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Sowell is an idiot.
This from Mr. Thomas Sowell. The man is one of the most down to earth
people I have ever read. Read, enjoy and learn.
Random thoughts
By Thomas Sowell
May 2, 2006
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Some people think they have bad luck when the real problem is that they took bad chances.
Parents who are both conscientious and realistic discover sooner or later that they cannot do the job to their own complete satisfaction, much less to their children's complete satisfaction.
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
Helen Thomas has been called "the dean of White House correspondents." After some of her recent remarks, someone suggested that she should be called the Howard Dean of White House correspondents.
I love cheap watches. For no other product are the cheapest versions just as effective for their basic purpose as versions costing ten or a hundred times as much.
Does it tell you something about our times when a representative of the Taliban is welcome on the Yale University campus but representatives of our own military forces are not?
President Bush says that it is "unrealistic" to think that we can deport 12 million illegal immigrants. It is also unrealistic to think that we can catch all murderers, but does that mean that we should de-criminalize murder? Or turn loose the murderers we do catch?
The political left loves to depict its ideas as "new" — a practice which is itself centuries old on the left, as are the ideas themselves.
As rising rates of intermarriage erode race as a biological reality, political hype makes it an increasingly heated issue.
How can people who say we don't have enough troops in Iraq advocate that we intervene militarily in Darfur?
The biggest enemy of real equality is make-believe equality. Some peoples, such as the Scots and the Japanese, lagged far behind for centuries before moving to the forefront of achievement. Pretending that they were equal during the centuries when they were not might have prevented the changes that developed their ability.
Speakers at big rallies urging "guest worker" status for illegal immigrants remind me of no guest I have ever seen, except Sheridan Whiteside, the overbearing le character in "The Man Who Came to Dinner."
Compromising by splitting the difference may solve many immediate problems by creating bigger long-run problems. Splitting the difference rewards the side with the most extreme and most intransigent position, guaranteeing continuing unreasonable demands and the continuing strife this generates.
I am so old that I was on Jeopardy before Alex Trebek was on Jeopardy and on Meet the Press before Tim Russert.
Many of the same people who claim that mental tests are not valid for college admissions decisions, or for employment decisions, nevertheless consider these tests valid for deciding that a murderer cannot be executed when he scores low on such tests — even though he has no incentive to score high.
People who go ballistic over the high pay of some CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation seldom bother to figure out whether, if that CEO agreed to work for nothing, that would be enough to bring the price of a one-dollar product down to 99 cents.
Some people say it is "name-calling" if you refer to someone as a liberal. There is nothing inherently negative about the word "liberal." If it has acquired negative overtones, that is because of what liberals have done and the consequences that followed.
A number of the nation's leading colleges — including Harvard, Amherst, the University of Chicago and the Naval Academy — will admit students who have not finished high school. Many outstanding students would do well to get out of high schools that are wasting their time and go straight into college.
One of the few encouraging signs in the current political scene is that Senator John McCain finished behind several other candidates in a Republican straw poll for Presidential candidates. Apparently his self-centered opportunism has not gone unnoticed, despite the good press he has gotten by pandering to the media.
Thomas Sowell is the prolific author of books such as Black Rednecks and White Liberals and Applied Economics.
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The emphasis is mine not his......
Sowell is an idiot.
By the way, did you know that not even the U.S. State department classifies the Taliban as a terrorist organization...
Raw StoryIn the latest State Department report last Friday, one item went unnoticed by the press, until now: the US doesn't classify the Taliban as terrorists -- and haven't for the last six years.
The find was made by CSMonitor.com's Tom Regan. The US does classify other groups on the US hit list as terrorists -- such as Hezbollah, al Qaeda and Hamas.
"In an article en led 'Terrorism's Dubious "A" List,' the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) reports that the religious extremist organization has never been listed as a terrorist group by the US, Britain, the EU, Canada, Australia, or any of the coalition partners, despite the fact that during its six year rule in Afghanistan, it provided save haven for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and currently is staging terrorist attacks against coalition forces and waging a national campaign of intimidation and fear," Regan notes.
"In a CFR Q&A on the Taliban, Chistopher Langdon, a defense expert at the Ins ute for International Strategic Studies, describes the group as "an insurgent organization that will periodically use terrorism to carry out its operations," he adds.
Dubya transformation into Richard Nixon is almost complete...
Well, except, Nixon managed to get the troops out of Vietnam.
Care to qualify that statement? Oh, and it being your opinion doesn't count.
Yeah dan, you should wish you were such an idiot. Instead of
being just the ignorant person that you are. Or could I just call
you a racist, like you would me for making the statement that
you did.
racist!
Sowell clarifies that statement with every new column he writes.
Thomas Sowell:
A.B. Economics - Harvard University
A.M. Economics - Columbia
PhD Economics - University of Chicago
Idiot, I think not. Me thinks Dan doesn't like Mr. Sowell's political leanings.
Ahmed Chalabi has a PHD in Mathamatics. So what?
A liar is liar.
First he was an idiot now he's a liar? Waiting for you to support two characterizations now...
Ahmed Chalabi has a PHD in Mathamatics. So what?
A liar is liar.
Sowell always bashes the left but I read his stuff all time so I can be fair and balanced like FauxNews.
Dan,
I think I understand now. Anyone who has different political, social or economic views than you do is an idiot and a liar.
Those are great degrees he has and I'm sure there are many so called "left-wing liberals" with great credentials as well.
An idiot he is not...but then again Bush has a degree from Harvard..no?
And Yale.....ouch. legacy
That also appears to be the case with many other posters in this forum from BOTH sides.
And, the President's not an idiot either. What's your point?
That is a matter of opinion. I'm sure your opinion of Clinton differs from mine and you probably think I'm an idiot.
NO, anyone who it took till last year to finally admit there were no WMD's in Iraq is an idiot.
You're so articulate.
I don't agree with all of his political takes, but Thomas Sowell is no idiot. He's a good economist, as evidenced by his writings on economic matters. How he applies that thinking to other subjects, however, is up to the reader to decide.
I will decide what is random.
Clinton was no idiot, he was worse...and you? You're just a bleeding heart liberal.That is a matter of opinion. I'm sure your opinion of Clinton differs from mine and you probably think I'm an idiot.
I'd comment on this article, but what's to comment about? Like most of Mr. Sowell's opinion pieces, this one doesn't make any real points. G-Town could have written this opt piece.
Thanks for proving my point. And you? You're just a bleeding heart libertar.., err, confused, close-minded, right-wing confused doofus.
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