9/11 Terrorist Attack Anniversary.

September 11th is a day of dread.  I can’t believe it has been 10 years since that horrific day of barbarism.  I sometimes still can’t believe it happened.  I feel sadness for 3000 souls who were destroyed.  One day about a year ago I went on a website of Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment firm that […]

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The title says it all: SHAM-How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless.  That’s the name of the book I just finished reading.  Written by Steve Salerno, the acronym for SHAM is Self-Help and Actualization Movement.  Make no mistake we have all been affected by the pop psychology movement.  From Oprah Winfrey to Phil McGraw, there […]

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I must admit the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski was an afterthought for me.  I stumbled upon a 2004 article of college professor Alston Chase.  He wrote a book called Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist.  I immediately checked this out at my local library.  I think this is an important book because […]

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It’s time for some light reading.  I came across an interesting book that gives insight to Hugh Hefner’s Playboy.  Written by a former girlfriend, Izabella St. James, she calls her book Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion.  But I want to focus on the author, a woman who is highly educated (she […]

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It’s unfortunate I have to start the new year with a story so absurd, and so tragic, it can only happen in 21st century America.  This article reports that a new edition of Huckleberry Finn will be purged of the word nigger.  All 219 references.  Despite the fact that the book is set in the 19th […]

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Groups such as Code Pink, National Organization for Women and others within the feminist establishment share an implicit philosophy that holds that women are victims.  I began thinking this through after reading a thought provoking book.  Called The Cinderella Complex: Women’s Hidden Fear of Independence, writer Colette Dowling gives an in depth look at how […]

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I’ve decided to put my two cents into this debate.  Since President Obama’s swipe at Supreme Court for upholding the Constitution, I’m stunned at the response by the media and the American public.  From what I’ve heard about this decision it comes down to: the big, bad corporation ran by evil capitalists will take over our political system […]

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Two weeks have passed since the earthquake in Haiti.  It’s good that nations all over the world are helping with the rescue effort.  However, it is painfully obvious that Haiti has no infrastructure that would be able to withstand a natural catastrophe.  This is ultimately a consequence of corrupt government and more specifically, foreign aid.  This […]

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There is a pattern within our government that I find increasingly disturbing.  For example, I mentioned in a previous post of how dictatorship can happen in this country.  Reviewing Sinclair Lewis’s story It Can’t Happen Here, freedom of speech was the first casualty.  The administration has done its best to curb any organization who criticizes Congress […]

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Last Monday was the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space mission to the moon.  The History Channel showcased the original CBS footage of Walter Cronkite reportage.  It was unbelievable.  This spectacular feat was accomplished not by praying or wishing, but by logic and reason.  Only human beings could make this possible.  I wish I was […]

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