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PC Kills: Orlando Killer’s Complicit Widow Walks
The jury foreman in the concluded trial of Noor Salman — widow of Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen – said jurors were “convinced” she knew of the attack beforehand, but had “no option but to return a verdict of not … Continue reading
Nuclear Disarmament in the 1970s & Gun Control Today: The Exact Same Thing
Today’s advocates of repealing the Second Amendment are the intellectual and political descendants of those who advocated disarmament and pacifism — first against Nazi Germany, and later against Soviet Russia in the Cold War. In the 1970s and early 1980s, … Continue reading
Is Happiness Realistic?
How do you know if your standard of happiness is realistic? I hear a lot of people asking, “Do I want too much?” I know of two ways to answer this question. Does somebody you know, or know about, have … Continue reading
What to Expect in Your Marriage/Relationship (DE Coast Press)
Dear Dr. Hurd, I am a straight male who is attracted to a woman who is bisexual. She is also attracted to me. I want a committed, monogamous relationship, but am uneasy about making such a commitment with her because … Continue reading
How Did “Liberals” Become so Conservative?
I define conservative as resistant to change. As reacting against things all the time, and trying to squelch the different, the new, the challenging or the uncomfortable. Liberals of an earlier era—going back to the 1980s or before—used to define … Continue reading
Why Are Some People Self-Defeating? (DE Wave)
Dear Dr. Hurd: My brother is 32. He has never held a job a job for longer than a couple of weeks and he, his wife and daughter live with our mother. They scrape by on disability, food stamps and … Continue reading
Smiling in Trouble (da Vinci)
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will … Continue reading
Hitler Youth for the Twenty-First Century
It’s not as crazy an analogy as you might think. Today’s students are trained in government-run schools. The purpose of a government-run school is to instill what the government deems suitable conformity to the state. During the pre-Hitler years this … Continue reading
The Right to Own a Gun: More Than the Right to Own a Gun
I keep hearing the argument, “People don’t need guns” as an excuse to abolish the Second Amendment. What right does anybody have to decide what another needs or does not need? How is that liberty? We’re told we must have … Continue reading
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s “Advertising Transparency” is Pure BS
Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, welcomes regulation and legislation to mandate “advertising transparency”. What exactly is advertising transparency? It depends on your subjective perspective. And that’s exactly the problem. If you’re a leftist and a Democrat, like Zuckerberg, there’s … Continue reading
Congress Sacrifices the Constitution in Budget Blackmail
A recent tweet of President Trump’s states: Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming. Most importantly, got $700 Billion to rebuild our Military, $716 Billion next year…most ever. Had to waste money on Dem … Continue reading