What if President Obama succeeds in giving enemy combatants -- terrorists -- the same rights as American citizens? Will terrorists be won over by our superior values? To the contrary, terrorists demean our values as weak and ungodly. They will, if anything, feel empowered by our weakness. Instead of dying...

A column written by David Wessel on December 17, 2009 was published in the Wall Street Journal with the title, "A Prozac Economy Has Its Costs." Wessel warns against the potentially stultifying effects of economic control. He makes some good points that can be sharpened by a more precise comparison...

All of us realize that when a child is raised without adequate parenting that the results can be devastating. We know the hazards for children who don't have parental role models or whose role models are inadequate, conflicted, abusive, or untrustworthy. We know they will find it difficult as adults...

Someone hacked into the email files of director Phil Jones and his colleagues at Britain's leading Climate Research Unit (CRU). This is one of the most influential scientific groups for establishing man-made global warming and the need for dramatic, costly political and economic interventions to save the environment.

The emails...

What is Thanksgiving Day really about? Is it a pagan rite, as some say? A celebration of the fall harvest, as historians remind us? A myth of no merit as some cynics suggest? Or, in line with revisionists, is Thanksgiving a day of infamy that should signify the abuse of...

The military failed to protect itself from Major Nidal Hasan. Why? Because it has been neutered by the shame and guilt engendered by political correctness.

Too many Americans have been made ashamed of American values and taught to blame America for all of the world's ills. This shame and...

Before I begin to look at his role as a psychiatrist, I want to confirm that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was driven by religious ideology. For years he openly claimed that the War on Terror is a war on Muslims. He announced on the Internet and to his fellow soldiers...

There are many problems within our legal system that could benefit from reform. But within the area in which I have great experience as a psychiatric expert, so-called tort reform has already gone too far. It is already too difficult for injured patients or their surviving families to bring...

With the looming probability of a "public option" as a prelude to full-blown national health care, it's important examine the most threatening and even tragic unintended consequences for our society and morality. In recent months, my concerns about these and other drastic political changes have led me to shift my...

For a few years when I was a young man, I studied Marxism, criticized capitalism, understood class conflict, and believed in redistributing wealth. I rejected patriotism and God. All this went on inside my head. It's how I thought about economics, politics, and humanity for a few dismal years of...

Wow, I'm an American!

That's the title of my new book: Wow, I'm an American! How to Live Like Our Nation's Heroic Founders.

Some of my friends can't even bear to say, "Wow, I'm an American!" Such unbridled enthusiasm for our nation offends their sensibilities. Perhaps you...

There is one week to go before the best conference in the world about psychiatry, mental health, and the well-being of our families and children. Experts from around the world will explain how the psychiatric diagnosing and drugging of our children does more harm than good, and present far better...

Millions of our children are being labeled with false and stigmatizing psychiatric diagnoses. Then their brains are being blunted and disabled by psychiatric drugs.

Want to find a way to do something about the plight of our children at the hands of drug companies and misguided...

Michael Savage, an independent syndicated radio commentator, has been severed from KNEW, the important San Francisco outlet for his Savage Nation. The station issued a terse statement: "Here's your no-spin direct answer; we have decided to go in a different philosophical and ideological direction, featuring more contemporary content and more...

Over the years as a psychiatrist I've evaluated innumerable cases of individuals who have been driven over the edge by psychiatric drugs. Many of these men, women and children were evaluated for legal cases but others were not. When I was re-evaluating about a hundred of these real-life stories for...

Here are the starting facts: Death by suicide is at record levels in the armed services. Simultaneously the use of antidepressant drugs is also at record levels, including brand names like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and Lexapro.

According to the army, in 2007 17% of...

A new study, published Monday in the American Journal of Psychiatry, confirms what I've been warning about for years in my scientific books and articles. The stimulants used to treat children for so-called ADHD can cause sudden cardiac arrest and death in kids. The study was published by the journal...

As progressive idealists, you seem nearer than ever to achieving many of your goals for America. At the least, you have made a sharp turn in the direction you have sought for so long. You have a president of the United States and a Congress who seem devoted to the...

Alaska attorney Jim Gottstein has taken the bull by the horns. It's a bull of many terrifying shapes and forms. First and foremost, it is the raging bull of the Psychopharmaceutical Complex that is goring America's children. It's also the rampaging state government bull that everywhere runs roughshod over the...

America and Australia are two countries I vastly admire. Nonetheless, they are continuing to abuse psychiatric patients with electroshock treatment (ECT). In America involuntary adults are being shocked despite the best efforts of psychiatric reformers (Oaks, 2009). In Australia psychiatrists have taken shock treatment to a new level of barbarity...