by Thomas Sowell | Nov 3, 2009 | POLITICS
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... by Thomas Sowell | Nov 2, 2009 | POLITICS
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... by Thomas Sowell | Nov 2, 2009 | POLITICS
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... by Thomas Sowell | Nov 1, 2009 | POLITICS
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... by Thomas Sowell | Oct 24, 2009 | POLITICS
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... by Walter Williams | Oct 21, 2009 | POLITICS
Americans are harder workers, more philanthropic, individualistic, self-reliant, anti-government than people in most other countries. We’ve turned what was an 18th-century Third World nation into the freest and most prosperous nation in mankind’s entire... by George Reisman | Oct 18, 2009 | POLITICS
Anita Dunn, is described by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as “one of the major decision makers of the Obama campaign” and as one of Obama’s “four top advisers (along with David Axelrod, David Plouffe, and Robert Gibbs).” She currently... by Sylvia Bokor | Oct 11, 2009 | POLITICS
Americans are well aware that these are troubling times. Things have been turned upside down. We are told that obeying government edicts constitutes “freedom.” We are told that government health and insurance plans are “competition.” We are... by Walter Williams | Oct 7, 2009 | POLITICS
Rep. Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba’s health care system, “You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met.” W.E.B. Dubois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said,...
