Apr 24, 2014 – Income inequality has long been one of the liberals' favorite issues. So there is nothing surprising about its being pushed hard this election year. If nothing else, it is a much-needed distraction from the disasters of ObamaCare and the various IRS, Benghazi and other Obama administration scandals. Like...

Apr 23, 2014 – Liberals can be disarming. In fact, they are for disarming anybody who can be disarmed, whether domestically or internationally. Unfortunately, the people who are the easiest to disarm are the ones who are the most peaceful -- and disarming them makes them vulnerable to those who are the least...

Apr 22, 2014 – Liberals advocate many wonderful things. In fact, I suspect that most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world envisioned by liberals, rather than in the kind of world envisioned by conservatives. Unfortunately, the only kind of world that any of us can live in is the...

May 7, 2014 – If you want to get some idea of the moral bankruptcy of our educational system, read an article in the May 4th issue of the New York Times Magazine titled, "The Tale of Two Schools." The article is not about moral bankruptcy. But it is itself an example of...

May 7, 2014 – Thomas Sowell offers some evidence in a recent column, "Will Dunbar Rise Again?" (http://tinyurl.com/mjt39ks). … Sowell says, "Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and…

May 6, 2014 – Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker was internationally renowned within the economics profession, but was not nearly as well known among the general public as he deserved to be. More important, his path-breaking ideas, including his analysis of the economics of racial discrimination, deserved to be much more a part of...

Oct 23, 2012 – It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this man not deceived the public about?Remember his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his...

Oct 18, 2012 – But to paraphrase economist Thomas Sowell, today the word "liar" means a conservative who is winning an argument with a liberal.…

Oct 30, 2012 – Instead of believing you should be rewarded for what you produce, many Americans have embraced a different concept that Thomas Sowell…

Oct 30, 2012 – Confidence men know that their victim -- "the mark" as he has been called -- is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long...

Oct 30, 2012 – largely consisted of doing what feels good and compassionate without asking what the long-term consequences will be; what Professor Thomas … Sowell calls "Stage One Thinking."…

Nov 14, 2012 – The most successful Republican presidential candidate of the past half century-- Ronald Reagan, who was elected and reelected with landslide victories-- bore little resemblance to the moderate candidates that Republican conventional wisdom depicts as the key to victory, even though most of these moderate candidates have in fact gone down...

Nov 14, 2012 – Some media pundits see in the growing proportion of non-white groups in the population a growing opposition to the Republican Party that will sooner or later make it virtually impossible for Republicans to win presidential elections or even to control either house of Congress. But is demography destiny?...

Nov 13, 2012 – Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment-- nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have. The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least...

Nov 7, 2012 – This country is at a historic crossroads, and the path we choose can determine our future far beyond the next four years. Our children and grandchildren may someday bless us or curse us for what we do this Tuesday. Against that background, it is painful to see the petty talking...

Nov 6, 2012 – Among the objections to ObamaCare, one that has not gotten as much attention as it should is the president's power to waive the law for any company, union or other enterprise he chooses.The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides for "equal protection of the laws" for all Americans. To have...

Nov 24, 2012 – If you're talking about Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Thomas Sowell, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Walter Williams, Laura…

Nov 24, 2012 – people can remove a bad leader I don’t know if this is because he recognizes the danger of untrammeled majoritarianism, much like Thomas … Sowell, George Will, and Walter Williams.…

Nov 21, 2012 – Few things can make you appreciate home like staying in a hotel. This includes not only low-budget, bare bones hotels but also sweepingly large and ornate luxury hotels. What many hotels seem to have in common are needless hassles. Since most people who stay in hotels...

Nov 20, 2012 – Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is one of those old fairy tales for children which has a heavy message that a lot of adults should listen to. The labor unions which have driven the makers of Twinkies into bankruptcy, potentially destroying 18,500 jobs, could have...

Dec 5, 2012 – Editor's Note: This column is part II in a series. Part I can be found here. One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays "chicken" with the Congressional Republicans along the "fiscal cliff," is that Obama is a master of the plausible lie, which...

Dec 4, 2012 – Amid all the political and media hoopla about the "fiscal cliff" crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting.First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on "the rich," even if that is done it will scarcely make a dent in the government's financial problems....

Dec 4, 2012 – The esteemed commentator Thomas Sowell said it best: "It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals…

Nov 28, 2012 – They should spend from now until the end of the congressional calendar reading aloud from Thomas Sowell, Richard Epstein, John Lott…

Nov 28, 2012 – If everyone in America had read Stephen Moore's new book, "Who's The Fairest of Them All?", Barack Obama would have lost the election in a landslide. The point here is not to say, "Where was Stephen Moore when we needed him?" A...