Sparks of brilliance! The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this
year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have
saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an
"under-representation" of any group is evidence of discrimination? Here is a trick question: What ... MORE
Showing posts with label envy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label envy. Show all posts
Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Sparks of brilliance! The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this
year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have
saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an
"under-representation" of any group is evidence of discrimination? Here is a trick question: What ... MORENick Gillespie: Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey explains. "Intellectuals have always disdained commerce," says Whole Foods Market co-founder John Mackey. They "have always sided with the aristocrats to maintain a society where the businesspeople were kept down." Having helped create the global grocery chain intellectuals arguably like best, ... MOREJohn Stossel: Lots Of Democrats Want Socialism
The unintended consequences of socialists. Nearly 10,000 people turned out to hear Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin. Why? Apparently, many Democrats want socialism. Sanders is the Vermont senator who is running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Sanders calls himself a "democratic socialist," not to be confused
with New ... MOREBernie Sanders's 12-Point Socialist Plan for America
by Pedro Gonzales. Every committed revolutionary needs a plan. Karl Marx had one, and so did Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Add to that group socialist senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, who is considering running for president (as a Democrat) and has already announced a 12-point plan at the Huffington Post. He writes: As Vermont's ... MOREKurt Schlicter: My Privilege Is Doing Just Fine
How to undermine the self-supporting. Liberals have a new word for what normal people call “success.” They
call it “privilege,” as if a happy, prosperous life is the result of
some magic process related to where your great-great-great-grandfather
came from. It’s the latest leftist argument tactic, which means it is a tactic designed to prevent ... MOREThomas Sowell: Moral Bankruptcy
As if monetary poverty is not enough! If you want to get some idea of the moral bankruptcy of our educational system, read an article in the May 4th issue of the New York Times Magazine titled, "The Tale of Two Schools."The article is not about moral bankruptcy. But it is itself an example of the moral bankruptcy behind the many failures ... MOREJaana Woiceshyn: Envy Vs. Achievement
A battle of political philosophy. Envy is one of the most useless of feelings, both in our private and business lives. Yet many people experience it, at least from time to time. They envy their neighbor’s fancy car and exotic vacations, or wealth in general. They envy their friends’ educational achievements or the praise they receive ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Inequality Bogeyman
Stop calling envy "social justice". During a recent lunch in a restaurant, someone complimented my wife
on the perfume she was wearing. But I was wholly unaware that she was
wearing perfume, even though we had been in a car together for about
half an hour, driving to the restaurant. My sense of smell is very poor. But there is ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Politics Of Hate And Envy
Part of the progressive agenda is to create hate and envy. One component of that agenda is to attack the large differences between a corporation's chief executive officer's earnings and those of its average worker. CNNMoney published salary comparisons in "Fortune 50 CEO pay vs. our salaries". Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf's annual salary ... MOREHolman W. Jenkins Jr: The Inequality Obsession
Do we want to persuade the rich to report less income? If it were learned that the car driven by the average American is 10 times more likely to burst into flames than the car driven by the richest 1%, what should the policy response be? Should it be to mandate that cars driven by the rich burst into flames more often? Income inequality is a strange obsession, at least ... MOREAndrew B. Wilson: Freedom Vs. Fairness
Will America succumb to the politics of envy? As the third of seven children, I grew up in a family where fairness issues were constantly bubbling to the surface. It did us no good. Each of us pleaded in vain for relief from the unequal division of household chores and duties. And complain though we would, we couldn't stop the sometimes uneven ... MOREWilliam McGurn: Taxing Kim Kardashian
Progressives want to spend more of her money. Poor Kim Kardashian. Well, poor may not be the right word. By all accounts—especially those she televises for her reality shows—Ms. Kardashian manages quite comfortably on her income. According to the New York Post, that includes as much as $17.9 million that she raked in for her well-publicized August ... MORE
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