It’s said–correctly–that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, all the while expecting different results. What’s the word for proposing to do more of the same and pretending it’s different? That’s what our present crop of politicians … Continue reading
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