Results for: Thomas Sowell

What Caused a CNN Host to Quickly End Her Segment on Affirmative Action
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/06/30/what-caus…st-to-quickly-end-her-segment-on-affirmative-action-n2625214
– Reactions have ranged from Justice Clarence Thomas being evil to ‘this is the end of higher education for women,’ even though women … Thomas Sowell explained this glaring problem with affirmative action in front of a US Senate committee, adding that these protocols … How Affirmative Action FAILS minorities — Thomas Sowell pic.twitter.com/rxyb9rV0Od — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 29, 2023Nothing…
Does Al Sharpton Know This Stat About Aborted Black Babies?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/05/04/does-a…sharpton-know-this-stat-about-aborted-black-babies-n2606755
– . — Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 4, 2022Alveda King: "Margaret Sanger thought Blacks were inferior and wanted to prevent them…
Black Conservatives Convene for a 'New Birth of Freedom'
https://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2022/05/18/black-conservatives-convene-for-a-new-birth-of-freedom-n2607398
– The Old Parkland Conference was inspired as a reconvening of a similar effort organized by economist Thomas Sowell in December 1980 … Sowell, who began his career seeing the world from the perspective of the left, changed. … Sowell, now 91 years old, did not attend this reconvening of his effort of 40 years ago.…
Why The Left Is Intellectually Bereft
https://townhall.com/columnists/brucebialosky/2018/11/11/why-the-left-is-intellectually-bereft-n2535605
– We had Krauthammer at the time and, of course, the master, Thomas Sowell.   … Of course, Krauthammer is writing in heaven and Sowell is retired, but Townhall.com still has almost every columnist of worth in the…
Attacking Achievement
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/08/12/attacking-achievement-n1877398
– New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, like so many others who call themselves "progressive," is gung-ho to solve social problems. In fact, he is currently on a crusade to solve an educational problem that doesn't exist, even though there are plenty of other educational problems that definitely do exist....
D.C. Disease and the GOP's "Electeds"
https://townhall.com/columnists/hughhewitt/2014/08/26/dc-disease-and-the-gops-electeds-n1883396
– Prager Reince Priebus Glenn Reynolds Marji Ross Karl Rove Avik Roy Jennifer Rubin Joe Scarboroughh ThomasSowell Mark Steyn Kimberly Strassel Brad Thor Vince Vaughn Byron York Pete Wehner Rick Warren George…
Facts vs. Visions
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/08/26/facts-vs-visions-n1883052
– The political left has been campaigning against the use of force since at least the 18th century. So it is not surprising that they are now arguing that heavily armed or aggressive police forces only inflame protesters and thus provoke violence. Statisticians have long warned that correlation is...
The Media and the Mob
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/08/20/untitled-n1881093
– Those of us who admit that we were not there, and do not know what happened when Michael Brown was shot by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, seem to be in the minority. We all know what has happened since then -- and it has been a complete disgrace...
Racial Irrationality on the Right
https://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2014/08/20/untitled-n1880585
Thomas Sowell once noted that few topics so tap the irrational excesses of a person’s intellect as that of race. … Sowell has never been more right: nothing screams “irrational” like contemporary talk over race relations.…
Random Thoughts
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/08/19/random-thoughts-n1880181
– Random thoughts on the passing scene: I don't know why we are spending our hard-earned money paying taxes to support a criminal justice system, when issues of guilt and innocence are being determined on television -- and even punishment is being meted out by CNN's showing the home...
The 25 Most Influential People On The Right For 2014
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/09/06/the-25-most-influential-people-on-the-right-for-2014-n1888129
– O'Reilly, Tony Perkins, Judson Phillips, Reince Priebus, Glenn Reynolds, Marco Rubio ,Christopher Ruddy, Sal Russo, Antonin Scalia, ThomasSowell, Dustin Stockton, Erik Telford, Joe Wierzbicki 25) Paul Ryan: The former VP candidate has been a difference-maker in the…
Irresponsible Choices
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/09/02/irresponsible-choices-n1885612
– The latest Gallup poll indicates that 14 percent of the people "moderately disapprove" of Barack Obama's performance as president and 39 percent "strongly disapprove." Since Obama won two presidential elections, chances are that some of those who now "strongly disapprove" of what he has done voted to put...
Late-Talking Children
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/09/16/latetalking-children-n1892019
– Anyone who knows what anxiety, and sometimes anguish, parents go through when they have a child who is still not talking at age two, three or even four, can appreciate what a blessing it can be to have someone who can tell them what to do -- and what not...
Mob Rule Economics
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/09/13/mob-rule-economics-n1888851
– While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob rule. There is nothing democratic about mob rule. It means that some people's votes are to be overruled by other people's disruptions, harassments and threats. The...
Success or Failure?
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/09/11/success-or-failure-n1888847
– Those people who say that President Obama has no clear vision and no clear strategy for dealing with the ISIS terrorists in the Middle East may be mistaken. It seems to me that he has a very clear and very consistent strategy. And a vision behind that strategy....
Cheap Politicians
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/09/10/cheap-politicians-n1888848
– The recent bribery convictions of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and his wife are only the latest in a seemingly never-ending series of convictions of government officials. A little item on the Internet featured government officials in prison, either currently or in recent times. Among them were a...
Who Wants War?
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/09/23/who-wants-war-n1895094
– Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most Americans don't want another war. In all my 84 years, I cannot recall a time when most Americans wanted war. That is something we...
Ebola and Obama
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/10/07/ebola-and-obama-n1901524
– The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is both a danger in itself and a wake-up call for Americans -- about President Obama, about the institutions of this country and, most important, about ourselves. There was a time when an outbreak of a deadly disease overseas would bring...
Social Issues Are The GOP's Gateway To The Ghetto
https://townhall.com/columnists/carljackson/2014/09/30/social-issues-are-the-gops-gateway-to-the-ghetto-n1898484
– so far as to begin reading black conservative authors such as Frederick Douglass (oldie but goodie), Larry Elder, Star Parker, ThomasSowell, Rev.…
Random Thoughts
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/09/30/random-thoughts-n1898328
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. … To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate…
Ignorance Versus Stupidity
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2017/11/08/ignorance-versus-stupidity-n2405433
Thomas Sowell says, "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."…
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