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Sowell: What Happened?
Creators Syndicate ^ | November 11, 2014 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 11/10/2014 12:01:54 PM PST by jazusamo

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To: jazusamo

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure!


21 posted on 11/10/2014 12:49:12 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

1-666-666-6666


22 posted on 11/10/2014 12:54:15 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Slyfox

naw hes not polished enough for that particular gig


23 posted on 11/10/2014 1:18:14 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: jazusamo

Dr. Sowell is right on the money. We are not taking incompetence here.

The most important lines:

“People who are increasingly questioning Barack Obama’s competence are continuing to ignore the alternative possibility that his fundamental values and imperatives are different from theirs. You cannot tell whether someone is failing or succeeding without knowing what they are trying to do.

“When Obama made a brief public statement about Americans being beheaded by terrorists, and then went on out to play golf, that was seen as a sign of political ineptness, rather than a stark revelation of what kind of man he is, underneath the smooth image and lofty rhetoric.”


24 posted on 11/10/2014 1:32:28 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: jazusamo
President Obama could have spent his last two years in office loading the federal judiciary with judges who share his contempt for the Constitution of the United States.

He must have saw it coming. Reid used the nuclear option to get a whole truckload of leftist stooges packed into the courts. The amount is shocking and the country is going to be paying for their lunacy, perhaps to the final end of the Republic. We MUST use Article V to give Congress and the States a way to override those self-anointed cosmic judges of the final word.

25 posted on 11/10/2014 1:37:13 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: jazusamo

Good post!


26 posted on 11/10/2014 1:37:38 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: jazusamo
More like we have a lame duck congress.

They should have impeached him for "recess" appointments a long time ago!

27 posted on 11/10/2014 2:01:37 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: jazusamo

>>>Obama could have spent his last two years in office loading the federal judiciary with judges who share his contempt for the Constitution of the United States.<<<

This is what I just cannot understand. Those people, especially those who have reached the higher echelons, who despise this country and what it stands for - WHY DO YOU STAY HERE?

For most of these people the world is their oyster. Yet they choose to spend their limited time on Earth as tyrants. Mind boggling.


28 posted on 11/10/2014 2:09:35 PM PST by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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Sowell is obviously as worried about RINO cowardice here....

So am I!!!

29 posted on 11/10/2014 2:54:35 PM PST by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: outofsalt
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure!

Yes he is. He has clarity of thought of which politicians have never dreamed about.

30 posted on 11/10/2014 3:00:34 PM PST by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: jazusamo

Don’t worry Tom, the cowards in the GOPe will vote to confirm any of O’s judges. Who have they even tried to stop in the last 6 years?


31 posted on 11/10/2014 3:02:04 PM PST by Fledermaus (REPEAL OBAMACARE!! Hold the feet of the GOPe to the fire!)
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To: jazusamo

Dr. Sowell clearly gets it with regard to Dear Leader. But I wonder if he gets a bigger point? That the way to achieve smaller government is not by relying on government to reduce itself?


32 posted on 11/10/2014 3:24:58 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Truth does not depend on a majority vote)
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“Resentment of the prosperous — whether at home or on the world stage — runs through virtually everything Barack Obama has said and done throughout his life.”

He’s a hypocrite, though, because he’s not living in the woods eating berries. He’s living the life of the extremely prosperous -without having worked for any of it.


33 posted on 11/10/2014 6:19:07 PM PST by yorkiemom
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“the way to achieve smaller government is not by relying on government to reduce itself?”

It won’t happen on it’s own so......CWII is the only solution.


34 posted on 11/10/2014 6:22:10 PM PST by yorkiemom
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To: jazusamo
"Sowell: What Happened?"


35 posted on 11/10/2014 7:03:10 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: clearcarbon

I love the metaphor! It occurred to me after seeing D’Souza’s film and then the election. America is just too much for the Klown to take down. He can hate us all he wants but we are just too big. Too strong. He can hurt us but he is mortal and he will spend his remaining years watching the wounds he inflicted heal and watching us get stronger while he withers and dies. As Lincoln said, two countries cannot go on. We will be all one or the other. Lies and deceit may win a battle here or there but against the spirit of a free people will never win the war.


36 posted on 11/11/2014 2:09:18 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: jazusamo
People who are increasingly questioning Barack Obama's competence are continuing to ignore the alternative possibility that his fundamental values and imperatives are different from theirs. You cannot tell whether someone is failing or succeeding without knowing what they are trying to do.

I've been pretty much saying the same thing since Zero was running for office in the primaries. Zero has always told us what he planned to do, it was just in a way that sounded so harmless.

37 posted on 11/11/2014 2:16:54 AM PST by Fzob (Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
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To: wastoute

...and just as he is about to be swallowed by the sea around him, in his hatred he continues to curse the creature he sought to destroy.


38 posted on 11/11/2014 2:19:06 AM PST by clearcarbon
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