What to Do About Dysfunctional Co-Workers

…e boss or supervisor to hold such a person accountable. For one thing, the complaint about gossiping isn’t related to the job. If you complain about such a problem to your boss, it might seem like you’re bringing personal concerns into the workplace. My suggestion here? First, do a little thinking on your own. Ask yourself: “How can anyone ruin my relationship or friendship without my consent?” If you think about it, nobody can. If you’re aware th… Continue reading

Under Pressure: The Frantic Need to Keep Kids Busy

…ild will want to be busy with different productive activities—but not in a compulsive way. Compulsive activity does nothing but lower anxiety, but it’s not activity pursued for its own sake. Some students work hard in school to avoid shaming themselves or their family; others work in order to achieve and accomplish. The second option carries a lot less baggage. The basic psychological difference between compulsive activity and healthy activity is… Continue reading

Classes Don’t Exist in a Free Society

…oney. We keep hearing about ‘class warfare.’ But there are no classes in a free society. The only classes in a free society, if you want to call them ‘classes,’ are the productive and the unproductive. In a welfare state society, such as ours, the unproductive live off the productive. Those who do not, will not or cannot work live off those who make an unusually large amount of money. Those who cannot or will not produce rely instead on subsidies,… Continue reading

Is the Housing Crisis Really and Truly Over?

…l, uncritical wisdom. For example, the following was reported at moneynews.com and Yahoo Finance on 2/22/15: Home prices have rebounded since bottoming in 2012, but it hasn’t exactly been a soaring recovery. The S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices in 20 cities rose only 4.3 percent in the 12 months through November. It’s almost nine years since home prices peaked, notes Nobel laureate economist Robert Shiller, co-creator of the index. “This is t… Continue reading

Earth to Chris Cuomo: “Hate Speech” Still IS Speech

…rictly emotional reasons, is the moment that free speech is over. At root, freedom of speech is freedom of thought; it’s freedom of the mind. We are all free to have, and express, whatever ideas we wish to express. Just as we are all free to disagree with, despise, or detest anything that anyone else says, they are likewise equally free to feel the same about what any one of us says. Nobody has to listen. There is no rational basis for allowing th… Continue reading

Tyranny is Staring Us in the Face: And Most of Us Still Deny It

…absolutely anything it wishes, any time it wishes, to whomever it wishes. Freedom of assembly, freedom to peacefully protest as the truckers in Canada did — do you think we really still have that in the United States? Do they still have it in Canada? This isn’t just theory. This is what’s actually happening — in Canada, in Australia, in New Zealand, in much of Europe and — perhaps with the same full force — soon in the United States. The damage i… Continue reading

Why Free Trade is a Moral Right, Not Just a Political One

…all his motives and everything in his mind. But his strategies and end goals are a hell of a lot closer to the ideal of free trade for all than anything we have seen for quite awhile in the USA. For now, I’ll take it.   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… Continue reading

College Student Loans: Yet Another Socialist Fallacy

…e loans and subsidies so everyone can buy them? No. But supply, demand and freedom of competition have given people choices and made these products possible to just about everybody who wants them. College is going in the opposite direction. It’s getting scarcer all the time. Once tuition is $100,000 a year, even at state colleges, then almost nobody will be going to college. I’m realistic. I know there is absolutely no chance that politicians, of… Continue reading

Color Me Free

…Americans happens to be. All I care is that America becomes, once again, a free country. A free country benefits all people “of color.” (And, by the way, isn’t white a color, too?) When I hear that America is becoming less white and therefore more socialist (or ‘progressive’ if you prefer the euphemism), I become angry. Why? Because it’s insulting to assume that just because someone isn’t white that they must be socialist and statist. Maybe most n… Continue reading

It’s the First Amendment … or NOTHING!

…er private. When Twitter acts at the behest of the FBI, it’s not a private company; it becomes, at that moment, an agency of the government. Ditto for any other previously private company. Government should be kept out of all private, noncoercive interactions such as speech. The moment it steps in — even once, even a little — is the moment your Bill of Rights and Constitution are no longer in operation. Speech is never violence. The diatribes of a… Continue reading

Freedom Comes From Something

…e? Another problem today is envy. Instead of wanting the best and the brightest to be free to flourish, accomplish and make money, probably about half the country resents them and wants them hampered in their efforts. To them, it feels good to see the successful brought down a notch. And what does this accomplish, exactly? These attitudes are not the emotions and viewpoints of a nation that will be free. If America is to reverse course in its poli… Continue reading