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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ThomasSowell, Walter Williams, and Larry Elder -- have never possessed…
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 ThomasSowell, or Walter Williams.…
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...
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. … ThomasSowell, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a conservative black himself said of liberal attacks against Herman Cain…
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...
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:...
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 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...
Economist ThomasSowell 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…
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...
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...
Economist ThomasSowell 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.…
For instance, the esteemed economist ThomasSowell 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…
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...
If Newt Gingrich were being nominated for sainthood, many of us would vote very differently from the way we would vote if he were being nominated for a political office.What the media call Gingrich's "baggage" concerns largely his personal life and the fact that he made a lot of money...
The great ThomasSowell questioned last week whether Mitt would win by default and be a mushy middle candidate like John McCain. … Sowell, Mitt and his campaign could not be further from the McCain circus.…
