Thomas Sowell's blog

The real Obama

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:36:24 -0400

Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his “past associations.” That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against “guilt by association.”

Bailout politics

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:55:31 -0400

Nothing could more painfully demonstrate what is wrong with Congress than the current financial crisis.

Among the Congressional “leaders” invited to the White House to devise a bailout “solution” are the very people who have for years created the risks that have now come home to roost.

A political “solution”

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:21:01 -0400

Who was it who said, “crack-brained meddling by the authorities” can “aggravate an existing crisis”? Ronald Reagan? Milton Friedman? Adam Smith? Not even close. It was Karl Marx. Unlike most leftists today, Marx studied economics.

The high cost of racial hype

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:36:46 -0400

Sometimes you don’t know when you are lucky. Certainly I did not consider myself lucky when I left home at seventeen and discovered the hard way that there was no great demand for a black teenage dropout with no experience and no skill.

The Vision of the Left

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:18:53 -0400

Conservatives, as well as liberals, would undoubtedly be happier living in the kind of world envisioned by the left.

Very few people have either a vested interest or an ideological preference for a world in which there are many inequalities.

A knock or a boost?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:01:00 -0400

Since Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter is not running for election this year, it is amazing how much the media has suddenly become obsessed with her. Her pregnancy not only made the front page of the New York Times, a printed announcement of her pregnancy stayed at the bottom of the television screen on CNN for what seemed to me to be about an hour or more.

Anarchy on the Internet

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:48:27 -0400

The Internet provides vast amounts of information but it can also spread vast amounts of misinformation, or even deliberately misleading disinformation.

Georgia on our mind

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:57:02 -0400

What is happening in the republic of Georgia is all too reminiscent of what happened back in 1956, when Russian tanks rolled into Hungary — and the West did nothing.

Whose “special interests”?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:56:20 -0400

We take it for granted that a vote means a secret ballot, but it was not always that way. Moreover, it will not remain that way for workers who vote on whether or not they want a labor union, if legislation sponsored by Congressional Democrats and endorsed by Senator Barack Obama becomes law.

The Gratingest Generation

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:36:46 -0400

If our era could have its own coat of arms, it would be a yak against a background of mush. This must be the golden age of endless and pointless talk.

Random thoughts

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:10:17 -0400

Random thoughts on the passing scene:

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can’t stop with just one.

Anyone who is honest with himself and with others knows that there is not a snowball’s chance in hell to have an honest dialogue about race.

Bankrupt “exploiters”

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:30:47 -0400

In one of those front-page editorials disguised as “news” stories, the New York Times blames “the lucrative lending practices” of banks and other financial institutions for helping create the current financial crisis of millions of borrowers and of the financial system in general.

Are facts obsolete?

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:52:25 -0400

In an election campaign in which not only young liberals, but also some people who are neither young nor liberals, seem absolutely mesmerized by the skilled rhetoric of Barack Obama, facts have receded even further into the background than usual.

Conservatives for Obama?

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:53:54 -0400

A number of friends of mine have commented on an odd phenomenon that they have observed — conservative Republicans they know who are saying that they are going to vote for Barack Obama.

High-stakes courts

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:32:38 -0400

Recent landmark court decisions are reminders that elections are not just about putting candidates in office for a few years.