Feb 12, 2014 – Thomas Sowell reports, do we find that census data "going back a hundred years, when blacks were just one generation out of slavery…

Feb 11, 2014 – Random thoughts on the passing scene: It is amazing how many people still fall for the argument that, if life is unfair, the answer is to turn more money and power over to politicians. Since life has always been unfair, for thousands of years and in countries around the...

Feb 10, 2014 – rational adults have been subjected to notions so outrageous that they know no reasonable person will believe them, because as Thomas … Sowell described them, they are merely fact free liberal rhetoric.…

Mar 1, 2014 – Like John Stossel and Thomas Sowell, I’m not a big fan of the Federal Reserve.…

Feb 25, 2014 – It seems as if, everywhere you turn these days, there are studies claiming to show that America has lost its upward mobility for people born in the lower socioeconomic levels. But there is a sharp difference between upward "mobility," defined as an opportunity to rise, and mobility defined as actually...

Feb 22, 2014 – attention to their lessons into a very bloody pulp. 7) I believe in the collective wisdom of the people who came before me: Thomas … Sowell also spoke for me when he said, "Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional…

Feb 21, 2014 – Politics is often like war. Unfortunately, politicians, the media and the voting public seldom have the same degree of realism and discipline with which professional soldiers fight wars. You can indulge your emotions and base your decisions on wishful thinking in politics, in a way that you are not likely...

Feb 20, 2014 – Senator Ted Cruz is a hero in some Republican circles -- and the opposite among many of his Senate Republican colleagues. At this crucial juncture in the history of America, internal battles within the only party that can turn things around are the last thing Americans need. Moreover,...

Mar 11, 2014 – If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left's avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now -- and the place would be New York City, where far left Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched an attack on charter schools,...

Mar 11, 2014 – Economist Thomas Sowell sums it up well: “The net economic effect of minimum wage laws is to make less skilled, less experienced…

Mar 4, 2014 – There may be something to the claim that all people want to be free. But it is a demonstrable fact that freedom has been under attack, usually successfully, for thousands of years. The Federal Communications Commission's recent plan to have a "study" of how editorial decisions are made in...

Mar 3, 2014 – If you simply disregard someone of the stature of Thomas Sowell because you don’t want to hear his conclusions, then you are being…

Mar 19, 2014 – At a time when polls show public opinion turning against the Democrats, some Republicans seem to be turning against each other. Even with the prospect of being able to win control of the Senate in this fall's elections, some Republicans are busy manufacturing ammunition for their own circular firing squad....

Mar 18, 2014 – Professor Amy Chua of the Yale law school is better known as a "Tiger Mom" because of her take-no-prisoners, tough love approach to raising children. She and her husband Jed Rubenfeld (a fellow Yale law professor) have written what may turn out to be the best book of this year....

Mar 12, 2014 – I could call them “fascists,” which Thomas Sowell explains is the most accurate way of describing the modern left’s economic ideology…

Mar 26, 2014 – According to columnist Thomas Sowell, the attack on successful charter schools is happening in other cities, too (http://tinyurl.com…

Mar 25, 2014 – Recently former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice added her voice to those who have long been urging the Republican Party to reach out to black voters. Not only is that long overdue, what is also long overdue is putting some time -- and, above all, some serious thought -- into...

Apr 8, 2014 – The recent Supreme Court decision over-ruling some Federal Election Commission restrictions on political campaign contributions has provoked angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens whenever the High Court rules that the First Amendment means what it says -- free speech for everybody. When the Supreme Court...

Apr 2, 2014 – Japan recently turned over to the United States enough weapons-grade nuclear material to make dozens of nuclear bombs. This was one of President Barack Obama's few foreign policy "successes," as part of his nuclear disarmament initiative. But his foreign policy successes may be more dangerous than his "failures." Back in...

Apr 1, 2014 – Many people are lamenting the bad consequences of Barack Obama's foreign policy, and some are questioning his competence. There is much to lament, and much to fear. Multiple setbacks to American interests have been brought on by Obama's policies in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Crimea and --...

Apr 19, 2014 – A) Thomas Sowell B) Herman Cain C) Ben Carson D) Barack Obama 3) Who made these conspiratorial, anti-Semitic…

Apr 15, 2014 – The "war on women" political slogan is in fact a war against common sense. It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn only 77 percent of what men earn -- and that this is because of discrimination. It...

Apr 11, 2014 – Black journalist Chuck Stone was one of those people whose passing makes us think, "We shall not see his like again." He was passionately interested in racial issues but he was never a race hustler. He followed nobody's party line but called the issues as he saw them....

Apr 30, 2014 – It is not easy to demonize people who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money to help educate poor children. But some members of the education establishment are taking a shot at it. The Walton Family Foundation -- created by the people who created Walmart...

Apr 29, 2014 – Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the interests of the teachers' unions. Attorney General Eric Holder's attempt to suppress the spread of charter schools in Louisiana was just one of the signs...