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IBD Editorials ^ | November 22, 2010 | The great THOMAS SOWELL

Posted on 11/22/2010 4:45:45 PM PST by Kaslin

No country has better airport security than Israel — and no country needs it more, since Israel is the most hated target of Islamic extremist terrorists. Yet, somehow, Israeli airport security people don't have to strip passengers naked electronically or have strangers feeling their private parts.

Does anyone seriously believe that we have better airport security than Israel? Is our security record better than theirs?

"Security" may be the excuse being offered for the outrageous things being done to American air travelers, but the heavy-handed arrogance and contempt for ordinary people that is the hallmark of this administration in other areas is all too painfully apparent in these new and invasive airport procedures.

Can you remember a time when a cabinet member in a free America boasted of having his "foot on the neck" of some business or when the president of the United States threatened on television to put his foot on another part of some citizens' anatomy?

Yet this and more has happened in the current administration, which is not yet two years old. One cabinet member warned that there would be "zero tolerance" for "misinformation" when an insurance company said the obvious, that the mandates of ObamaCare would raise costs and therefore premiums. Zero tolerance for exercising the First Amendment right of free speech?

More than two centuries ago, Edmund Burke warned about the dangers of new people with new power. This administration, only halfway through its term, has demonstrated that in many ways.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: sowell; thomassowell; tsapervs
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1 posted on 11/22/2010 4:45:48 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: jazusamo

Ping


2 posted on 11/22/2010 4:46:53 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Bookmarked! (or is it “book marked?”)


3 posted on 11/22/2010 4:52:50 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Kaslin; Inyo-Mono
Love this post and love your tail twistin tagline!!!

Hi Inyo-mono!!!

4 posted on 11/22/2010 5:00:17 PM PST by SierraWasp (I want my next President to be Sarah! She beats the pants offa the dude in there now!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

Hey there Sierra Wasp! Getting cold here in the “hills” isn’t it?


5 posted on 11/22/2010 5:02:32 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Kaslin; abigail2; Amalie; American Quilter; arthurus; awelliott; Bahbah; bamahead; Battle Axe; ...
Another excellent piece by Dr. Sowell.

Thanks for the ping, Kaslin!

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6 posted on 11/22/2010 5:05:14 PM PST by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Bookmarked


7 posted on 11/22/2010 5:07:35 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

8 posted on 11/22/2010 5:10:03 PM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: Kaslin

Dr. Sowell for President

I love Thomas Sowell's articles. Does anyone else get the sense that he's rapidly running out of patience with this regime?
9 posted on 11/22/2010 5:10:33 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: Inyo-Mono

Your hills should be stayin warm with alla that subterranian volcanical burpin goin on, right???


10 posted on 11/22/2010 5:10:52 PM PST by SierraWasp (I want my next President to be Sarah! She beats the pants offa the dude in there now!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

I have a bumper sticker on my car with it and have gotten numerous compliments and thumps up on it


11 posted on 11/22/2010 5:11:39 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: jazusamo

You are very welcome jaz


12 posted on 11/22/2010 5:12:32 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

America — a great idea, didn’t last.


13 posted on 11/22/2010 5:12:47 PM PST by Clint Williams ( America -- a great idea, didn't last.)
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To: jazusamo

I like analogys. I have been trying to peg Obama. The best I can come up with is the German Battleship Bismark. Get the Bismark!


14 posted on 11/22/2010 5:13:27 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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To: Kaslin

Be careful with that! I had some liberal follow me all the way home from Sacramento one night and really had to play “dodg’em” all the way home because I had a sign in my back window that said:”I’m fighting poverty... I WORK!!!” (I bought it at a truckstop in OK on my 1988 trip through there)


15 posted on 11/22/2010 5:17:53 PM PST by SierraWasp (I want my next President to be Sarah! She beats the pants offa the dude in there now!!!)
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To: Kaslin

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16 posted on 11/22/2010 5:23:59 PM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: Kaslin

IMO this is calculated retaliation for Nov. 2. And the more we resist, the more they will up the ante. The head of the TSA has publicly made subtle threats about more retaliation if there is a mass opt out on the 24th.

I have to fly to FL in late January. I will not get x-rayed. And I will not get groped in private, i.e. without witnesses. They want to grab my Johnson, they are going to have to do it in front of everyone.

I will wear my Marine Corps Tee shirt, want to bet that will get me singled out for harassment?


17 posted on 11/22/2010 5:23:59 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: screaminsunshine

Works for me. :)


18 posted on 11/22/2010 5:24:38 PM PST by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: SierraWasp

35 out right now, but 3,000 degrees underground!


19 posted on 11/22/2010 5:25:41 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: SierraWasp

Well you live in Kalifornia, so it doesn’t surprise me. I live in a red state


20 posted on 11/22/2010 5:32:13 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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