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Posted on 11/16/2015 1:58:26 PM PST by jazusamo
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Some financial institutions may be considered "too big to fail," but contemporary Western society may be too frivolous to survive. The Romans had bread and circuses to keep the masses passive and unthinking. We have electronic gadgets, drugs and pornography. Like the Roman Empire, we too may decline and fall. What happened in Paris may be just the beginning.
With the "global warming" zealots predicting catastrophic consequences over the next century, I wonder if anyone has studied how accurate five-day weather forecasts turn out to be.
Cheap shots at the police by politicians and the media are in fact very expensive, in terms of the human lives that are lost when the effectiveness of law enforcement is undermined. The sharp increase in murders in places like Baltimore, New York and other places where the police have been trashed, shows how expensive.
It is bad enough to hear someone boasting about his past achievements. What is truly repulsive is hearing someone boasting about the future achievements he thinks he is going to have, as Donald Trump does repeatedly.
Why have a national debt ceiling if it doesn't really put a ceiling on the national debt? What the national debt ceiling does is allow Democrats to gain votes by spending the government's money -- and then force Republicans to share responsibility for raising the national debt ceiling, under threat of being blamed for shutting down the government if they don't.
Since doctors have the same 24 hours a day as the rest of us, do believers in Obamacare understand that every hour a doctor spends filling out government forms is an hour that is not spent treating patients?
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” What is truly repulsive is hearing someone boasting about the future achievements he thinks he is going to have, as Donald Trump does repeatedly. “
It’s called running for office, Tom. Get real.
It’s no secret Sowell doesn’t care for Trump or Cruz for that matter, he can’t be right on everything. :)
“The Romans had bread and circuses to keep the masses passive and unthinking. We have electronic gadgets, drugs and pornography”
And SPORTS. How many men do you know that might have to face reality if sports went away?
Yeah, didn’t quite get that one. Especially since Trump has an actual history of _getting_stuff_done_, and the $billions to prove it. He doesn’t have to push his accomplishments, as most voters already know. He has to push his intentions, as in “ok, we know what you have done, what do you plan to do? and will we like both well enough to give you the power to?”
Okay, Trump I can understand, but who could call themselves conservative and not like Cruz?
I guess, just who would he prefer. Everyone else is on the payroll of someone and I would have though that Sowell would hold nothing but scorn for bought politicians.
Normally I am in agreement with Mr Sowell...
I’m about 50% on this.
I’m also a lot closer to Trump than I used to be, Still supporting Cruz and looking for a replacement of both my current Congress Critter and the Traitor Cornyn
Yep, I’ll take Cruz and/or Trump in any order, in my view they’ll both be good for the country.
When, if ever, are we going to close our borders? When will we even take control of our borders, so that we can decide who, and how many, will be admitted? Certainly not before a new president takes office in January 2017 -- and maybe not even then.Without Trump in the race, who would be leading on closing the border???Sowell is so incisive, as a general rule. But when it comes to picking politicians . . . not always.
Sowell is death on Richard Nixon, and Nixon did have his faults - but in historical retrospect Nixon was the victim of a coup. Not that you would ever learn that from Bob Woodward . . .
I agree.
Compared to what’s been going on in the WH with Dem presidents since Nixon resigned over the Watergate fiasco it was much ado about very little. Like you say he was the victim of a coup and I’ll add hit job. I believe Trump or Cruz would close the border but no other candidate of either party.
Sowell hasn’t actually endorsed any candidate that I know of unless I missed it, he’s stated that people with more experience such as governors would be preferable and I don’t believe he favors Jeb Bush.
I’d like to see him get more specific about who he does favor and maybe even change his mind about Ted Cruz.
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