Obama has charisma and charm, but in terms of character, values, experience and understanding, he is deficient.
Walter Williams
Walter Williams (March 31, 1936 – December 1, 2020) was an American economist, commentator, academic, and columnist at Capitalism Magazine.He was the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a syndicated editorialist for Creator's Syndicate. He is author of Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?, and numerous other works.
Masking Totalitarianism: The Myth of “Positive Rights”
What the positive rights tyrants want but won’t articulate is the power to forcibly use one person to serve the purposes of another.
Social Security and Medicare Fiction: Do Americans Prefer Deception?
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
Does Washington Know Best?
Congress and the president are taking over an area of our lives infinitely more challenging and complex than the management of traffic signals and supermarkets, namely our health care system.
America’s Social Security Ponzi Scheme: Congressionally Duped Americans
The only way Congress can send checks to Social Security and Medicare recipients is to take the earnings of a person currently in the workforce. The way Congress conceals its Ponzi scheme is to dupe Social Security and Medicare recipients into thinking that it’s their money that is put away and invested.
America’s Entitlement Mentality: Is There a Way Out?
Despite the fact that today’s increasing levels of federal government spending are unsustainable, there is little evidence that Americans have the willingness to do anything about it.
Loving and Hating America
I’m wondering how the hate-America/blame-America-first crowd might explain the fact that so many people in the world, if they had a chance, would permanently relocate here. Maybe it’s that they haven’t been exposed to enough U.S. university professors.
Racial Trade-offs: Part II
I can’t imagine what black politicians and civil rights groups are getting that’s worth condemning black youths to a high rate of unemployment and its devastating effects on upward economic mobility, but then again, I’m not a politician.
Racial Trade-offs
Trade-offs apply to our economic lives, as well as our political lives. That means getting more of one thing requires giving up something else. Let's look at some examples. Black congressmen and black public officials in general, including Barack Obama, always side...
Are Guns the Problem?
Why — at a time in our history when guns were readily available, when a person could just walk into a store or order a gun through the mail, when there were no FBI background checks, no waiting periods, no licensing requirements — was there not the frequency and kind of gun violence that we sometimes see today, when access to guns is more restricted?
Honesty and Trust
The fact that honesty and trust are so vital should make us rethink just how much tolerance we should have for criminals and dishonest people.
Student Indoctrination: The Goal of the Leftist Teaching Agenda
Students should record classroom professorial propaganda and give it wide distribution over the Internet.
You Don’t Have to Stay Poor — The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires
“The Wealth Choice” argues that wealth (millionaireship) is not a function of circumstance, luck, environment or the cards you were dealt. Instead, wealth is the result of a conscious choice, action, faith, innovation, effort, preparation and discipline.
Touchy Topics: Freedom of Association and Discrimination
What is the true test of one’s commitment to freedom of expression? Is it when one permits others to express ideas with which he agrees? Or is it when he permits others to express ideas he finds deeply offensive?
Western Values are Superior to All Others
Western values are under ruthless attack by the academic elite on college campuses across America.
Progressives Against Blacks
In sports, when have you heard a coach explain or excuse a black player’s poor performance by blaming it on a “legacy of slavery” or on that player’s being raised in a single-parent household?
Energy Manipulation
The huge supply and resulting low prices have begun to act as a deterrent to future energy exploration and production.
Would They Be Proud? No Need For a Conversation with Whites on Race
Black people don’t need to have a conversation with white people on matters of race. They need to have it amongst themselves.
Time for an Honest Examination of Race
Racial discrimination has little to do with major problems confronting black people.
Black Self-Sabotage
Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. There are no such protests against the thousands of black murders.
Profiling for Crime: Who Is Too Blame?
A law-abiding black person denied a taxi is rightfully angered, but to whom should his anger be directed, at the driver who’s trying to protect his life or at the people who’ve instilled fear by robbing and assaulting cabbies?
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