POLITICS

Dr. Hurd: I liked your column the other day about how Americans feel entitled to middle-class welfare benefits such as Medicare. But I think you miss one point. I AM entitled! You see, the government has been taking money from me for 25 years and telling me I will:...

Liberty is a beautiful thing. But it's a tool. It's not an end in itself that can be imposed on a people unworthy of it, or who do not want it. Advocates of liberty must be careful not to confuse cause and effect. Liberty is, in fact, the effect -- the RESULT -- of a...

People wonder how and why high-profile politicians like Arnold Schwarzenegger use such bad judgment in their personal lives. "They have so much to lose; why do they risk it?" To me, it's obvious why men such as Schwarzenegger, or any career politician, use such bad...

After Standard & Poors (S&P) lowered the credit rating of the federal government, an Obama administration official said, “This is a facts-be-damned decision.” So what are the facts? The facts are: The federal government had “revenues” of $2.16 trillion in 2010...

Much is made about how the next President should be someone with experience in business. This was the appeal of Donald Trump's phony flirtation with running, and now it's the appeal of Herman Cain, the former business executive promising to take on Obama. The...

Political commentator and former presidential advisor Dick Morris writes: "Count the corpses: 1. Hillary Clinton’s healthcare proposals led to the Democrats’ loss of Congress in 1994. 2. Newt Gingrich’s proposed cuts in the rate of growth in Medicare...

Rosie O'Donnell, comedian and celebrity, has come out against the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden -- on principle. O'Donnell no doubt speaks for many liberals and some libertarians when she claims that Osama bin Laden's execution is an injustice because he...

It's considered an absolute that self-esteem is always a good thing. In the right context, it is. But what happens when self-esteem/self-confidence and wrong-headed thinking exist in the same person?   Many people's thinking is undercut, or even corrupted, by...

Do traumas, tragedies, and difficulties make you stronger? I say: NO. It's not difficulty that makes people stronger. What makes you strong are the habits of rationality and serenity which make difficulty bearable in the first place. You're better because of these...

Impose the world's highest corporate income tax rate, and we can expect the result will be too few corporations and too much government. "The United States may soon wind up with the distinction that makes business leaders cringe -- the highest corporate tax rate in...

Dear Dr. Hurd, Is it just me? I am getting the strangest impression that our media is slowly, but oh-so-surely, trying to convince an easily convinced and swayed American public that bin Laden is actually something of a hero...one who was mercilessly gunned down by...

"Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader." So says President Obama. You could have fooled me. Obama cites evidence that bin Laden killed Muslims as proof that he was not a Muslim leader. Now wait a minute. Imagine if a cult of people drank Kool Aid filled with poison....

Obama says there is no "silver bullet" or quick fix solution for bringing down gas prices. This may be true -- but does this mean there's no solution? First of all, it isn't the government's job to bring down (or drive up) gas prices. The government's job is to stay...

C.S. Lewis said: "It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies." He's right. "Robber barons" was the term for the successful businessmen of his time. There is no theft in success, however. This wrong idea led to the...

Politicians: Let's have health care for all. Voters: Yes. But not ObamaCare. We don't want government care. We want guaranteed health care. Medical care like we have now, only free. And more competent, more compassionate, less bureaucratic than now. Will you get that...

By now it's plain to nearly everyone that Republicans are getting nowhere in massively cutting the budget and limiting the scope of the federal government. It's tempting to blame the politicians themselves. "Those politicians!" it could be said. "They won't honor the...

You think I'm overstating it when I say the world has gone mad? Then listen to our leaders -- most of them Republicans, the very ones who claim they want to change the status quo within our government. Appearing on CBS' “Face the Nation,” Republican (and...

I'm sick to death of all this talk about "both sides" in the federal budget debate needing to "come together." We should get something straight. In every issue, there is a right side and a wrong side. (That is, assuming there's any real difference between the two...

?Telling others what to do is an insult. It implies that the person you’re ordering to do something has no rational faculty of his or her own. If you went up to somebody and said, “You’re mindless. You can’t do anything,” this would be...

Districting is a Constitutional requirement that must be done every ten years following the census. The requirement has become a political tool. It is believed that If one can corral many of one's own party into one district, reaching them will be easier. This...

  Barack Obama, like all liberals, does not like to be questioned. But he's so profoundly wrong about so many things that our very survival depends on questioning him. In his latest speech bashing both Republicans and capitalism, Barack Obama said: "The way this...

In a recent article, I wrote that Donald Trump would not be a President who restored capitalism and individual rights, but would be a President who would initiate fascism. If his attitudes and beliefs about the cult of personality applied to government don’t...

A is A. Islam is Islam. There is no such thing as 'Good' Islam vs 'Bad' Islam. Islam is a totalitarian religion, but Muslims are individual human beings who may or may not practice their religion. One way I’ve been putting it recently is that your average Muslim...