Thomas Sowell
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Weeding out pro-mob rule pols is the biggest problem this election year ♍
Votersཧ need to find out who is for and who is against mob rule, whether they are Democrats or Republicans. We are not going to be 🐻a free or decent...
Charter schools are the best way to wipe ou🌊t educational disparity
Depending on who 🍸you read or listen to, charter schools are eiꦚther a striking success or a “failed and damaging experiment” — or even just “fads.” Such conflicting opinions have...
The progressive movement's horrible racist history
♋Much is made of the fact that liberals and conservatives see racial issues differently, which they do. But these differences have too often been seen as simply those on the...
'Free college' is the gateway drug to socialism
Many people of mature years are amazed at how many young people have voted for Sen. Be🍸rnie Sanders and are enthusiastic about the socialism he preaches. Many of those older...
Obama's outrageous attempts to dictate the racial make-up of neighborhoods
The political left has been trying to run other people’s lives fo🐟r centuries. So we should not be s🍸urprised to see the Obama administration now trying to force neighborhoods across...
𓆉 How parents can avoid spending thousands on colleges that host student storm-troopers
Storm trooper tactics by bands of college students ꦐmaking ideological demands across the country, and immediate preemptive surrender by college administrators -- such as at the University of Missouri recently...
Politically incorrect truths about eq💜uality and opportunity
A hostile review of my ne⛎w book -- “Wealth, Poverty and Politics” -- said, “th🎶ere is apparently no level of inequality of income or opportunity that Thomas Sowell would consider...
Proof the left doesn't care about the consequences of its policies
✱ There is no way to know what is going on in someone else’s mind. But sometimes their behavior tells you more than their words. Th༒e political left’s great claim to...
Silencing skeptics
🧔 How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. Meanwhile▨, attempts to shut down people whose free...
Vaccine phobia and the autism 'epidemic'
The current controversy over whether♉ parents should be forced to have their children vaccinated for measles is one of the painful🐎 signs of our times. Measles was virtually wiped out...
Unspoken truths
If not🐭 a 🎀single policeman killed a single black individual anywhere in the United States for this entire year, that wouldn’t reduce the number of black homicide victims by 1...
Stormy weath🐼er ꦍand climate questions
♏ It was refreshing to see meteorologists apologize for their dire — and wrong — predictions of an unprecedented snow storm that they had said would devastate the Northeast. It was...
The 'equality' racket
🅠 So🍬me time ago, burglars in England scrawled a message on the wall of a home they had looted: “RICH BASTARDS.” Those two words captured the spirit of the politicized vision...
Ignoring 🐼the facts: How to promote anti-cop lynch mobs
Some of us, who are o𝓡ld enough to remember the old TV police series “Dragnet,” ma꧂y remember Sgt. Joe Friday saying, “Just the facts, ma’am.” But that would be completely...
Racial quota🦩s and sch❀ool punishment
If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal gover🌱nment and the Minneapolis Public Schools ꧋should open their eyes....
An ugဣly legacy of liberalism
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said there were “phrases that serve as an excuse for not thinking.” One of these phrases that substitut🦂e for thought today is one that...
💟 Vo𒁃ter fraud, Voter ID and fearmongering
One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have... 🍒 ꦜ
The mob-rule♚ living-wage scam
꧅ While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob rule. There is nothing democratic about mob rule....
Television justic✃e and other outrage𒈔s
I 🐻don’t know why we’re spending our hard-earned money paying taxes to support a criminal-justice system, when issues of guilt and innocence are being dete🔴rmined on TV — and even...
Attacking the city's top schools
Mayor de Blasio, like so many others who call themselves “progressive,” is gung-ho to solve social problems. In fact, he is🐼 on a crusade to solve an educational problem that...