by Dr Michael Hurd | Apr 22, 2012 | Education
A DrHurd.com visitor asks how she can help her children to keep developing their rational minds, to be objective and to develop a correct hierarchy of knowledge, in spite of government-run schools that teach the exact opposite. She says her kids are intelligent and... by Dr Michael Hurd | Apr 22, 2012 | Welfare
Politicians love to talk about fairness. What is fair about robbing from some to redistribute to others?
by Brian Phillips | Apr 19, 2012 | POLITICS, Regulation
If a survey were taken, what would receive the lowest scores for quality, price, and value: The post office The state of our roads The quality of public education The price of gasoline Energy bills Wall Street Congress Chances are good that all of these would receive... by Jaana Woiceshyn | Apr 18, 2012 | Environment
Last week, I was writing about the first UN World Happiness Report and how it pits wealth creation and wealth against happiness. I promised to discuss why wealth creation is not only good for people’s happiness but also for the planet. Wealth creation without the... by Scott Holleran | Apr 16, 2012 | Movies
The Hunger Games is not explicitly for individual rights or any other political ideal; its power lies in a subtle grasp of what government control does to decent people.
by George Selgin | Apr 16, 2012 | Money & Banking
In the aftermath of the U.S. banking crises of the 1930s, it became common for American economists to speak of the “inherent” instability of fractional-reserve banking and of the “perverse elasticity” of money supply in fractional-reserve banking systems. What the... by Dr Michael Hurd | Apr 16, 2012 | Racism
Shelby Steele is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution who is critical of the civil rights movement, and of leftism in general. In The Wall Street Journal, he recently wrote that there are two tragedies as a result of the Trayvon Martin slaying.... by Dr Michael Hurd | Apr 15, 2012 | Racism
Have you heard of Trayvon Martin? Of course you have. He’s the young man who was killed by a neighborhood watch member. Martin was reportedly unarmed and the neighborhood watch person, George Zimmerman, claims he was acting in self-defense. There is some evidence to... by Ralph R. Reiland | Apr 15, 2012 | Racism
Last week, NBC News became truthful, at least partially, when it issued an apology about altering a taped 911 conversation between George Zimmerman and a police dispatcher in the high-profile Trayvon Martin story, a case being linked to racism and profiling. What...