Many of the comments I get from readers boil down to one basic question: “Why is what I can’t have, often more appealing than what I can have?” Wanting what you can’t have is the easy way out. In other … Continue reading
Author Archives: D3 Support
Why Ron Paul Lost Me
Q: Dr. Hurd. I understand your view on Iran. And the arguments made against Ron Paul’s stance. But Ron Paul has one point his opposition always ignores that I agree with. War should be properly declared through the Congress. President … Continue reading
“What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours … Is Mine”
A local store owner recently told me a story. She gets a lot of customers in her shop, which is a sit-down coffee shop, kind of like a Starbucks. One day, some people came into the shop. They didn’t want … Continue reading
College Student Loans: Yet Another Socialist Fallacy
Let’s be real. College student loans are sold as a way to help students pay the high cost of tuition. They’re nothing of the sort. Individuals, in a private marketplace for education, already have a method to pay for college … Continue reading
Seeing Down the Road
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. — Benjamin Franklin
Compromise Isn’t Always the Solution
When dealing with other people, the reasonable, sensitive, and even self-interested thing to do is compromise, and be prepared to meet the other person halfway. Correct? Well, not really. All action needs to be purposeful. That includes the action of … Continue reading
Facts About Health Care Your President Never Told You
I heard an interesting comment the other day on a call-in show. “If nobody had ever thought of health insurance, we’d all be able to afford a doctor today.” In a sense, this is true. However, the problem does not … Continue reading
Thank You For Sharing, Jon Lovitz
It seems like Hollywood is filled with a bunch of nitwitted, anti-intellectual, group-think liberal socialists. These entertainers have more money than anyone — and good for them — but instead of being in favor of money-making, they’re furiously against it. … Continue reading
Just be there for them
While speaking with people who have lost someone of great value to them, I’ve learned so much about what they want (and don’t want) to hear in these situations. Most often, people who have experienced a tragic loss simply want … Continue reading
America Got Its “Cool” President–So What Now? (Part 2 of 2)
Conclusion of yesterday’s column. The bottom line is this: In an anti-ideological age, you get nothing but double talk from politicians. Back in 2000 and 2004, George W. Bush won the Presidency (narrowly) by preaching ‘compassionate conservatism.’ We learned that … Continue reading
America Got Its “Cool” President–So What Now? (Part 1 of 2)
Barack Obama is not especially popular, and certainly not as popular as when he first became President in 2008. However, surveys consistently show him ahead in the polls and substantially ahead in the Electoral College vote, the only vote that … Continue reading
A Beggar Society is Not a Great Society
In a work of historical fiction, one of the characters wrote to another about the leaders of the Communist-socialist revolution in Russia. “Their leaders were committed to peace; they had promised peace and plenty to their peasant followers, and it … Continue reading