Aug 30, 2008 – One of the few political cliches that makes sense is that "In politics, overnight is a lifetime." Less than a year ago, the big question was whether Rudolph Giuliani could beat Hillary Clinton in this year's presidential election. Less than two months ago, Barack Obama had a huge lead over...

Sep 16, 2008 – Cutler UprightChicago Tribune:  Briggs, Urlacher Show Little Sympathy for QB And on Townhall.com this morning:                   Thomas … Sowell: Idols of Crowds         Dennis Prager: The Gibson Doctrine         Austin Hill: ABC News "The Central Question:" Will Obama…

Sep 16, 2008 – "A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence."...

Sep 9, 2008 –   Ch. 2 Shuffles Anchor Deck AgNew York Post:  Lil' Wayne in Security Ruckus And on Townhall.com this morning:                   Thomas … Sowell:  The Vision of the Left         Dennis Prager: What I Saw at the Two Conventions          Mona Charen: Is Trig at the Heart…

Sep 9, 2008 – Conservatives, as well as liberals, would undoubtedly be happier living in the kind of world envisioned by the left. Very few people have either a vested interest or an ideological preference for a world in which there are many inequalities. Even fewer would prefer a world in which...

Sep 24, 2008 – on Townhall.com this morning:                  Michelle Malkin: Illegal Immigration and the Mortgage Mess                      Thomas … Sowell: A Political "Solution"                   Walter Williams: Scaring Us to Death          Dick Morris: First Debate: What McCain…

Sep 24, 2008 – Thomas Sowell suggested in a recent column, we don't look to arsonists to put out fires that they've created; neither should we look…

Sep 24, 2008 – Estimates of how much money a government program will cost are notoriously unreliable. Estimates of the cost of the current bailout in the financial markets run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and some say it may reach or exceed a trillion. Many people have trouble even forming some...

Sep 23, 2008 – Townhall.com this morning:                  Dennis Prager: Liberals Warnings About Obama Self-Fulfilling                       Thomas … Sowell: A Political "Solution"                   Amanda Carpenter: Violent Men at Center of "Troopergate"          George Will: McCain…

Sep 23, 2008 – Who was it who said, "crack-brained meddling by the authorities" can "aggravate an existing crisis"? Ronald Reagan? Milton Friedman? Adam Smith? Not even close. It was Karl Marx. Unlike most leftists today, Marx studied economics. Is the current financial crisis going to lead to crack-brained meddling or to some rational...

Sep 17, 2008 – MysteryHouston Chronicle:  Coast Guard Says It Can't Remove Crew of Stranded ShipAnd on Townhall.com this morning:                  Thomas … Sowell:  The High Cost of Racial Hype        Michelle Malkin:  The Book Banners        John Stossel:  Obama and White Privilege       …

Sep 17, 2008 – Sometimes you don't know when you are lucky. Certainly I did not consider myself lucky when I left home at seventeen and discovered the hard way that there was no great demand for a black teenage dropout with no experience and no skill. In retrospect, however, those days of struggling...

Oct 3, 2008 – Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many...

Oct 3, 2008 – One such moment for me was the first time I read Thomas Sowell.  Dr. … In it, Sowell describes what he calls, “one stage thinking” – decision-making based on immediate (and often politically-calculated) … As Thomas Sowell points out so elegantly, politicians tend to think only of the short term - what will get them through the next election…

Oct 3, 2008 – -- Thomas Sowell There are a number of great challenges that this country faces, but perhaps none is so large as the death of basic…

Oct 2, 2008 – One such moment for me was the first time I read Thomas Sowell. Dr. … In it, Sowell describes what he calls, “one stage thinking” – decision-making based on immediate (and often politically-calculated) … As Thomas Sowell points out so elegantly, politicians tend to think only of the short term - what will get them through the next election…

Oct 1, 2008 – Thomas Sowell: Penny-Wise Politics              Hugh Hewitt: Sarah Palin: "I Know What Americans Are Going Through         George Will…

Oct 1, 2008 – Congress is never more ridiculous than when it tries to look like it is serious. In the midst of a major national financial crisis, what was one of the first things Congress zeroed in on? The pay of Chief Executive Officers of financial institutions. If all those CEOs agreed to...

Sep 30, 2008 – by JudgeHouston Chronicle: 800-pound Texas Murder Defendant Too Big for CourtAnd on Townhall.com this morning:                  Thomas … Sowell: Bailout Politics                  Chuck Norris: Clandestine Conservatives in Hollywood               Dennis Prager: Jewish…

Sep 30, 2008 – Nothing could more painfully demonstrate what is wrong with Congress than the current financial crisis. Among the Congressional "leaders" invited to the White House to devise a bailout "solution" are the very people who have for years created the risks that have now come home to roost. Five years...

Oct 14, 2008 – One of the oldest phenomena of American elections-- criticism of one's opponent-- has in recent times been stigmatized by much of the media as "negative advertising." Is this because the criticism has gotten more vicious or more personal? You might think so, if you were totally ignorant of history, as...

Oct 10, 2008 – Barack Obama's supporters often try to sidestep questions about his character and judgment by saying that we should stick to what they arbitrarily define as "the real issues." But Senator Obama's record on specific issues is as bad as his record of repeatedly allying himself over the years with people...

Oct 9, 2008 – What about those "real issues" that Barack Obama's supporters in the media say we should get back to, whenever some new unsavory fact about his past comes out? Surely education is a real issue, with American school children consistently scoring below those in other countries, and children in minority communities...

Oct 8, 2008 – A recent Republican campaign ad sarcastically described as Barack Obama's "one accomplishment" his supporting a bill to promote sex education in kindergarten. During an interview of a Republican spokesman, Tom Brokaw of NBC News replayed that ad and asked if that was something serious to be discussed in a presidential...

Oct 7, 2008 – Thomas Sowell: Penny-Wise Politics              Hugh Hewitt: Sarah Palin: "I Know What Americans Are Going Through         George Will…