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 →

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” This is a quote from Judge Sonia Sotomayor, … Continue reading →

Do you ever notice how whenever there’s a problem or disaster of some kind, the question is always, “Should something be done about it?” What the question actually means is: “What should the government do about it?” What I want … Continue reading →

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor … Continue reading →

People insist that government must interfere in the free market economy in order to prevent — or correct — “market failure.” Let’s think about this term “market failure.” A market refers to millions of different business transactions going on at … Continue reading →