Laudato Si
It’s a great day to learn from Dr. Thomas Sowell…
- His first column that rung my bell this week was A Non-Prediction, in which Tommy Boy predicted what politicians won’t do: leave things alone and stop meddling.
- In the second, Sowell notices something Bush-haters often don’t: Congress was controlled by Democrats when the economy started the long decline, and that made all the difference. One thing he forgot to mention was how Bush got us into an illegal war that drained our economy like a sieve, but hey, nobody’s perfect.
Sowell v. Biden during the most shameful display of partisanship in the past 40 years – the Judge Bork nomination to the SCOTUS – talking about civil rights:
Amazing that Biden ONLY heard racism during that whole schpiel, instead of addressing the actual problems Sowell presented.
Statistics versus reality and the way things are skewed by those who have a poor grasp on the former:
Related to the last, is income stagnation a myth?:
Our education system is failing, mainly because teachers concentrate on making everyone fit in instead of making them learn the material:
Are things as bad as he says?:
T Dirty on Milton Friedman: