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Thomas Sowell "My Platform" Conservative Radicalism.
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| 03/30/04
| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 03/30/2004 5:55:51 AM PST by Dutchgirl
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We conservatives have such an amazing pool of brilliant men and women! Where are the liberal equivalents to a group like Sowell, Keyes, J.C. Watts, Williams and Williams (just listing black men ...)? They don't have them!
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posted on
03/30/2004 6:23:01 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Mother of a teenager for THREE days, and I'm still as sane as I ever was!)
To: Dutchgirl
Run Thomas Run..... I rather like "Get rid of it".
To: Dutchgirl
I'd vote for him too.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice
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posted on
03/30/2004 6:39:40 AM PST
by
katana
(John Kerry, Male Prostitute)
To: Dutchgirl
A breath of fresh air. I'd vote for him!! I probably would too. I wish I were able to ask Thomas Sowell where we could find such a candidate or who he is voting for.
Nader is probably the only candidate whose positions are even remotely similar to Sowell's positions. What are the odds on Nader's success?
I favor third parties and run-off presidential elections. Without run-off elections, Thomas Sowell, or any third party, has little chance. Imagine if Republican candidate Bush, Democrat candidate Kerry, and third party candidate Sowell were running for president and candidate Sowell was excluded from the debates. American would be denied from hearing one of the most brilliant minds in America debate issues with the leading candidates. To compound the sanctimony the leading candidates tell the citizens that voting for Sowell is a wasted vote.
However, consider the same scenario if no candidate received a majority vote and there were a run-off election between the two candidates receiving the most votes. Thomas Sowell may not be one of those two but under these circumstances, all citizens could have truly voted their conscience without fear of wasting their vote.
To: Tax-chick
You are correct. Concerning Sowell and Williams, I cannot remember a time when I have ever seen Sowell on the tube or hear him on the radio. Williams I hear a lot when he subs for Rush at times. He is a very witty man with a tongue in cheek sense of humour - the kind libs hate. I have read a lot of Sowell, including a couple of his books. He has stated several times that not only will he not run for office, but he would refuse any offer to any government position. It sort of like what Dennis Miller says - it sounds tempting until you realize you have to be in the same room with Barbara Boxer or someone like her - which there are a lot!
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:01:48 AM PST
by
7thson
(BT AR - means end of message - no reply necessary or wanted!)
To: MosesKnows
Alan Keyes probably had his best shot back in 2000. He was in most of the debates with Bush and McCain. I voted for Keyes in the MD primary.
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:04:10 AM PST
by
7thson
(BT AR - means end of message - no reply necessary or wanted!)
To: Dutchgirl
A great man for America --- bttt
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:06:29 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
To: 7thson
I went to a Thomas Sowell speech years ago. He drew a huge crowd - economist groupies :-) - but he's not a lively speaker, or at least he wasn't then. His speech was like reading his books.
We need the intellectual powerhouses like Sowell (I feel like a total dope compared to him!) and then we need the Williamses, Larry Elder, Jesse Lee Peterson, etc., to spread the truth in different ways. Not that each of those aren't independent thinkers, but Sowell is the Big Brain, I believe. Even Alan Keyes, greatest speaker I can think of, still doesn't quite impress me with genius as Sowell does.
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:09:24 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Mother of a teenager for THREE days, and I'm still as sane as I ever was!)
To: MosesKnows
Umm, last I looked, Nader was a huge proponent of the "living wage" law.
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:48:25 AM PST
by
stylin_geek
(Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
To: MosesKnows
Nader is probably the only candidate whose positions are even remotely similar to Sowell's positions. What are the odds on Nader's success? I had to read these sentences several times to try to grasp the concept of the first one--since Nader is an advocate for cradle to grave socialist nanny government.
As for the second-I hate to sound like the impeached rapist in chief, but it really depends on what the meaning of "success" is.
Nader has been assuring McAuliffe that his presence on the ballot is not going to take votes from democrats...but the fact is that when the slime on Kerry finally oozes through the cracks of the partisan press, democrats of concience - and they all consider themselves people of concience- will not be able to pull the handle (or punch the chad) for Kerry.
After watching the Dick Cavett interview and seeing Kerry's responses to the FBI files proving he was present at a meeting where the assasination of US Senators was discussed, my husband has already stated that he could never vote for Kerry.
Their only alternative will be Nader, which equals success for Bush, but unfortunately, the election of a Republican no longer guarantees the promotion of conservative ideas or policies. It's like process cheese food, you know it's not the real thing, but you swallow it anyway.
To: Tax-chick
Sowell is an Author, as well. His econ books are outstanding. Everyone should read them.
However, if everyone read (and understood, which is easy) his econ books, there would be no leftists to make fun of.
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:54:22 AM PST
by
MrB
To: Tax-chick
"Sowell is the Greatest Living American Thinker, undisputed champ!"
I dearly love Sowell, have most of his books (which I've actually read), and have given copies of his books to friends for years. He's a Great Living American Thinker, and definitely one of the champs. But Milton Friedman is still the champ in my not so humble opinion.
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:16:50 AM PST
by
labard1
To: Dutchgirl
Bump.
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:24:24 AM PST
by
First_Salute
(May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
To: Dutchgirl
This would get my vote in a heartbeat.
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:26:23 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Voting Bush because there is no reasonable alternative)
To: Dutchgirl
Got my vote!
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:32:55 AM PST
by
RasterMaster
(Saddam's family was a WMD - Voting DEMOCRAT can be hazardous to your health!)
To: Dutchgirl
I think I'll e-mail this to my congressman, senators, and the white house.
yeah I know, they won't even read it, but I can dream ritght?
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:40:34 AM PST
by
WhiteGuy
(Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
To: labard1
I won't argue, because I love Milton :-). Our country has been blessed by his longevity - I hope Thomas Sowell lives as long!
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:49:59 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Mother of a teenager for THREE days, and I'm still as sane as I ever was!)
To: Tax-chick
They're both remarkable men, and our country has been improved by each of them.
Time magazine (not one of my favorite sources) once compared Friedman's impact on modern economics to an Errol Flynn figure singlehandedly capturing a modern battleship.
In addition to his "Knowledge and Decisions," which is probably Sowell's biggest contribution to professional economists, his writings on race could not have been penned by a white academic.
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posted on
03/30/2004 9:19:57 AM PST
by
labard1
To: Dutchgirl
name the conservatism in the Gop
To: Tax-chick
If you like Sowell you would also like Dinesh D'Souza. Both as a writer and a speaker he is very good. They both can take any liberal argument and show it for the misguided and illogical foolishness that it is.
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posted on
03/30/2004 1:26:54 PM PST
by
eggman
(Social Insecurity - Who will provide for the government when the government provides for all of us?)
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