In Defense of Liberty

By Dr. Michael J. Hurd

Editor's Note:  These are from his website Dr. Hurd. Com, Daily Dose of Reason from May 15, to May 31, however, they're not all here, or in chronological order, as I've picked those I wish to highlight, and I've tried to organize them topically as much as possible in order to get the full impact of what he's saying. RK  

In Defense of Liberty  

Act Now to Defend Liberty, or Lose It (My Latest NEWSMAX) -The following is my Newsmax Insider column from 5-30-25: These days, we've obviously heard much about politics and how the two still dominant political parties are divided.To evoke a common phrase, this is nothing more...

 Memorial Day 2025: Why Did They Fight & Die for America? - So….Did they fight and die for liberty and equal individual rights under the law … or did they fight and die so men could dress up as women and beat women on women’s sports teams; and go into women’s bathrooms? Did they fight and die for freedom of speech … or did they fight and die so that totalitarian-minded college professors living off inflated tuition and government grants could impose their subjective definition of “hate speech” on the population?........

When Have Democrats Ever Paid for Anything? - CNN political commentator Van Jones said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Democrats would pay for covering up then-President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline for a long time..........They lost to Trump twice. But they have always come back, and will continue to do so until or unless we arrest and imprison their ringleaders — including but not limited to the Obama, Clinton, Biden, Soros, Fauci and Pelosi crime families. You hang traitors. And if you don’t have the stomach to do so literally, then you remove their freedom and power, at a minimum............If you were too dense or dishonest to see Biden’s problems before, you will be the type to continue to applaud and support ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING these Commiefascists and their media choose to serve up.............

• And Just Like That, They're Outraged Over Biden's Incapacity - Leftists attacked anyone who questioned Biden's cognitive capacity while President. At the time, they called you the usual names if you suggested Joe didn't know what he was doing: racist, white supremacist, etc. Now they ... and they wonder Why Aren't Men Supporting Democrats?

Celebrity Nitwit Brigade

Celebrity Idiots Proudly Leaving America -These celebrities make me ill. They have millions. So they need not worry about socialized medicine, public schools mutilating and indoctrinating their children, felony charges for misgendering, and all the rest. They can insulate themselves from the socialism and Communism they cherish. 

I do not begrudge them their millions. But they made their millions in a largely capitalist American system they now wish to eliminate. Capitalism was fine for themselves, but once they make their millions, they demand Communism for the rest of us. It’s depraved, sadistic and I am sick of these loathsome, moralistic, shamelessly ignorant and willfully intellectually illiterate famous creeps that millions of Americans continue to worship, like gods......

Hate Crimes and Speech

It's Only Hate When You Condemn Muslims - BBC Arabic journalist Samer Elzaenen has called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did,” The Telegraph quoted him as saying in a Saturday report. Elzaenen, 33, who has been reporting from Gaza, has been posting a series ...

Hate Crime - They call it a “hate crime” if you refer to a man pretending to be a woman as “he” instead of “she.” Some even want it to be a felony.  This savage murder will NOT be called a hate crime. You won’t hear a peep of outrage from Rachel Maddow, The View or The New York Times. Jewish Americans: Why in the HELL do you vote Democrat?  Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, who were killed by a gunman outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday, met while working at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, her father said. Lischinsky had just bought an engagement ring and planned to propose in Jerusalem next week, an official said........

Leftist Violence on the Elderly -  Meet Laura Garrett. She’s facing multiple charges after allegedly attacking an elderly Trump supporter wearing a MAGA hat in Largo, Florida. Garrett allegedly approached the man to ask why he supports Trump then poured some type of liquid she was holding on the victim’s head and hit him on the back of his head. Charges included battery on a person older than 65, battery on a police officer and obstructing or resisting an officer without violence, according to Pinellas County Jail records.  Leftism is terrorism, fascism and Communism rolled into a hybrid package of horrific proportions.......

Judiciary

Biden and Obama Judges Are Determining Our Fate -  “Federal judge blocks Trump’s plan…” That’s all you hear these days. The Trump administration is being held hostage by a handful of Obama and Biden (Soros funded) judges overtly, explicitly and unblinkingly declaring war on the Constitution. They’re stopping Trump from enforcing the border. If Trump attempted a military action against, say, Iran, would Obama or Biden judges order that stopped too? At what point is the Constitution, and the powers deemed presidential powers, even relevant? It doesn’t seem to matter. Democrat supporters are either oblivious or indifferent. If Trump does something, it’s automatically and always unconstitutional. If Biden did something it was automatically and always valid. That’s it. End of story......

 The Supreme Court is Not Conservative - President Trump yesterday, on Truth Social:  The Supreme Court has just ruled [7-2] that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our Country illegally, are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive Legal Process, one that will take, possibly, many years for each person, and one that will allow these people to commit many crimes before they even see the inside of a Courthouse.........

Trump's Leftist Justice -  Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s second biggest mistake in his first term. (His biggest was trusting Fauci). She’s ripping into President Trump and his policy attempting to return violent, criminal illegal aliens to their home countries without full due process. So here we are, with a hard core leftist on the Supreme Court appointed by President Trump. I wonder if she needs to be investigated for violating any federal laws?........ 

Policies That Destroy America

Why Medicaid Will Never Be Moral - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said the Trump bill is moral, because it places work requirements on Medicaid recipients. While placing work requirements on Medicaid recipients who can work seems like a good thing, it won’t make Medicaid moral. Medicaid is immoral because it’s based on coercion. Those who don’t obtain Medicaid are forced to pay for it through taxes and inflation.

Medicaid is not a charity program. Imagine if someone came to your house, held you up at gunpoint and said, “You can’t call the police. I am giving your money and possessions to needy people. I am moral.” It’s insane. Even if the money went to charity, it would still not be moral, because ROBBERY IS NEVER MORAL. Yet that’s exactly what the federal government does with socialized medicine–which is what Medicaid is........

Real Reparations -  Instead of racially based “reparations” (involving victims and victimizers who have been dead 200 years), how about reparations for something REAL? How about liberty reparations? For example, arrest the Biden, Obama, Fauci, Pelosi, Soros, Bush and other crime families. 

Confiscate their wealth and divide it up among the population. I’ve mentioned only the high profile cases — I’m sure we could come up with many more. Return to all tax paying U.S. citizens — only U.S. citizens who have paid a certain amount in taxes over the years — some of the wealth confiscated from them. Now THAT would be justice. It wouldn’t be based on factors such as race or favoritism. It would be based strictly on the facts. Criminals took from productive people; a just government seizes that wealth and gives it back.......

Don't Accept Unearned Guilt "You Didn't Earn It!"  Protected by the privacy of a therapy session, clients occasionally admit to me that interactions with family, grown children, aging parents and old friends were often tinged with guilt. In spite of all the jokes (“What? You can’t call your mother once in a while? Fine. I’ll suffer!”), countless negative emotions and psychological problems can arise because of guilt – specifically, unearned guilt. Unearned guilt refers to taking responsibility for something over which you have no control and that you did not cause.......

Smug Totalitarians Supported by Gullible Democrat Voters - “Democrat Messaging Falters as They Ask Constituents to Foot Medicaid Costs for 1.4 Million Illegal Aliens,” says a Breitbart headline. Rich, totalitarian, smug, self-righteous, hypocritical totalitarians forcing hard working, gullible constituents to pay for the medical care of foreigners, many of them violent, predatory gang members.  America’s founders, men like Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and James Madison, were neither gullible nor naive. Yet I wonder if even they could foresee the magnitude of the depravity future politicians would heap on this nation.............

Psychotic Left  

The Mental Health Industry's Wreckage - Anna (in this video) was medically transitioned (male to female) as a teen, and has since detransitioned. He now realizes he was just a gay man, not a girl, and in this video blasted those pushing the medical and ideological ...

The Ridiculous Fallacies of the Psychiatric Industry - The television sitcom, “Designing Women,” back in the 1980s, had an episode where the characters made fun of psychiatric diagnoses such as narcissism, borderline personality and the like. They called it, “Obnoxious Personality Disorder.” The show was way ahead of its time in this critique. People today love to label everyone they dislike a narcissist, a borderline personality, etc. 

They’re following the nod of the mental health Establishment. What they’re really describing is just plain OBNOXIOUS people: sad, small souls who feel a need to take their malevolent, gloomy world views out on other people. It’s not a disease. It’s a nasty character flaw. It’s really a way of trying to bring others down with you. Call it narcissist, borderline or whatever the next label our psychiatric industry comes up with — it’s just plain OBNOXIOUS.......

Violent Psychopaths Triumph in The Upside Down Society -  Congresswoman Nancy Mace on social media:

 “BREAKING: Samuel Theodore Cain is first trans activist in country to be arrested for death threats against us, thanks to Capitol Police and SLED. Roxie was “dead*ss” arrested. We’ll let the photo stand for itself because this individual is obviously unwell in more ways than one. Hopefully they have makeup wipes in prison.”

In our morally inverted, psycho-pathological era, why are the rational and decent afraid for their lives, while the delusional and violent are on the rise? We can’t go on like this. At least in South Carolina, there’s still a little justice.......

Spending 

If Republicans Won't Cut Spending, Who Will? - I am really pleased and impressed with President Trump’s second term. The man is an American hero, and one for the ages. But in reflecting on Elon Musk’s disillusionment with the Republican Party’s absolute unwillingness (in Congress, where it counts) to cut spending, I wonder if it’s too late for America..........

Where Are the Big, Beautiful Spending Cuts? - There is no “public” sector or “private” sector. We have only the WORKING sector and the PLUNDER sector. President Trump’s big beautiful bill passed the House, and will likely pass the Senate. It’s good news, of course. The bill has tax cuts and tax relief, desperately needed by our working sector — the private sector. But the bill does nothing to address spending. Republicans kicked the can 5 years down the road on spending cuts. President Trump, to be fair, is finding massive cuts, but because Congress has the final say, those cuts will not stick. Biden-Obama judges are undoing all of those cuts, too. Congress has to back up those cuts. A refusal to cut spending is the one thing Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on, based on the fact that neither party has ever cut a penny — and, it appears, never will.

Tyranny 

The Productive & Honest Vs. The Totalitarian "Progressives" - Here's how it works today: “I have unlimited rights, and no responsibilities. You have unlimited responsibilities, and no rights. My feelings are king. If I feel uncomfortable in any way, it’s all your fault.” It’s the premise of the Democratic Party, who still controls our not yet dismantled Deep State and virtually everything in our culture that people pay more attention to than the government — entertainment, sports, the corporate world, government-run schools/universities, medicine and the so-called mental health industry. No relationship (personal or sociopolitical) can survive five minutes on this premise.  No civilization can survive on this premise, either.......

 The Malevolent Totalitarian Monsters Could Regain Power - If malevolent monsters like this ever ascend to power, we will have no choice but to fight: by any and every means necessary. They will not turn us into a racist slave state in reverse. You don’t get to say, “Because whites once enslaved blacks, today blacks may enslave whites.” These Marxist racial supremacists will not force innocent people to pay restitution to victims dead for 200 years. Not without a war. If totalitarian haters like this ever take over the American government, then it’s no longer America. And believe me, at that point, all bets are off.............

One More Reason Communists and Fascists Should Not Hold Office in America - She’s basically saying when (not if) the Democrats eventually retake the Congress and White House, Trump and Republicans will be convicted and incarcerated. This should surprise nobody. Yes, she’s a dingbat. But she speaks for the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is an organized, openly terrorist, Communist and fascist gang of thugs and sociopaths. There is nothing they won’t do. Their only regret about the awful Biden regime is it went 70 mph rather than 200 mph in the destruction of American liberty. They intend to get power again, preferably by exploiting the ignorance of millions of people who will see fit to blame Trump and Republicans for anything that goes wrong (or even if nothing goes wrong). And then there’s ballot fraud, which is still a thing..........