by Thomas Sowell | Jan 10, 2006 | POLITICS
Recent news that school children in Charlotte, North Carolina, had the highest test scores among children in big cities across the country had a special impact on me. Back in the late 1930s, I went to school in Charlotte and, while I don’t know what the test... by Thomas Sowell | Jan 9, 2006 | POLITICS
“China is lifting a million people a month out of poverty.” It is just one statement in an interesting new book titled “The Undercover Economist” by Tim Harford. But it has huge implications. I haven’t checked out the statistics but they... by Dr Michael Hurd | Jan 8, 2006 | Religion
The conservative movement favors the expansion of religion/state fusion at home while opposing the inevitable results of religion/state fusion abroad.
by Thomas Sowell | Jan 5, 2006 | POLITICS
Not often do Rush Limbaugh and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman agree on anything but recently both of them pointed out the same pattern in the prices of housing — and both were correct. The pattern is this: Despite hysteria over high home prices, in most... by Walter Williams | Jan 4, 2006 | POLITICS
Despite claims that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, poverty is nowhere near the problem it was yesteryear — at least for those who want to work. Talk about the poor getting poorer tugs at the hearts of decent people and squares nicely with the... by Thomas Sowell | Jan 3, 2006 | POLITICS, War with Iran
When you are boating on the Niagara River, there are signs marking the point at which you must go ashore or else you will be sucked over the falls. With Iran moving toward the development of nuclear weapons, we are getting dangerously close to that fatal point of no... by Walter Williams | Dec 28, 2005 | POLITICS
Philosopher David Hume warned that, “It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” That’s why we should guard against any encroachment on liberty, no matter how small. Let’s look at a couple of instances where, at our peril,... by Thomas Sowell | Dec 27, 2005 | POLITICS
I don’t make a million dollars a year but I think every member of Congress should be paid at least that much. It’s not because those turkeys in Washington deserve it. It’s because we deserve a lot better people than we have in Congress. The cost of... by Harry Binswanger | Dec 25, 2005 | POLITICS
There was a significant defeat for the whole Intelligent Disguise–excuse me, Intelligent Design (ID)–movement today, when a Harrisburg, PA judge ruled against its being taught in the schools of a local school district. CNN reports: HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania...
