Your writing and research are a credit to journalism. You truly deserve this award. Keep up the good work. Don't let them wear you down. It's tough out there, and we are all rooting for you. KenC

I admire your writing and your courage. Glad you won this award. God bless and keep up the good work! KenC

I'm not buying the spin, but there was something this past week or so that gives me the feeling that there is hope for a real change. A court knocked out Bloomburg's Big Gulp ban. In doing so it decried this type of frivolous messing with U.S. citizens, it also dissed the very same phony science that Bloomburg was using (people are in worse health where Big Gulps are sold) that is also used by Obama against financial institutions--since blacks and hispanics have bad credit ratings, it must be because of discrimination. That is a one-two punch in favor of a return to sanity. KenC

But parents should sign the opt-out anyway. There could be a great lawsuit some day and you, too, could gain a share of the Google pie, or at least your lawyer could. KenC

Multiculturalism is the self-imposed Apartheid of the West. Once color-blind was the ideal. Now it is color conscious. It is good intentions turned on their head. KenC

Racism, which is what affirmative action is, won't go away by itself because it is employed by politicians to gain power. What we are developing in the U.S. is a fine Apartheid system, a la South Africa. It is designed to separate our every possible shade of color or race to ensure that we have peoples fighting against each other for as many perks as possible. The politicians then step in to regulate the ungodly mess, and, by the way, to help themselves and get rich and powerful in the process. KenC

And since the end of slavery we in the U.S. have been consistently recreating the Apartheid system of South Africa, where every possible ethnic faction is promoted and helped to divide away from inclusion, to make sure that its "identity" as a separate "people" is preserved. This is done for the same reason as Apartheid was established--to allow our leaders to divide and rule with an ever heavier hand. Yup, the great liberal plot to control us all. Whatever happened to the melting pot? KenC

Actually, Sowell is right on the money. The lottery of life just won't tell us who will be the successes of the future. We are not talking about individuals here. We are talking about the progress of groups of people over generations. He is talking about successful cultures and unsuccessful cultures. Whether someone who listens to classical music and have a particular moral and a particular cultural way of life will do better than another person who is brought up another way, has another moral compass and another culture. If you look at things this way, you can well understand that when the culture changes, so do the individuals in it. KenC

If you wanted a 1,000 word article, he probably could have included a mention of every ethnic and racial group on earth. Is that what you had in mind? KenC

And Forbes should be ashamed of itself for putting out this stuff, also without adequate thought. KenC again