Joseph McHugh
Joseph McHugh is an entrepreneur and writer living in Boston. His novel,"July 5," is now available at Barnes and Noble.com.
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Articles by Joseph McHugh
September 07, 2009
In today's world there are two kinds of rich people. Only one is considered moral.
July 29, 2009
President Obama's health care bill being considered by Congress now would mean less freedom in America.
July 21, 2009
Republicans need three ingredients to start winning again: a candidate who is morally inspirational, intelligent, and who actually is different from the other guy.
July 13, 2009
The resignation of Sarah Palin, and the consequent trashing of her decision by the mainstream media highlight a major problem with the Republican Party and with our politics in general.
July 05, 2009
Seemingly immoral U.S policies in Latin America must be placed in context.
June 07, 2009
A new memoir by recently deceased William F. Buckley's son Christopher reveals a disturbing portrait of his father and casts a revealing light on his hatred of Ayn Rand, and on conservatism's demise.
March 12, 2009
Recessions need not be cataclysmic events.
November 24, 2008
A layman ask questions about the alleged financial crisis that he hasn't heard asked in the mainstream media.
September 16, 2008
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Martin Luther King Jr. said, and his words are stunningly apt. His words do not mean that every violation of human rights represents an immediate existential threat to everyone else. Each small country in the world that violates human rights is ...
August 21, 2008
Taiwan is a sovereign, democratic rights respecting nation and should be recognized as such by the international community.
April 17, 2008
It´s time to unpack the Barack Obama candidacy.
First let´s do a little thought experiment. Imagine I were average white Joe and belonged to a church that preached that blacks cause epidemic diseases in this country, and were the downfall of decency. I preach white pride and urge my p...
March 10, 2008
Anti-ideology is a contradiction in terms and doesn't promote change.
February 26, 2008
The 2008 Candidates try to flout ideology
November 08, 2007
Roger Waters is a rock musician from England, famous for his work with Pink Floyd. His music, especially his solo work, is notable for its leftist lyrics. Indeed, he recently played for Al Gore’s Live Earth show, and toured in 2006-2007 along side a gigantic pig emblazoned with the message, “Impeach...
May 09, 2007
How will George Bush be viewed by history? No one can ultimately answer that question except the future historians themselves. But we can gather that the dominant trend of liberals running our intellectual culture is not going to end any time soon. So likely it is that the liberal historians will wr...
April 30, 2006
Who must sacrifice for the group? And what group must be sacrificed? These are not terribly palatable questions, but these are the terms of the current immigration debate.
But must anyone sacrifice? And what about the individual?s rights? Those ought to be the terms of the debate.
The left is sp...
April 16, 2006
The American Revolution was about decreasing the power of government. Live free or die. Individual rights are the credo by which we live in this country. Governments are instituted among men with the sole justification of protecting the people’s natural rights. “The government is best, which gove...
February 13, 2006
No one has been more severe than me in condemning European pacifism in the face of the greatest threat to Western civilization since, well, the European instigated war called World War 2. But I have to admit that they’ve shown more courage than us in fighting Islamic fascism, growing as a force on t...
November 26, 2005
I was recently talking to an acquaintance of mine, an acquaintance from Saudi Arabia, who is connected with their government. When the subject of Iran came up, a look of gravity came over the man?s face. ?Something must be done,? he intoned. ?We are all afraid.? Now this man is no friend of Presiden...
November 07, 2005
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent declaration that Israel ought be “Wiped off the map of the world,” at once reminds us of present realities, past failures and future crises. More to the point, it is a sobering reminder of why Iran cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
There i...
October 30, 2005
The Indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Friday prompted substantial cheering on the left, as though all of their arguments against the Iraq war have now been vindicated. See, they crow, it was a grand lie after all. It’s now clear, they say, this administration is populated by a bunch of sleaz...