Are Depression and Self-Pity the Same Thing?

…pressed. Lacking energy? It must be depression. It couldn’t be that you’re simply tired, or ate too much. Disappointed in your result on a test or a review by a boss or customer? It must be depression. I don’t like or understand why you’re acting a certain way, but don’t want to say so and thereby risk conflict with you, or be seen by others as “mean” or judgmental? Then it’s easier just to say you’re depressed. You’re an employer and you don’t wa… Continue reading

Trump’s Choice for FCC: The Free Market Not Dead Yet

…oes not benefit “all companies” against the consumer. The free marketplace simply leaves consumers and companies free to work out what’s best for them. When government steps in and dictates in its typical “one-size-fits-all” fashion how consumers should act, feel, and choose, then consumers are (1) insulted and (2) denied their individual rights, as consumers, to choose the companies and services they want. You never hear that side of the story. W… Continue reading

Let’s Really Understand What Freedom of Speech Means

…ng freedom of speech on college campuses is to withdraw government funding completely and, if possible, immediately. We will always have irrational, Marxist, politically correct and otherwise anti-intellectual types in the field of academia. But we don’t have to force taxpayers to fund them. Let them convince people to fund their toxic and pernicious ideas voluntarily. That will keep them on the margins where they belong, and the only place where… Continue reading

“The Free World Isn’t Free” (Daniel Jupp)

…only shaken, not broken, your chief desire that of peace, and compromise, and moderation….then you are no fucking use to anyone.”     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, drmichaelhurd on Instagram…. Continue reading

Liberty: The License to Be Free

…y they hope to eliminate. Human beings need liberty in order to think. Put simply, man does not think at gunpoint, nor under the nagging of a preening, peering politician or bureaucrat. Man is a rational animal, a being of volitional consciousness who’s never going to survive, much less produce, without being free to exercise his reasoning. In a society that restricts liberty, reason tends to go underground. In a society that upholds liberty and i… Continue reading

No Gun-Free Zones for Hillary

…of knowing whether you own a gun, or not. If all of America were made a gun-free zone, the criminal would know the green light exists to go after an unarmed population. The same goes for terrorists. The sneering scowls of people who say things like, “You don’t own a gun, do you?” Or, “You don’t oppose gun control, do you?” reveal their heartless hypocrisy, as Trump puts it. And Hillary Clinton’s position is heartless. She, and others like her, are… Continue reading

Even Free Speech Troubles Some People

…or you to understand? Your letter demonstrates that you can form thoughts, complete sentences and articulate abstract ideas in writing. This shows me you are intelligent. Nobody with even this much intelligence could fail to understand the distinction between thoughts and action. Clearly, you do understand it. But you don’t care about it. If you don’t like an idea, then you want the speaker to be silenced. But what if I don’t like an idea that you… Continue reading

Left-Wing Tech Giants are NOT the Product of a Free Market

…rse they tell Twitter and Facebook what not to post, and that they usually comply. Twitter and Facebook openly acknowledge this, and Facebook’s Zuckerberg has literally begged for “regulation” — meaning censorship. Facebook literally wants their company to be the monopolistic Government Bureau of Speech — while still making their billions in profits of course. This is NOT a free market! This is (strictly speaking) fascism, the system where nominal… Continue reading

Why Dr. Ben Carson is NOT the anti-Obama on Health Care

…ical professionals, could establish fair and consistent remuneration. To accomplish this, essentially all of the insurance companies would have to become non-profit service organizations with standardized, regulated profit margins. This is not the paradigm that I see for all businesses, [but] is uniquely appropriate for the health-insurance industry, which deals with people’s lives and quality of existence. That may sound radical, but is it as rad… Continue reading

College Tuition: The Next Great Bubble

…p doing what we’re doing, college tuition will continue to increase. If we simply do more of it, then tuition will go even higher. On our present path, the only possible outcome are even higher costs, more defaults on loans, and still higher costs. If you doubt what I’m saying, simply look at what has been happening for the last 30 years or more. I’m not suggesting there’s a utopia where college would ever be cheap. It probably would not be, becau… Continue reading

A Little Bit of War is a Dangerous Thing

…Brilliant! They used to say that war is hell. In the new military, war is simply stressful. Assad is estimated to have more than 1,000 tons of chemical weapons. Any plans to secure them would require Special Operations and boots on the ground — and neither is on the table right now, according to Pentagon officials. So let me get this straight. The whole reason we’re going to war with Syria is to retaliate against and/or prevent their use of chemi… Continue reading

“House of Cards” About to Become More Expensive

…ed we so claim to hate resolves this; at least it does so in a free or semi-free marketplace. That’s why you see the cost of things like smart phones and laptop computers go down, over time. While demand for these things goes up, the greedy desire of businesses to make a profit leads them to ensure that supply keeps up with demand. That’s how basic economics works. So the exact opposite of what you’ve been taught is true. Greed ultimately makes th… Continue reading