SOWELL: Limit term limits to just one term
The main thing wrong with the term limits movement is the “s” at the end of the word “limit.”
The main thing wrong with the term limits movement is the “s” at the end of the word “limit.”
A nation’s choice between spending on military defense and spending on civilian goods has often been posed as “guns versus butter.” But understanding the choices of many nations’ political leaders might be helped by examining the contrast between their runaway spending on pensions while skimping on military defense.
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?
Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of “gun control” advocates?
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.
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.
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.
The left’s vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of itself, as superior beings pursuing superior ends.
Why let mere facts spoil the emotional rhetoric.
Inflation is a quiet lie, by which a government can keep its promises on paper.
The consequences? None for the mob, but a citation for the shop owner for not removing the graffiti.
Anyone who even questions these lies and half-truths is almost certain to be called a ‘racist.’
Bell even said that he took it as his mission to say things to annoy white people.
The problems they created so discredited Progressives that they started calling themselves “liberals.”
Why would people who have spent their careers in politics know more about investing than people who have spent their careers as investors?
We have to play the hand we were dealt.
The media and the intelligentsia seem obsessed with the idea that government intervention is necessary to get the economy out of the doldrums.
Just when did Ronald Reagan, with his two landslide election victories, “seize the center?”