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it's good to hear different angles from society rather than the hate bush threads that are always posted here... I'd like to hear liberals bring forth a policy or idea rather than just hating on bush.. sheesh that get tiring...
One of his random thought columns. Some of his thoughts hit home.
Random Thoughts
By Thomas Sowell
Oct 18, 2005
Syndicated columnist
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.
We are so easily deceived that many people think that the Senate Judiciary Committee is acting nicely if the Senators wear a genial expression while asking insulting questions or smile while they are lying about the nominee.
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
I usually read the Wall Street Journal before breakfast. I can't take the New York Times on an empty stomach.
Homeschooling is not new. John Stuart Mill was homeschooled two centuries ago and never spent a day in a school or college.
People who think that they don't owe anything to anybody should read David McCullough's outstanding new book "1776," to see what other people went through to create the freedom that we enjoy and abuse today.
Senator Dianne Feinstein asked Judge John Roberts whether his being Catholic would interfere with carrying out his duties on the Supreme Court but she would undoubtedly have felt insulted if anyone had asked her whether being Jewish would interfere with her carrying out her duties as a Senator.
One of the reasons for the poverty in the United States that is seldom mentioned by the left is that many poor people are coming here, both legally and illegally, from other countries.
I don't know anything about Judge Consuelo Callahan but I love the name. Possibly she could be related to the economist Pedro Schwartz.
The Middle East "peace process" is an illusion. No one can make peace with others who is not at peace with himself -- and the Arabs cannot be at peace with themselves so long as they lag so visibly far behind the rest of the world. No concessions from others can give them what would satisfy them, their own achievements and self-respect.
Economist Steven Levitt's best-selling book "Freakonomics" is not really about economics. It is about applying systematic reasoning to all sorts of social problems. Systematic reasoning is needed even more than economics.
The controversies surrounding Bill Cosby should force more black leaders to decide whether their top priority is protecting the image of blacks or promoting the future of blacks, especially the younger generation.
If a word means everything, then it means nothing. Stretching words like "marriage" and "family" to include all sorts of things that they never meant before is reducing these words -- and the ins utions they represent -- to nothing.
Any given writer might write in a vague, lofty, convoluted, and romantic style. But when all the people who write on a given subject write that same way, there is something else going on. Try to think of any defender of progressive education or judicial activism who writes in a plain, straightforward and factual style.
Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
My brother recalled his younger days down South during the Jim Crow era, when he had a job working late. After work, he had a long walk back home in the middle of the night. But, he says, "When I got to the black neighborhood, I felt safe!" That speaks volumes about what has happened since then.
Two recent books tell about a million Europeans who were once enslaved by North African pirates. But these books ("Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters" by R.C. Davis and "White Gold" by Giles Milton) are largely ignored by people who claim to be outraged about slavery in the past.
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Parts that I liked.
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I usually read the Wall Street Journal before breakfast. I can't take the New York Times on an empty stomach.
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People who think that they don't owe anything to anybody should read David McCullough's outstanding new book "1776," to see what other people went through to create the freedom that we enjoy and abuse today.
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One of the reasons for the poverty in the United States that is seldom mentioned by the left is that many poor people are coming here, both legally and illegally, from other countries.
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Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
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Two recent books tell about a million Europeans who were once enslaved by North African pirates. But these books ("Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters" by R.C. Davis and "White Gold" by Giles Milton) are largely ignored by people who claim to be outraged about slavery in the past.
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The man has a knack for getting to the point.
it's good to hear different angles from society rather than the hate bush threads that are always posted here... I'd like to hear liberals bring forth a policy or idea rather than just hating on bush.. sheesh that get tiring...
I would also beg you to read some of Christopher Hitchens stuff on slate.com sometimes he has very good prospectives on the foreign policy..
like this one...
http://slate.msn.com/id/2128193/?nav=navoa
"hate bush threads that are always posted here"
I see. The suck-dubya, pro-right-wing threads are ok, but the dissenting threads and posts are not?
whats a matter boutons.. ahh can't take a little competion... lol
You're the one complaining about the dissenting threads, not me.
A good read. Funny thing, my sister-in-law is from Iraq. Christian. Most of her family left when it was under Saddam's rule. Her father stayed there, now dead, from natural causes. She has most of her family now living in the same country where she lives. But they got out of Iraq because of the persecution of the Christians, she is Catholic. I think the tribalism is one of the major hurdles we face there. , it is one we face here in the U.S. now, once it wasn't that way, but so called political correctness, and other junk, like we have to publish something (official) in every language under the sun has made this country not much different than there. It is a strange fact of life we see all these so called native Americans now coming out of the woodwork when they never existed in the past. We have people here who make a living out of race/gender/sexual preference issues.
It is going to be interesting to see the reaction to the administrations announcement today about illegals being sent out of the country immediately.
Yeah, because there was SUCH intelligent discourse coming from the right from the years 1992-2000. Get over it.
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