By: Christine Morabito – March 2014 (revised) I’ll try not to judge. I’m sure you would never knowingly celebrate a violent, bloodthirsty hit-man for Fidel Castro, the brutal communist dictator. If we learned anything from Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao, it’s that tyrants are good at marketing. The trick to selling their snake oil is […]
By: Christine Morabito – August, 2014 Psychiatry has a word for the practice of accusing others of something you yourself do. The word is “projection.” According to PsychologyDictionary.org, projection is a “defense mechanism whereby unenviable or unpleasant traits, impulses or ideas are attributed to another. In this way, the projector is able to avoid the […]
By: Christine Morabito – February 2014 I’m not judging you. I’m sure you would never knowingly celebrate a violent, bloodthirsty hit-man for the brutal communist dictator, Fidel Castro. What we should have learned from Hitler, Stalin, Mao and their ilk, is that tyrants are good at marketing. In order to sell their snake oil, it […]
VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL May, 2006 On September 11, 2001, the passengers of United Flight 93 overpowered a handful of terrorists and prevented another catastrophe from taking place that day. Now, Hollywood has made a movie depicting the heroism of the passengers on that ill-fated flight, yet some people are using the excuse that “America isn’t […]