Two good reads. Nick Gillespie: 5 Scenes from a Sequestered America – Reason.com: “We’re not quite yet a week into the sequester,” writes Reason’s Nick Gillespie, who notes that just this morning he received an Obama fundraising email that called…
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Thomas Sowell On Medicare and Other People’s Children
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On a lighter note, I”m going to take a week off the blog. Need to catch up on my reading and some family stuff. Also need to break in a new ham radio. See you in a week. Sowell nails…
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice & Death Taxes
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Indeed. “The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about ‘social justice’ all you want. But what death taxes boil down…
Thomas Sowell Explains What “Social Justice” Really Is
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“What do you call it when someone steals someone else’s money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else’s money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else’s money…
Quote of The Day: Sowell on Visions
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Here Dr. Sowell comments on the all-too-common belief/misconception that all that exists, can be taken for granted, and that if we just blindly try to tweak things, nothing bad will happen. [note, right-wingers are not immune to this problem, see…
Williams & Sowell – Occupy Wall Street & Poverty
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A few recent pieces from two of the greatest minds of our time. First, Dr. Williams on poverty. Poor are richer in America – Walter Williams: Imagine you are an unborn spirit whom God has condemned to a life of…
Thomas Sowell on Healthcare, I Hope He’s Well
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A few initial thoughts on this column from the always brilliant Dr. Sowell. God Bless Dr. Sowell, one of the great minds of our time. I wish I was as sharp at 40 as Dr. Sowell is at 80+. I…
Corporations Can Not Pay Taxes!
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Fantastic post from Kurt Schuler at the George Selgin’s Free Banking blog. Free Banking – Taxation of banks: Banks present a tempting target for taxation because that’s where the money is. As with other forms of corporate taxation, though, who…
Morning Reads: Will, Sowell, and Gregory …
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Good stuff to start the day. Burning down the house – The Washington Post: “Put on asbestos mittens and pick up “Reckless Endangerment,” the scalding new book by Gretchen Morgenson, a New York Times columnist, and Joshua Rosner, a housing…
Book Review: Housing Boom and Bust by Dr. Thomas Sowell
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The Housing Boom and Bust by Dr. Thomas Sowell. Dr. Sowell published this book last year as response to the housing boom/bust and the resulting political and economic fallout. He’s discussed it in various columns, but this is a central…