by Dr Michael Hurd | Jan 25, 2011 | POLITICS
Paul Krugman, the intellectual apostle of liberal-left socialism in the United States, recently wrote the following in The New York Times: “One side of American politics considers the modern welfare state . . .morally superior to the capitalism red in tooth and...
by Jason Sagall | Jan 25, 2011 | Healthcare
Your wife is stricken with a terrible medical condition. Her insurance benefits just ran out. You need money for her treatment. You go to your next-door neighbor and tell him about your wife’s misfortune. You demand $5,000. Your neighbor is stupefied. Still, he...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Jan 24, 2011 | POLITICS
Obama is about to give his “State of the Union” address. His themes will reportedly be government “investment” in the economy, advancement of the “American family,” and a restoration of “civility” to society. Obama has...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Jan 24, 2011 | POLITICS
I received a letter from a reader I’d like to share, in edited form: Hello Dr.Hurd, I have seen the decline of socialism in Poland. I was born in 1956 and left Poland in 1982 for good. I now live in Canada with socialized medicine, but that is changing because...
by Damon Gonzalez Jr. | Jan 24, 2011 | POLITICS
As the economy continues to chug along on life support and Republicans in the House of Representatives begin their meager attempts at cutting the size and scope of the federal government, the substance of President Obama’s State of the Union address is becoming...
by Brian Phillips | Jan 24, 2011 | Philosophy
[On his show] Rush Limbaugh was speaking about the “invisible hand” described by Adam Smith. It is not out of benevolence, Rush said, that your grocer sells you food. It is the grocer’s self-interest–his desire to feed his family–that motivates him. But, Rush quickly...
by Robert Spencer | Jan 23, 2011 | Europe, Free Speech, POLITICS
It was only a matter of time before jihad suicide bombers started operating in Europe. And now they have begun – in yet another salvo in the war against the freedom of speech that the West has barely noticed. “Now the Islamic state has been created. We now...
by Robert Spencer | Jan 23, 2011 | Europe, Free Speech, POLITICS
It was only a matter of time before jihad suicide bombers started operating in Europe. And now they have begun – in yet another salvo in the war against the freedom of speech that the West has barely noticed. “Now the Islamic state has been created. We now...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Jan 23, 2011 | POLITICS
The hypocrisy, inconsistency and general idiocy of our age — a “liberal” age — knows no limits. Consider liberal/socialist outrage over Walmart. Walmart, liberals argue, is greedy and exploits its workers by not paying them what they consider...
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