Dear Dr. Hurd: I believe your equating Santorum with the Ayatollah is outrageous. [Compare the] Ayatollah’s beliefs v. Santorum: Ayatollah: A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels and so on. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, The Supreme Leader of...
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Supreme Court Should Repeal ObamaCare For The Right Reasons
A reader writes: Sometime in 2012, the Supreme Court will have an opportunity to strike down the corrupt and unconstitutional ObamaCare law. Will they? There's no way of knowing. In theory, the 5-4 conservative majority should strike it down. However, conservatives...
Battle in D.C? What Battle? I Don't See Any Battle
Should the rich pay more in taxes, or not? This is always the question. Notice how the question is never: Should the government spend less? Or: Should the government do less? Or, better yet: Should the government have less power? If we answered these questions the...
It's the Spending, Stupid
Politicians like Mitt Romney and Barack Obama insist that there should be middle class tax cuts. Obama goes further and insists that these tax cuts be paid for by "the rich" (those making over $250,000 a year, his definition). The truth is that everyone is equally...
Why Iran Should Not Have Nuclear Weapons
Q: For those of us who don't understand the issue, can you explain why you believe that Iran is so dangerous and why we must prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon? A: I'll give you not one reason, but many reasons. Iran has been the # 1 government sponsor of...
The Republican Shift To The Left: "Vulture" Capitalism is a Contradiction in Terms
It's interesting. I knew that the country had been swinging to the left -- not the right -- in recent years and have said so repeatedly. The Tea Party seemed, for only a moment, to be an opposite trend. But look at whom the Tea Party is about to end up with as a...
Socialized Medicine's Deceptions: "Personal Responsibility" and Health Care
What do politicians call it when they force you to buy health insurance (or anything else) every day, for the rest of your life? They call it "personal responsibility." How do they get away with that? Can anyone remember a time when personal responsibility...
Santorum for Ayatollah 2012
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has reportedly said that every child has a "God-given" right to a heterosexual set of parents -- meaning man and woman, not two men or two women. He argues this in defense of a Constitutional amendment to ban gay/lesbian...
President Non Obama
Gingrich or Romney? Which is better, from a pro-freedom, limited government and individual rights point-of-view? The question relies upon a false premise. The false premise is that either one of these men even claims to be in favor of limited government as provided...
2012: The Year To Save American Medicine
During the coming year, the threat to freedom will proceed on multiple fronts. Each will require specific action. We are rapidly running out of time to prevent the destruction of the quality, availability and freedom of American medicine, and our best and last chance...
Rick Santorum: The Anti-Capitalist
A few years ago, it seemed inevitable. The popular resistance to the increasingly invasive federal policies in healthcare, housing, and finance seemed to have sparked a cultural revolution of sorts. This was characterized by the "Tea Party" movement that demanded...
Gingrich on Health Care
Increasingly, it looks like either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney will be the Republican alternative to the horrendous President Obama. Anyone who's not a liberal already understands what's wrong with Romney. In the first of a series, I'll examine Gingrich's proposals,...
Book Reviews: Nothing Less Than Victory by John David Lewis
With no real end in sight in the War on Terror, the "new normal" of constant deployments and unending conflict is a condition that the majority of the military has come to accept. Is there a better way?In a wide survey of history beginning with the Theban Wars (382...
The Critics of the Tea Party
The Tea Party has certainly attracted its share of criticism. Many of those criticisms do not merit a response. However, an organization called the Constitutional Accountability Center issued a brief titled Setting the Record Straight: The Tea Party and the...
Your Doctor is Rude? Maybe this is Why
According to Psychology Today Online, physician meltdown is on the rise. When surveyed by the American College of Physician Executives, one-third of health care facility administrators reported disruptive incidents among their physician colleagues at least once a...
Why the Holidays Are So Stressful For So Many
"The holidays are coming. It's a time of complete emotional stress." To say this is considered a self-evident truth. But why is it true? I maintain that holidays, while perfectly fine and pleasant, are not necessary for happy people. Happy people enjoy their lives all...
The Mythical “Right to Healthcare”
After fifty years of growing government programs, health care costs continue to rise. The U.S. government now controls nearly half of all health care dollars, and the crisis is becoming acute. The plans we are seeing from Washington are not innovations, but rather...
Businesspeople are the Ones Who Need to Protest
Dr. Hurd originally wrote this article for the Association of Objectivist Business Professionals. In light of the anarchist-socialist protest of those defecating patriots known as Occupy Wall Street, it deserves rereading here. Most people look at...
Obama's Kind of Immigrants
Newsmax.com reports: Illegal immigration costs Arizona $1.6 billion a year – a staggering 19 percent of the state’s budget – Gov. Jan Brewer said in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, adding that the Obama administration is turning a blind eye...
In Praise of Capitalist Inequality
The Occupy Wall Street protestors claim to want “economic justice.” But real economic justice doesn’t consist of looting others’ wealth, but respecting others’ right to keep what they’ve earned.
Five Differences Between the American Revolution of 1776 and Today
1) It's not people versus king or dictator; it's people versus people. It's not a government oppressing all the people by denying them their basic rights; it's some people using government to oppress other people, primarily for their own financial gain. 2) The best...
Herman Cain: Guilty Until He Can Prove Himself Innocent
Everyone, Republicans and Democrats alike, keep saying that "Herman Cain must answer the charges against him." When he repeatedly says, "I didn't do it. I don't even remember these interactions with these women," this isn't considered answering. But how is one to...
Iran Policy: "I'll Think About That Tomorrow"
Associated Press reports: Military action against Iran could have unintended consequences, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, sounding the administration's strongest reservations about a strike since the release of a new report on Tehran's escalating nuclear...
Death by 1,000 Cuts
With the US stock market's recent volatility, many investors may be wondering whether or not we are headed for another 2008-style crash where the market drops 30 to 40 percent within a few short weeks. Sensing that timing could be critical, many investors may be...
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