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“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard, American editor, publisher, and writer (1856–1915)

Trivia: He and his wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, the noted feminist and writer, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915, when they were heading to Europe to cover the war and interview Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

If you disagree with something I wrote, feel free to challenge it. Some of my viewpoints are the antithesis (exact opposite) of what they once were. That isn't flip-flopping; that is changing opinions with scant evidence to support them into convictions with a firmer foundation of facts.

My political philosophy is an amalgamation of libertarian, conservative, and liberal principles. My opinions have changed so significantly that my conservative friends might be horrified by how I strongly believe that liberals are correct on certain issues. I've previously written about some of them, but to make this more fun, I will present others as challenges in which I offer $100,000 to the first person who can refute the logic I used in forming that opinion. Please note that due to my limited time and difficulty using my hands after I broke my neck, I cannot quickly update my previously published opinions. However, now that I am balancing the promptings of head and heart, I strongly disagree with many opinions I expressed in my writings.

I like finding people who make me think, not necessarily those who agree with me. Genius Robert Heinlein said, “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” If you can educate me, I'm all ears.

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
— Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
— Albert Einstein

“What I would like to see more often in this nation is an open and intelligent conversation, not people just casting aspersions at each other … it's unbelievable to me the way people act like third graders. And if somebody doesn't agree with them, they're this and they're that … it comes from both sides. And it's just so infantile.”
— Dr. Ben Carson, neurosurgeon

“The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.”
— Dr. Wayne Dyer

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
— General George Patton

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A lot of people risk their lives in a brief act of heroism, which is kind of cool, but Jill has what I call slow heroism. She is risking her professional life on something that her own calculations show may not work for a thousand years—may not ever. So I like to support people that are risking their lives.”
— ex-Microsoft billionaire brainiac Nathan Myhrvold speaking about Jill Tarter, who inspired the character played by Jodie Foster in the movie Contact. It takes a brilliant person to see that others who go against the grain of conventional wisdom may be sages although lesser minds often ridicule their ideas.

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
— Oscar Wilde

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
— Winston Churchill

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
— Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)

“It is socially unacceptable to be right too early.”
— Robert Heinlein

“I'd rather stand alone on the truth than with millions on a lie.”

“The most distinctive mark of a cultured mind is the ability to take another's point of view; to put one's self in another's place, and see life and its problems from a point of view different from one's own. To be willing to test a new idea; to be able to live on the edge of difference in all matters intellectually; to examine without heat the burning question of the day; to have imaginative sympathy, openness and flexibility of mind, steadiness and poise of feeling, cool calmness of judgment, is to have culture.”
— Arthur H. R. Fairchild

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
— Abraham Lincoln

This reminds me of something stressed by one of my psychology professors, who said that society imposes rigid boundaries for what behavior is acceptable, and applies tremendous pressure trying to force people to conform to the behavioral expectations. Some of the most brilliant and productive outside-the-box thinkers led unconventional lives. One of the side effects of forcing people to think inside the box is that by lopping off outside-the-box behavior, potentially great outside-the-box ideas are lost, too.

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”
— Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (1908-1965)

“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.”
— John Eliot

1. Proof of liberal hypocrisy
2. Finally an explanation for the etiology of liberalism

NOTE: I wrote this article years ago when I was wholly conservative.

The hypocritical liberal Democrats in Washington want us to believe that they're friends of anyone in the United States who isn't rich. If you're in the middle class or lower class, they're your friends. Yeah, right. For years, libs blocked attempts to extract some of the enormous energy resources in and around the US, including offshore oil. They agreed to allow limited offshore drilling only after they faced relentless pressure from their constituents, who were furious about paying over $4 for a gallon of gasoline. Gasoline prices quickly fell after offshore drilling began. The price drop was greater than the impact of that oil because it sent a signal to the international oil market that we were finally serious about tapping our energy reserves. Markets must factor in future supply and demand when setting current prices.

Not long after limited offshore drilling was given the green light, liberal Democrats, perhaps emboldened by Obama's victory, spoke of further restricting or even stopping it. The only thing that kept the price of gasoline from spiking up again was the massive collapse of the US economy.

Liberal Democrats also want you to believe that they are deeply concerned about protecting the environment. If that is true, try explaining this: Why are they willing to let China drill for oil off the US shore? China doesn't care about protecting their environment; do you really think they will be any more concerned with ours? The Chinese have a long track record of poisoning our kids with lead and poisoning our pets with melamine. Do you think they care about an oil spill or two?

If we were to drill offshore, not in a limited fashion, but with a determination to get every drop of oil we can, it would do two things:

Further decrease oil prices. $2.25 per gallon is OK; $1.50 would be better.
Protect the environment by crowding out the Chinese. When American oil companies drill, they take great care to protect the environment because they know that even a minor mishap can be used as ammunition to attack them and thereby limit future drilling.

All of the offshore oil that can be economically extracted will be taken. The only question is WHO will take it: us or the Chinese. Whether you are an American concerned with the price of gas, or someone concerned with the environment, the best alternative is for us to get that oil — NOT the Chinese! Consequently, isn't it obvious that liberal Democrats don't care about us? They DO care about the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, who give money to politicians under the table so they favor laws that artificially inflate the price of oil — thereby benefiting the Saudis and other foreign oil-producing nations. See how nifty their little game is? It's just a variation of politician's standard modus operandi in which they take bribes, also known as campaign contributions, from special interest groups to do things that benefit them, but hurt us. If those special interest groups advocated things that helped most Americans, there would not be a need for them to use money to influence politicians, right? Politicians would do those things anyway.

Senator Orrin Hatch said, "Democrats claim that they're for the poor. The worst thing they're doing to the poor is preventing us from developing our own oil because the poor are spending up to 50% of their income for home heating, for fuel … and guess who is doing it to them? It's these people [such as Nancy Pelosi] who are in the pockets of radical environmentalists. I'm not talking about true environmentalists — we're all that. We all want clean air, clean water."

Most people are liberals when they are young, idealistic, and ignorant about economics. Winston Churchill is reputed to have said something such as, "Show me a young conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains." Another variation of this quote (there weren't many tape recorders in those days!) is, "If you aren't a liberal by the time you're 20, you don't have a heart. If you aren't a conservative by the time you're 40, you don't have a brain."

Many people wise up, but some don't. With such overwhelming evidence that economic liberalism is so corrosive to prosperity, I've spent many years wondering why even smart people can be libs (note that I never said that liberals are necessarily dumb — just ignorant; their meanings are not synonymous). I stumbled upon the answer a month ago; here it is.

Liberalism can be a good way to run a life, but it's a terrible way to run a country.

Not all liberals want more of your money

1. A new way to pay taxes: with a smile
2. How to slash welfare without hurting anyone

The views expressed on this page may or may not reflect my current opinions, nor do they necessarily represent my past ones. After reading a slice of what I wrote in my various websites and books, you may conclude that I am a liberal Democrat or a conservative Republican. Wrong; there is a better alternative. Just as the primary benefit from debate classes results when students present and defend opinions contrary to their own, I use a similar strategy as a creative writing tool to expand my brainpower—and yours. Mystified? Stay tuned for an explanation. PS: The wheels in your head are already turning a bit faster, aren't they?

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reference: Imagining dialogue can boost critical thinking: Excerpt: “Examining an issue as a debate or dialogue between two sides helps people apply deeper, more sophisticated reasoning …”

Kevin Pezzi, MD

1. Proof of liberal hypocrisy
2. Finally an explanation for the etiology of liberalism

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1. Proof of liberal hypocrisy
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