There is no friendship (or love) without respect. Friendship or love imply respect. You can’t like someone if you don’t admire them, as a person (in the case of love); and if you don’t admire at least one key trait … Continue reading
Dear Dr. Hurd, I totally disagree with some of my friends on many things, especially the recent election—and now the holidays are coming up and I have to be with them. Yikes! Because of my anger and frustration over what … Continue reading
To criticize someone for being “opinionated” is like criticizing someone for “breathing too much.” Opinions are the byproduct of ideas. To be without ideas is not a virtue. It’s the CONTENT of one’s ideas that counts. It’s a copout to … Continue reading
“Just a quick note to thank you again for your outstanding help…. I read you every day. You have been a true friend and beacon. No one is doing what you are doing and people are worse off for it. … Continue reading
Peggy Noonan writes in “The Wall Street Journal”: “It is a question what exact impact the conservative infrastructure, and the great number of conservative thinkers and intellectuals, will have on a GOP comeback. The party has never attempted to reform … Continue reading
Barack Obama in a September 5, 2001, radio interview, regarding the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren: “[Chief Justice Warren] never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic … Continue reading
The media and academic establishment of our society seems to be telling us: “America is becoming a minority white nation. People of color are soon to be the majority. Therefore, Obama’s policies will become the mainstream.” I don’t know and … Continue reading
“Nothing reveals Mr. Obama’s visceral hostility to business more than the constant urging of our best and brightest to desert the productive private sector (‘greed’) and go in to public service like politics or community organizing (i.e., organizing people to … Continue reading
Q: I feel paralyzed by the thought of making a decision and being wrong, or coming to a conclusion and being wrong. What’s up with me? A: You fear error because an error, to you, means damnation of you forever. … Continue reading
Politicians claim we need to use billions of tax dollars to bail out the auto industry. They say this will help the general economy. How, exactly? The tax money being used to bail out the auto industry comes from the … Continue reading
With the summer season behind us, those of us who live in resort areas will often experience increased interaction among friends, family, partners and spouses. In spite of all the positive aspects, some of that time together might not be … Continue reading
I heard a statement recently that went like this: “Don’t tell me steps 1 through 10 … Just tell me step 10.” Now THERE’S an example of the anti-conceptual, anti-thinking mentality at work. The person who said this assumes that … Continue reading