On May 6 and 7, I attended a therapy training conference with one of the leading organizations in mental health, The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. This event attracted hundreds of therapists from throughout the country. I took several courses and will be writing a series of essays on my observations, thoughts, and…
Are We Headed Toward a Genderless, Sexually Dysfunctional World?
May 25, 2023
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They Died so Freedom Can Endure
Commentary Although most folks look forward to barbecues and family activities during the Memorial Day weekend, this special holiday has a fascinating history. A soulful poem, which expresses the reflective and sobering mood of commemoration, was written by Herman Melville following the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee in April of 1862. Ironically, much of this horrific…
Memorial Day in Contemporary America
Commentary Memorial Day emerged from America’s most deadly and destructive war: the Civil War. Agreed, social, political, and moral divisions are wracking and weakening contemporary America. But no external or internal challenge quite compares to the Civil War—at least not yet. Measured by soldiers and civilians killed in combat and by war’s derivative killers—starvation, disease,…
The Woke Cartel and Twitter’s New CEO
Commentary On May 12, 2023, Elon Musk announced that Linda Yaccarino, the now former chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, would become the new CEO of Twitter. Musk’s appointment of Yaccarino followed an advertiser exodus that caused Twitter’s ad revenue to plummet by more than 60 percent from October 2022 through Jan. 25, 2022, from…
The Left Has Pushed the Envelope
Commentary The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying. Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice. The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in…
A Defining Time for Monarchies
Commentary Perhaps only King Charles III understood that his May 6 coronation in London was one of the few opportunities in a century to reposition the concept of monarchy in the global spectrum of competing social systems. Indeed, the “competition between competing social systems” is between systems that have come to be defined as tending…
US Default Might Not Be as Shocking as Expected
May 25, 2023
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Commentary This week, one of the world’s foci must be the potential U.S. government default on its debt. In most circles, this continues to progress as if we have never encountered such a situation before. But this might not be true. According to Terry Zivney and Richard Marcus of The Financial Review, “Investors in T-bills…
The Future of Writing in a World of AI
Commentary In a recently published article, Andrew Thornebrooke reports on the “massive disruptions” that artificial intelligence (AI) technology will likely cause. A meeting of the American Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law heard that the “explosion of popularly availably AI tools like ChatGPT will profoundly affect society as early as next year.” Similarly, in…
Despite Billions in Research and Development, US Lags in Deploying Hypersonic Missiles
Commentary On March 28, the Air Force admitted that the March 13 test of Lockheed Martin’s AGM-183 air-launched rapid response weapon (ARRW) was a failure. This failure comes after four years and billions of dollars of taxpayer money sent to Lockheed Martin to develop hypersonic weapons. And this failure comes in the context of Russia’s…
Politicization Will Hamper California Infrastructure Improvements
May 24, 2023
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Commentary Even in wealthy areas, California’s infrastructure clearly is falling apart. You can feel it in your bones when you drive on the potholed roads in Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, and other cities where home values stretch on average above $1 million. Two developments show the state is advancing infrastructure improvements that also push forward…
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