Editor's Note: This is part II in a series. Part I can be found here.
Politicians seem to have a special fondness for words that have two very different meanings, so we are likely to hear a lot of these kinds of words this election year."Access" is one...
Since this is an election year, we can expect to hear a lot of words -- and the meaning of those words is not always clear. So it may be helpful to have a glossary of political terms.One of the most versatile terms in the political vocabulary is "fairness." It...
I have mentioned before, Thomas Jefferson’s warning that as soon as people learn they can vote themselves money from the treasury, … ThomasSowell recently explained that Obama is more tyrannical than communist or socialist. …
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Many people may have voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because of his charisma. But anyone familiar with the disastrous track record of charismatic political leaders around the world in the 20th century should have run for the hills when they encountered...
President Obama's latest political ploy -- granting new "rights" out of thin air, by Executive Order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children -- is all too typical of his short-run approach to the country's long-run problems....
aides: if anything, people aren't cynical enough.
1) The first priority of a politician is always getting re-elected: As Thomas … Sowell has noted,
"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our…
Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington -- too often, Republicans -- who start living in the Beltway atmosphere, and start forgetting those hundreds of millions of Americans beyond the Beltway who trusted...
Having taught economics at a number of colleges for a number of years, I especially welcomed a feature article in the June 22nd issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, on how economics courses with the same name can be very different at different colleges. It can also be very...
Editor's note: This is Part IV in a series. Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here.
Nowhere is political rhetoric more shameless -- or more dangerous -- than in the pious names that politicians give to the legislation they...
When I first saw a book with the title, "White Girl Bleed A Lot" by Colin Flaherty, I instantly knew what it was about, even though I had not seen the book reviewed anywhere, and knew nothing about the author. That is because I had encountered that...
Editor's Note: This column is part II in a series. Part I can be found here.
Nothing produces more of a sense of the futility of facts than seeing someone in the mass media repeating some notion that has been refuted innumerable times over the years.On July 9th, on CNN's...
Anyone who wants to study the tricks of propaganda rhetoric has a rich source of examples in the statements of President Barack Obama. On Monday, July 9th, for example, he said that Republicans "believe that prosperity comes from the top down, so that if we spend trillions more on tax...
ThomasSowell has said that that is one of the most dangerous trends coming out of the Obama administration. … better than people who have spent lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back till before he was president,” Sowell…
One of the reasons for the popularity of political rhetoric is that everybody can be right, in terms of their own rhetoric, no matter how much the rhetoric of one side contradicts the rhetoric of the other side. President Obama constantly repeats how many millions of...
Editor's note: This column is part II in a series. Part I can be found here.
Trying to choose the greatest pitcher of all time is at least as difficult as trying to choose the greatest hitter of all time. In both cases, the best we can do is narrow...
The term "useful idiots" has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen's new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us. Long after...
First, ThomasSowell explains prices:
Why do prices exist at all? … If one of your Senators voted for the windfall profits tax, you may want to e-mail him or her a steady diet of Sowell and Williams.…
Speaking of economics, ThomasSowell is on Fox News tonight at 5:30 p.m., the first part in a two-part interview with Fred Barnes. … Click here for much more from Sowell.…
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24) There is no scientific evidence that bullying causes suicide. None at all. … From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered. -- ThomasSowell … Sowell
4) As some of you may know, our team began 81 years ago -- in 1932 -- with the name “Boston Braves.”…
