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Bryan Stephens has 20 years in behavioral health management. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia.

Bryan is an entrepreneur, who has also launched two previous businesses, one to develop an online game, and the other to modify high-end paint ball markers.

Bryan is a current executive coach for KSU MBA students.

Bryan earned a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology and a Masters degree in Psychology from the Georgia School of Psychology and a MBA from Kennesaw State University.


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Bryan G. Stephens
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Bryan G. Stephens
Hometown:
Marietta, GA
Joined:
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Bryan G. Stephens

My foreign policy is for the USA to live up to the cries of imperialism thrown at it. Let's show the world what that would really look like. 

Bryan G. Stephens

The Theme to North and South miniseries.

Though that is TV.

I had not seen it listed yet.

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You are so anti-gay! It is just like civil-rights! You should not even be allowed to speak on the subject!

I could be OK with whatever people wanted to do, as long as they did not use violence to enforce their views on others.

This is no different that threatening the torch the man's place of business. It is pure thuggary.

Bryan G. Stephens

 Hamiltion never wanted what we have now, in his wildest dreams!

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Now, let me say the Turkey is a member of NATO. We should be saying something about all this.

Then again, whey they would not help us with Iraq, I thought we should have kicked them out then.

Bryan G. Stephens

Tell Clarie to stay safe!

Bryan G. Stephens

Mendel

Bryan G. Stephens: The American Federal system was not designed with political parties in mind. Congress and the President are supposed to balance against each other.

Parties are always going to happen, because people work that way. Our current system decreases the power of parties. 

I think this is an important point.

In any other field, if a major project is based on an underlying premise, and that premise turns out to be completely wrong, the natural reaction is to scrap the whole project and start over.  But we have not even attempted to alter the Constitution to correct for a fundamentally flawed assumption by its authors.

You make a good point about how are system nonetheless weakens the power or parties, but I can't help but wonder what the Framers would have done differently had they known that the rise of parties was inevitable. · 3 minutes ago

I am all for weak parties. Otherwise, you get 51% telling the other 49% what to do. Our system forces the parties to the middle to get power. I am not sure how much they would have changed that.

Bryan G. Stephens

The American Federal system was not designed with political parties in mind. Congress and the President are supposed to balance against each other.

Parties are always going to happen, because people work that way. Our current system decreases the power of parties. What that means is a tendency for less extreme government. As bad as it has been for us on the right, imagine a world where the left wins a majority and imposes its will with no checks at all.

In England they elect a dictator for 5 years, as long as said dictator can pay off his party. Ug.

Bryan G. Stephens

Except for sex (always safe), the Left hates anyone having a good time. Or having kids.

Bryan G. Stephens

Here is who I follow. I'd like to meet them all, if I Have not already, plus several more. I don't always post, but I love learning.

 

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Bryan G. Stephens

iWc: I am a conservative, which means I respect people and think they know themselves (and what they should do) better than anyone else can.

So if you are reticent, to join in, I respect that. Just know that when you have something to add, we'd love to engage with you on it!

And also know that despite some of the colossal egos on this site, there is nothing that makes any of the luminaries necessarily more correct than anyone else.  The truth is the truth, regardless of the source. · 5 hours ago

My ego is merely huge!

Bryan G. Stephens

An excellent wife who can find?
    She is far more precious than jewels.
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
    and he will have no lack of gain.
 She does him good, and not harm,
    all the days of her life.

I cannot post the whole passage due to the accursed 200 word limit.

Congratulations on 43 years.

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The Federal Government has no power to pass labor laws in the first place, in any reasonable reading of the Constitution. The founders would have been appalled at the very idea.

Now, I know that the barn door is open, and the train has already left the station and burned the bridges behind it. Still, since we don't have a federal law for RTW or for Closed Shops then I don't want to add one. I am worried if we say the feds can put in national RTW, then they can also make us all closed shops.

This is something that should be decided by the states. That is where the power lies for this.

I happen to think there should be no government between employee and employer, except as is necessary to enforce contracts. The content of those contracts is the business of no one else.

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Conor Friedersdorf

Bryan G. Stephens: Exactly right, John. This is one area where I side is fighting the war not rolling over.

Conor, we cannot pretend there are rules to the fight when the other side ignores them. If they are going to knife fight, we cannot go in there unarmed. This is not fistacuffs, this is a fight for the soul of America.

Liberalism and Americanism cannot coexist. One side or the other will win.

I would like it to be our side. · 3 minutes ago

I didn't suggest "going in unarmed." I suggested a deal whereby all judges get an up or down vote. Also, there's been a liberal faction in America from the beginning. Evidently, Liberalism and Americanism can co-exist. Finally, I draw your attention again to John Yoo's condition for a deal: an apology for Robert Bork. · 25 minutes ago

Leftism, i.e. collectivism, was not here at the founding. Liberalism used to me being pro-freedom. Not any longer.

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As a resident of a Right to Work state, I am against the Feds enforcing it on everyone. ET, if you don't like it in your state, move to one (like Texas) that is not that way.

Second, complaining about voters who "don't have skin in the game" is the argument of the elite. Very clearly, everyone has skin in the game, they may not realize it. Unions drive up prices and drive out jobs. Pretty sure that effect everyone.

The Federal Government has no business getting in between the employer and the employee at any level. If you ask me. NO government at any level should be there, but clearly not the the Feds.

Bryan G. Stephens

Exactly right, John. This is one area where I side is fighting the war not rolling over.

Conor, we cannot pretend there are rules to the fight when the other side ignores them. If they are going to knife fight, we cannot go in there unarmed. This is not fistacuffs, this is a fight for the soul of America.

Liberalism and Americanism cannot coexist. One side or the other will win.

I would like it to be our side.

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