The Hard Conversation

The most significant death that could emanate from this pandemic is that of the free world. To the flat earther's I suggest “maybe the world is round after all “. Extreme levels of fear make us hysterical. Hysteria makes us irrational and leads to the kind of reaction we might expect from people who are prepared to trample on their friends and relatives in order to get out of a burning building. Conversely when we are in control and being rational we make perfectly good decisions every day balancing risk and reward. Will I cross the street here? Will I buy that car? What restaurant should we eat in? we balance our decisions based on whether we might get run down or can I afford that car or will we like the food in that restaurant etc. etc. For the past three months the world has been in a state of hysteria. We are not processing any risk and reward calculations because of fear. Since the fire alarm went off we are convinced that the building is burning to the ground and no...

When Mr. Kahn took the stage at the Democratic convention and attacked Donald Trump he became more than the father of soldier who gave his life for his country. He became a serious participant in the political process and therefore he should be prepared to take whatever comes with that. To be fair to Mr. Kahn maybe he was but the rush to outrage and indignation by the media was nothing other than patronizing and sanctimonious claptrap. Where was their indignation when the parents of those killed were lied to by Hillary Clinton. What will it take for the western world to face up to the fact that there is a war being waged on the west by the Islamic world which is being conducted on a number of levels. The terrorist groups and their surrogates attack our very way of life in the most barbaric of ways by indiscriminately bombing and killing us in the cities of Europe and North America. That results in us imposing security restrictions on ourselves which plays into ...