Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, almost didn’t make it. Vice President Mike Pence had to cast the deciding vote for her confirmation by the U.S. Senate. The objection involved the nominee’s support of charter schools. All … Continue reading
Category: Daily Dose of Reason
With Freedom of Speech, No Ideas Are Ever “Dangerous”
Everywhere you turn these days, someone claims someone else’s ideas are “dangerous.” Latest example: Santa Clara University students hoping to form a chapter of Turning Point USA were denied by their peers after claims the nonprofit organization stands against “humanity.” … Continue reading
Is Immigration to America an Entitlement?
The rage and controversy over President Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban” rests on a single premise: That everyone has a right to become a United States citizen. According to the collectivist/socialist/Communist paradigm, it is indeed the truth. The Communist ideology holds … Continue reading
Tyranny for Your Own Good (C.S. Lewis)
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. — C. S. Lewis Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended … Continue reading
Beneath the anti-Trump Rage is an Irrational Fear of Freedom
Why do so many people on the left side of political matters express “fear” whenever you disagree with them? A reader told me “[A girl] I was friends with in high school (who ended up getting a PhD from Berkeley … Continue reading
Wave of Suicides at Columbia University: More Evidence P.C. Kills
A disturbing wave of seven suicides and likely drug overdoses has swept through Columbia University so far this school year — and students say cutthroat academics and inadequate campus counseling programs are in large part to blame. The student deaths … Continue reading
Why Progressives Are So Violent
Gay conservative and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannapoulos’s speech on the University of California Berkeley campus Wednesday night was cancelled after violent rioters shut down the university, setting fires that turned the campus into what CNN anchor Jake Tapper described as … Continue reading
The Awful, Awful Truth for Democrats
California Democrats are going on the offensive, firing the first shot in their pitched battle with President Donald J. Trump, and threatening to “cut off the Feds” by withholding taxes. According to CBS San Francisco, former State Assembly Speaker Willie … Continue reading
How We Romanticize Immigration
When I visited the top of the new World Trade Center last week, I had a bird’s eye view of Ellis Island. It made me think of how most Americans romanticize immigration. “Give me your tired, your hungry, your weary,” … Continue reading
The Deplorables Fight Back: Finally a President Willing to Take on ISIS
Here are three examples — from today alone — of why America is losing to ISIS and Islam. They come from the comments of three established career politicians — two of them Republican, by the way. “The effect will probably, … Continue reading
Muslim Ban, Terrorism Ban: What’s the Difference?
President Donald Trump Friday signed an executive action that instituted new vetting procedures “to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America.” “We don’t want them here,” Trump said in the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon … Continue reading
Life and Death (Ayn Rand)
“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” Ayn Rand