Thomas Sowell explains why the prisoner swap deal is a victory for Obama and a defeat for the United States of America.
POLITICS
Who Owns You? On the Right To Try Experimental Drugs
On the FDA banning drugs that can help people.
Piketty’s Popular Nonsense
When markets are free, poor people can move out of their income group. Income mobility, matters more than income inequality.
Income Level is Not a Social Issue
How much money someone makes is nobody else’s business, as long as they earn the money honestly, without initiating force or fraud, and are not forced to do it.
Forced Equality Destroys The Quality of Medicine
The only equality that government intrusion can actually deliver is the equality of death.
GOP Suicide Mission
Where it really counts, Republicans differ little from Democrats.
Obama is Not a Socialist; Obama is a Fascist
Obama is a fascist because he pushes for government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands.
Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor?
It may be true that revealing information about the NSA’s methods — some of which it uses legitimately — could make a terrorist’s job easier. But if revealing those methods is necessary to alert the American people to the injustice committed by the NSA, then so be it.
White Privilege
The average parent has no idea of the devious indoctrination going on in classrooms in many public schools. What follows are some of the lessons of the conference.
The Dangers of Rick Santorum’s Blue Collar Conservatism
Rick Santorum is a different kind of Obama. Were it not for his hostility to gays and abortion, Rick Santorum would be perfectly at home in the Democratic Party.
Good News
It’s fortunate entrepreneurs keep making things faster than worried, control-freak government can smother them.
Poverty and Snow Storms
Many young people in poverty today not only do not seem to know the way, but have many other people leading them off in other directions.
A Lesson on Racial Discrimination
Many people think that it takes government to eliminate racial discrimination, but economic theory predicts the opposite.
The Height of Utopianism
Height restrictions have serious economic implications that are not immediately obvious to those who do not look beyond rhetoric about “saving” this or “preserving” that.
De-skilling America’s Doctors
“I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind — yet what is it they expect to depend on when they lie on an operating table under my hands?”
Coming End to Racial Preferences
The weakening of racial preferences in college admissions can be beneficial if it can focus our attention on the causes of the huge gap in academic achievement between blacks and whites and Asians.
Why Marijuana Should Be Legal
Legalizing pot, by itself, won’t change a thing. Until or unless we understand why marijuana should be legal, it’s futile to support its legalization.
The Problem With Cliven Bundy
The problem with our big, expansive federal government which denies individual rights every day is that it ultimately leads to disputes of this kind.
The Constitution or Good Ideas?
Should we be ruled by what are seen as good ideas or by what’s permissible by the U.S. Constitution?
American Dreaming
Government mostly hinders us, and then brags that it is waiting to take charge when we fail.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part III
“Poverty” is in the eye of the statisticians — more specifically, the government statisticians who define what constitutes “poverty,” and who are unlikely to define it in ways that might jeopardize the massive welfare state that they are part of.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part II
Nations that disarm increasing the chances of being attacked by nations that do not disarm.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part I
Much as many liberals like to put guilt trips on other people, they seldom seek out, much less acknowledge and take responsibility for, the bad consequences of their own actions.
Equality in Discipline
Seeing as the Obama administration is concerned about punishment disproportionality, should black convicts be released so that only 13 percent of incarcerated murderers are black?
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