“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too … Continue reading
A meme states: “Scientists have discovered that hearing opposing viewpoints causes no real harm.” I agree. I hear opposing viewpoints almost constantly. The media, the corporations, the intellectual culture, my own mental health profession — they are almost uniformly statist, … Continue reading
Johnny Carson’s first Tonight Show appeared yesterday, Oct. 1, in 1962. Wow. Contrast Carson’s style and humor with the utterly DEVOID-OF-TALENT, sophomoric DRIVEL that passes for “comedy” in today’s hollow, hyperpoliticized, intellectually vacant culture. Follow Dr. Hurd on … Continue reading
COVID was a great dry run for a Green dictatorship. Under a Green dictatorship, you will first be shamed, and eventually forced, into sacrificing for your fellow man. With COVID you’re told you MUST vaccinate; if not, you’re hurting your … Continue reading
If everything connected to January 6 qualifies as “domestic terrorism”, then doesn’t domestic terrorism ALSO consist of: Locking down citizens due to a flu outbreak for 18 months and counting; Denying small businesses their rights while giving politically connected, … Continue reading
Tens of thousands of immigrants are flooding into the United States from Haiti and now Central America. Before it’s over, millions will have entered the United States. The federal government isn’t following immigration laws, and isn’t acting like it’s supposed … Continue reading
The awful thing about the society we’re becoming is all the conformity. Conformity is the opposite extreme of individualism and independence, two defining traits of historical America. Conformity is for the benefit of the state — i.e., for the cultural … Continue reading
Being a therapist for 35 years, I understand denial. I understand the need for the human mind to integrate radically new and difficult information. It hasn’t dawned on most people yet that our government–consisting primarily of DemComs and RINOs–is accountable … Continue reading
I recall Ayn Rand wrote an article back in the 1970s with a title along the lines of, “The Establishing of an Establishment.” I think her prediction was that all the subjectivism of the 1960s would ultimately lead to a … Continue reading
Daily, I talk to people who are exiting their jobs or careers because of Biden’s obscene and unconstitutional vaccine mandate: Nurses, highly intelligent computer programmers (for defense contracting companies), doctors, surgeons and others. New York state implemented the mandate months … Continue reading
Back in the 1980s and 90s, HIV-positive people were not required to show proof of their HIV status before boarding trains, buses and planes or entering restaurants and stores. Nor should they have been required to do so. The very … Continue reading
Doctors are afraid to question masks or vaccines. Most of them spout the party line to their patients. Maybe they mean it; maybe they don’t. The vast majority of doctors and hospitals get the majority of their income from government–that … Continue reading