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Daily Dose of Reason -
Society & Culture
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:00 |
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 Dear Dr. Hurd:
I am not black. I am the granddaughter and great granddaughter of Russian and Romanian immigrants (LEGAL). I honestly don’t understand where black people are coming from in their unqualified support of Barack Obama. Why do they now feel they’re free? I’m being serious here. I’m not trying to be a smart ass. I honestly don’t understand where this is coming from. There have been many successful black people in recent (and even not so recent) history. Why do some black people want to keep racism
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Read more... [It's for your own good.]
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Politics & Government
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:00 |
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 France now has something in common with the United States: A Socialist President.
Welcome to the club, France!
Not that this represents a big change. The last president of France was nothing more than a corrupt guardian of that country’s massive entitlement and transfer-of-wealth state. Of course he was corrupt. A government based on such things must by its very nature be corrupt.
The question is: Why should France’s new socialist president, Francois Hollande, be any different?
In terms of policy, Hollande can really
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Read more... [Now France Has a Socialist President, Too]
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Quotations
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:00 |
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 A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
-- Everett Dirksen, prominent member of Congress in the 1950s and 1960s
Contemporary government is like the Mafia -- only less honest. The Mafia has no pretense of virtue. |
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Psychology & Self-Improvement
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Monday, 14 May 2012 00:00 |
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 Psychiatrists are finishing up the DSM-V, the latest version of the psychiatric diagnostic manual utilized by psychiatrists, therapists, physicians and insurance companies for labeling people with psychological disorders.
The manual relies on the medical model, which means it accepts uncritically the premise that everything you think or feel is, at some point, considered by medical science to be a medical disease.
The problem is that there usually is no evidence for
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Read more... [DSM-V Exposes Psychiatry as the "Science" of Majority Vote and Focus Groups]
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