Tag Archive
Thomas Sowell: Playing Freedom Cheap
Read more here…
Playing Freedom Cheap
by Thomas Sowell
If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office. Dire alarms and heady crusades are among the many distractions of our attention from the ever increasing ways that [...]
Thomas Sowell: Great Scott!
Read more here…
Great Scott!
by Thomas Sowell
Some of the most melancholy letters and e-mails that are sent to me are from people who lament that there is nothing they can do about the bad policies that they see ruining this country. They don’t have any media outlet for their opinions and the letters they send to [...]
Thomas Sowell: “Notional” Security
Read more here…
“Notional” Security
by Thomas Sowell
The latest “screw-up” that let a man with explosives get on a plane on Christmas day is only part of a larger laxness and irresponsibility when it comes to national security. This administration pays lip service to national security and gives out with a lot of rhetorical notions that makes [...]
Thomas Sowell: Unhealthy Arrogance
Read more here…
Unhealthy Arrogance
by Thomas Sowell
The only thing healthy about Congress’ health insurance legislation is the healthy skepticism about it by most of the public, as revealed by polls. What is most unhealthy about this legislation is the raw arrogance in the way it was conceived and passed.
Supporters of government health insurance call its passage [...]
Thomas Sowell: A Letter from a Child
Read more at Townhall…
A Letter from a Child
by Thomas Sowell
Recent videos of American children in school singing songs of praise for Barack Obama were a little much, especially for those of us old enough to remember pictures of children singing the praises of dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mao.
But you don’t need a dictator to [...]
Thomas Sowell: Listening to a Liar
Read more at Townhall…
Listening to a Liar
by Thomas Sowell
The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them.
The words of convicted swindler Bernie Madoff were apparently quite convincing to many people who were regarded as knowledgeable and sophisticated. If you go by words, [...]
Thomas Sowell: Suicide of the West?
Read the whole article at Townhall…
Suicide of the West?
by Thomas Sowell
Britain’s release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi– the Libyan terrorist whose bomb blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people– is galling enough in itself. But it is even more profoundly troubling as a sign of a larger mood that has been [...]
Thomas Sowell: The Great Escape
Read the whole article here…
The Great Escape
by Thomas Sowell
Many of the issues of our times are hard to understand without understanding the vision of the world that they are part of. Whether the particular issue is education, economics or medical care, the preferred explanation tends to be an external explanation– that is, something outside the [...]
Thomas Sowell: Whose Medical Decisions? Part IV
Read more at Townhall…
Whose Medical Decisions? Part IV
by Thomas Sowell
The serious, and sometimes chilling, provisions of the medical care legislation that President Obama has been trying to rush through Congress are important enough for all of us to stop and think, even though his political strategy from the outset has been to prevent us from [...]
Thomas Sowell: Whose Medical Decisions? Part Three
More spun gold from Dr Sowell! Read the whole article here…
Whose Medical Decisions?: Part III
by Thomas Sowell
Amid all the controversies over medical care, no one seems to be asking a very basic question: Why does it take more than 1,000 pages of legislation to insure people who lack medical insurance?
Despite incessant repetition of the [...]