POLITICS

Dr. Hurd: I have a question for you. I really admire how outspoken and honest you are about your political, philosophical, and psychological views, such as in the Daily Dose of Reason. I have enjoyed and learned from your writings for years, and have immense respect...

Q: How can the budget deficit in the trillions sustain itself? Obama's reply: It's Bush's fault. It's Congress' fault. Q: Which Congress? The Pelosi Congress of 2009-10 who passed the trillion-dollar stimulus bill with your promotion and signature? Or the current...

In connection with an honorarium paid to Jane Fonda as one of ABC's "100 Women of the Century," on or around September 14, 2,009, Barbara Walters stated on The View, "I hope that we have all forgiven Jane Fonda for what she did during the Vietnam War and specifically...

Q: How do you keep your calm when you hear other people talk about things like how unions are good for the country, how "big oil" is evil, or big anything for that matter, how we should "not be like them" and allow the brutes to build a mosque in NYC, etc. For...

Newsmax.com reports: Glenn Beck says his family was accosted while watching a movie in a New York City park Monday night. On his radio show and his website today, Beck described the incident and said an angry moviegoer kicked a glass of wine onto his wife...

A reader, objecting to my article on how addiction is a choice, makes the following complaints: As a therapist you should know that addiction is generally associated with a disregulation of the reward centers in the brain -- i.e., the individual pursues activation of...

An excerpt from the Introduction to "I am John Galt" by Donald L. Luskin and Andrew Greta.Who is John Galt? Ayn Rand asked that question over and over as a catchphrase in Atlas Shrugged, one of the best-selling and most inspiring novels of all time. The question was a...

The U.S. job growth in May – or, more accurately, the lack of job growth – indicates that the economic “recovery” is coming undone. With 13.9 million people in the U.S. out of work according to the federal government’s unemployment...

Human beings are capable of many contradictions. One of the most stunning of these contradictions involves use of the concept "selfishness." Think about it. Many people are ready to call you "selfish." It's the greatest, most intimidating and most condemnatory phrase...

A headline reads: "Obama Adviser: Private Sector is Key to Economic Recovery." Excuse me? Is this news to the Obama Administration? I thought these people were supposed to be exceptionally brilliant. Reading this headline is like reading a headline that says, "Obama...

Here's an interesting term: "Predatory lending." Liberals and socialists love this term. What does "predatory" mean, exactly? Legally and politically, it means that somebody is doing something you don't like. If you feel somebody is charging more than you would like...

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Q: Dr. Hurd: You recently claimed that Ron Paul will never win the presidential election in your "degrees of dissatisfaction" article, yet Ron Paul won the 2011 RLC Presidential Straw Poll with approximately 40% of the total votes. Does his winning this poll change...

Anthony Weiner does have a problem -- but it's not primarily a sexual one. His problem is power lust. It's the affliction of nearly every (if not every) officeholder in Washington DC these days. Remember that Weiner is one of the most authoritarian, statist and...

Why is political freedom so unpopular? Throughout human history, freedom has been the exception and not the norm. The ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, free by the standards of their time, ultimately collapsed because of the unwillingness of people to accept...

The best way of legally protecting states of privacy is via our rights to property and contract.

We're stuck here in Chicago as I'm writing this, stranded for a few extra days because the CNN weather map yesterday projected some scary red tornado splotches scattered along the Capitol Limited tracks we take to Pittsburgh. It looked even worse on holytornado.com,...

Drug companies are making fewer generic drugs for cancer treatments and other medical problems, according to Fox News and the FDA. This is creating quite a bit of stress and upheaval at many hospitals, and increases the possibility of frightening medical errors. Why...