One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans - anything except reason.
- Thomas Sowell
“If you believe in equal rights, then what do ‘women’s rights,’ ‘gay rights,’ etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.”
— Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell explains why he’s no friend to politics or politicians.
His point is simple: politicians have incentives to tell people what they want to hear, while the consequences of their decisions are often paid by everyone else.
Another reminder from Sowell to look past political promises and focus on incentives, consequences, and reality.
Florida just made it official: Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and Antifa are foreign terrorist organizations under state law. Gov. DeSantis explains why Sharia law and American constitutionalism cannot coexist, at the Florida GOP Leadership Forum in Tampa.
Sowell puts the socialist story to a one-question test.
If the rich are rich because they keep the poor poor, then countries packed with billionaires should be packed with misery.
The United States has more billionaires than Africa and the Middle East combined — and America’s poor still live better than most people in those regions.
The theory fails the data. Wealth is created. It is not a pile the rich stole from the poor.
Hamas tried to hide its money online. We found it.
$560,000+ in cryptocurrency seized. Hamas websites and servers taken down.
We will use every tool at our disposal to cut off terrorist financing and disrupt Hamas wherever it operates—including in cyberspace.
John Thune is mistaken.
We *do* have the votes to pass the SAVE America Act—because we have a simple majority.
All we lack is the will to enforce the talking filibuster (requiring filibustering senators to speak), and to stay in session continuously until it passes.
It’d pass.
Prices convey key information no central planner could ever gather in one place, let alone use effectively.
When governments interfere with prices, they distort the signals that tell people what to produce, conserve, or invest in.