Dr Michael Hurd

According to a recent book by Morris M. Kleiner, an economist at the University of Minnesota, as many as 3 out of 10 workers in the United States must now be licensed to do their jobs. No longer limited to doctors, lawyers and the like; fortune tellers, massage...

Fox News online reports: "Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Sunday that the administration's approval of a loan guarantee for solar power company Solyndra -- which went belly up shortly after a...

"The great thing about Occupy Wall Street is that they have brought the focus of the entire country on the middle class majority," said George Aldro, 62, a member of Local 2325 of the United Auto Workers, as he carried the union's blue flag over his shoulder through...

??You've heard the saying, "Actions speak louder than words." It's really true. People can talk a good game all they like. It's under the stress of having to decide, and take action, that their true selves are revealed. America is in a grave crisis, perhaps one...

?For a brief second in time, objective truth emerged from Joe Biden's lips the other day. He declared that the current faltering economy "belongs to us, not Bush." Does this make Joe Biden a terrorist? After all, it's the same thing the Tea Party claims. And according...

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you! But I want to be clear: You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You...

Imagine if government "invested" in religion the way it invests in automobiles, banking, medical care and tons of other activities and services. What do you think this would do to religion -- and government? The same applies to newspapers and media, which operate in...

Music megastar Lady Gaga is -- reportedly -- going to do her next album for free. Not surprisingly, Lady Gaga is also a known Obama supporter. Just what we need. Another millionaire in favor of socialism. Many of Lady Gaga's fans are socialists just like her. Yet if...

Fox News online reports: "Obama's latest jobs plan calls for $130 billion in aid to state and local governments, providing either a welcome infusion of cash for those struggling with budget gaps, government layoffs and crumbling roads or merely a temporary patch for...

When Republican presidential candidates who oppose socialized medicine are asked, in essence, "What will you do with a sick person -- let him die?" the answer they normally give is, "Of course not. The government requires hospitals to provide emergency care, and it...

Jobs growth is now, for the first time in American history, zero. Not a single new job was created in the American economy in the last month. Most people are understandably upset. But how upset is Obama? And how upset should people with his ideology really be? Zero...

What drives a person to be a Big Government statist? Many motives are possible. One of them is to quiet their internal noise. What's "internal noise"? This refers to the self-talk a person wants to stop. For example, let's say a person feels guilty for what he has....

"Returning from the farce of coronation, Captain [John] Smith set himself to work to overcome the obstacles that beset the path of the man who ruled the community with intent to set the colony in the right way. Chief and most grievous was the communistic idea upon...

Why Obama Cannot and Will Never Lead by Michael J. Hurd Ph.D. Critics are saying that Obama must display "leadership." So far, he has failed to do so, they claim. This is true enough. But what exactly is leadership? Leadership implies a direction. The person we call...

The President and his friends in the media blame the Tea Party, who got none of the spending cuts they wanted in the phony budget "compromise," for the subsequent slide of the stock market and the growing debt crisis in the U.S. Yet it's interesting how nobody,...

Is arrogance the opposite of modesty? First, we have to define "arrogance." Merriam-Webster dictionary defines arrogance as, "an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions." The definition I prefer is:...