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1 posted on 12/24/2012 10:09:39 AM PST by jazusamo
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2 posted on 12/24/2012 10:13:36 AM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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3 posted on 12/24/2012 10:16:13 AM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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Jewel of America. Thomas Sowell.


4 posted on 12/24/2012 10:16:22 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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Thomas Sowell is a national treasure, but 53 per cent of the population would not agree.


5 posted on 12/24/2012 10:16:39 AM PST by Truth29
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May God bless Thomas Sowell, whose use of his Creator-endowed "gift of reason" penetrates the darkness of so-called "progressive" thought which threatens to enslave present and future generations.

"Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant - they have been cheated; asleep - they have been surprised; divided - the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? ...the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free." James Madison

6 posted on 12/24/2012 10:20:19 AM PST by loveliberty2 ( -)
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There must be something liberating about ignorance. Back when most members of Congress had served in the military, there was a reluctance of politicians to try to tell military leaders how to run the military services. But, now that few members of Congress have ever served in the military, they are ready to impose all sorts of fashionable notions on the military.

After watching a documentary about the tragic story of Jonestown, I was struck by the utterly unthinking way that so many people put themselves completely at the mercy of a glib and warped man, who led them to degradation and destruction. And I could not help thinking of the parallel with the way we put a glib and warped man in the White House.

There are people calling for the banning of assault weapons who could not define an "assault weapon" if their life depended on it. Yet the ignorant expect others to take them seriously.

Dr. Sowell continues to show us what America looks like in the mirror. Even on a bad day, he is smarter than EVERYONE in Washington and over 90% of America.

If we could have a "Dream Team" in the WH, it would be with Drs. Sowell and Williams. Two, exceptionally intelligent, sensible and clear thinking men.

And, on this Christms Eve, let's all thank God that they are conservatives!!

7 posted on 12/24/2012 10:22:44 AM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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Thank you, Mr. Sowell, for your thoughts. It gives me hope for the new year to realize that our nation still one real intellectual who dares to express himself.


13 posted on 12/24/2012 10:41:50 AM PST by abclily
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Jazusamo - thanks for posting “Random Thoughts”; I love Thomas Sowell, he lives in realville.


15 posted on 12/24/2012 10:52:55 AM PST by raisincane (November 6, 2012 - I'm announcing my retirement at work; becoming a taker.)
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Guess who Said…

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”

“Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in the particular political solutions, they you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.”

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medications and a government bureaucrat to administer it.

“Elections should be held on April 16th, the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.”

“I think this man (Obama) really does believe he can change the world, and people like that are infinitely more dangerous than mere crooked politicians.”

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”

“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

“One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently jus for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”

“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards that would have gotten you labeled a ‘radical’ 60 years ago, a ‘liberal’ 30 years ago, and a ‘racist’ today.”

“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you’ve earned, but not ‘greed’ to want to take somebody else’s money.”

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

Thomas Sowell, that's who. After you read them once or twice, put them aside and then come back and read them again. They're powerful!!

BTW…I wonder if it’s okay to call a liberal a ‘racist’, if they don’t agree with Thomas Sowell’s thoughts and wisdom.

18 posted on 12/24/2012 10:59:32 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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Thanks for the post.


20 posted on 12/24/2012 11:25:52 AM PST by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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Random Thoughts (Thomas Sowell)

Thomas Sowell's random thoughts are far better than 99.99% of the population's organized thoughts.

26 posted on 12/24/2012 12:00:03 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I'm tired of being beaten like a malcontent elf so Obama can pretend to be Santa.)
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Sowell is one of the smartest men on the scene today.
In contrast, Baraq 0bama is the least qualified person in any room he's in.
27 posted on 12/24/2012 12:07:28 PM PST by YankeeReb
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. - Thomas Sowell


30 posted on 12/24/2012 2:40:16 PM PST by NurdlyPeon (New tag line in progress.)
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There are people calling for the banning of assault weapons who could not define an "assault weapon" if their life depended on it.

Yes sir.

Had someone once define my little .22 as a "assault weapon" because it was not a single shot.

31 posted on 12/24/2012 2:54:04 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Fate plays chess and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along)
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Thanks for the Ping, and a very Merry Christmas back atcha!

"If someone wrote a novel about a man who was raised from childhood to resent the successful and despise the basic values of America — and who then went on to become President of the United States — that novel would be considered too unbelievable, even for a work of fiction. Yet that is what has happened in real life."

I'd comment on how Dr. Sowell is in rare form, but that would be untrue. He's in his usual, scintillating form, which happens to be vanishingly rare among so-called public intellectuals.

God bless this amazing fount of common sense.

33 posted on 12/24/2012 4:57:06 PM PST by Flotsam_Jetsome ("Obama": His entire life is Photoshopped.)
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