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Thomas Sowell: The Mosque Controversy
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The Mosque Controversy
by Thomas Sowell
The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 15-story middle finger to America.
It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious, so it is not surprising that the intelligentsia are out in force, decrying those [...]
Thomas Sowell: Dismantling America
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Dismantling America
by Thomas Sowell
“We the people” are the familiar opening words of the Constitution of the United States– the framework for a self-governing people, free from the arbitrary edicts of rulers. It was the blueprint for America, and the success of America made that blueprint something that other nations sought to follow.
At [...]
Thomas Sowell: Bean-Counters and Baloney
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Bean-Counters and Baloney
by Thomas Sowell
The bean-counters have struck again– this time in the sports pages. Two New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from minority groups are found more often coaching at first base than at third base. Moreover, third-base coaches become managers more often than first-base coaches.
This may [...]
Thomas Sowell: Signs of the Times
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Signs of the Times
by Thomas Sowell
If you could spend vast amounts of other people’s money just by saying a few magic words, wouldn’t you be tempted to do it? Barack Obama has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money just by using the magic words “stimulus” and “jobs.”
It doesn’t [...]
Thomas Sowell: Santa and Frank
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Santa and Frank
by Thomas Sowell
People who remember the old comic strip “Peanuts” will recall an often repeated situation where Lucy offers to hold a football for Charlie Brown to kick. Then, as Charlie coming running up to kick it, Lucy snatches away the ball and Charlie Brown loses his balance and goes [...]
Thomas Sowell: A Sad Day
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A Sad Day
by Thomas Sowell
The flap about General Stanley McChrystal’s “resignation” was nobody’s finest hour. But there are some painful lessons in all this that go beyond any of the individuals involved– the general, the president or any of the officials at the Pentagon or the State Department.
What is far more important [...]
Thomas Sowell: Degeneration of Democracy
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Degeneration of Democracy
by Thomas Sowell
When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics. Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they [...]
Thomas Sowell: A Mind-Changing Page
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A Mind-Changing Page
by Thomas Sowell
Sometimes you can read a book that will change your mind on some fundamental issue. Rarely, however, is there just one page that can undermine or destroy a widely-held belief. But there is such a page– page 77 of the book “Out of Work” by Richard Vedder and [...]
Thomas Sowell: Oil and Snake Oil
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Oil and Snake Oil
by Thomas Sowell
The big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough in itself. But politics can make anything worse.
Let’s stop and think. Either the government knows how to stop the oil spill or they don’t. If they know how to stop it, then why have they [...]
Thomas Sowell: The Real Public Service
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The Real Public Service
by Thomas Sowell
Every year about this time, big-government liberals stand up in front of college commencement crowds across the country and urge the graduates to do the noblest thing possible– become big-government liberals.
That isn’t how they phrase it, of course. Commencement speakers express great reverence for “public service,” as distinguished [...]