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…
DetailsI couldn’t have something so long for the quote of the week, but here is a piece entitled True Functions of Government by William Leggett, featured in the New York Evening Post, November 21, 1834: The fundamental principle of all governments is the protection of person and property from domestic and foreign enemies; in other…
DetailsHere are my favorite economists, talking about the political scene: Walter E. Williams on Private vs. Public property x 2: Tommy Sowell on Left vs. Right: Milton Friedman on Socialism vs. Communism: Milton on “incentives for immoral behavior”: I swear to the Good Lord I could listen to Friedman talk forever. RIP. Copyrighted under Creative…
DetailsThis could have been written by me (if I was with it these days – and okay, I do drink, but not much):
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My dentist is great! He sends me reminders so I don’t forget Check-ups. He uses the latest techniques based on research. He never hurts me, and I’ve got all my teeth. When I ran into him the other day, I was eager to see if he’d heard about the new state program. I knew he’d…
Details(A communist party) My dude Thomas Sowell does it again, this time about those who think they know better than us what we should be allowed to do in society: Many of the wonderful-sounding ideas that have been tried as government policies have failed disastrously. Because so few people bother to study history, often the…
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