We keep hearing about transportation accidents — even fatalities — because people are compulsively texting. There’s something deeply wrong with a compulsive need to stay in touch. It suggests an unwillingness that has become an “inability” to be comfortable with … Continue reading
The biggest addiction in America today is Big Government. It costs trillions of dollars–and counting. It’s sacrificing the economic well-being of future generations with deficit-spending not yet seen in human history–not to mention the coming inflation for the present generationn; … Continue reading
I recently read that someone objected to Mr. Obama’s plan for national health insurance because doctors will not be paid well–and therefore will refuse to take “Obamacare” patients. This is a naive sentiment. Government has the power of force. Government … Continue reading
A reader of The Daily Dose of Reason recently wrote in asking what do I have against marriage. I actually have nothing against the practice of marriage. Voluntarily consenting adults who enter into a legal and emotional arrangement have every … Continue reading
The Three Biggest–And Most Enduring–Human Errors: 1. Religion 2. Socialism 3. Marriage Their Alternatives, Rarely Conceived and Less Often Practiced: 1. Rationality 2. Individual rights 3. Love
The short case against the Democrat-Republican, Big Government welfare state is this: Rational and free human beings do not operate by force, or under the threat of force. The only restraint that rational, free people impose on each other is … Continue reading
Twenty percent of all “income” received by Americans reportedly now comes from the government. Translation: From other people. Ask yourself this question. Will the economy finally recover if that figure changes to thirty percent? Or fifty percent? At what point … Continue reading
(The following are the comments of DrHurd.com reader Robert J. Seyko, of Laurel, MD, on the recent death of Michael Jackson): Ayn Rand (or Nathaniel Branden, or Michael Hurd) would have a field day in the life and death of … Continue reading
Congress and the President are working hard to reduce the output of industrial civilization. This, at a time when the economy has stopped growing, and is actually declining. Incredibly, they are doing so in the name of “economic growth.” They … Continue reading
You may have heard the cynical phrase, “Those who can, do–and those who cannot, teach.” I never bought that. I understand some of the sentiment behind the statement, but I can’t denigrate teaching if it’s done properly (as it rarely … Continue reading
Advocates of national health insurance discredit a recent study suggesting that socialized medicine will cost $3 trillion per year, to start, rather than “only” $1 trillion per year. They discredit the study becuase, they say, it was conducted by private … Continue reading
I don’t understand this metaphor of the “ailing American economy.” It’s the metaphor of the economy as a sick “patient.” People take one of two positions. One position is for government, as “doctor,” to intervene and cure the patient. The … Continue reading