POLITICS

Fox News reports: "Government has a responsibility to make the U.S. the best place in the world to do business, but companies have a responsibility to invest in the nation's future by keeping jobs here, hiring American workers and paying decent wages, President Obama...

There are two ways to be an achiever. One type of achiever is trying to impress others; the other is simply trying to achieve. The second type gets more done. Why? Because his focus is exclusively on getting the job done right. It doesn't occur to him to worry about...

In what can only be surmised as chaos, most of North Africa, Yemen, and the Iranian theocracy's appendage, Lebanon, seem to be undergoing a very disturbingly rapid transition. Some attribute this state of apparent anarchy to the lack of freedom and economic reform....

Barack Obama says that it's up to the Egyptian people to decide what form of government they want. But what if the Egyptian people wanted a Hitler? Or apartheid, the racist government that once controlled South Africa? Is something right and moral just because a...

Many reports coming out of Egypt suggest the battle is not one for Islamic fundamentalist rule -- so often the case in the Middle East -- but rather one in favor of  "liberty" and freedom from the rule of a 30-year presidency in which the leader refuses to ever...

Paul Krugman, the intellectual apostle of liberal-left socialism in the United States, recently wrote the following in The New York Times: "One side of American politics considers the modern welfare state . . .morally superior to the capitalism red in tooth and claw...

Obama is about to give his "State of the Union" address. His themes will reportedly be government "investment" in the economy, advancement of the "American family," and a restoration of "civility" to society. Obama has declared that job creation is the # 1 priority....

I received a letter from a reader I'd like to share, in edited form: Hello Dr.Hurd, I have seen the decline of socialism in Poland. I was born in 1956 and left Poland in 1982 for good. I now live in Canada with socialized medicine, but that is changing because it is...

As the economy continues to chug along on life support and Republicans in the House of Representatives begin their meager attempts at cutting the size and scope of the federal government, the substance of President Obama's State of the Union address is becoming more...

The hypocrisy, inconsistency and general idiocy of our age -- a "liberal" age -- knows no limits. Consider liberal/socialist outrage over Walmart. Walmart, liberals argue, is greedy and exploits its workers by not paying them what they consider enough. How much is...

"Attacks on the American Muslim community and on Islam rose to an unprecedented level in 2010." So claimed Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in an end-of-the-year fund-raising appeal. The...

It's considered big news that the United States and China are forging "stronger economic ties." The real news is that the United States even has the time of day for China. If America were still a free and prosperous nation, one respectful of individual rights and with...

What would it take for you to commit mass murder in the name of Allah? Would you do it for money? For love? Out of a sense of justice? Out of a sense of religious duty? Absurd as they may seem, these are serious questions, for as jihad mass-murder plots are...

The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, though a terrible tragedy, is not of historic significance. More significant is the efforts of the Left to blame this on the Right, particularly the Tea Party movement. The absurdity of these attempts is obvious, and...

For most people, a tragedy is a time to reflect. For a politician, especially one who has been given uncritical positive regard for all of his short career -- including his unearned rise to the Presidency of the United States -- Barack Obama has used a tragedy as an...

Throughout social media, the left is really blowing the dog whistle on the Tea Party movement, from blaming opportunist Sarah Palin, whose Tea Party credentials are dubious, to status updates, comments, and this San Francisco Chronicle editorial posted by the...