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Dr. Thomas Sowell: Artificial Stupidity
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Artificial Stupidity
by Thomas Sowell
A woman with a petition went among the crowds attending a state fair, asking people to sign her petition demanding the banning of dihydroxymonoxide. She said it was in our lakes and streams, and now it was in our sweat and urine and tears.
She collected hundreds of signatures to [...]
Dr. Thomas Sowell: The Fallacy of “Fairness”
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The Fallacy of “Fairness”
by Thomas Sowell
If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people’s thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word “fair.” It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered [...]
Dr. Thomas Sowell: Dismantling America
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Dismantling America
by Thomas Sowell
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many “czars” appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did [...]
Dr. Thomas Sowell: Biggest Brains Tend To Hatch Biggest Snafus
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Biggest Brains Tend To Hatch Biggest Snafus
By Dr. Thomas Sowell
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
It was, after all, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s brilliant “Brains Trust” advisers whose policies [...]
Dr Thomas Sowell: Those Forever Seeking Utopia Lose Freedom
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Those Forever Seeking Utopia Lose Freedom
By THOMAS SOWELL
“Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” We have heard that many times. What is also the price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections.
If everything that is wrong with the world becomes a reason to turn more power over to [...]
Dr. Thomas Sowell: Our New President – Disaster In The Making?
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Our New President: Disaster In The Making?
By Thomas Sowell
After many a disappointment with someone, and especially after a disaster, we may be able to look back at numerous clues that should have warned us that the person we trusted did not deserve our [...]
Dr. Thomas Sowell: A Post-Racial President?
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A Post-Racial President?
by Thomas Sowell
Many people hoped that the election of a black President of the United States would mark our entering a “post-racial” era, when we could finally put some ugly aspects of our history behind us.
That is quite understandable. But it takes two to tango. Those of us [...]
Dr. Thomas Sowell: A Tangled Web II
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A Tangled Web: Part II
by Thomas Sowell
Much of the backlog of cases in our over-burdened courts has been created by the courts themselves, with adventurous judicial “interpretations” of laws that leave a large gray area of uncertainty around even the most plainly written legislation. Lawyers of course fish in these troubled [...]
Dr. Thomas Sowell: A Tangled Web
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A Tangled Web
by Dr. Thomas Sowell
While the recent Supreme Court decision in the New Haven firefighters’ case will be welcome news to those who don’t think that a gross injustice is O.K. when those on the receiving end are white, the reasoning behind the 5 to 4 decision is a painful [...]
Dr. Thomas Sowell: Talking Points
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Talking Points
by Thomas Sowell
One of the many signs of the degeneration of our times is how many serious, even life-and-death, issues are approached as talking points in a game of verbal fencing. Nothing illustrates this more than the fatuous, and even childish, controversy about “torturing” captured terrorists.
People’s actions often make [...]