Feb 12, 2013 – ." -- Thomas Sowell The reason people who are knowledgeable about our nation’s history are so concerned with following the Constitution … To the contrary, the lives of most humans who've lived on this planet could be fairly summed up with Thomas Hobbes’ famous phrase,…

Feb 12, 2013 – Random thoughts on the passing scene: I can't get excited by the question of whether Senator Robert Menendez had sex with a prostitute in Central America. It is her word against his -- and when it comes to a prostitute's word against a politician's...

Feb 26, 2013 – John Stuart Mill's classic essay "On Liberty" gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people's decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing "that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those...

Feb 25, 2013 – Thomas Sowell, renowned economist and senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, writes: “One of the sad signs of our times is … Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas complimented the motivation of modern liberals “to stop society from treating blacks, the poor…

Feb 24, 2013 – I love John's work- but if columns are going to be recycled, I'd much rather it were Thomas Sowell's. - Unions Slump on Bad Obama Bet … My job is to garner pageviews and there are some people who, like on Wednesday, are so busy reading Sowell and Malkin and Coulter that…

Jun 29, 2010 – Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the Second Amendment to the Constitution means that individual Americans have a right to bear arms, what can we expect?Those who have no confidence in ordinary Americans may expect a bloodbath, as the benighted masses start shooting each...

Jun 26, 2010 – She then suggested people read Thomas Sowell's latest column, "Degeneration of Democracy." … In his column, Sowell argues that the Obama administration's policies are "damaging" the "fundamental structure" of America:Just where … Sowell goes on to discuss FDR's policies of the Great Depression, and describes pre-war Germany's laws "for the relief of the German…

Jun 23, 2010 – The flap about General Stanley McChrystal's "resignation" was nobody's finest hour. But there are some painful lessons in all this that go beyond any of the individuals involved-- the general, the president or any of the officials at the Pentagon or the State Department.What is far more important than all...

Jun 22, 2010 – When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics. Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they were particularly...

Jul 6, 2010 – People who remember the old comic strip "Peanuts" will recall an often repeated situation where Lucy offers to hold a football for Charlie Brown to kick. Then, as Charlie coming running up to kick it, Lucy snatches away the ball and Charlie Brown loses his balance and goes crashing on...

Jul 13, 2010 – If you could spend vast amounts of other people's money just by saying a few magic words, wouldn't you be tempted to do it? Barack Obama has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers' money just by using the magic words "stimulus" and "jobs."It doesn't matter politically that...

Jul 27, 2010 – Many of the wonderful-sounding ideas that have been tried as government policies have failed disastrously. Because so few people bother to study history, often the same ideas and policies have been tried again, either in another country or in the same country at a later time-- and with the same...

Jul 22, 2010 – For further reading: Intellectuals and Society, by Thomas Sowell; University of Destruction, by David Wheaton.…

Jul 20, 2010 – Credit card fraud is a serious problem. But race card fraud is an even bigger problem. Playing the race card takes many forms. Judge Charles Pickering, a federal judge in Mississippi who defended the civil rights of blacks for years and defied the Ku Klux Klan back when that was...

Aug 4, 2010 – Rumors of Congressional Democrats privately expressing disapproval of the Obama administration's actions and policies have been given more credence by such things as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's public criticism of White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. But when two long-time Democratic pollsters, Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen, called President Obama "cynical"...

Aug 3, 2010 – Democrats Bite Democrats You expect Republican politicians to criticize Democratic administrations and vice versa. But when Democrats start criticizing Democratic administrations, that is news. Someone once said that the headline "Dog bites Man" is not news, but "Man bites Dog" is. We are now starting to get "Democrat bites Democrat"...

Aug 18, 2010 – Editors note: Read Part I Part III, Part IV "We the people" are the central concern of the Constitution, as well as its opening words, since it is a Constitution for a self-governing nation. But "we the people" are treated as an obstacle to circumvent by the current administration in...

Aug 17, 2010 – Editors note: Read Part II Part III, Part IV "We the people" are the familiar opening words of the Constitution of the United States-- the framework for a self-governing people, free from the arbitrary edicts of rulers. It was the blueprint for America, and the success of America made that...

Aug 13, 2010 – The bean-counters have struck again-- this time in the sports pages. Two New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from minority groups are found more often coaching at first base than at third base. Moreover, third-base coaches become managers more often than first-base coaches.This may seem to...

Aug 10, 2010 – A graduating senior at Hunter College High School in New York gave a speech that brought a standing ovation from his teachers and got his picture in the New York Times. I hope it doesn't go to his head, because what he said was so illogical that it was...

Aug 27, 2010 – One of the things that makes it tough to figure out how much has to be charged for insurance is that people behave differently when they are insured from the way they behave when they are not insured. In other words, if one person out of 10,000 has his car...

Aug 24, 2010 – There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care, that we have to go back to square one and the simplest common sense, in order to get some rational idea of what government-run medical care means. In particular, we need...

Aug 20, 2010 – Editors note: Read Part I Part II, Part III Dismantling America: Part IV How did we get to the point where many people feel that the America they have known is being replaced by a very different kind of country, with not only different kinds of policies but very...

Aug 19, 2010 – Editors note: Read Part I Part II, Part IV One of the few campaign promises that Barack Obama has kept was this: "We are going to change the United States of America!"As in many other cases, those who were thrilled by the thought of "change" seldom seemed to consider...

Sep 7, 2010 – President Barack Obama boldly proclaims, "The buck stops here!" But, whenever his policies are criticized, he acts as if the buck stopped with George W. Bush.The party line that we are likely to be hearing from now until the November elections is that Obama "inherited" the big federal budget deficits...