by Dr Michael Hurd | Dec 23, 2010 | Healthcare, POLITICS, Technology
In case you haven’t heard, Obama’s FCC has passed new rules requiring private companies who provide Internet services to submit to control under the government. What will government’s rules be? Those are yet to be determined. But the government alone...
by Joshua Lipana | Dec 22, 2010 | POLITICS
Do not let the Bush tax cuts fool you, it was an anomaly in an administration filled with big government statist policies. Regulations, redistribution of wealth, the Obama presidency, and a whole host of collectivist policies are what Pres. Bush’s real economic legacy is all about.
by Harry Binswanger | Dec 21, 2010 | POLITICS
I copied down what some clown on TV said about our debt to China: “Someone in Beijing is laughing as the U.S. goes deeper into debt to pay for the tax cut.” Where to begin? Well, the following is basically the order in which I hurriedly wrote down my...
by Richard E. Ralston | Dec 21, 2010 | Healthcare
Politics often supersedes medical science as the determining factor behind the Food and Drug Administration’s granting or denying of approval of prescription drugs. This is the result of a long-term trend that has come sharply into focus with the FDA’s...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Dec 20, 2010 | POLITICS
The U.S. Senate is considering ending, or at least reducing the strength of, the filibuster. The filibuster allows the minority in the Senate to prevent the majority from passing a bad bill, through delay or other tactics. Who wants to get rid of the filibuster?...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Dec 18, 2010 | Military, POLITICS
Are gays openly serving in the military a good thing, or a bad thing, for the military? It depends on who you ask. Some military officials are quoted as saying it will make no difference. Others are quoted as saying the opposite. Some polls of military members says it...
by Joshua Lipana | Dec 18, 2010 | WORLD
I wrote an article in Capitalism Magazine on November 20, 2010 on the chosen course of appeasement that the Philippine president Noynoy Aquino has chosen. As of that writing Pres. Aquino has consistently upped the appeasement, and as such, the results are horrors that...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Dec 17, 2010 | POLITICS
What is “group think”? It’s the opposite of individuality. Individuality resides in the independent use of your mind. “Independent” means objective, which means you independently use a rational method of thinking about people, situations...
by Peter Schiff | Dec 17, 2010 | Investing
There is an old adage on Wall Street: no one rings a bell to signal a market top or bottom. Yet, I have found that bells do ring; it’s just that few people know exactly what sound to listen for. Perhaps the biggest and most liquid of all markets...