President Clinton wants more money for education. He's proposed tax credits and deductions for college students and large increases in Pell Grants for needy students. Clinton would have us believe that not enough students have a chance to go to the nation's 3,600...
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution's distinguished senior fellow, delivered a lecture in New Zealand last year titled "The Quest for Cosmic Justice." He discussed how often we observe tragic differences in the lives of people. Some live in luxury; others live in...
For nearly four decades, the education establishment has delivered one failure and set of excuses after another. Education for blacks is nothing less than a catastrophe and education for white kids is nothing to write home about. People can and do make mistakes and...
For years I've said that if the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, they couldn't find a tool more effective than the public school system in most major cities.The evidence of that tragedy continues. The latest is contained in a Philadelphia...
Soon I'll write to Virginia's Governor George Allen demanding that he keeps the faith with his predecessors who, in 1788, ratified the Constitution and brought Virginia into the Union. Let's do some thinking out loud about this letter just to make sure my reasoning is...
How about a mini-Williams autobiography? From exceedingly humble beginnings, I am now in the top one percent of income-earners. How did that come about? Did someone see me walking around North Philadelphia and say, "Williams, I'm going to make you well off."? That...
Making our value premises explicit and clear can help untangle contentious public policy issues, or at least let us know where people stand. Let's state my personal value premise. I cherish private property rights. "Okay," you say, "but what are private property...
At the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton chastised those Americans who loved their country but hated their government. That's a morally blind statement at best. After all would Clinton have said that to Germans who loved their country but hated the Nazi...
Retiring Senator William Cohen (R. Maine) was interviewed by Washington, D.C.'s WAMU-radio's talk show host Diane Rehm. He talked about the changing political climate both in Congress and the nation. Cohen lamented how American traditional skepticism toward Congress...
America is a rich nation with seemingly limitless compassion, partially evidenced by our $5 trillion failed effort to eliminate poverty and dependence. After 30 years of failure, we might start asking some questions about the nature of our compassion toward the poor....
It's amazing how we listen to people who've been dead wrong time after time. In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000 . . . World food production cannot keep pace with the galloping...
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