Showing posts with label thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thinking. Show all posts
Walter E Williams: You Don't Have To Stay Poor
Come early, stay late. No one can blame you if you start out in life poor, because how you start is not your fault. If you stay poor, you're to blame because it is your fault. Nowhere has this been made clearer than in Dennis Kimbro's new book, "The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires." Kimbro, a business professor at Clark ... MOREGetting A Search Warrant For Your Thoughts
by John Villasenor. We don't have a mind reading machine. But what if we one day did? The
technique of functional MRI (fMRI), which measures changes in
localized brain activity over time, can now be used to infer information
regarding who we are thinking about, what we have seen, and the memories we are recalling.
As the technology ... MOREPhyllis Chester: The Crisis Of Individualism
A death knell for free thought? Suddenly, the price of speaking one’s mind has gotten very high. You may agree on every issue save one; dare to share your independent or dissident view—and you might shut down the conversation or lose all your friends. Since this kind of censorship and self-censorship has been going on for some ... MORE
John Stossel: True Grit
Are you a real man (or woman)? Do you have "grit"? Compare yourself to the man on the $20 bill: Andrew Jackson, our seventh president. During the Revolutionary War, Jackson volunteered to fight. He was just 13 years old at the time. The British captured him and made him a servant for British officers. When one ordered Jackson to ... MOREThomas Sowell: Words That Replace Thought
In doing so, they turn smart people into morons. If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for
thought, “diversity” should be recognized as the undisputed world
champion. You don’t need a speck of evidence, or a single step of logic,
when you rhapsodize about the supposed benefits of diversity. The
very idea of testing this ... MOREWalter E Williams: Experts Aren't Deities
Let's look at experts. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a mathematician and scientist. Newton has to be the greatest and most influential scientist who has ever lived. He laid the foundation for classical mechanics, and his genius transformed our understanding of science, particularly in the areas of physics, mathematics and astronomy. What's not widely known ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Observations on life as it is. When I was growing up, an older member of the family used to say, "What you don't know would make a big book." Now that I am an older member of the family, I would say to anyone, "What you don't know would fill more books than the Encyclopedia Britannica." At least half of our society's troubles ... MORE
John Whitehead: Breeding Grounds For Compliant Citizens
Where American schools excel. “[P]ublic school reform is now justified in the dehumanizing language of national security, which increasingly legitimates the transformation of schools into adjuncts of the surveillance and police state… students are increasingly subjected to disciplinary apparatuses which limit their capacity for critical ... MOREWalter E Williams: Trickle Down And Tax Cuts
Tickle down demagoguery from the left. Dr. Thomas Sowell's "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich'"
has just been published by the Hoover Institution. Having read this
short paper, the conclusion you must reach is that the term "trickle
down theory" is simply a tool of charlatans and political hustlers. Sowell states that "no such ... MOREVIDEO: The Morality Of Using Force To Distribute Wealth
Philip DeFranco is uncomfortable thinking about government and morality.
Walter E Williams: Difficult Economic Lessons
Sifting the objective from the subjective. One of the more difficult lessons to teach economics neophytes — and, many times, trained economists — is that economic theory cannot say anything definitive about subjective statements, such as what's better, good, bad or worse. Let's try a few examples to make the point. Cabernet sauvignon wine is ... MOREWalter E Williams: Too Much College
College for all just waters down higher education. In President Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address, he said that "higher education can't be a luxury. It is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford." Such talk makes for political points, but there's no evidence that a college education is an economic ... MORE
Russell Cook: Global Warming's Killer Is Critical Thinking
Let's require evidence, not just belief. Is there any issue more dependent on widespread lapses in critical thinking than the idea of man-caused global warming? Nothing wrecks an argument faster than a question revealing a gaping hole in that argument's fundamental premise. Notice the abundantly obvious derailment in this example: "We ... MOREDaren Jonescu: The Vanishing Feeling Of Freedom
It is hard for some to understand what is at stake. The primary reason why it is so difficult to defend political liberty today is because freedom is a rational construct, and thus cannot be understood by the irrational. Children, or adults whose moral reasoning skills are stalled at childish levels, are unable to experience it -- they literally don't ... MORE
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