In one of those front-page editorials disguised as "news" stories, the New York Times blames "the lucrative lending practices" of banks and other financial institutions for helping create the current financial crisis of millions of borrowers and of the financial system in general.
It must take either a willful determination...
Michelle Malkin: What America's Daughters Need to Know About Pelosi John Stossel: The Sky Isn't Falling Thomas … Sowell: The Gratingest Generation Walter Williams: A Nation of Thieves Tony Blankley: He Is Who He Is…
If our era could have its own coat of arms, it would be a yak against a background of mush. This must be the golden age of endless and pointless talk.
Every sports events seems to be preceded by all kinds of talk -- whether by athletes repeating cliches that...
Slate: Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii Washington Post: Obama Leads, Pessimism Reigns Among Key Group And on Townhall.com: Thomas … Sowell: Bad 'News' Patrick Buchanan: Mr.…
We have forgotten so much about the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that many people may not remember the deadly anthrax spores that were mailed to various prominent people in politics and in the media during that time.
None of the intended victims was killed by...
Come to Terms With Kareem Rush Denver Post: Abdullah So Special He Sits OutAnd on Townhall.com this morning: Thomas … Sowell: Random Thoughts Dennis Prager: Obama's Naive Berlin Speech Chuck Norris: Nancy Pelosi v.…
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.
Anyone who is honest with himself and with others knows that there is not a snow ball's chance in hell to have an honest dialogue about race.
I wonder what radical feminists...
NBC Olympics TV Broadcast Schedule And on Townhall.com: Michelle Malkin: Pelosi and the Big Wind Boone-Doggle Thomas … Sowell: Whose 'Special Interests'? …
We take it for granted that a vote means a secret ballot but it was not always that way. Moreover, it will not remain that way for workers who vote on whether or not they want a labor union, if legislation sponsored by Congressional Democrats and endorsed by Senator Barack...
ThomasSowell has written volumes on black education and an article worth reading is one he wrote some years ago in The Public Interest … Washington's Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School is one black school that Sowell writes about. … Former teachers and alumni, whom Sowell interviewed, said that the most basic characteristic of their school was law and order.…
Inquirer: The Full NBC Olympics TV Broadcast ScheduleAnd on Townhall.com: Dennis Prager: Why I Am Not A Liberal Thomas … Sowell: The Galbraith Effect Ashley Herzog: College Classes for Conservatives to Avoid Mike Adams: Whistling Dixon…
Many years ago, when I was a college student, I took a course from John Kenneth Galbraith. On the first day of class, Professor Galbraith gave a brilliant opening lecture, after which the students gave him a standing ovation.
Galbraith kept on giving brilliant opening lectures the whole semester. But,...
Tom Sowell has regularly written about him, as have I. … influence," but only 50 percent said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and just 31 percent said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas…
The Internet provides vast amounts of information but it can also spread vast amounts of misinformation, or even deliberately misleading disinformation.
For more than two weeks, scarcely a day has gone by without e-mails pouring in to me, asking about columns that someone has written and brazenly spread around the...
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
If you took all the fraud out of politics, there might not be a lot left.
The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation...
When amateurs outperform professionals, there is something wrong with that profession.
If ordinary people, with no medical training, could perform surgery in their kitchens with steak knives, and get results that were better than those of surgeons in hospital operating rooms, the whole medical profession would be discredited.
Yet it...
Running Mate Politico: McCain to Name VP on Aug. 29 Newsweek: Saddleback Bloopers Wall Street Journal: Obama on Clarence Thomas … His Story And on Townhall.com: Mike Adams: Fat Lesbians on Crack Dennis Prager: If There is No God Thomas … Sowell: Georgia on our Mind Amanda Carpenter: Warrent Says McCain Didn't Cheat David Limbaugh: Prochoice Veep…
What is happening in the republic of Georgia is all too reminiscent of what happened back in 1956, when Russian tanks rolled into Hungary-- and the West did nothing.
An argument might well be made that, realistically, there was nothing the West could have done-- then or now-- that would...
, Shares His Story And on Townhall.com: Michelle Malkin: The Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse Thomas … Sowell: Foreign Policy 'Experience' Kathleen Parker: Palin the Impaled Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: Stick With … Sarah ThomasSowell: A Knock or a Boost?…
Now that the Democrats have recovered from the shock of Governor Sarah Palin's nomination as the Republican's candidate for vice president, they have suddenly discovered that her lack of experience in general-- and foreign policy experience in particular-- is a terrible danger in someone just a heartbeat away from being...
Since Governor Sarah Palin's daughter is not running for election this year, it is amazing how much the media has suddenly become obsessed with her. Her pregnancy not only made the front page of the New York Times, a printed announcement of her pregnancy stayed at the bottom of the...
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...
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…
"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."...
