Oct 14, 2009 – It is understandable that many people do not pay nearly as much attention to political issues as they do to practical decisions that they have to make in their own lives. For one thing, they have only one vote among millions, so their influence on what policies the government will...

Oct 13, 2009 – Back in the days of the Soviet Union, two Russian economists who had never lived in a country with a free market economy understood something about market economies that many others who have lived in such economies all their lives have never understood. Nikolai Shmelev and Vladimir Popov said: "Everything...

Oct 27, 2009 – Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?...

Oct 24, 2009 – Like Thomas Sowell and P.J.…

Oct 21, 2009 – As viewers witnessed recently, he can't even pronounce the name of prominent American economist and philosopher, Thomas Sowell.…

Oct 20, 2009 – To sue or not to sue? That is the question. After racist statements were made up out of thin air and then attributed to Rush Limbaugh, these were the options he had. It is easy for me to understand that these are not simple choices because I have faced those...

Nov 6, 2009 – What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed to understand, because this legislation is to be rushed through Congress before even the Senators and Representatives have...

Nov 5, 2009 – One of the strongest talking points of those who want a government-run medical care system is that we simply cannot afford the high and rising costs of medical care under the current system. First of all, what we can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing...

Nov 4, 2009 – Although it is cheaper to buy a pint of milk than to buy a quart of milk, nobody considers that to be lowering the price of milk. Although it is cheaper to buy a lower quality of all sorts of goods than to buy a higher quality, nobody thinks of...

Nov 3, 2009 – We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is "too high"-- either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to lower those costs, and much that is being proposed is almost certain to increase...

Oct 29, 2009 – Many years ago, at a certain academic institution, there was an experimental program that the faculty had to vote on as to whether or not it should be made permanent. I rose at the faculty meeting to say that I knew practically nothing about whether the program was good...

Nov 11, 2009 – As economist Thomas Sowell points out, government cannot really reduce costs.…

Nov 10, 2009 – Random thoughts on the passing scene: If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates. It was fascinating to see Barack Obama warning us not to leap to conclusions about the killings...

Nov 24, 2009 – No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems-- of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. Many of the things the...

Nov 23, 2009 – Author and economist Thomas Sowell is often quoted as saying, “Better a third-rate fireman than a first-rate arsonist.” …

Nov 17, 2009 – In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes....

Feb 21, 2006 – Thomas Sowell slaps the wrist of the education system for allowing its students to avoid confronting reality out of a misplaced concern … Sowell was not treated with that kind of "fairness," and he's glad of it: It certainly wasn't fair, in Mr.…

Mar 5, 2007 – I read others, too--notably Thomas Sowell and John Stossel, because I dig me some fiscal conservatism-- but Coulter and Malkin had … However, once those people start reading her, I argued, they generally migrate to other conservative writers like Thomas Sowell and…

May 1, 2013 – While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative.An e-mail from one young man simply asked for the sources of some facts about gun control that were mentioned in a recent column. It is good...

May 15, 2013 – As detailed repeatedly by economist Thomas Sowell, the Treasury took in vastly more money after taxes were cut under Calvin Coolidge…

May 15, 2013 – Check out an exclusive sneak peek of a few stories that made our pages, including part of our conversation with Thomas Sowell. … Thomas Sowell breaks down one of the nation's most sensitive topics--race--and his latest new on the issue, titled "Intellectuals and … As Sowell himself studied for his doctorate, race riots were erupting in the streets.…

Jun 6, 2013 – Thomas Sowell was right this past week when he wrote in the column "The Bullying Pulpit" that, "…the real danger to us all is when … "Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us," Sowell wrote, citing the IRS focus on conservative…

Jun 19, 2013 – Thomas Sowell, in "Intellectuals and Race," documents other progressives who were advocates of theories of racial inferiority.…

Jul 7, 2013 – In other words, the welfare state hurts the poor, as Thomas Sowell explained the other day.…

Jul 2, 2013 – Of course, the president has a known tendency to plead ignorance when things go awry -- which is why Thomas Sowell hilariously nicknamed…