…e and inadequate. We already know they’re free. Let’s pass a law requiring higher quality. Let’s do the same for airports, airlines and everything else society requires for its survival. Doctors should be more competent. Let’s pass a law requiring doctors to be more competent. That will eliminate the need for malpractice insurance — although that doesn’t really matter, because malpractice insurance won’t any longer cost anything (see above law). L… Continue reading →

…ing that pie). The worse things become, the more the entitlement mentality simply runs into a brick wall of reality. There’s nothing about economic prosperity that makes the entitlement mentality inevitable. But once the government establishes something as a “right,” people tend not to question their entitlement to that “right” ever again. If automobiles were established as a legal right tomorrow, then twenty years from now you wouldn’t find a per… Continue reading →

…y‘ve requested, clearly, to voice their concerns.”   Socialists like Occasional Cortex SO hate capitalism. But they SO want its money.   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 Dr. Hurd on Twitter at @MichaelJHurd1, and see “Michael Hurd” on MeWe…. Continue reading →

…it and productivity are diminished or eliminated. It’s the same with racism-in-reverse (which is still racism). Affirmative action, for example, orders businesses to make profit secondary to having a certain quota of people who are of a certain race (or gender, or some other victim group). This is no more economic, or profitable, than the opposite racial ideas which preceded it. Why is this so hard to understand? It’s time to move beyond slavery a… Continue reading →

…nd freedom. Whether President Trump always takes the exact right (i.e., pro-freedom, pro-individual rights) position on every issue is not the point. The point is that freedom is HIS overriding premise — and it’s NOT the overriding premise of the socialist, statist media/elite establishment. For that reason, shows of force under any Republican president who shares the premise that America is a great nation because of its respect for individual rig… Continue reading →