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Happy 90th Birthday Thomas Sowell – our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
The New Neo ^ | 30 June 2020 | Neo

Posted on 06/30/2020 5:03:25 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Today is Thomas Sowell’s 90th birthday, and I want to wish him a happy one.

Sowell may also be happy today that he’s been retired for several years, because chronicling our current mess is not fun, although I would dearly love to read or hear what he has to say about it. For many decades, Sowell was one of the most brilliant, clearest, no-nonsense voices in America, although it was mostly the right who listened to him.

Thomas Sowell was also the writer who influenced me most during my political change. Until I read his books about seventeen years ago (I think the first one I encountered may have been The Vision of the Anointed, but another extremely important one for me was The Quest for Cosmic Justice), I just had a vague and growing dissatisfaction with the left, the Democrats, and especially the press. I had no framework in which to place those perceptions, no overview that made sense of them. Sowell provided that. I had no sooner read just a few pages of his thoughts when I breathed a sigh of relief. At last! Someone who made sense. And to think, he’d already been writing for many years at that point and I’d never before heard of him.

I’ve read many of his books since, including his autobiography. Sowell is what used to be called a rugged individualist. He went his own way, and didn’t suffer fools gladly. His work should be known by so many more people than it is. I hope he’s doing well, and I want to thank him from the bottom of my heart.

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To: Rummyfan

Happy birthday to one of the finest conservative minds of our age. I gave my dad one of his books as a Christmas present, and read it myself once Dad had finished reading it.

I appreciate Sowell’s ability to explain and discuss complex subjects in terms that almost anyone can understand.


21 posted on 06/30/2020 6:16:15 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
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To: Rummyfan

Dr. Sowell - you have been such a great blessing for this country. Happy birthday!


22 posted on 06/30/2020 6:40:12 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: Rummyfan

Dr. Sowell - you have been such a great blessing for this country. Happy birthday!


23 posted on 06/30/2020 6:40:39 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: Rummyfan

Happy Birthday to the Smartest Man in America!


24 posted on 06/30/2020 7:09:27 PM PDT by golux
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Happy Birthday to the Smartest Man in America!


I echo this. A truly brilliant patriot for whom I have the highest respect and admiration.


25 posted on 06/30/2020 7:39:52 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Rummyfan

90 years - I couldn’t imagine he was that old.

I hope he’s with us another 90!


26 posted on 06/30/2020 7:41:07 PM PDT by PGR88
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I had no idea that he was that experienced - good for him. Happy Birthday, Dr. Sowell, and may you be healthy and bright-eyed for many more!


27 posted on 06/30/2020 8:28:49 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Heard him on the radio last night he’s still sharp as a tack and a National Treasure.


28 posted on 06/30/2020 8:38:07 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Dr Sowell, you are an outstanding, incomparable scholar and teacher of a most difficult and complex topic, economics. But unlike pie-in-the-sky sociologists, you use your topic and your giftedness to explain society, history and culture from a firm factual point of view. I truly wish you had been our first black president, but can easily see why the job did not interest you. Most of DC becomes hysterical when confronted with facts, and the love of your fellow man and our nation that you have demonstrated. Thank you, sir, for your life’s work.


29 posted on 07/01/2020 6:27:31 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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To: Rummyfan

Happy 93rd!


30 posted on 06/30/2023 6:41:42 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Rummyfan

Happy 94th!


31 posted on 06/30/2024 10:30:00 AM PDT by Borges
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We are so lucky to have him. Happy Birthday Thomas Sowell!


32 posted on 06/30/2024 2:32:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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