Sep 16, 2013 – Since this post is about blacks and gun control, let’s close with a link to what Thomas Sowell has to say about the topic.…

Sep 10, 2013 – Phillips, Tim Phillips, Reince Priebus, Glenn Reynolds, Marco Rubio, Christopher Ruddy, Sal Russo, Antonin Scalia,Ben Shapiro, Thomas … Sowell, Dustin Stockton, Erik Telford,  Joe Wierzbicki 25) Michelle Malkin: Not only is Malkin one of the most popular conservative…

Sep 26, 2013 – This is how mobility works, and it's one of the most important defenses of capitalism there is, having been made by the likes of Thomas … Sowell and Milton Friedman.…

Sep 24, 2013 – (See Thomas Sowell for some additional salient points).…

Sep 24, 2013 – Thomas Sowell: He's studied these issues his entire life.…

Sep 24, 2013 – Thomas Sowell is right: The result would be a political rout, with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi reaping the benefits.…

Apr 17, 2013 – Most laws are meant to stop people from doing something, and to penalize those who disregard those laws. More generally, laws are meant to protect the society from the law breakers.But our immigration laws are different. Here the whole focus is on the "plight" of those who have broken the...

Apr 16, 2013 – Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders? Think about all the states, communities within states, as well as foreign countries, that have either tight gun control laws...

Apr 30, 2013 – Someone called politics "the art of the possible." But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible. Those people morbid enough to keep track of politicians' promises may remember how Barack Obama said that ObamaCare would lower medical costs --...

Apr 25, 2013 – Whose interests are immigration laws supposed to serve -- and whose interests do current immigration reform proposals actually serve?In order to have any immigration policy serve any purpose, the border must first be secured. Otherwise American immigration policy exists only on paper, and is mocked by what happens on the...

Apr 24, 2013 – Britain's late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has "never ceased to be dangerous," but the West has "ceased to be vigilant."Nothing better illustrates her point than the fact that the West has imported vast numbers of people who hate our guts and...

Apr 23, 2013 – During decades of watching both collegiate and professional football, I have seen hundreds of touchdowns scored by black players -- but not one extra point kicked by a black player.Is this because blacks are genetically incapable of kicking a football or because racists won't let blacks kick a football?Most of...

Feb 6, 2025 – That economists Thomas Sowell and the late Walter Williams have not received the Presidential Medal of Freedom borders on scandalous … Sowell. … President Trump, please award Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It's long overdue.…

Feb 9, 2025 – And to sort of paraphrase Thomas Sowell, when the government has been weaponized in your favor, it feels like discrimination when all…

Aug 18, 2015 – Random thoughts on the passing scene: Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. President Obama's "agreement" with Iran looks very much like "the emperor's new clothes." We are supposed to pretend that there is something there, when...

Aug 12, 2015 – Thomas Sowell (http://tinyurl.com/nxulxc), is nothing less than an attack on free speech.…

Aug 11, 2015 – The so-called "debates," among too many Republicans to have a debate, are yet another painful sign of how much words and ideas have degenerated in our times. No one expects these televised sound bites and "gotcha" questions to be anything like the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates on the momentous...

Aug 25, 2015 – Despite a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon, the media seem to be putting most of their attention on two candidates for their respective parties' presidential nominations next year. Moreover, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each make their own party nervous. If next year's election comes down...

Aug 19, 2015 – One of the most lame excuses for doing nothing is that we can't do everything. Such excuses have been repeated endlessly, even by some conservatives, when it comes to illegal immigration. We can't deport millions of illegal immigrants already living in the country, some say, so the wise thing...

Sep 1, 2015 – Even those of us who are not supporters of either Donald Trump or Jeb Bush can learn something by comparing how each of these men handled people who tried to disrupt their question-and-answer period after a speech. After Bush's speech, hecklers from a group called "Black Lives Matter"...

Sep 16, 2015 – my new book -- "Wealth, Poverty and Politics" -- said, "there is apparently no level of inequality of income or opportunity that Thomas … Sowell would consider unacceptable."…

Sep 15, 2015 – In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one -- Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after six years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so...

Sep 12, 2015 – Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell was asked the other day whether the understanding of basic economics has been elevated…

Sep 11, 2015 – During public comment, supporters prattled the “Nation of Immigrations” line (which Thomas Sowell has summarily debunked).…

Sep 8, 2015 – The refugee crisis in Europe is one of those human tragedies for which there are no real solutions, despite how many shrill voices in the media may denounce those who fail to come up with a solution. Some options may be better than others, but there is nothing...