August 2, 2024

Kamala Harris’s ‘as-if’ personality

I have never met, interviewed, or examined Kamala Harris, but I have observed her verbal and non-verbal behavior.  Her pattern of histrionic, often giddy, excessive cackling laughter and politically disjointed word salad at podiums is ...

February 1, 2024

Joe Biden and Sons

Recently President Biden asked for a moment of silence for the three dead American troops killed by Iranian proxies. He mentioned no immediate action for retaliation or future acts to protect our troops. Biden has not spoken nor met with the families...

March 10, 2023

The Actual Enemy in the War on Drugs

There are dangerous drug wars south of the U.S. border. American presidents ceremoniously appoint powerful drug czars to wage war on illicit drugs. But the crucial question is, why do so many Americans comprise such a receptive, exploding market...

November 2, 2022

Authentic rehabilitation of criminals: A psychiatrist's view 

Conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, independents and Libertarians, all are for successful rehabilitation of American criminals.  The key word is "successful."  Beyond the important discussions about th...

August 28, 2022

The messy necessity of politics

I hear it said (usually by people I disagree with): "Oh that's just politics" or, "Oh, they are just politicizing that issue."  But, particularly in a two-party system of governing (which doesn't count "inde...

March 5, 2022

Putin: Crazy as a fox

Putin is crazy like a fox.  His obsession with power and control has been evident for many years.  He has sensed Western democratic leaders' weakness and passivity.  He and his evil twin Xi of China have teamed up to...

September 3, 2021

Fallacies about a 'free' education

"If you get everything from government, you owe government everything." —David Azmin The twenty-first century is rapidly becoming the century of entitlement, selfie celebrity-ism, and the massive denial of historical reality and it...

August 18, 2021

Illegal Immigrant Parenting and Character Formation

“The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.” -- Thomas Babington Macaulay To deport or not to deport? Perhaps not the question. During presidential political campaigns, a frequ...

August 14, 2021

The folly of simply 'following the science'

When Democrats say "follow the science" with regard to COVID-19, it's clear that they are thinking of a static model, one in which every single relevant factor is unchanging.  If that were the case, it would be possible to cha...

July 17, 2020

For America to function, Americans must have a healthy fear of police

Americans from our earliest days as a nation have rejected authority, especially when it seems arbitrary and comes from government that seems out of touch with ordinary citizens.  Such a domain of authority is extremely delicate when it inv...

August 8, 2019

Mental Disorders and the Second Amendment

Psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals deal with and diagnose a wide spectrum of conditions from mild anxieties, substance abuse, learning disabilities, mental retardation, and marital-family-vocational relationship proble...

August 4, 2019

The Las Vegas Mass Murderer's Motive: A Psychoanalyst Explains

On October 1, 2017, America was stunned by the horrible mass murder in Las Vegas. The lengthy search for the murder's motive most likely ends in the bitter unconscious severe neurotic conflicts of Stephen Paddock's troubled mind. His obsessiv...

September 2, 2016

A Lonely Pro-Trump Psychiatrist Speaks

As a lonely psychoanalyst Trump supporter, I feel the need to exercise my First Amendment right to speak up.  I think the majority of my psychiatrist, psychologist, and psychiatric social worker colleagues feel dislike, distain and antipathy tow...

August 1, 2010

At Hell's Gate

Polite, ‘modern', Western congregations and their preferred theologians don't like to discuss Hell. Might some ‘new' burgeoning forms of Evil in our newspapers dent our American collective denial? Bitter Binghamton murderer, Pittsburg Cop...