[jazusamo]

*PING*
Thomas Sowell

Recent columns
Choosing The Right College
The Underdogs
Fables for Adults

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[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the ping jaz. Love banana’s, but not in my republic.

[goodnesswins]

Thanks...just sent it to my email list....including a few libs.....with the note...”written by a Black man, just so you know”.

[vaudine]

Dr. Sowell is always right on the money. He and Clarence Thomas are two (truly) black men I could happily vote for, not for color, but for their conservative principles and realistic outlooks.

Along the lines of his editorial--I wrote a paper in the 60's about the premise that the more brilliant the person, the greater the leadership. As I researched this premise, I was surprised to find that Aristotle and many of the ancient Greeks famous for their wisdom and knowledge, thought the most brilliant seldom made the best leaders--rather the more more moderately endowed did, because they were more grounded in the realities of life and worked harder. The brilliant were busy theorizing and trying to put their ideas into practice.

vaudine

[Gilbo_3]

thanks jaz,

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

guess that means we really are safe, cause for all the 'pedigree', bambam is dumb as owl sh!t...

'bocks orox' hussein aint fit to sharpen Dr Sowell's pencils...

[smoothsailing]

Such people have been told all their lives how brilliant they are, until finally they feel forced to admit it, with all due modesty.

[billmor]

Thanks for the ping Jaz...Mr Sowell can really tell it like it is and if he keeps this up Newt may have to pass his Hammer to him...

[sionnsar]

But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

Fixed it.

[SupplySider]

It is a great irony that the high IQ government and media elites profess shopworn, old, disproven, and ridiculously simplistic solutions.

The Ivy/Oxbridge catechism, so unimaginatively regurgitated by Obama and company, boils down to two dull suppositions that the average middle-schooler could rebut:

1: Spend our way to prosperity

2: Talk nice to our enemies

The self-styled intellectual elite is made up not of creative thinkers, but stodgy conformists. Unfortunately for them, kissing up for grades brings rewards in school, but not in the real world.

[Gene Eric]

>> In an age when facts seem to carry less weight than the visions of brilliant and charismatic leaders

Unfortunately, people aren’t motivated by fact. Worse yet, many would rather be led by a charismatic despot than a honest pragmatist.