In CO a Cub Scout was expelled
after asking a state legislator why owning a gun was a right but having health coverage was a privilege.
Month: October 2017
On the Protests in the NFL
For a thoughtful commentary on the protests by the NFL players please see the following piece by an NFL player. http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl-national-anthem-protests-who-do-you-cheer-for
The Jackson State Killings in 1970 Were About Police Brutality
I recorded but have not yet watched the recent television series by Ken Burns, The Vietnam War, therefore I did not see the way this film equated the shootings at Jackson State University with the shootings at Kent State University. At the time Kent State was considered a national tragedy, but Jackson State was not … [Read more…]
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
In case you have wondered about the psychological well-being of President Donald Trump, answers have been provided in a new book just published last week, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. In this book, 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess the president. From the summary of the book: Since the start of Donald … [Read more…]
Mike Ditka – Football Brain Damage?
Many Americans oppose the NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem, but few so outrageously so than Mike Ditka. Ditka claims the protests cannot be against racial oppression because there has been no racial oppression in the United States in the last 100 years. Wow! I am sorry. Words fail me. Ditka–a former football player, … [Read more…]
Rational Choice as Irrational Belief
Richard Thaler, an American economist and founder of the field of behavioral economics, just won the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Committee awarded him the prize for his research using psychology and economics to understand how people make economic decisions. For generations, mainstream economics had used rational choice theory, which assumes that people make decisions that … [Read more…]
The NRA Has Won!
The NRA has won. For years the American public wanted gun control and could not get it, apparently because the National Rifle Association (NRA), the arm of the gun industry owned congress. According to a Pew Research Center Report, in the year 2000, only 29% of the public felt it was more important to protect … [Read more…]
The Perversion of the Second Amendment
A reader of Diana Ravitch’s blog, GregB, offered this commentary on “the perversion of the Second Amendment”: Today’s event prompted me to look through some old notes I made after reading Henry Adams’ “History of the United States During the Madison Administration” a few years ago: Adam’s account is dominated by a history of the … [Read more…]