Dr Michael Hurd

A reader writes in: I respectfully disagree with your "shooting-from-the-hip" and "un-objective-like" quick analysis of the Yates killings (see Daily Dose column 2/28/02--"Why the Insanity Defense is Insane" ). I haven't had time to fully analyze the issue, but my...

Andrea Yates, charged with killing her five young children, is attempting to prove that she was insane at the time and is therefore not responsible. "Insane" in this context is defined by our legal theorists simply as "not knowing right from wrong." How can "not...

Many people assume that they can't accomplish their goals until they have "the right motivation." They will even seek psychological help in order to establish "the right motivation" before taking any steps towards a goal. This is a mistake -- and an amazingly common...

"They can stoke me with money," said Senator Ted Kennedy, referring to how the Bush Administration can win his favor. "I'm an easy stoke." Why can't we just stoke him? Or, more importantly: stoke his ideas and policies? We should challenge people like Kennedy (and his...

From a FoxNews.com report: Shackled, blinded and bound, 30 Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees stepped off a U.S. Air Force C-141 cargo plane in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday after an all-night flight from Afghanistan, halfway around the world. Sixty gun-toting Marines...

"We will not rest until we stop all terrorists of global reach, and for every nation that harbors or supports terrorists there will be a day of reckoning," says President Bush. Let's hope he means it. Until we overwhelmingly smash every government responsible for all...

I saw a bumpersticker the other day which said, "Creativity Is More Important Than Knowledge." What an excellent example of utterly wrong thinking! You can't separate creativity from knowledge. The two are intertwined. Generally speaking, greater amounts of knowledge...

[CAPITALISM MAGAZINE.COM] President George W. Bush is his father's son. In place of principle -- right or wrong -- we see waffling. His recent approach to the stem-cell research debate illustrates this fact eloquently. The President came up with a decision designed to...

Over the past few months, congress has been trying to make it easier for employees to sue their employers if they are not happy with their health insurance plans. Yes, you read that correctly. Liberal-socialist-statists want to hold employers responsible for the fact...

New polls are showing increased support for banning the use of cell phones while driving. Here we go again. I have a better idea: why don't we simply hold people accountable for bad driving? If you drive poorly, then you should be held accountable whether you are...

Q: You condemn Gore Vidal for claiming that Timothy McVeigh has a sense of justice. You're wrong. However unfortunate his target due to his ignorance of the presence of the day care center, remember that the Department of Justice and the FBI's HRT did know that there...

President Bush has ordered all federal agencies, before they issue any kind of regulations, to consider their impact on energy supplies, and to expedite permits so that energy projects don't get "snarled in bureaucratic tangles as local governments or entrepreneurs...

Q: What about the Libertarians? They seek the same role for government as people such as yourself. You cannot complain that there is not a party that is fiscally conservative and socially liberal when the Libertarians are present. A: Yes I can. Because the...