The dirty little secret is that gun control laws do not actually control guns. They disarm law-abiding citizens, making them more vulnerable to criminals, who remain armed in disregard of such laws.
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell has published a large volume of writing. His dozen books, as well as numerous articles and essays, cover a wide range of topics, from classic economic theory to judicial activism, from civil rights to choosing the right college. Please contact your local newspaper editor if you want to read the THOMAS SOWELL column in your hometown paper.
Middle East ‘Democracy’
Obama and the Middle East Should Learn a Lesson From America’s Founding Fathers
Tests and Tiger Moms
Whole generations of black young people can continue to go down the drain because their fate carries less weight than fashionable racial rhetoric.
‘Proportional’ Response
Should we be surprised that the Iraqi government has increasingly come to pay more attention to what Iran wants than to what Washington wants?
Capital Gains Taxes
How are capital gains different from ordinary income?
‘Me Too’ Republicans
Polls and focus groups are not a substitute for thought.
Can It Happen Here? Cyprus Government Confiscates Cash From Private Bank Accounts
After going back and forth, the government of Cyprus ultimately decided, under international pressure, to go ahead with its plan to raid people’s bank accounts. But could similar policies be imposed in other countries, including the United States?
Intellectuals and Race (Part 4 of 4)
Among the many irrational ideas about racial and ethnic groups that have polarized societies over the centuries and around the world, few have been more irrational and counterproductive than the current dogmas of multiculturalism. Intellectuals who imagine that they...
A Real Term Limit
If we want term limits to achieve their goals, we have to make the limit one term, with a long interval prescribed before the same person can hold any government office again. In short, we need to make political careers virtually impossible.
Intellectuals and Race (Part 3 of 4)
The theory of genetic determinism which dominated the early 20th century led to many harmful consequences, ranging from racial segregation and discrimination up to and including the Holocaust. The currently prevailing theory is that malice of one sort or another explain…
Intellectuals and Race (Part 2 of 4)
History has many dramatic examples of the rise and fall of peoples and nations, for a wide range of known and unknown reasons. What history does not have is what is so often assumed as a norm today, equality of group achievements at a given point in time.
Intellectuals and Race (Part 1 of 4)
On the notion that there is something unusual about different races being unequally represented in various institutions, careers or at different income or achievement levels.
Gifted Hands: The Personal Story of Benjamin Carson
Today, Dr. Benjamin Carson is a renowned neurosurgeon at a renowned institution, Johns Hopkins University. But what got him there was wholly different from what is being offered to many ghetto youths today, much of which is not merely futile but counterproductive.
A Real Term Limit
Those who oppose term limits express fears of having government run by amateurs, rather than by people with long experience in politics. But this country was created by people who were not career politicians, but who put aside their own private careers to serve in offic…
Prophets and Losses: Part II
People on both sides of tax issues often speak of such things as a “$300 billion tax increase” or a “$500 billion tax decrease.” That is fine if they are looking back at something that has already happened. But it can be sheer nonsense if they...
Whose Welfare Does The Indian Child Welfare Act Actually Serve?
Anyone who would ruin a helpless child’s life, in order to assert their own legal prerogatives, or to protect the tribe’s turf, raises very serious questions about what kind of parent they are.
Random Thoughts
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Sometimes we seem like people on a pleasure boat drifting down the Niagara river, unaware that there are waterfalls up ahead. I don’t know what people think...
Bowing to "World Opinion": On Obama, Terrorism and The Geneva Convention
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were...
Random Thoughts: November 2009
Random thoughts on the passing scene: If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either...
The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part IV
What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed to understand, because this legislation is to be rushed through Congress before even the Senators...
The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part II
Although it is cheaper to buy a pint of milk than to buy a quart of milk, nobody considers that to be lowering the price of milk. Although it is cheaper to buy a lower quality of all sorts of goods than to buy a higher quality, nobody thinks of that as lowering the...
The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part III
One of the strongest talking points of those who want a government-run medical care system is that we simply cannot afford the high and rising costs of medical care under the current system. First of...
The "Costs" of Medical Care
We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is “too high”– either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to lower those costs, and much that is being...
Solving Whose Problem?
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems– of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is...
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