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How About a Union for Business Owners?

Posted on May 25, 2012 by D3 Support

Most people look at ‘business’ as something separate from everything else in life, and at best, a necessary evil. Something you have to do. Or a way to make money—in a practical, but never creative, artistic or (perish the thought) … Continue reading →

Posted in Daily Dose of Reason, Society & Culture

“Waste Not, Want Not” — Another Myth!

Posted on May 20, 2012 by D3 Support

Dear Dr. Hurd: My mother is a good, well-meaning lady. But every so often she reminds me of the fact that she grew up during the Great Depression, and so learned the value of saving things. And whenever I am … Continue reading →

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All Children Left Behind

Posted on May 19, 2012 by D3 Support

According to clickorlando.com and FoxNews.com, The Florida Board of Education decided in an emergency meeting last Tuesday to lower the passing grade on the writing portion of Florida’s standardized test, after preliminary results showed a drastic drop in student passing … Continue reading →

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“It’s for your own good.”

Posted on May 17, 2012 by D3 Support

Dear Dr. Hurd: I am not black. I am the granddaughter and great granddaughter of Russian and Romanian immigrants (LEGAL). I honestly don’t understand where black people are coming from in their unqualified support of Barack Obama. Why do they … Continue reading →

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Gays/Lesbians Should Not Fall for Barack’s Gay Marriage B.S.

Posted on May 11, 2012 by D3 Support

All the ruckus over gay marriage is single-issue politics at its worst. Don’t the people fighting over gay marriage — pro and con — understand that they’re merely pawns in the continuing quest for power by politicians? Obama, who was … Continue reading →

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“What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours … Is Mine”

Posted on April 30, 2012 by D3 Support

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 →

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A Beggar Society is Not a Great Society

Posted on April 22, 2012 by D3 Support

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 →

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How Children Can Survive Bad Schools (Part 2 of 2)

Posted on April 21, 2012 by D3 Support

Conclusion of yesterday’s column. The biggest mistake I see parents make is to assume that schools (public, private, whatever) can replace their own responsibility to ensure that their children learn to think. Parents just expect the process of thought to … Continue reading →

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How Children Can Survive Bad Schools (Part 1 of 2)

Posted on April 20, 2012 by D3 Support

A DrHurd.com visitor asks how she can help her children to keep developing their rational minds, to be objective and to develop a correct hierarchy of knowledge, in spite of government-run schools that teach the exact opposite. She says her … Continue reading →

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Tyrone Woodfork: Could Have Been Obama’s Son, Too

Posted on April 15, 2012 by D3 Support

Have you heard of Trayvon Martin? Of course you have. He’s the young man who was killed by a neighborhood watch member. Martin was reportedly unarmed and the neighborhood watch person, George Zimmerman, claims he was acting in self-defense. There … Continue reading →

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Is There a “God Gene”? (Part 2 of 2)

Posted on April 11, 2012 by D3 Support

Conclusion of yesterday’s column. Religious people are understandably threatened by the idea that genetics might be determining everything. Quite logically, they reject genetic and biological determinism for the same reason that a proponent of objective reality—a non-supernaturalist—would. Religious people offer … Continue reading →

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Is There a “God Gene”? (Part 1 of 2)

Posted on April 10, 2012 by D3 Support

The God gene hypothesis proposes that human beings inherit a set of genes that predisposes them towards spiritual or mystical experiences. The idea has been postulated by geneticist Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at … Continue reading →

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