“A wise and frugal government….shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned” (Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural … Both ThomasSowell and Walter Williams (two black economists) have argued that welfare has destroyed the black family in America…
Even when none is found.Economist ThomasSowell destroyed the foundation of the disparate impact argument, such as it is, with the … Sowell makes the obvious point that individual persons are not representatives of their contrived categories.This assignment of racial…
ThomasSowell said he once heard a young Black man say he wanted to join the Air Force to become a pilot. … This, Sowell said, was decades after the Black Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Behold the power of white supremacy!…
It is seldom that the fate of a nation can be traced to what happened on one particular day. But that may be what happens in the United States of America on Tuesday, March 15, 2016.
That is because the front-runners in both political parties are not merely inadequate...
It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite -- Jeb Bush -- never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest. This should at least cause some second thoughts -- or perhaps...
ThomasSowell, in "Basic Economics," tells us: "Prices are not just ways of transferring money. … Sowell adds that losses are equally important to profits for economic efficiency because they "tell producers what to stop doing -- … Sowell notes that in allocating resources, command economies stifle the work of free market prices because in a command economy, prices…
If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy. Currently there is much indignation being expressed by Democrats because the Republican-controlled Senate refuses to hold confirmation hearings on President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the death...
Much is made of the fact that liberals and conservatives see racial issues differently, which they do. But these differences have too often been seen as simply those on the right being racist and those on the left not. You can cherry-pick the evidence to reach that conclusion....
left-wing columnists understand human nature, the state of mankind, or contemporary America as do George Will, Charles Krauthammer and Thomas … Sowell, or many of the leading columnists at publications such as National Review, City Journal, Commentary Magazine or the Wall Street…
Donald Trump's victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by receiving either somewhat less than 40 percent of the votes or somewhat more than 40 percent, but never a majority. The fragmenting of the Republican...
If there is one pattern that is emerging from this year's political campaigns, it is that rhetoric beats reality -- in both parties. The biggest surprise among the Democrats is Bernie Sanders, and among the Republicans is Donald Trump. Although they are each seeking to be put in...
If you took all the lies out of political rhetoric, how much would be left? Apparently even less than usual this year. The latest, and perhaps biggest, lie -- thus far -- is that Donald Trump was cheated out of delegates in Colorado because the voters did not select...
We hear many fallacies in election years. The fallacy that seems to be most popular this year is that, if Donald Trump comes close to getting the 1,237 delegates required to become the Republican nominee, and that nomination goes instead to someone else, then the convention will have ignored "the...
The sudden appearance of Donald Trump on the political horizon last year may have been surprising, but not nearly as surprising as seeing some conservatives supporting him. Does Trump have conservative principles? Does he have any principles at all, other than promoting Donald Trump? A smorgasbord of political...
Republican party leaders may have worried that Donald Trump would not only lose the general election for the presidency, but would so poison the image of the party as to cause Republican candidates for Congress and for state and local offices to also lose. Now they seem to be trying...
Random thoughts on the passing scene: One of the problems with being a pessimist is that you can never celebrate when you are proven right. If what you want from politicians are quick and easy answers, someone is sure to supply them, regardless of which party you...
We must frankly face the fact that the front runners in both political parties represent a new low, at a time of domestic polarization and unprecedented nuclear dangers internationally. This year's general election will offer a choice between a thoroughly corrupt liar and an utterly irresponsible egomaniac. The...
Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited -- and then disinvited -- to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech. Mr. Riley is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist for the Wall...
