Results for: Thomas Sowell

Why Former CNN Host Went Ballistic on Megyn Kelly
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/03/01/don-lemon…a-meltdown-over-megyn-kellys-remarks-over-joy-reid-n2652793
– He later appears to accuse Kelly’s husband of being gay:Also, what’s this:Don Lemon has lost it. pic.twitter.com/VNhRs94JHG— ThomasSowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) February 28, 2025I'll leave you when Lemon tried to take on Dan Bongino, who is now the deputy director…
Money or Service
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2025/02/26/money-or-service-n2652789
Thomas Sowell said that politicians only think about two things: getting elected and getting re-elected.…
Here's How Trump Honored African Americans for Black History Month
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/02/21/trump-celebrates-black-history-month-at-white-house-n2652607
–   American heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas, and countless others represent…
Iran Is the Head of the Snake and Biden Is a Dolt
https://townhall.com/columnists/georgelandrith/2023/10/10/iran-is-the-head-of-the-snake-and-biden-is-a-dolt-n2629583
– For a fun thought experiment, imagine if President Trump said the very same thing, or if it was Professor Thomas Sowell at Stanford…
Biden Greenlights Taxpayer-Funded 37% Minimum Wage Hike
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/04/27/biden-minimum-wage-n2588599
– As the great Thomas Sowell explains: Advocates of minimum wage laws often give themselves credit for being more "compassionate" towards…
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and the Disuniting of America
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2021/05/10/arthur-schlesinger-jr-and-the-disuniting-of-america-n2589179
Thomas Sowell, the late Professor Walter Williams, General Colin Powell, and author Shelby Steele, among many others, have noted this…
How the World Got Rich
https://townhall.com/columnists/rainerzitelmann/2021/05/16/how-the-world-got-rich-n2589203
– And the economist Thomas Sowell noted, “14 million African slaves were taken across the Sahara Desert or shipped through the Persian…
Trump's 'Racist' Rhetoric Blamed for Anti-Asian Hate
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2021/06/10/trumps-racist-rhetoric-blamed-for-antiasian-hate-n2590755
Thomas Sowell said he once heard a young Black man say he wanted to join the Air Force to become a pilot. … This, Sowell said, was decades after the Black Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Behold the power of white supremacy!…
Voting at a Crossroads
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/03/15/draft-n2133589
– It is seldom that the fate of a nation can be traced to what happened on one particular day. But that may be what happens in the United States of America on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. That is because the front-runners in both political parties are not merely inadequate...
Desperate Tactics
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/03/11/desperate-tactics-n2129954
– It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite -- Jeb Bush -- never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest. This should at least cause some second thoughts -- or perhaps...
Obama's Unacceptable Love Affair With Communism
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2016/03/29/obamas-unacceptable-love-affair-with-communism-n2140042
Thomas Sowell, in "Basic Economics," tells us: "Prices are not just ways of transferring money. … Sowell adds that losses are equally important to profits for economic efficiency because they "tell producers what to stop doing -- … Sowell notes that in allocating resources, command economies stifle the work of free market prices because in a command economy, prices…
Supreme Hypocrisy
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/03/29/supreme-hypocrisy-n2139969
– If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy. Currently there is much indignation being expressed by Democrats because the Republican-controlled Senate refuses to hold confirmation hearings on President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the death...
Black and White, Left and Right
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/03/22/black-and-white-left-and-right-n2137316
– Much is made of the fact that liberals and conservatives see racial issues differently, which they do. But these differences have too often been seen as simply those on the right being racist and those on the left not. You can cherry-pick the evidence to reach that conclusion....
A Note to Conservatives Who Are Secular
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2016/04/05/dennis-prager-n2143581
– left-wing columnists understand human nature, the state of mankind, or contemporary America as do George Will, Charles Krauthammer and ThomasSowell, or many of the leading columnists at publications such as National Review, City Journal, Commentary Magazine or the Wall Street…
Dangerous Donald Trump
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/04/05/dangerous-donald-trump-n2143343
– Donald Trump's victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by receiving either somewhat less than 40 percent of the votes or somewhat more than 40 percent, but never a majority. The fragmenting of the Republican...
Winners or Whiners?
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/04/19/winners-or-whiners-n2150427
– If there is one pattern that is emerging from this year's political campaigns, it is that rhetoric beats reality -- in both parties. The biggest surprise among the Democrats is Bernie Sanders, and among the Republicans is Donald Trump. Although they are each seeking to be put in...
Campaign Lies
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/04/13/campaign-lies-n2147462
– If you took all the lies out of political rhetoric, how much would be left? Apparently even less than usual this year. The latest, and perhaps biggest, lie -- thus far -- is that Donald Trump was cheated out of delegates in Colorado because the voters did not select...
The 'Voice of the People' Fallacy
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/04/12/the-voice-of-the-people-fallacy-n2146851
– We hear many fallacies in election years. The fallacy that seems to be most popular this year is that, if Donald Trump comes close to getting the 1,237 delegates required to become the Republican nominee, and that nomination goes instead to someone else, then the convention will have ignored "the...
Conservatives for Trump?
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/04/26/conservatives-for-trump-n2153363
– The sudden appearance of Donald Trump on the political horizon last year may have been surprising, but not nearly as surprising as seeing some conservatives supporting him. Does Trump have conservative principles? Does he have any principles at all, other than promoting Donald Trump? A smorgasbord of political...
An Unmitigated Disaster
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/06/an-unmitigated-disaster-n2158652
– Republican party leaders may have worried that Donald Trump would not only lose the general election for the presidency, but would so poison the image of the party as to cause Republican candidates for Congress and for state and local offices to also lose. Now they seem to be trying...
Random Thoughts: 2016 Elections
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/03/random-thoughts-n2156968
– Random thoughts on the passing scene: One of the problems with being a pessimist is that you can never celebrate when you are proven right. If what you want from politicians are quick and easy answers, someone is sure to supply them, regardless of which party you...
Grim Choices
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/17/grim-choices-n2163977
– We must frankly face the fact that the front runners in both political parties represent a new low, at a time of domestic polarization and unprecedented nuclear dangers internationally. This year's general election will offer a choice between a thoroughly corrupt liar and an utterly irresponsible egomaniac. The...
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