SOWELL: Liberal concern actually hurts blacks
There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?
Thomas Sowell / Creators Syndicate
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SOWELL: Gun control crowd disarmed with facts
Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of “gun control” advocates?
SOWELL: Obama long on intellectual arrogance
After reading Barack Obama’s book “Dreams from My Father,” it became painfully clear that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth.
SOWELL: If politics could be more like sports
It has long seemed to me that there is far more rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in politics and in commentaries on politics.
SOWELL: Now we’re even trashing success
There was a time, within living memory, when achievements of others were not only admired but were often taken as inspiration for imitation of the same qualities that served these achievers well, even if we were not in the same field of endeavor and were not expecting to achieve on the same scale.
SOWELL: A president more fascist than socialist
The left’s vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of itself, as superior beings pursuing superior ends.
SOWELL: ‘War on women’ is political straw man
Why let mere facts spoil the emotional rhetoric.
SOWELL: The lies that politicians tell are not so sweet
Inflation is a quiet lie, by which a government can keep its promises on paper.
SOWELL: Occupiers depleting moral infrastructure
The consequences? None for the mob, but a citation for the shop owner for not removing the graffiti.
SOWELL: Another outlook on assumptions about race
Anyone who even questions these lies and half-truths is almost certain to be called a ‘racist.’
SOWELL: How racial quotas ruined a fine black lawyer
Bell even said that he took it as his mission to say things to annoy white people.
SOWELL: Progressives leave legacies of destruction
The problems they created so discredited Progressives that they started calling themselves “liberals.”
SOWELL: Presumptuous ignorance or Brass Age?
Why would people who have spent their careers in politics know more about investing than people who have spent their careers as investors?
SOWELL: Focus on the future instead of Newt’s past
We have to play the hand we were dealt.
SOWELL: Congressional gridlock may rescue Obama
The media and the intelligentsia seem obsessed with the idea that government intervention is necessary to get the economy out of the doldrums.
SOWELL: No, centrists really don’t win elections
Just when did Ronald Reagan, with his two landslide election victories, “seize the center?”
SOWELL: Irrationality all around with the mobs
Sloppy words and sloppy thinking often go together, both in the mobs and in the media that are covering them.
SOWELL: Payback through reverse discrimination
Holder’s Department sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil—if the result is the election of black Democrats.