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The Passing of E-6
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2010/09/01/the_passing_of_e-6
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The passing of E-6 makes me feel that way.To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists … Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.…
The Mosque Controversy
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2010/08/31/the_mosque_controversy
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2010/08/31/the_mosque_controversy
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The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 15-story middle finger to America. It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious, so it is not surprising that the intelligentsia are out in force, decrying those...
Reverse Racism
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/10/11/reverse_racism
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/10/11/reverse_racism
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Among those who have been disappointed by President Barack Obama, none is likely to end up so painfully disappointed as those who saw his election as being, in itself and in its consequences, a movement toward a "post-racial society."Like so many other expectations that so many people projected onto this...
The Media and 'Bullying'
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/10/25/the_media_and_bullying
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/10/25/the_media_and_bullying
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Back in the 1920s, the intelligentsia on both sides of the Atlantic were loudly protesting the execution of political radicals Sacco and Vanzetti, after what they claimed was an unfair trial. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to his young leftist friend Harold Laski, pointing out that there were...
Thomas Sowell: Herman Cain More Black Than Barack Obama
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/townhallcomstaff/2011/10/20/thomas_sowell_herman_cain_more_black_than_barack_obama
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Pitting Us Against Each Other
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2011/10/19/pitting_us_against_each_other
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Thomas Sowell explained it in his brand-new book, "The Thomas Sowell Reader."…
Random Thoughts
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/10/18/random_thoughts
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Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Like so many people, in so many countries, who started out to "spread the wealth," Barack Obama has ended up spreading poverty.
Have you ever heard anyone as incoherent as the people staging protests across the country? Taxpayers ought to be protesting...
Democracy Versus Mob Rule
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/02/democracy_versus_mob_rule
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In various cities across the country, mobs of mostly young, mostly incoherent, often noisy and sometimes violent demonstrators are making themselves a major nuisance.Meanwhile, many in the media are practically gushing over these "protesters," and giving them the free publicity they crave for themselves and their cause -- whatever that...
Payday Loans
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/01/payday_loans
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/01/payday_loans
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California is a great place for studying the thinking -- or lack of thinking -- on the political left.
The mindset of the left was recently displayed in a big, front-page story in the October 30th issue of the San Mateo County Times. It was...
I Love Herman Cain
https://townhall.com/columnists/brucebialosky/2011/10/31/i_love_herman_cain
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the welfare-state establishment in the Black community that motivates intelligent Black conservatives – such as Justice Clarence Thomas … Cain has a megaphone those brilliant Black conservatives -- such as Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and Larry Elder -- have never possessed…
NPR Versus 'Minstrel' Cain
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2011/11/16/npr_versus_minstrel_cain
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Remember when NPR's Nina Totenberg launched the unproven sexual harassment charges against Clarence Thomas? … NPR's Bates said White was outraged that Cain, like Thomas, would call unproven sexual harassment charges a "high-tech lynching." … There were no black conservative professors allowed -- not Thomas Sowell, or Walter Williams.…
Will Republicans Blow It?
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/15/will_republicans_blow_it
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catch phrase could stop thinking for 50 years. One of the often-repeated catch phrases of our time -- "It's the economy, stupid!" -- has already stopped thinking in some quarters for a couple of decades.There is no question that the state of...
Americans Ruled by Turn Coat Jerks
https://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/2011/11/13/americans_ruled_by_turn_coat_jerks
https://townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/2011/11/13/americans_ruled_by_turn_coat_jerks
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Every American born before 1970 should remember the assault on the character of Clarence Thomas during the confirmation hearings on … Justice Thomas provides exemplary wisdom in his adherence to the original intent of the Constitution. … Thomas Sowell, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a conservative black himself said of liberal attacks against Herman Cain…
The Real Scandal
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/10/the_real_scandal
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The real scandal in the accusations against Herman Cain is the corruption of the law, the media and politics.Let's start with the law. Some people may think the fact that the National Restaurant Association reportedly paid $45,000 to settle a claim made by one of its employees against Mr. Cain...
Numbers Games
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/08/numbers_games
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One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain -- and luxury cruise ships don't have juveniles as captains.
The reason for the elderly clientele is fairly simple:...
Failure or Success?
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/23/failure_or_success
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Many people are lamenting the failure of the Congressional "Super Committee" to come up with an agreement on ways to reduce the runaway federal deficits. But you cannot judge success or failure without knowing what the goal was.
If you think the goal was to solve the country's fiscal...
Alice in Liberal Land
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/22/alice_in_liberal_land
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/22/alice_in_liberal_land
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"Alice in Wonderland" was written by a professor who also wrote a book on symbolic logic. So it is not surprising that Alice encountered not only strange behavior in Wonderland, but also strange and illogical reasoning -- of a sort too often found in the real world, and which a...
Christmas Books
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/12/06/christmas_books
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My own new books this year include "The Thomas Sowell Reader," which has more than 400 pages of selections of my writings over the…
Bulletproof Barney Frank Retires -- Liberal, Gay, Untouchable
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2011/12/01/bulletproof_barney_frank_retires_--_liberal,_gay,_untouchable
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Economist Thomas Sowell wrote last year, "No one contributed more to the policies behind the housing boom and bust, which led to the … Sowell explains: "His powerful position on the House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services gave him leverage to force…
Lessons of History?
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/30/lessons_of_history
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It used to be common for people to urge us to learn "the lessons of history." But history gets much less attention these days and, if there are any lessons that we are offered, they are more likely to be the lessons from current polls or the lessons of political...
Gingrich and Immigration
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/29/gingrich_and_immigration
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/29/gingrich_and_immigration
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Now that Newt Gingrich has become the latest in a series of Republican front-runners, he is getting the kinds of scrutiny and attacks that have done in other front-runners.
One of the issues that have aroused concern among conservative Republicans is that of amnesty for illegal immigrants, especially after...
The Rich Are Getting Richer; So Are the Poor
https://townhall.com/columnists/townhallcomstaff/2011/12/14/the_rich_are_getting_richer_so_are_the_poor
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Economist Thomas Sowell explained it this way: “The actual empirical evidence cited has been about what has been happening over time … Data that tracks real people show that Sowell is correct.…
Seizing (or Blowing) 2012 Victory
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelmedved/2011/12/14/seizing_or_blowing_2012_victory
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For instance, the esteemed economist Thomas Sowell wrote a syndicated column (“Lessons of History?”) … Sowell. … Sowell, but I can’t understand his citation of an utterly fictitious “long string of Republican presidential candidates who seized…
Gridlock to the Rescue
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/12/13/gridlock_to_the_rescue
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Washington gridlock may turn out to be the salvation of the Obama administration.
Not only does gridlock allow the president to blame Republicans for not solving the financial crisis that his own runaway spending created, the inability to carry out as much government intervention in the economy as when...
Great Quotations and Figures from 2011
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcarter/2011/12/25/great_quotations_and_figures_from_2011
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." — Thomas Sowell
“Nobody should believe that another half century of peace and prosperity in Europe can be taken for granted.…