Legalizing pot, by itself, won’t change a thing. Until or unless we understand why marijuana should be legal, it’s futile to support its legalization.
Dr Michael Hurd
Dr. Michael Hurd is a psychotherapist, columnist and author of "Bad Therapy, Good Therapy (And How to Tell the Difference)" and "Grow Up America!" Visit his website at: www.DrHurd.com.
The Problem With Cliven Bundy
The problem with our big, expansive federal government which denies individual rights every day is that it ultimately leads to disputes of this kind.
Feminism Submits to Islam
Where are the feminists outraged by the Brandeis decision?
Putin Parties Like It’s 1959
The best thing America could do for the Ukraine, or any other victim of totalitarian repression, is to make the world safe for freedom, private property and individual rights.
Racist “Group Think” at Rutgers
“How dare you be black and anti-Obama!”
Tax ‘Credits’ for People Who Don’t Pay Taxes?
Obama plays a similar trick with IRAs.
FCC “Study” vs. the First Amendment
ending federal bureaucrats to meddle in newsroom affairs by conducting an alleged “study” will chill news coverage and make government-licensed broadcast media think twice about airing stories that place the Obama administration in a bad light.
Bill Gates is Wrong About “Giving Back”
By saying, “I must give back,” a person is essentially acknowledging, “I stole something.”
The Kansas Anti-Gay Law and The Freedom of Association
What we need is a law — or a Constitutional amendment, if need-be — ensuring freedom of association. In other words, all individual citizens should be guaranteed the right to associate, or not associate, with whom they choose.
Obamacare for News Reporting: Will Government Censors Be Placed in America’s Newsrooms?
Individual liberty, freedom and private property — including the most precious right of free speech – are not frozen in place forever. Government will always test its limits and watch how we respond.
The Great Absurdity of The Republican Party
The Republican Party is dying from an internal contradiction. On the one hand, it claims to want freedom and individual rights. On the other hand, it embraces fundamentalist religion as the basis for civilization.
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Interviews The Prince of Unaccountability (Obama)
Obama’s strength, if you wish to call it that, arises from the ideological weakness of his political opponents — and the personal weakness of his most loyal constituents.
No Right to Privacy Without The Right to Property
Without the right to one’s property (including one’s wealth), any right to privacy is irrelevant and nonexistent.
Obama’s Rule by the Pen
We’re living under the blossoming dictatorship of a petulant child.
Lessons Learned in a Harlem Barbershop
Without collectivism, no racism is possible.
Is Pope Francis Uniting Political Adversaries?
Pope Francis hasn’t united liberals and conservatives. They’re already united on the basic issue of morality.
Charity is Nice, But it Won’t End Hunger
Production is what makes all consumption, including charity, possible.
Nelson Mandela’s Mixed Legacy: The Anti-Apartheid Leader Who Opposed Actual Freedom
To be a true hero and leader, Mandela would have inspired South Africa–and the rest of the world–to rise to the standard of individual rights.
Pope Francis Blasts America
Self-interest, or self-sacrifice. You can’t have both. Obama and the Pope understand this, but their opponents have yet to figure it out.
What Obamacare Could Do To Your Doctor
Will the doctors finally stand up for themselves then? Or will they humbly and meekly take it?
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