Repeating a fallacy does not make it true. “Inequality is the defining challenge of our time,” according to President Obama. It’s certainly the topic of the day for Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and a whole raft of liberal pundits. But have you noticed that hardly anyone else is talking about it? When is the last time you heard a shoeshine ... MORE
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Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts
John Goodman: Five Myths About Income Inequality
Repeating a fallacy does not make it true. “Inequality is the defining challenge of our time,” according to President Obama. It’s certainly the topic of the day for Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and a whole raft of liberal pundits. But have you noticed that hardly anyone else is talking about it? When is the last time you heard a shoeshine ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Pearls of wisdom from a brilliant mind. Many people take pride in defying the conventions of society. Those conventions of society are also known as civilization. Defying them wholesale means going back to barbarism. Barbarians with electronic devices are still barbarians. After the government shutdown crisis, the one thing that ... MOREW A Beatty: What John Adams Foretold Has Come True
Obama ushers in the 2nd president's dire prediction. John Adams, in 1787, said: Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. ... but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, ... in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; ... MOREStella Morabito: The Dynamics Of Tyranny
I am he as you are he and you are me and ... Before George Orwell wrote 1984, there was Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. If you're not acquainted with Zamyatin's novel, you will find it an extraordinary study on the dynamics of tyranny. Zamyatin, a Russian, wrote We around 1921. It was immediately banned by the Soviet censorship board, but ... MOREWalter E Williams: Re-education At George Mason
All cultures are NOT equal. This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University's distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity Services notifying me that I was required to "complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of ... MORE
VIDEO: Milton Friedman - A Conversation On Equality
From the award-winning series "Free To Choose," featuring Thomas Sowell.
Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts From Wise Thinkers
Not-so-common sense. "We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." (F.A. Hayek) "Many respectable writers agree that if a man reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily harm from his assailant he may stand his ground and that if he kills him he has not ... MOREVIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Congressional Testimony
Thomas Sowell on affirmative action and judicial activism.
Walter E Williams: Liberal Suffering And Confusion
The liberal world vision and reality are often at variance, for example,
with equal pay for equal work. I've often watched "Lockup," a show that
features California supermax prisons, including Pelican Bay and
Corcoran. Often, a recalcitrant prisoner must be extracted from his cell
through brute force. I've never seen female guards remove a prisoner.
If they are part of the process at all, it's to videotape the ... MORESocial Justice: A Solution In Search Of A Problem
by John Steele Gordon. The left has always had a knack for the high-sounding phrase, such as New Deal, Great Society, etc. One that is increasingly in vogue these days is Social Justice. It sounds noble—everyone’s in favor of justice, right?—but when you look closely, it’s nothing more than the old redistribution of income in the name ... MOREWalter E Williams: Are We Equal?
Are women equal to men? Are Jews equal to gentiles? Are blacks equal to Italians, Irish, Polish and other white people? The answer is probably a big fat no, and the pretense or assumption that we are equal — or should be equal — is foolhardy and creates mischief. Let's look at it. Male geniuses outnumber female geniuses 7-to-1. Female ... MOREWalter E Williams: Intellectuals And Race
Who creates the greatest hurdle to blacks? After reading Dr. Thomas Sowell's latest book, "Intellectuals and
Race," one cannot emerge with much respect for the reasoning powers of
intellectuals, particularly academics, on matters of race. There's so
much faulty logic and downright dishonesty. Many intellectuals attribute the behavior patterns ... MOREVIDEO: Buckley & Alinsky - Mobilizing The Poor
Saul Alinsky - The 2nd most influential community activist of all time.
Katie Kieffer: Scaring The Ghost Of El Chapo
El Chapo haunts the streets of Chicago. His ghost hoards cash in Los Angeles stash houses. His shadow darkens underground tunnels between Mexico and the U.S. His spirit drives his clan to bloodshed. The world’s most-wanted kingpin may be dead. But the Sinaloa cartel will thrive until America legalizes drugs. Guatemalan authorities are currently ... MOREWalter E Williams: Women In Combat
Inequality in the name of equality. A senior Defense Department official said the ban on women in combat should be lifted because the military's goal is "to provide a level, gender-neutral playing field." I'd like to think the goal of the military should be to have the toughest, meanest fighting force possible. But let's look at "gender-neutral playing ... MOREKatie Kieffer: How Gays And Women Get Their Own Way
Should strive toward equality, not social acceptance. Gays can be leaders. Women can be leaders. Without realizing it, I
think gays and women inadvertently work against their own objective of
equality when they force private organizations to support gay and female
leaders. As I wrote here,
gays and women are already equal ... MORECharles W. Baird: On Paying Our "Fair Share"
Marketing legalized theft. President Obama often asserts that fairness requires everyone "to play by the same rules." He then calls for raising tax rates paid by "millionaires and billionaires," but no one else. Well, Mr. President, you cannot have it both ways. Logically, if we are to enjoy what the Constitution calls "equal protection of the law," ... MORE
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