Inarticulate Republicans
If the continued existence of mathematics depended on the ability of the Republicans to defend the proposition that two plus two equals four, that would probably mean the end of mathematics...
About: Thomas Sowell
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Who Shut Down the Government?
There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going — except for ObamaCare. ...
Destroying Household Jobs
Despite evidence from around the world that minimum wage laws can price low-skilled workers out of jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor is planning to extend minimum wage coverage to domestic...
Minimum Wage Madness: Part II
It is hardly surprising that minimum wage laws set wages that price many a young worker out of a job. What is surprising is that, despite an accumulation of evidence over...
Minimum Wage Madness
Advocates of minimum wage laws often give themselves credit for being more "compassionate" towards "the poor." But they seldom bother to check what are the actual consequences of such laws. ...
Unintended Consequences
One of the many unintended consequences of the political crusade for increased homeownership among minorities, and low-income people in general, has been a housing boom and bust that left many foreclosed...
Are We Serious About Education?
Two recent events — one on the east coast and one on the west coast — raise painful questions about whether we are really serious when we say that we want...
Busybody Politics
Whether in housing, education or innumerable other aspects of life, the key to busybody politics, and its endlessly imposed "solutions," is that third parties pay no price for being wrong. ...
The Tragedy of Isolation
Racial and ethnic leaders around the world who promote a separate cultural "identity" are inflicting a handicap on their own people. Isolation has held back many peoples in many lands, for...
Random Thoughts
Random thoughts from wise thinkers: "We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." (F.A. Hayek) ... ...
Is This Still America?
The only real heroes in the trial of George Zimmerman were the jurors. They showed that this is still America — at least for now. ...
Who Is Racist?
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today...
The Mindset of the Left: Part IV
At the heart of the left's vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can...
The Mindset of the Left: Part III
The fundamental problem of the political left seems to be that the real world does not fit their preconceptions. Therefore they see the real world as what is wrong, and what...
The Mindset of the Left: Part II
The political left has long claimed the role of protector of "the poor." It is one of their central moral claims to political power. But how valid is this claim? ...