Q: Dr. Hurd, I am sure you heard about Rush Limbaugh's addiction and subsequent hospitalization for prescription drugs. Doesn't this show that addictive problems are a medical disease, and that Limbaugh's (and your own) emphasis on choice and self-reliance cannot...
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Capitalism and the Common Man
There are some arguments so illogical that only an intellectual or politician can believe them. One of those arguments is: capitalism benefits the rich more than it benefits the 'common man.' Let's look at it. The rich have always had access to entertainment, and some...
Capitalism and Survival of the “Weakest”
Capitalism is sometimes disparaged as "dog eat dog," a system of "cutthroat" competition and "survival of the fittest." Such characterizations, however, have little to do with truth. "Dog eat dog" better describes conditions under anti-capitalist regimes. In communist...
WMD Headlines Miss the Real Story
David Kay, the US government's top weapons inspector in Iraq, reported this month on his team's first three months of searching for weapons of mass destruction. "We have not yet found stocks of weapons," he testified, nor anything to corroborate "pre-war reporting...
Bush’s Real Failure
"If George Bush rebuilds Iraq the way he rebuilds the United States, they're going to lose 3 million jobs over the course of the next three years," said Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who's hoping to run against President Bush next year. Clever statement -- but there...
Let Iraqis Run Iraq
What to do in Iraq? The question is made urgent by the steady attrition of coalition forces, punctuated by seven large car-bomb explosions. The latest of them, on Sunday, killed six and wounded dozens at the Baghdad Hotel. More broadly, the briefly held gratitude to...
Why Democrats–and Conservatives–Fear Arnold
A Nazi groper, running the fifth-largest economy on the planet? I mean this time you gotta see why liberals are mad! Nixon was one thing, with the hiring of burglars and all to lift McGovern's secrets, and the bombing of Cambodia on the sly --- and goofy, like when...
Research on Labor Supply Supports Supply-Side View of Tax Policy
In a recent column, I discussed some of the support for supply-side economics at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and in academia. Today, I would like to extend my discussion to some emerging research on labor supply that further supports the supply-side...
Answer to Bush’s Question
President Bush, while being heckled by anti-war protesters in Australia, asked his audience how anyone can believe the world is not a better place with Saddam Hussein out of power. Good question. He asked it rhetorically, not expecting an answer. But there are...
Militant Islam Reaches America
Terrorism, in other words, is just one dimension of a war that has many fronts and takes many forms.
Christopher Columbus, We Salute You
Most Columbus Days are marked by rabid condemnations of the explorer as a genocidal maniac bent on destroying the peaceful and innocent native peoples who populated the Caribbean islands which Columbus discovered. These condemnations are not only unwarranted but...
A Lynch Mob Gathers Around Justice Janice Rogers Brown: Part 3
Senator Charles Schumer went on television on October 22nd to announce that he was prepared to urge his fellow Democrats to filibuster, in order to prevent a Senate vote on the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to become a federal...
Lean, Mean, and Dean
From the Howard Dean for President website: "Repeal the Bush tax cuts, and use those funds to pay for universal health care, homeland security, and investments in job creation that benefit all Americans." In other words: Raise taxes, nationalize medical care --...
The NYSE: Use It, Then Lose It!
I hate the New York Stock Exchange. I admit it -- I hate the place. I always have and I always will. So even though I have no objection to executives earning huge salaries and bonuses, I've been positively tickled to see the NYSE dragged through the mud over ex-Chief...
A Lynch Mob Gathers Around Justice Janice Rogers Brown: Part 2
"The preservation of a viable constitutional government is not a task for wimps." So said California's state Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown. If there is any doubt about that, those doubts are sure to be erased during Justice Brown's confirmation hearings to...
The “Bloviator’s” New Best Friend
Alec "the Bloviator" Baldwin has a new bosom buddy: Beltway Republican strategist Grover Norquist. The Bush-bashing actor-turned-activist and the Muslim vote-courting political organizer joined together at a Washington, D.C.-area conference last weekend to perpetuate...
Palestinian Authority Violence Against Americans
Is there any subject that the mainstream media treats worse than the Palestinian Authority (PA)? Case in point: placing the Oct. 15 murder of three American security personnel in Gaza. Here is USA Today's comment, representative of media assessments of the topic: "the...
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
"Excellent schools deliver a clear message to their students: No Excuses. No excuses for failing to do your homework, failing to work hard in general; no excuses for fighting with other students, running in the hallways, dressing inappropriately and so forth." That's...
A Lynch Mob Gathers Around Justice Janice Rogers Brown: Part 1
The nomination of Justice Janice Rogers Brown of the California Supreme Court to become a federal Court of Appeals judge has brought out vicious special interest groups with their long knives -- and a long record of smears and character-assassination, going back to...
The Estate Tax Non-Repeal
Of all the tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration, none has been more controversial than repeal of the estate tax. Even though it represents only a very small part of the total revenue loss from the 2001 and 2003 tax bills -- and isn't really repealed,...
Palestinian Authority: A Network of Murderers Masquerading As Government
Three Americans -- John Branchizio, Mark Parson, and John Martin Linde -- were murdered last Wednesday when terrorists in Gaza bombed the diplomatic convoy they were riding in. News accounts immediately described the attack as a first -- ''an unprecedented deadly...
Saddam’s Weapon of Mass Destruction Lies
Suppose for an instant that no weapons of mass destruction ever turn up in Iraq. Of course, they might well still appear, but let's imagine that Saddam Hussein did not have an advanced program for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, as well as the missiles to...
The Bush Boom: How a ‘Misunderestimated’ President Fixed Our Broken Economy
Ever wonder why all the doom-and-gloom economic pronouncements you hear in the media, and from liberal politicians, don't square up with the America you see around you -- an America in which the economy has turned the corner and is growing again? The answer is that...
The Bali Bombers: What Motivates Death Worship?
On the anniversary of the Bali bombing, survivors and mourners are still asking: Why? The bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Samudra have been sentenced to death, but they show no remorse or regret. What motivates their death worship? At 11.07 pm, October 12 th 2002, 5 kg of...
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