…d innovation. – AI Deregulation: Trump revoked Biden’s AI Executive Order, freeing companies like xAI to innovate without restrictive mandates, preserving tools like Grok 3. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, a Trump supporter, cited this as critical for technological freedom. These moves counter the collectivist tide. Trump’s deregulation and tax cuts foster a pro-business environment, aligning with Objectivism’s capitalist ethos. His skepticism… Continue reading
…as it normally would. If the free market is failing, it’s because it’s not really free! The sad, sick situation with escalating insulin prices is not a failure of the free market. There is no free market in medical care, not in America nor anywhere in the world. There is some freedom — thankfully — but not a free market. If we had a free market, these things could not happen. Or, if they did, they would be short-lived, because competitors with the… Continue reading
…reappears on a regular basis. It’s a contradiction. If the person’s excuse really is valid—as the man with only one leg taking longer to get across the room—then there’s nothing to feel resentful about. If the excuse isn’t valid—and many excuses are not—then you have no business being upset when you facilitate the excuse in the first place. ‘That’s OK,’ you say to the person who was rude, knowing full well that no valid explanation or excuse was e… Continue reading
…age of “attention deficits” — real OR imagined. But instant gratification comes with a price. You could end up feeling foolish (at best), or (at worst) damaging a relationship. To make sure you can stand behind your feelings, pay attention to the subject of thought. Thought provides the “big picture” that feelings can never provide. Feelings tend to focus on “right now,” but thought helps us focus on facts that might not feel relevant at the mome… Continue reading
…t children, for example, because he was molested as a child. That may be a valid explanation, but it’s NOT a valid excuse. A woman cheats on her husband because he’s not very attentive. A valid explanation, perhaps, but not an acceptable excuse. People with strong moral standards often get frustrated because they can’t distinguish between explanations and excuses. For example, someone recklessly speeds by them in traffic. A mentally healthy person… Continue reading
…urities and (perceived) inability to cope with existence. Just ignore such people. Their internal conflicts need not hold sway over your conclusions about anything. Be sure to “friend” Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest…. Continue reading
…an endurance, until eventually either we perish from them, or reject them completely. We can’t go on like this. But America is just one election away — any one election going forward — from a totally socialist regime. Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest. Also follow D… Continue reading
…premise of this proposal, of course, is that college is a birthright. Two free years of community college is merely a first step to free college for everyone, paid for by others — oh, excuse me, paid for by the government. Even if that’s not the plan, it’s the idea implied by the plan. College is now a right, just like nearly everything else. Do people who support this proposal understand that by making something a right or an entitlement, you ch… Continue reading
…xcuse you of doing the same? No way. Philosophically speaking, we all have free will. The root of free will is the choice to think. Before having a child, it seems reasonable to think about some appropriate and justified methods for setting limits on your child. Just because somebody did something wrong to you doesn’t mean you have to do the same. When you know something wrong or questionable was done to you by your parents, you have the power to… Continue reading
…e occasional and unfortunate natural disaster, and leaving aside war, there is never a prolonged shortage of goods in a free society. The best antidote to shortages is hands-off capitalism. Capitalism leaves the best and brightest free to produce for us all, under the motive of profit. Capitalism delivers the goods. Sorting out your trash is nothing more than an obsessive-compulsive ritual designed to make a statement for those who hate capitalism… Continue reading
…idden and repressive. Let’s get real about oil companies for a moment. Oil companies compete for a profit. Like any private entity — and unlike the government — they face liability. If they make a mistake, they pay for it in reduced profits and (worst case) insolvency and bankruptcy. If they harm private property or public utilities such as drinking water (one reason given against the Keystone pipeline), they will face legal liability. Private com… Continue reading
…ronment, and suit it to their purposes. The other approach is to leave the environment alone — completely alone being the ideal — and do as little as possible to tarnish or “despoil” it. The hard fact in play is that billions of people cannot continue to survive on planet earth unless engineers, entrepreneurs, profit-makers, producers and others make life as habitable and as comfortable for human beings as possible. A case in point has to do with… Continue reading