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Q: How should one deal with rumors (especially false ones) about oneself? Should one spend her time chasing them down and trying to explain their false nature, or ignore them? Is there some other alternative? A: The first task is psychological: treat the rumors for...
Q: Dr. Hurd, how can someone handle getting older? A: I'm not elderly myself, but here's what people I know who handle aging successfully have done: 1. Keep busy. A man in his mid-80's whom I know says that he never lets a day go by where he doesn't get out of the...
MSNBC.com is reporting, "a leading group of pediatricians says teenagers need access to birth control and emergency contraception, not the abstinence-only approach to sex education favored by religious groups and President Bush." I think both sides are wrong. It's a...
The attack on London demonstrates, once again, that terrorists are not afraid. In order to understand why, you have to suspend all diplomacy and political correctness for a moment. Fanatical religious terrorists are people who are not afraid of dying because they...
"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." "Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and...
Opinion surveys have indicated that a growing number of young people and their parents are wary of the Army's recruiting pitch at a time when soldiers in Iraq are killed and wounded virtually every day. Spring is typically one of the more difficult periods of the year...
The good thing about the Michael Jackson trial is that it's currently the top headline news. Better this than another 9/11, a school shooting or thousands of soldiers killed in Iraq at one time. The bad thing about the Michael Jackson trial is that it's a sideshow....
According to the new Pope: "We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often...
It appears increasingly likely that the U.S. backed government in Iraq will lose by a landslide, in favor of--surprise, surprise--Muslim fundamentalists. There will be official public statements from the U.S. government in coming days and weeks that the U.S. can work...
It’s wrong to force people to pay into a coercive retirement system, run by the government at a poor return rate, when they could be making better and more profitable decisions on their own.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand is the author of the famous novels "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged." Ayn Rand is, to me, more than merely the author of those great books. She is the one who gave me the idea that human reason is...
Q: What can meditation do for me? A: People who meditate are generally trying to reduce stress. Reducing stress is fine. However, there's nothing mystical about meditation that can help you. Letting your mind stop can be useful, but it also can be an indication that...
I don't mean to minimize the concern over intelligence reform in this country. However, the kind of intelligence most desperately needed is the philosophical kind. For our government officials in the Pentagon, the CIA, and elsewhere, philosophical intelligence refers...
Q: Dr. Hurd, how can I handle my problems with excessive doubt? A: Doubt is sometimes logical -- even helpful. For example, you might believe that somebody did something wrong to you, but the belief is based more on emotion than evidence. Your doubt about whether the...
If a group of people lined up to board the Titanic as it were sinking, you would say they were irrational. If these people were denied admission to the sinking Titanic because of race, creed, or sexual orientation, and then became angry over this discrimination, you...
One of the reasons the electorate and the country are so divided is that there is no widespread adherence to any particular set of political convictions. Most Americans do not want to adopt Communism, Nazism, fascism or Islamofascism as a set of convictions, for...
In his phone call conceding the election to President Bush, John Kerry is reported as having said we need to "do something" about all the divisiveness in the country. This is wrong on two counts.First, division on matters of principle is a good thing. The primary...
Q: I have read your article entitled "Election 2004: Looking Ahead While Living Today" and while I am leaning towards voting for Bush for the very same reasons you list, I was wondering how you respond to the following quote by Ayn Rand: "A half-battle is worse than...
Q: Dr. Hurd, I know you favor a strong stance against terrorism. However, I'm sure you disagree with the policy of the Bush Administration and Tony Blair in Britain to refuse to negotiate with the groups who practice beheading. People are dying in the most brutal...
Q: What do you think of the old saying, "It takes one to know one"? A: It's a package deal. By package deal I mean the lumping of a true concept with a false one. The evil of a package deal is that the truthful part of the statement motivates one to accept the full...
Q: You say that if--when this country is attacked again--John Kerry would probably call the U.N. and "scream for help". But Kerry told the people of the U.S. that if it was attacked again he would respond or react. So why do you say that he would appeal to the U.N....
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