Nov 27, 2012 – Anyone who has followed the decades-long controversies over the role of genes in IQ scores will recognize the names of the two leading advocates of opposite conclusions on that subject-- Professor Arthur R. Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley and Professor James R. Flynn, an American expatriate at...

Dec 14, 2012 – Thomas Sowell makes a similar argument in his work, Intellectuals and Society. … Where Sowell used studies and decades of research to back up his points supporting his thesis, Sayet looks more at the anecdotal to … Sowell aimed to explain the influence of liberal academia and thinking on society but Sayet hopes to explain the source of that liberal…

Dec 12, 2012 – With all the talk about taxing the rich, we hear very little talk about taxing the poor. Yet the marginal tax rate on someone living in poverty can sometimes be higher than the marginal tax rate on millionaires. While it is true that nearly half the households...

Dec 11, 2012 – During the holidays, a shopping mall can be more like a shopping maul. One way to avoid that scene is to give books as Christmas gifts, since books can be bought on-line, painlessly. A book that fits in with the holiday spirit is "No, They Can't!" by...

Dec 7, 2012 – Thomas Sowell clearly spells out a big lie of the left is that President Bush’s “tax cuts for the rich” cost the government so much…

Dec 6, 2012 – Scott is a one term House Representative from South Carolina, every bit as conservative as DeMint and is a devotee to the great Thomas … Sowell.…

Dec 25, 2012 – Random thoughts on the passing scene:When I was growing up, an older member of the family used to say, "What you don't know would make a big book." Now that I am an older member of the family, I would say to anyone, "What you don't know would fill more...

Dec 19, 2012 – As Thomas Sowell wrote, "Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced…

Dec 19, 2012 – The political slogan "Forward" served Barack Obama well during this year's election campaign. It said that he was for going forward, while Republicans were for "going back to the failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place." It was great political rhetoric and...

Dec 18, 2012 – Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of "gun control" advocates? The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available....

Dec 17, 2012 – Thomas Jefferson warned us, "I, however, place economy among the first and most important Republican virtues, and public debt as the … They end America's current welfare dependency trap where, as Thomas Sowell rightly observes, "Someone who is trying to climb out of…

Jan 1, 2013 – The beginning of a new year is often a time to look forward and look back. The way the future looks, I prefer to look back -- and depend on my advanced age to spare me from having to deal with too much of the future.If there are any awards...

Jan 19, 2011 – We all know not to take politicians' rhetoric at face value. But not enough of us have yet learned not to take media rhetoric at face value either, even when it appears in what looks like a "news" story, but is actually a disguised editorial on the front page.For example,...

Jan 18, 2011 – Government budget crises can be painful, but the political rhetoric accompanying these crises can also be fascinating and revealing. Perhaps the most famous American budget crisis was New York City's, back during the 1970s. When President Gerald Ford was unwilling to bail them out, the famous headline in the New...

Jan 11, 2011 – They say that, in politics, "overnight is a lifetime." In other words, the journey from triumphant hero to discredited scapegoat can be very brief.In the wake of the Republicans' triumphs in last November's elections, great hopes are being held out that Republican control of the House of Representatives can slam...

Jan 25, 2011 – When I mention that my family used kerosene lamps when I was a small child in the South during the 1930s, that is usually taken as a sign of our poverty, though I never thought of us as poor at the time. What is ironic is that kerosene lamps were...

Feb 9, 2011 – While everyone's attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration's foreign policy in Europe has largely gone unnoticed. The British newspaper The Telegraph has reported that part of the price which President Obama paid to get Russia to sign the START treaty,...

Feb 8, 2011 – . -- Thomas Sowell First, the science.…

Feb 8, 2011 – Now that two different federal courts have declared ObamaCare unconstitutional, the administration's answer is to call the courts guilty of "judicial activism." Barack Obama has a rhetorical solution for every problem. Remember the repeated claims of "shovel-ready" projects that needed only federal stimulus money to get started? Last year the...

May 1, 2014 – Dunbar High School in Washington is becoming a controversial issue again -- and the controversy that is beginning to develop has implications for American education well beyond the District of Columbia. There has not been much controversy about Dunbar High School for a long time. Since sometime in the...

May 20, 2014 – Many years ago, in upstate New York, there was a lady who was caught in a fierce snow storm that produced conditions called a "whiteout." That's when the snow is falling so thick and fast that all you can see in any direction is just sheer white. This lady wandered...

May 17, 2014 – Grassroots conservatives love people like Allen West, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Tim Scott just as much as…

May 14, 2014 – A political battle that is shaping up in San Francisco has implications for other communities across the country. The issue that will be on the June ballot is whether voter approval shall be required to change the height restrictions on buildings along the San Francisco waterfront. Like so many...

May 13, 2014 – There seems to be a full-court press on to get colleges to "do something" about rape on campus. But there seems to be remarkably little attention paid to two crucial facts: (1) rape is a crime and (2) colleges are not qualified to be law-enforcement institutions. Why are...

May 27, 2014 – Random thoughts on the passing scene: Will the Veterans Administration scandal wake up those people who have been blithely saying that what we need is a "single payer" system for medical care? Delays in getting to see a doctor have been a common denominator in government-run medical systems...