Tag Archives: Thomas Sowell

A Personal Odyssey

Posted on June 2, 2012 | Comments Off on A Personal Odyssey

If you enjoy conservative economist Thomas Sowell’s books as much as I do, even if/when you disagree with him, you owe it to yourself to read his revealing autobio.

Other such men might strive only to make themselves look good. Sowell shows his occasional contentiousness even when it doesn’t reflect well on him.

His fractured family life in the South and North and sometimes youthful destitution are engrossing, as are his starts and stops in education leading to his PhD in economics. And his accidental entry into the Marine Corps and gaming of its daily enlisted life are amusing. Worth your money and your time.

Comments Off on A Personal Odyssey

Posted in Library, Scribbles

Tagged ,

Egg Nog vs Skim Milk

Posted on November 18, 2011 | Comments Off on Egg Nog vs Skim Milk

Every time I see some liberal, such as a particular columnist in the Democrat daily, for one, refer to Fox News as “Faux News,” I’m reminded of this quote from Stanford economist Thomas Sowell:

“Watching CNN after watching Fox News Network is like drinking skim milk after you have gotten used to egg nog.”

Which is undoubtedly why Fox News is far and away more popular than CNN—much to the consternation of the Dems, alarmed that one of the six television networks doesn’t toe their political line.

Comments Off on Egg Nog vs Skim Milk

Posted in Library, Texana

Tagged , , ,

He stepped in it, so what?

Posted on November 10, 2011 | Comments Off on He stepped in it, so what?

Mrs. Charm came home from work last night announcing that Gov. P. had “destroyed himself” in the latest of the interminably-stupid Republican “debates.”

Well, that’s part of her job in the Democrat media, to draw such conclusions about politicians, particularly Republican ones.

I watched the video and thought how amusing. He froze. So what? How many times has that happened to me? Too many to remember them all. Besides, if I have to listen to another meandering Obamalot speech where he says nothing much in a preachy way, and then contradicts himself, usually the very next day… Well.

I’m still for Rick as the best of the bunch, certainly better than Robot Romney or even Cain, who I also like, never mind his bimbo eruptions.

But as economist Thomas Sowell says of Cain: the White House is not for on-the-job-training, as the current resident has demonstrated so well, ruining our economy, and lowering our position in the world.

As for Rick, well, the country could use some honest Texas Aggie humor for a change: Gig ’em!

PJ Media CEO Roger L. Simon suggests bagging the rest of these dog and pony shows. What a great idea. Of course he also wants Rick to quit in favor of Cain, Romney and Gingrich. But, hey, nobody’s perfect.

Comments Off on He stepped in it, so what?

Posted in Mrs. Charm, Obamalot, Scribbles, Texana

Tagged , , ,

Obamalot’s Israel insults go way back

Posted on June 1, 2011 | Comments Off on Obamalot’s Israel insults go way back

Bibi’s “lecturing” of Obamalot provoked some of the administration’s pundit acolytes. But Bibi had been under the One’s guns for some time and must have felt a riposte was overdue.

“After one of his meetings with Netanyahu, Barack Obama simply told the prime minister that he was going upstairs to have dinner. You wouldn’t say that to an ordinary neighbor visiting in your home, without inviting him to join you.

“Obama knew that. Netanyahu knew that. It was a calculated insult. And the American public would have heard about it, if so much of the media didn’t have such a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil and speak-no-evil attitude in its coverage of Barack Obama.”

As always, Thomas Sowell is worth a read.

Comments Off on Obamalot’s Israel insults go way back

Posted in Israel, Obamalot, Scribbles, The War

Tagged , ,

Government greed

Posted on October 21, 2010 | Comments Off on Government greed

Creepy pols like the perpetually-disheveled Barney Frank of Massachusetts are always calling businessmen  “greedy.” Frank’s been on the government tit for more than thirty years, pushing high taxes:

“Income tax rates have been as high as 90 percent in the top brackets. Even after you have paid the taxes on your income and saved or invested part of what is left, the government comes back to take more of that same money, after you die, with estate taxes…The biggest beneficiaries are the politicians who get a larger amount of tax money to spend in ways that will increase their prospects of getting re-elected.”

Maybe this will be the year we cull some of the career hangers-on like Frank, who waddle when they walk they’ve been sucking up government pork for so long. Sure, they’ll just become lobbyists. But at least they won’t write the laws directly any more.


Comments Off on Government greed

Posted in Obamalot, Scribbles

Tagged , ,

Burning Korans

Posted on September 9, 2010 | Comments Off on Burning Korans

I couldn’t care less how many Korans that nitwit pastor in Florida burns. The question I want answered is why have the media and the politicians turned the guy into a celebrity? Are they all in the employ of the oil ticks?

Or, as Thomas Sowell says, has moral preening become their way of life? As he points out you really have to be a modern intellectual to miss the obvious in the proposed mosque at Ground Zero: It is a 15-story middle finger to the country.

Comments Off on Burning Korans

Posted in Israel, Scribbles, The War

Tagged , , ,

Taxing the rich

Posted on July 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Taxing the rich

Thomas Sowell wonders if facts are obsolete in Democrat politics? Afterall, Baby Barry’s current popularity seems dependent on such old "change" mantras as raising capital gains taxes to make the privileged pay more so government can spend more. But teachers, nurses and mechanics are among the almost half of Americans whose 401K pension income programs depend on involve stocks, and they will take the hit along with the wealthy.

Comments Off on Taxing the rich

Posted in Scribbles

Tagged , , ,