Conclusion of Wednesday's column.

Dr .Phil.: “If you want confidence, you have to take on a confident posture. This can be as simple as putting more confidence in your walk and in your demeanor.”

Dr.Hurd.: Confidence comes from something much deeper than changing your walking style. You can’t fake confidence. Confidence comes from a sense that your mind is effective and capable; and that you deserve to experience good things by using your mind effectively and capably, and from living a rational, self-responsible existence. If you haven’t been feeling, thinking and acting this way, then walking straight and proud isn’t going to do it.

D.P.: “You teach people how to treat you.” 

It's interesting.  I knew that the country had been swinging to the left -- not the right -- in recent years and have said so repeatedly. The Tea Party seemed, for only a moment, to be an opposite trend. But look at whom the Tea Party is about to end up with as a standard bearer, of all people: Mitt Romney, the architect of the inspiration for nationalized health care (also known as ObamaCare). 

Readers of The Daily Dose of Reason and Life’s a Beach have repeatedly asked for Dr. Hurd’s opinions of celebrity psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, popularly known as “Dr. Phil.” Here, Dr. Hurd replies to some of Dr. Phil’s comments as they appear in the famed psychologist’s own words, based on his website and interviews over the years.

Dr. Phil.: “You will not solve your relationship problems by becoming more alike in your thinking. Men and women are wired differently. Attempting to blur your fundamentally different viewpoints is unnatural and even dangerous.”