Aug 9, 2016 – We expect to hear a lot of lies during an election year, and this year is certainly no exception. What is surprising is how old some of these lies are, and how often they have been shown to be lies, years ago or even decades ago. One of...

Aug 25, 2016 – As Hoover Institution scholar Thomas Sowell has observed, “The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow…

Aug 23, 2016 – Amid the rioting in Milwaukee, there is also a clash between two leading lawmen there -- Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke and the city of Milwaukee's Chief of Police Edward Flynn. They have very different opinions about how law enforcement should be carried out. Chief Edward Flynn expresses the...

Aug 20, 2016 – As the great Thomas Sowell has said, “The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their…

Aug 18, 2016 – Who would have thought that Donald Trump, of all people, would be addressing the fact that the black community suffers the most from a breakdown of law and order? But sanity on racial issues is sufficiently rare that it must be welcomed, from whatever source it comes. When establishment...

Aug 18, 2016 – Economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have spent decades pointing out that the black family was better off before the War on…

Sep 6, 2016 – Mark Twain famously said that there were three kinds of lies -- "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Since this is an election year, we can expect to hear plenty of all three kinds. Even if the statistics themselves are absolutely accurate, the words that describe what they are...

Aug 31, 2016 – We have gotten so used to seeing college presidents and other academic "leaders" caving in to so many outrageous demands from little gangs of bullying students that it is a long overdue surprise to see a sign that at least one major university has shown some backbone. Dr. Robert...

Aug 30, 2016 – Why would a country with the world's largest Jewish population, outside of Israel, admit large numbers of immigrants from countries where hatred of Jews has been taught to their people from earliest childhood? This question is ultimately not about Muslims and Jews. It is about discussing immigrants in the...

Sep 14, 2016 – Election year politics generates much rhetoric and confusion. And the media often adds its spin. But, fortunately, there are some books around that deal with reality and can cut through the nonsense. Most of these books were not written during this election year, but what they presented can be very...

Sep 13, 2016 – Ordinarily, it is not a good idea to base how you vote on just one issue. But if black lives really matter, as they should matter like all other lives, then it is hard to see any racial issue that matters as much as education. The government could double...

Sep 7, 2016 – Thomas Sowell, presents some readily available statistics: "Homicide rates among black males went down by 18 percent in the 1940s and … Sowell points out that only 39 percent of students in New York state schools who were tested recently scored at the "proficient" level…

Sep 20, 2016 – There is no point denying or sugar-coating the plain fact that the voters this election year face a choice between two of the worst candidates in living memory. A professor at Morgan State University summarized the situation by saying that the upcoming debates may enable voters to decide which is...

Oct 4, 2016 – Back in the days of the Cold War between the Communist bloc of nations and the Western democracies, the Communists maintained pervasive restrictions around Eastern Europe that were aptly called an "iron curtain," isolating the people in its bloc from the ideas of the West and physically obstructing their escape....

Oct 4, 2016 – One hundred years ago, on October 2, 1916, a new public high school building for black youngsters was opened in Washington, D.C. and named for black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Its history is a story inspiring in many ways and appalling in many other ways. Prior to 1916,...

Apr 14, 2015 – How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking at their electronic devices long enough to even think about such things? Meanwhile, attempts to shut down...

Apr 28, 2015 – As Thomas Sowell pointed out, "Virtually every kind of 'work that Americans will not do' is in fact work that Americans have done for…

Apr 28, 2015 – We all make mistakes and some of us learn from them. What is even better is to learn from other people's mistakes, where they pay for those mistakes while we learn free of charge. Many Americans who say that we should learn from other people, especially Europeans, mean that...

Apr 21, 2015 – Painful as it is to realize that both the Democrats and the Republicans will still be holding their primaries a year from now, that is one of the high prices we pay for democracy. Seldom does the initial "front-runner" in either party's primaries end up being the...

May 10, 2015 – They could collectively use some time reading a few Thomas Sowell books if so many were not functionally illiterate due to union run…

May 5, 2015 – Thomas Sowell has some wise observations on why we shouldn’t grant more power to the Fed and John Stossel explains why monetary competition…

May 5, 2015 – Among the many painful ironies in the current racial turmoil is that communities scattered across the country were disrupted by riots and looting because of the demonstrable lie that Michael Brown was shot in the back by a white policeman in Missouri -- but there was not nearly as much...

May 19, 2015 – In a recent panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama gave another demonstration of his mastery of rhetoric -- and disregard of reality. One of the ways of fighting poverty, he proposed, was to "ask from society's lottery winners" that they make a "modest investment"...

Oct 11, 2017 – Economist Thomas Sowell is always ridiculing journalists for not understanding basic economics.…

Oct 21, 2017 – For example, it is true that a group of white economists working on tax policy could benefit from having Thomas Sowell come out of … retirement to join their ranks, but that’s because he’s Thomas freakin’ Sowell, not because he’s black.…