Late-breaking: contrary to the spin I fell for, the Paul Ryan budget plan is a fraud. Karl Rove reports that the proposed budget does not cut a single dime. It’s the oldest trick in the book: pass off a slowed increase as a cut. Ryan’s “Path to...
POLITICS
The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men. – AYN RAND
Charlie Rangel: A Little King with Huge Budgets
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) speaks for all liberals and socialists when he says that budget “cuts do not necessarily mean savings.” Only in the world of Washington D.C. do the laws of logic, economics, physics and even simple sensory evidence not apply....
Obama, Eric Holder and Terrorism
Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder has resentfully given in. He’s referring the 9/11 mastermind terrorist to the Pentagon for a military trial. Obama and Holder wanted terrorists tried as civilians — as purse-snatchers, or even less — and for...
"?Extremism" in the Defense of Freedom is a Good Thing
Of all the stupid things said in political Washington D.C., few are as ridiculous as the claim that a government shutdown, or government spending cuts, will “harm” the American economy. Such a statement relies on the most false premise imaginable: That...
?Nancy Pelosi and The Elusive "Middle Ground"
In the current budget battles, former and (she hopes) future Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spoke of going for a “higher ground, not a middle ground.” She’s referring to calls by the Republican leaders and others for an elusive middle ground. You...
Housing Will Remain a Government Program
Recently, the Obama Administration seemed to flash a rare sign of laissez-faire thinking when it issued a report calling for the “winding down” of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two taxpayer-guaranteed institutions now responsible for backing at...
Obamacare: A Waste of Good Medicine
The movement to repeal President Obama’s signature health care law rightly criticizes the accounting trickery in the legislation’s understated costs and overstated savings. In fact, when in the last two centuries has the U.S. Congress been able to reduce,...
The Draft: Slavery as Literal as it Comes
A reader asked what my thoughts are on conscription — i.e., the draft. I view the draft the same way I view any violation of individual rights: As slavery. In the case of the draft, since your life is at stake, the slavery is as literal as it comes. The common...
Donald Trump: The Wish Fulfillment Candidate
The emergence of Donald Trump as a serious candidate for President shows just how far off track conservatives — and Americans more generally — have become. Trump represents the development of an attitude, an attitude that all that matters is “getting...
No Waiver from Reality for Rep. Weiner
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is one of the loudest proponents of ObamaCare, not to mention all things socialist. When he’s critical of Obama, it’s — incredibly — from the left, not from the right or the center. At the time of ObamaCare’s...
Thinking Trumps Influence: External Influences and the Mind
Q: While the choice of action and thought will always remain with the individual, are we not affected by environmental factors beyond our control, advertising for example? In addition, what role does the concept of influence play in “leading” people to a...
Murdering Americans for Allah in Europe: Germany's Jihad Murders Point Up the West's Denial
A Kosovar Albanian Muslim, Arid Uka, murdered two American airmen outside the Frankfurt Airport in Germany last Wednesday. “I did it for Allah,” he explained. Like so many jihad attacks these days, this one was initially dismissed as having nothing...
Socialism Won't Lower the Cost of Gas
Oil and gas prices are higher than ever, and are going still higher. Everybody knows it. The oil-producing Middle East is becoming more unstable than ever before, with the active help and participation of the United States — in Libya, for example. Everybody...
U.S. Bombs on Libya May Backfire
As the U.S. fired more than 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya on Saturday, the objective seems clear. Barack Obama declared that “we cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy.” He explained: ...
Reflections on the Disaster in Japan
Someone wrote and asked me the following: ”I’ve been thinking about the following. Is it acceptable to sacrifice one man to save 100,000 or any large arbitrary number? I know this question has shown up in many stories and films and I am sure philosophy...
The "One" Plays Soldier: Obama's Pretend War
The British Ministry of Defense, the French government and the American White House all insist: The target of the military attack on Libya is not Qaddafi; it’s only military buildings. So let me get this straight. We’re attacking Libya because the dictator...
?The Era of Entitlement
From Investor’s Business Daily: Using data mined from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, TrimTabs Investment Research has found that 35% of wages and salaries this year will be in the form of a government payment. That’s up sharply from 2000, when it was...
?Obama the Pathetic
President Obama is warning Libyan dictator Qaddafi to “fully comply” with a new U.N. resolution that calls for him to cease fire against rebels or …. Or what? This is a president who has apologized to the entire world for past use of American...
How To Kill a Bill
“They were nit-picking and dic-dic-dic-ing all over the place.”
Seven ?Lessons Still Not Learned from the Battle of Wisconsin
Lessons from the Battle of Wisconsin, where the standoff took place between Republicans and Democrats over the alleged rights of public union workers: 1) When the Obama Administration and union officials make threats, including reportedly physical threats, against...
Reagan-Interruptus: Republicans are, once again, The Stupid Party
The bad news I feared is here. Republicans are wobbling, and Republicans are disappointing. This isn’t true everywhere (such as New Jersey), but it’s true in most places. The House leadership has put forth a bill cutting about $60 billion in federal...
Muslim Roulette: Islam vs. Muslims
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...
Islamic Signs of the Times
An email with photographs of pro-Islamic protesters in England displays the following signs and slogans of the protesters: “Freedom Go to Hell” Now that’s interesting. These pro-Iranian and pro-Islamic dictatorship protesters want freedom to do what...
Government Regulation is Killing Business
I received a letter from a businessman who had been strangled by government regulations. As he puts it, “I lost two companies due to the state’s regulators and federal regulators misconduct.” Fed up, he moved his company to Texas where the climate is...
Battle of Wisconsin: Rules of Engagement
Imagine if hundreds of anti-ObamaCare protestors camped out in Congress last year, back when Nancy Pelosi was still in charge of the House of Representatives. Imagine if they stayed days on end, dirtying up the halls of Congress and disrupting what they think of as,...
?Repeal The Rights-Destroying Health Care Law
The notion of a “right to health care” is the boldest and most fundamental claim offered in defense of Obamacare. Indeed, the law should be judged by whether it is consistent with the protection of rights. If the law cannot pass that test, the debate over...
?Charlie Sheen: Madness Manifest
Dear Dr. Hurd, We are interested in getting your insights into the latest craze of seeing who can be the trashiest star. Just when we thought that Brittany Spears had gotten enough negative attention and things would settle, Charlie Sheen took the lead with his...
?Why Liberals and Environmentalists Want High Gas Prices
Everybody knows gas prices are going higher. The worst is probably yet to come this summer, when more people drive greater distances. As demand goes up while supply stays the same or goes down, prices tend to rise. When this happened under the hapless George W....
Obama's "Democracy" Delusions About the Middle East
President Obama made a strong statement in support of the Libyan protesters last Wednesday, condemning Gaddafi’s use of violence and affirming that the United States “strongly supports the universal rights of the Libyan people.” Those include,...
?Shutdown
When taking on a major and complex agenda, it’s important to distinguish between goal … and purpose. The Republicans in Congress are strong on goals but, so far, short on purpose. Balancing the budget is a proper goal; limiting the size and scope of the...
Working For Change
CREDO is the name of a political activist organization that has replaced ACORN. It has an nice web site— www.workingforchange.com . Using only black and a soft blue-green pastel, it looks fresh and clean and invites easy reading without many distracting colors,...
Yaron Brook Speech at the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit
An engaging speech which ended in an 1800 person standing ovation, the only one that night.
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