens, the elite class must first put those citizens in a state where many of them…
A Freedom-Loving People Needs to Call the Bluff of Those Instilling Fear
On March 4, 1933, in his first inaugural address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took square aim at the national panic over the Depression as he spoke to his fellow citizens. “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror…
Savor What You Dread and Avoid
Today my sons and I were standing at the edge of the pool, on a cold day, knowing that the water we were about to jump into was freezing. It was Day 27 of my first 40-day discomfort challenge and we were dreading the cold water. We knew it would be shockingly cold, because we’ve jumped into…
Finding Freedom From Fear in Anxious Times
Fear. Nervousness. Anxiety. If you are lucky enough to avoid these feelings dominating your person right now and turning a few more hairs gray, then you can likely still smell them in the air and see them in the actions of those around you. It doesn’t matter which political party people align themselves with. Liberals’…
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