The news from Iraq that Islamic terrorists have now taken over cities that American troops liberated during the Iraq war must have left an especially bitter after-taste to Americans who lost a loved one who died taking one of those cities, or to a survivor who came back without an...
Not since a 42-to-1 underdog named Buster Douglas knocked out undefeated heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in 1990 has there been an upset like economics professor Dave Brat defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Republican primary in Virginia.
You couldn't write a script like this for a movie...
People are arguing about what the United States got out of the deal that swapped five top level terrorist leaders for one American soldier who was, at best, absent from his post in a war zone. Soldiers who served in the same unit with him call him a deserter. The...
ThomasSowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. … To find out more about ThomasSowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate…
Back in the heyday of the British Empire, a man from one of the colonies addressed a London audience.
"Please do not do any more good in my country," he said. "We have suffered too much already from all the good that you have done."
That is...
All is not lost. But all could be lost -- especially if too many of us take freedom for granted and focus our attention on other things, like electronic gadgets and the antics of celebrities, while ignoring such dangers as nuclear weapons in the hands of suicidal fanatics, with a...
Whenever Democrats are in real trouble politically, the Republicans seem to come up with something new that distracts the public's attention from the Democrats' problems. Who says Republicans are not compassionate?
With public opinion polls showing President Obama's sinking approval rate, in the wake of his administration's...
Many years ago, on my first trip around the world, I was struck by how the children in the Middle East -- Arab and Israeli alike -- were among the nicest looking little children I had seen anywhere.
It was painful to think that they were going to grow...
In a recent confrontation between protesters against the illegal flood of unaccompanied children into the United States and counter-protests by some Hispanic group, one man from the latter group said angrily, "We are as good as you are!"
One of the things that make the history of clashes...
Some have said that we are living in a post-industrial era, while others have said that we are living in a post-racial era. But growing evidence suggests that we are living in a post-thinking era.
Many people in Europe and the Western Hemisphere are staging angry...
And name one black liberal thinker who inhabits the same intellectual universe as Tom Sowell, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, Clarence … Thomas or Larry Elder, just to name a few black intellectual giants of the right…
Many years ago, as a young man, I read a very interesting book about the rise of the Communists to power in China. In the last chapter, the author tried to explain why and how this had happened.Among the factors he cited were the country's educators. That struck me as...
There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?San Francisco is a classic example of a city unexcelled in its liberalism. But the black population of San Francisco today...
If there is ever a contest for the law with the most grossly
misleading title, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 should be a prime
candidate, because the last thing this Act protects is the welfare of
Indian children.
The theory behind the...
." -- Clarence Thomas
22) "They say African Americans. I say black people. I’ve only been to Africa once. … The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." -- ThomasSowell
5) "It’s often said that … Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large." -- ThomasSowell…
An old-time trial lawyer once said, "When your case is weak, shout
louder!"
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shouted louder when asked about
the Obama administration's story last fall that the September 11th attack
on the U.S. ambassador's quarters in Benghazi was due to an...
Each year, Ebony leaves out ThomasSowell of Stanford's Hoover
Institution. … And each year, Ebony leaves out Clarence Thomas, who is one of
only nine sitting Supreme Court justices. … You leave him out, as you do
Williams and Sowell, because (SET ITAL) you don't like their politics.…
The gun control controversy is only the latest of many issues to be debated almost solely in terms of fixed preconceptions, with little or no examination of hard facts.Media discussions of gun control are dominated by two factors: the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment. But the over-riding factual...
Citing the Federal Reserve as an example, ThomasSowell explains how this process works. … Sowell acknowledges that we all make errors, but then makes the key point about the risks of giving more and more power to a central … Sowell then highlights some of the reasons why we should worry about concentrating more power into the hands of a few central bankers…
mistake in the first place, since such an admission can end their careers.That is why these prophets can lead to our losses.Thomas Sowell … To find out more about ThomasSowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate…
Now that the federal government is playing an ever larger role in the economy, a look at Washington's track record seems to be long overdue.The recent release of the Federal Reserve Board's transcripts of its deliberations back in 2007 shows that their economic prophecies were way off. How much faith...
care of itself.In a nuclear age, we may not have time to recover from our short-sighted policies, as we did in World War II.Thomas Sowell … To find out more about ThomasSowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate…
." -- ThomasSowell
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,…
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...
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...
