Professor Sowell observes the modern day linkage of education and politics in America.
VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Political Issues
Professor Sowell observes the modern day linkage of education and politics in America.
Steve Chapman: Taking Taxpayers For A Ride
It's often been said of Barack Obama that his policies are "data driven"—meaning that whatever his ideological inclinations, he pays attention to dispassionate analysis of real-world evidence. His approach was a refreshing contrast to George W. Bush and John McCain, with their ostentatious reliance on gut instinct. This administration gives due deference to nerds. ... MOREJohn Stossel: Government Creates Poverty
The U.S. government has "helped" no group more than it has "helped" the American Indians. It stuns me when President Obama appears before Indian groups and says things like, "Few have been ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans." Ignored? Are you kidding me? They should be so lucky. The government has made most Indian tribes wards of the state. Government manages their land, provides their ... MORERonald Bailey: Cyberwar is Harder Than It Looks
The Internet's vulnerability to attack has been exaggerated. In wartime, combatants often attempt to disrupt their enemies' supply systems, generally by blowing them up. Modern life is made possible by a set of tightly interconnected systems supplying us with electricity, water, natural gas, automobile fuels, sewage treatment, food, finance, telecommunications, and emergency response. All of ... MOREQuick: Someone Take Boehner To Atlas Shrugged
If you happen to be some congressional bureaucrat on the staff of the Speaker of the House and you are reading this, please kidnap your boss and take him to the nearest theatre playing Atlas Shrugged Part 1. Why, you ask? Because in the same week that unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats began their attempt to cost Boeing over a billion dollars and South Carolina a thousand jobs ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Trump Card
The boomlet for Donald Trump as a Republican nominee for President of the United States ought to be a wake-up call for Republican candidates and Republican Party leaders alike. Why has Trump surged ahead of other Republican candidates and potential candidates in the polls? It is not likely that his resurrection of the issue of Barack Obama's birth certificate has aroused all this support. ... MOREJohan Goldberg: Political Cooling On Global Warming
"What the heck went wrong?" That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled. As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a sweeping effort to make good on candidate Barack Obama's pledge to start turning back the rising oceans. The Democrats held Congress. ... MOREWalter E Williams: Smugglers Are Heroes
Smugglers are heroes of sorts. The essence of what a smuggler offers is: "Government tyrants want to either prevent or interfere with peaceable voluntary exchange among individuals. I can reduce the impact of that interference." Let's look at smuggling, keeping in mind that not everything illegal is immoral and not everything legal is moral. Leading up to our War of Independence, the British, under the Navigation ... MOREFood Nazis: Two Fries Short Of A Happy Meal
by Ralph R. Reiland. Who would you guess is more likely to sue you, all other things being equal: Monet Parham-Lee or Margie Moore? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it gets more shaky and volatile around people with exotic first names and hyphenated surnames. It probably has to do with their alienation from the dominant culture, and coming up with names that show they're not ... MOREMark Steyn: The Disappearing Dollar
Congressman Paul Ryan, one of the least insane men in Washington, has a ten-year plan. President Obama, one of the most insane spenders in Washington, has a twelve-year plan. After hearing the president’s plan, Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S. sovereign-debt outlook to “negative.” Ah, the fine art of understatement. In 1940, after the fall of France and the evacuation ... MOREVIDEO: Walter E Williams - Balanced Budget Amendment
Spendthrift politicians and runaway spending.
Is a balanced budget amendment the answer? Professor Williams looks at the situation.Gas Prices and Speculators: They Think You Are Stupid
It is with great interest that I read this past week about the President's initial response to rising gas prices. What or who was to blame? According to the President...speculators. Nameless, faceless, speculators. They are to blame for the rising price of crude oil and the accompanying price at the pump! The problem is...speculators and people make various bets, and they say ... MOREGreen Energy Vs The American Standard of Living
by Alex Epstein. This April 22, if you find yourself frustrated at rising gasoline prices, or rising electricity prices, or rising natural gas and heating oil prices, make sure you place plenty of blame on the environmentalists behind Earth Day; for decades they have found a reason to oppose every practical form of energy in the name of "saving the planet." Start with their ... MOREJohn Stossel: Watching the Watchmen
I believe in the right to privacy. Yet I can think of someone who deserves very little privacy — a policeman making an arrest. Unfortunately, in some states it's a crime to make a video of a policeman doing just that. People recording police have been threatened, detained or arrested. Some were jailed overnight. That's wrong. Police work for the public, they're paid with tax money, ... MORESteve Chapman: Posturing Against Pornography
The government should stop trying to censor the internet. We all know that pornography is offensive and destructive, so we can guess that wherever X-rated fare gains popularity, social decay will follow. It may come as a surprise, then, to learn which state has the highest rate of online subscriptions to adult websites. Not New York or California, but Utah. Yes, Utah. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Bull About Bullying
There is a lot of talk from many people about bullying in school. The problem is that it is all talk. There is no sign that anybody is going to do anything that is likely to reduce bullying. When politicians want to do nothing, and yet look like they are doing something, they appoint a blue ribbon committee or go to the U.N. or assign some Cabinet member to look into the problem and report ... MORE
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