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PSYCHIATRY’S HAMMER -- AND WE’RE THE NAILS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 |
You know the adage-when the only
tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Psychiatry has one big hammer:
psychiatric medications with which to address a nail: psychological disorders.
Without a public that believes in and accepts the use of these medications, and
the diagnoses that they presume to treat, there would be no profession of
psychiatry. Many (not all; this is a critique of a system, not everybody
involved) psychiatrists' entire life's work would become meaningless and their
livelihood would disappear.
That's quite an incentive for
confirmation bias. And now there is a push by the writers of the upcoming 5th
edition of the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders, the DSM-5, to define more and
more of normal human functioning as just so many nails to be struck by
psychiatry's pharmaceutical hammer.
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ISRAEL’S OCTOBER SURPRISE |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 |
Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu has engineered a remarkable political
success. It could mean war before the
leaves turn color.
For Americans
and for Sunni Arab Moslems, Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons is a very
dangerous, very urgent problem.
For Israelis,
it means the gas chambers are warmed up and the Gestapo is pounding on the
door. The mullahs have made it clear
what they intend to do with nukes once they get them.
Barack Hussein
Obama's inaction indicates he won't do anything meaningful to keep the Iranians
from getting the bomb. So Israel
must.
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FROM FIRST TO LAST |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 |
It was the
teachings of Jesus Christ which caused him to support gay marriage, The
First Gay President told ABC's Robin Roberts last Wednesday (5/9).
The
president's decision was forced by
Vice President Joe Biden's endorsement of gay marriage the preceding Sunday,
White House aides told journalists.
Rarely is Mr. Biden confused with Jesus Christ.
"My religious
faith dictates marriage is between a man and a woman," Mr. Obama had said when
he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004.
Mr. Obama's
"evolution" is
a charade, wrote David Plotz in Slate.
As a candidate for the state senate in 1996, he signed a statement that
said: "I favor legalizing same sex marriages, and would fight efforts to
prohibit such marriages," Mr. Plotz noted.
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WHEN WILL DEMOCRATS APOLOGIZE FOR THEIR MISMANAGEMENT? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 |
Last week, Jamie
Dimon, CEO of the nation's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, revealed that the bank
had made a $2 billion-plus trading mistake. The bank has more than $2 trillion
in assets and made a profit of about $20 billion last year. So it lost
one-tenth of 1 percent of its assets and about 10 percent of its income for
last year. No big deal, despite all the hand-wringing of the political and
media class.
Predictably, Sen.
Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat and arguably the most irresponsible member of
Congress, immediately issued a press release calling for more bank regulation.
Congress has the
oversight responsibility for the U.S. government, in much the same way a
corporate board has the oversight responsibility for a corporation. Mr. Levin
has the responsibility (along with his colleagues) to make sure taxpayer
dollars are spent wisely and not wasted or stolen.
Medicare, for
example, spends more than $500 billion annually. Sen.
Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (and medical doctor), who, unlike Mr.
Levin, tries to be fiscally responsible, estimates that about 20 percent, or
$100 billion, of Medicare spending is fraudulent.
Yet
Mr. Levin and many of his colleagues prefer to spend their time bashing private
businesses rather than protecting the taxpayer, which is their responsibility.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 05/11/12 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 11 May 2012 |
It's early morning, but I know it's going to be a long day -
and a fun one. How so much cool stuff
can get crammed into a single week, and how I can concisely fit it all into
this HFR, is bewildering. Sit back and
enjoy. Off we go.
This was a baaaaaaad-to-the-bone week for Zero and the
Dems. May 8th was Black
Tuesday for them, simply disastrous.
In Wisconsin, the
desperate last gasp of the public unions to keep their gravy train rolling went
right off the rails. Gov. Scott Walker,
whom they are rabidly trying to recall, got more votes in his primary than the
two main Dems got in theirs combined.
In West Virginia,
Zero lost 42% of the vote in the Democrat Presidential Primary to a fellow
named Keith Judd. Keith is not from West
Virginia. He currently lives in Texas,
where he resides at the Texarkana Federal Prison as Inmate
11593-051.
In Judd's
bio on VoteSmart, he lists his religion as "Rastafarian-Christian," and his
mother as actress Lillian
Russell, who died in 1922. He was
born in 1958. Obviously, no West
Virginian voted for this weirdo, they
voted against Zero. Why?
Because they hate his guts. Zero
is destroying
their state with his religious war against coal.
Something this absurd is more than a humiliating joke upon
President Gutsy Call. It's a portent. Tens
of millions of Americans in every state are West Virginians now. They hate Zero's guts for what he has done to
their country and what he has done to their lives and livelihoods. They would vote for Keith Judd, Mickey Mouse,
or a Yellow Dog before voting for him.
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BREITBART'S RED MURDER |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 11 May 2012 |
[Note: this is a collaboration between me and Dagny D'Anconia. I am indebted to her for much of this -- JW]
On February 9, 2012, in Washington DC, Andrew Breitbart told
Sinclair
News, "Wait ‘til they see what happens on March 1st."
Yet, instead of the release of what he predicted would be "damning"
evidence of Obama perfidy, what happened on March 1st was a horribly
unexpected tragedy: Andrew Breitbart
suddenly died. He was 43.
The Coroner of Los Angeles County states
he died of natural causes, specifically heart failure. Did he?
A lot of people don't think so - especially when a coroner
who participated in Mr. Breitbart's autopsy, Michael Cormier, died
of arsenic poisoning on the very day the Coroner's Report was released
(April 20).
Conspiracy theorists had a field day - but it was all
suspicion with no specifics. Until
now. What you are about to read is going
to completely blow you away. Here is how
Andrew Breitbart could have been easily murdered, and who could have murdered him.
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THE SELF-HATING DISHONESTY OF THE MEDIA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 |
The most destructive, dishonest, and criminally hypocritical
people in America today are not Democrat politicians, black race hustlers, Ivy
League Marxist professors, or crony/shyster capitalists.
They are the publishers, editors, journalists, and
commentators of the Liberal Media: Associated
Press-New York Times-WaPo-ABC-NBC-CBS-CNN-MSNBC et al.
We'll abbreviate Big Liberal Media to simply "BM" -
appropriately enough for their product is the same as what those initials usually
stand for. One of the more astounding
things about BM is that its slavish boot-licking of American Commiecrats is
indistinguishable from that of Pravda's or Izvestiya's over Soviet rulers
during the Cold War - yet with no gun at their heads nor threat of the Gulag.
Winston Smith, in George Orwell's 1984, ended up genuinely loving Big Brother after his will was
broken through torture. BM loves Big
Brother of their own free will. This is
so perverse it's almost anti-human, for it is normally against human nature to
willingly be a slave.
A stunningly perfect example of BM perfidy appeared in
headlines in newspapers all over the country this past weekend.
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THE JUSTICE OF RIDICULE |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 |
Schadenfreude (taking pleasure from the misfortune of others) is a sinful pleasure, which all but the saints among us indulge in from time to time. These days conservatives have ample reasons for indulgence.
Let's begin
with Fauxcohantas, Elizabeth "Cheekbones" Warren, appointed to the faculty of
Harvard Law School despite less than sterling academic credentials because she
claimed Cherokee blood flows through her veins.
Then we'll move on to compare John "Purple Heart" Kerry of 2004 to Barack "Gutsy Call" Obama in 2012.
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THE FRAUD OF AUSTERITY |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 |
Denial is leading
to collective economic suicide in Europe and the United States. The French on
Sunday (5/06) elected a socialist president who wants to raise taxes on those
elusive rich and keep spending as if there is no tomorrow.
Many on the left,
including European socialists in tandem with the New York Times and its
economist Paul Krugman, are falsely claiming that Europe and even the United
States are being saddled with "austerity." Their claim is that governments are
not spending enough to reduce unemployment. They want higher taxes on the most
productive plus bigger government.
The chart below
shows that rather than the austerity the left is whining about, government
spending has risen as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) in all of the
major economies.
The irony is that
the refusal by those on the left, in both Europe and the United States, to deal
with the "entitlement" problem is going to cause an involuntary
austerity in which real incomes are going to fall for most people.
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THE MOST CONTEMPTIBLE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN US HISTORY |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 |
The chairman
of the House Oversight Committee wants to find out who knew what when about the
Gunwalker/Fast & Furious scandal, and if it had a purpose other than the
one we've been told. But the Justice
Department is stonewalling his requests -- and two subpoenas -- for
documents.
In more than a year, Justice
has supplied only a handful of documents in just 10 of the 22 categories
requested.
So Rep.
Darrell Issa, R-CA, is preparing to cite Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt
of Congress. Never has a contempt citation been more justified.
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GOOD NEWS FROM JERUSALEM -- BIBI’S SMART MOVE |
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Written by Caroline Glick
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 |
Yesterday in Jerusalem (5/09), a new unity Israeli
government was created by a deal between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud
Party, and Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz.
Together they have 94 out of 120 seats in the Knesset.
Bibi
has made a very smart move. Netanyahu was presented with an offer he'd be
an idiot to refuse. In return for essentially nothing, he built himself the
strongest and largest coalition Israel has ever seen.
Here's how it works.
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MASTERING HAPPINESS IS MASTERING LIFE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 |
I study, speak, and write
about happiness. I do this all the time. It's my life's work. I coach people to
help them to live a happier life, and I teach groups of people how to do the
same.
But this is not, objectively,
a happy time in America. We are weaker as a country, and the world is a more
dangerous place than it was 4 years ago. Our political and economic situation
is perilous, people are anxious about making ends meet, feeling greater worry
about finances puts greater stress on relationships and overall joy.
That being the case, what in
the world am I doing talking, writing, coaching, and teaching about happiness?
It's simple: the same life
skills that lead to a happier life, also lead to a stronger, more resilient
life. The skills of happiness are the skills of living - under any circumstances. Let's talk about five of these skills in particular.
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A LIVING LAWYER JOKE |
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Written by Al Lewis
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Friday, 11 May 2012 |
How many lawyer jokes are
there? Only three. The rest are true stories.
I used to think this was just
another lawyer joke. But now we are watching the classics of this genre come to
life in the spectacular meltdown of New York law firm Dewey & Leboeuf. For this is a true story.
"Size, in and of itself,
gives you greater flexibility in key markets," Dewey & LeBoeuf's
former chairman Steve Davis boasted in 2008. "You're taken more seriously
when you have 500, 600 attorneys in New York." Yes, and what do lawyers
and bullfrogs have in common? Both have a big head that consists mainly of
mouth.
Mr. Davis had just completed
a merger, creating a financial mess of 1,300 overpaid attorneys in a dozen
countries. He did this just before one of the worst financial downturns in
history. What can you say about 1,300 lawyers buried up to their necks in
cement? Not enough cement.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 05/04/12 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 04 May 2012 |
This has been yet another week in the unfolding saga of The
Weirdness of Zero. We'll start with what
the Washington Times calls his Midnight
Madness:
"Americans witnessed a bizarre made-for-TV event Tuesday
night (5/01). President Obama travelled 14,000 miles to Afghanistan to engage
in a midnight marathon of election-year photo-ops. Never has U.S. national
security been so twisted to fit a personal political agenda."
This, right on the heels of Zero's I Shot Bin Laden ad which the London Telegraph (5/01) describes as
turning "a
military triumph into a political disaster." The ad has Zero looking "so politically tone
deaf he makes Joe Biden look like Machiavelli."
And on top of this, we have Zero's Composite
New York Girlfriend flap this week (5/02).
The white girlfriend described in Dreams
was made up, it turns out - but that's okay by the lib media since the book's
preface warned of this. But it's not okay
- for the real story is that she was no pretend composite at all. She really existed - but she never knew Zero.
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COMMIE DAY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 03 May 2012 |
One hundred and twenty six years ago today, on the evening
of May 3, 1886, a group of men met in the basement of Greif's Hall on Lake
Street in Chicago. Almost all of them
were recent immigrants from Germany, and what brought them together was a
hatred they had in common.
They called this hatred by various names - they were "anarchists,"
"socialists," "communists," "syndicalists," "revolutionaries" - all code-words
for anti-capitalist. They all hated capitalism with a fanatically
violent fervor. They all claimed to be
champions of "workers," of employees, people who had jobs - and above all human
beings on earth they hated those who provided those jobs, the entrepreneurs who
created the companies that made those jobs possible.
One of them was Louis Lingg from Mannheim, who had come to
America less than a year before. He had
taught himself how to make hand-held bombs containing dynamite (invented by
Alfred Nobel in 1867), and at the meeting in Greif's Hall, he gave one of his
bombs to Rudolph Schnaubelt, the brother-in-law of one of the meeting's organizers,
Michael Schwab.
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