Close call, “Middle America.” The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Calvin Broadus, AKA Snoop Doggy Dogg, now sees himself as a mainstream commercial entity. That’s right, according to the rapper, who says he no longer uses drugs —...
POLITICS
Depression and Learned Helplessness
Depression has been defined as a persistent feeling of learned helplessness. For those who are depressed, this raises the questions: what do you feel helpless about, and why? What needs to change in order for you to feel less helpless? One area to work on is your...
Investing: High Price Ratios and Cheap Stocks?
At the top of the late great bull market in 2000 investors kept coming up with reasons why stocks weren’t really overpriced. I came up with a few juicy theories myself that will live forever in the Rationalizations Hall of Fame. But now, in the bowels of the...
Who Do Democrats Hate More: Saddam or Bush?
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Surely most Republicans observed in giddy delight as Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle did his best imitation of Jack Palance on the Senate floor, accusing President Bush of “politicizing” the debate over national...
Anti-Capitalist Demonstrators and Freedom of Speech
Last weekend’s anti-capitalist demonstrations in Washington were every bit what most observers expected them to be: sessions in idiocy, lunacy and general mayhem. As expected, portions of the city were significantly impacted by the demonstrations and despite...
Does waging war on a tyrant make one a tyrant?
Agitated reader: I just can’t stomach your narrow minded opinions anymore. What gives the United States moral authority to wage a war against not just a tyrant, but innocent people? Dr. Hurd: What exactly would broad minded opinions consist of? Treating the...
Crusading to Keep Kids Clueless: Public Education Monopoly Cracks Down on Home Schooling
The public education monopoly can’t stand the thought of “unqualified” parents teaching their own children. That is why they are cracking down on home schooling, even as a new study shows that thousands of public school teachers themselves are...
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality
Consider the following statement issued on September 27, 2002 at a press conference by the leaders of last weekend’s “anti-capitalist convergence” in Washington, DC after hundreds of protestors were arrested for acts of violence and disorder,...
The Bear Market Makes the Case for Privatizing Social Security
The market is in another slump, and investors’ savings have once again shrunk. So now is the perfect time to make the case for privatizing Social Security. This is not the conventional view on the subject. In the run-up to next month’s elections,...
Q & A on Going to war with Iraq
A reader from a major news network writes in: Reader: Going to war with Iraq is so stupid for so many reasons that I can’t take the time to address them all. Needless to say, there is NO evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Dr. Hurd: So it doesn’t...
The Purpose of a World Trade Center Memorial
Memorials proposed for the World Trade Center site include slabs of stone whose lines would correspond to the shadows cast by the Towers when they were attacked; a well 911 feet deep with two towers hovering above it; and a grass-covered mound 650 feet across. For...
Allowing Israel to Destroy the PLO Helps Defend the U.S.
It is time that the United States recognize the true nature of Yasser Arafat and his regime. The PLO has been engaged in a terror campaign against Israel for decades, and today supports fanatical suicide bombers, who deliberately target and murder innocent civilians....
Latest Version of Old Ploy
California’s Governor Gray Davis has gotten himself some front-page headlines, not only in California but across the country, by signing into law the first mandated provision for paid leave from work (at half pay) for people who say that they have family...
A Declaration of Independence…from the United Nations
Imagine the following scenario: if on the eve of American independence, the founders had asked the world’s permission before they revolted against the English crown. Imagine if the question of American independence rested not in the minds of the patriots, but...
Marketing 101 for Broadband Service Providers
Every day I’m bombarded with television commercials from broadband service providers in my area. Companies like BellSouth, Charter, AT & T, and Earthlink are competing relentlessly for my broadband dollars. And there isn’t a single thing in any of...
The Return of the Al Gore
If anyone had any doubts about whether Al Gore was going to try to run for president again in 2004, his speech in San Francisco on September 23rd should have put those doubts to rest. The former vice president was in top form, doing what he does best — making an...
The “Corporate Axis of Evil”: Patriotic Companies Crossing the Delaware
Just before leaving town for the August recess, both houses of Congress saw fit to declare war on the “Corporate Axis of Evil”–Bermuda, Barbados, Gibraltar and a number of other offshore tax havens. Speech after speech in the House and Senate decried...
Poor Language, Poor Thinking
Here’s what the Harvard University Civil Rights Project’s “scholars” said in a July 2001 press release: “Almost half a century after the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that Southern school segregation was unconstitutional and...
Orwellian ‘Peace’ Movement
For decades, radicals have gobbled up words such as ‘peace’ and ‘progressive’ and spit them out as the pillars of anti-American, radical leftist philosophy. Nothing’s changed. Pacifists and progressives with the keen ability to convert...
“Friends” of Blacks, Part 2
In a commercial that ran during the Christmas-New Years holidays a few years ago, the husband was trying to keep an old car patched up, while the wife wanted him to get a new one. At the end, the wife asks: “Should old acquaintance be forgot?” And she...
Freedom of Association
Do Americans really cherish freedom of association? Are there any justifiable restrictions on freedom of association? In my book, any restriction on one’s right to associate freely with anyone he pleases, on mutually agreeable terms, is both offensive and a...
The Trend Toward Totalitarian Government
A truly civilized, wealth-respecting world would observe capital flight and brain drains, recoil in horror and stop penalizing success. It would cut tax rates and regulation and cease calling wealth-makers as criminals who deserve a noose — or deportation. But...
Who are America’s Greatest Heroes?
With the anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, Americans have remembered and lauded our fireman and police heroes, as we should. But now that the commemorative ceremonies are over, it is time to ask ourselves: who are America’s greatest heroes? These firemen...
“Friends” of Blacks
If the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall.
“Race Cleansing” in Zimbabwe: UN Sees No Evil
Only the United Nations, we’re told, has the vision and the moral authority to be the keepers of justice in the world. Well, as they say, actions speak louder than words. The UN’s bureaucrats spend a huge amount of time wringing their hands over the United...
Bureaucratic Leftism: The United Nations vs. American Sovereignty
In the debate over Iraq, the Democrats and most allied governments are demanding United Nations Security Council endorsement of a military campaign – or they are against it. This is a strange position. The U.S. government, with an over two-century record of...
Investing: The Debt Bet
If you’re thinking of bailing out of the stock market, you’re not alone. Frantic investors are moving their money out of stocks and into bonds and money-market funds – that is, out of equity and into debt. Investing demands choosing, and, instead of...
Protect America: Stop Marrying Terrorists!
Here’s another item to add to Dr. Laura’s list of “10 Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives”: Stupid treachery. An alarming number of American women have ruined their lives — and threatened the lives of their fellow citizens...
One Year Later: Does Bush Really Understand the War?
The AP reports President Bush’s overall approval rating has slid steadily downward over the summer, largely because of a withering of support in the way he is conducting foreign policy. According to a CBS News-New York Times poll released earlier this month, a...
Enron vs. Atlas
The hysteria over “corporate crime” is finally beginning to lead a few people back to the one source that puts this scandal frenzy in its proper perspective: Ayn Rand’s epic novel “ Atlas Shrugged ,” which was recently profiled in The New...
Mad about Mandela
According to a Reuters report filed by Brendan Boyle, South African statesman Nelson Mandela condemned President Bush’s policy on Iraq earlier this month, saying he was “appalled” by U.S. threats of military action. According to the report:...
End Sanctuary for Illegal Immigrants
What does fighting terrorism have to do with stemming massive illegal immigration? Much more than government officials have been willing to let on over the past year. When September 11 hijackers Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar needed help getting fraudulent...
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