Dr. Edward Jenner (1749-1823), the English country physician, deserves the largest share of the credit for widespread vaccination and eventual eradication of smallpox. He is one among those great medical giants who, almost single handedly, laid down a great foundation b…
“Returning from the farce of coronation, Captain [John] Smith set himself to work to overcome the obstacles that beset the path of the man who ruled the community with intent to set the colony in the right way. Chief and most grievous was the communistic idea...
Why Obama Cannot and Will Never Lead by Michael J. Hurd Ph.D. Critics are saying that Obama must display “leadership.” So far, he has failed to do so, they claim. This is true enough. But what exactly is leadership? Leadership implies a direction. The...
Remember when President Obama and his team promised that if only we passed an emergency “stimulus” bill allowing them to wantonly spend $787 billion, unemployment would be capped at 8%? Two years later, having soared as high as 9.8%, July’s unemployment rate stands at...
The President and his friends in the media blame the Tea Party, who got none of the spending cuts they wanted in the phony budget “compromise,” for the subsequent slide of the stock market and the growing debt crisis in the U.S. Yet it’s interesting...
Is arrogance the opposite of modesty? First, we have to define “arrogance.” Merriam-Webster dictionary defines arrogance as, “an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions.” The...
On many levels, Medicare is a fraud and a hoax. So it is no surprise that the current debate, and the way the debate is reported, is not about whether Medicare delivers medical care at all, let alone its availability or quality. Many politicians value Medicare...
If this latest “debt deal” was anything, it was certainly everything a “compromise” had to offer. While the original cut, cap, and balance plan was at least a step in the right direction, the underlying principles motivating the bill were...
Exasperated people who favor liberty and individual rights, but who also favor separation of church and state, often say to me: “Why is this our choice? Why do we have the socialist Obama on the one side, and the religiously insane Michele Bachmann on the other?...
Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller) recently wrote an opinion piece titled “I don’t know, so I’m an atheist libertarian.” Penn makes several good points that aren’t spoken often enough: People try to argue that government isn’t really force. You believe that? Try not...
Some lower courts are ruling ObamaCare unconstitutional. The reason given is that it’s wrong to force the individual to buy a product or service, such as health insurance. These decisions are all well and good. But the question remains: If it’s wrong for...
People tend to blame bad business decisions on capitalism. For example, some business owners treat their employees poorly and would advance their own interests better by treating their employees well. Happy employees tend to lead to happy customers, which means more...
Yet another jihad mass murder at Fort Hood in Texas was narrowly averted last [month], and its perpetrator, a Muslim soldier in the U.S. Army named Naser Abdo, was defiant. Accused of plotting to construct bombs and detonate them in a crowded restaurant full of...
Ayn Rand is hot right now. Sizzling hot. As government grows more intrusive, and our freedom shrinks, her novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, are selling at an unprecedented clip. Given today’s headlines, it is easy to see why. Less easy to understand is...
We’re told that the riots throughout the U.K. are the fault of people who cut social service programs. The implication is clear. To those who teach and rule us, in academia and government, these riots are justified. Here’s a question nobody has yet asked:...
“We’ve always been, and always will be, a triple-A country.” So said Barack in a pep talk after the latest financial meltdown. Nobody listened. But probably most people agree. This statement epitomizes why Obama’s presidency is failing...
The downgrade in America’s credit rating for the first time in history could be a good thing — if the American people, and not just their politicians, learn from it. Actually, the politicians (the great majority of them, at least) will learn nothing from...
Now that the politicians have delivered an anti-debt deal that adds an estimated $8 trillion to the current $14.5 trillion federal debt over the next 10 years, President Obama is getting ready to head off on a pro-jobs bus tour of the Midwest. With more than...
Don’t resist jihad terror and Islamic supremacism—just surrender, for the sake of the children. That is the message from the Left and its Islamic supremacist allies this week, in the wake of the horrific murders of more than 70 people at a Norwegian...
On TV crime and court shows, you sometimes see the attorney, during a trial, say something outrageous and indefensible. The opposing attorney immediately objects and the judge backs up the objection. The attorney who said the outrageous statement replies,...
Academy award-winning actor Matt Damon said he is “so disgusted” with what’s happening in Washington over the debt limit, claiming that the Tea Party is “willing to drive it all off a cliff” and adding that it’s...
Newsmax.com reports that more than half of all voters do not trust President Barack Obama to lead America back to economic prosperity. And the young who turned out in such great numbers for Obama in 2008 have even less confidence in him than those in any other age...
The liberal left and establishment right keep complaining that the Tea Party “doesn’t understand compromise” or isn’t “willing to compromise.” This immediately raises the question: Compromise WHAT, exactly? A compromise, in or out...
Whenever conventional career politicians such as Joe Biden declare, “It’s a compromise,” and claim that’s a good thing — hold onto your wallets and purses. In this compromise, Barack Obama got the most important thing he wanted:Extension...
From President Bush’s 1000 points of light to President Obama’s biblical argument “aren’t we our brother’s keeper?” for government charity programs it appears everyone agrees that charity is good for our country and may even...
This intriguing question and its implications for US economic policy are tackled in the groundbreaking book Great Again, by Henry R. Nothhaft with David Kline. They answer the above query with a series of questions: Could a twenty-year-old college dropout,...
Obama’s moves to the right in the budget negotiations are creating dissension within the Democratic Party, according to The New York Times. Republicans have changed the terms of the debate over the size and role of the federal government, and the president has...
America’s financial situation is precarious. Over the past 8 years our national debt has doubled to $14.5 trillion and our total unfunded liabilities now exceed an astonishing $114 trillion. That’s $1,115,000 per federal income tax payer. Even the most unrepentant...
A fundamental difference between religion and science is that a scientific theory is testable, while a religion is not. Religion ignores facts and believes in faith. All environmental doomsday theories are religions, not science. This is true no...
In his July 17 newsletter Steve Pearce, a New Mexico Congressman, mentioned his participation in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. He wrote: “On Thursday, I played in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, an annual tradition reaching back to...
The following letter from a number of Law Professors deals with the Constitutionality of a First-to-File system as contemplated by the America Invents Act (H.R. 1249 and S. 23) June 17, 2011 By Email Speaker John Boehner Office of the Speaker H-232 U.S. Capitol...
SEA ISLE, N.J. — I should be worrying about how the politicians are killing the nation financially, but that’s on the back burner today because the 25th annual Red, White and Blueberry Festival is right up the road and they’re estimating that 10,000...
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