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Thomas Sowell turns 80 today

Posted on 06/30/2010 5:35:10 AM PDT by Borges

Happy Birthday!


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To: Borges

Dr. Sowell,

You are one of the greatest thinkers and writers of a century, and a man of character and endurance. Thank you— don’t stop! — and many happy returns!


21 posted on 06/30/2010 5:57:23 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (" 'Bush did it' is not a foreign policy." -- Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: Borges

80?! That’s hard to believe! My favorite book by him is “Knowledge and Decisions.”


22 posted on 06/30/2010 6:00:19 AM PDT by sand lake bar
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To: Tax-chick

And he still looks younger than me!.............


23 posted on 06/30/2010 6:01:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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To: Borges

Happy B-Day Sowell Man!


24 posted on 06/30/2010 6:02:04 AM PDT by PhilosopherStone1000
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To: Borges

Happy Birthday to one of America’s greatest minds!


25 posted on 06/30/2010 6:03:49 AM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: andy58-in-nh
Happy Birthday to the man who ought to have been our first black President!

I agree! Happy birthday! Keep writing your words of wisdom!
26 posted on 06/30/2010 6:05:12 AM PDT by Notasoccermom
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To: Borges

Happy B’day Dr. Sowell! I’m sure you are either posting or lurking here. I doubt it is possible that you are the most brilliant thinker of our time without spending some time at FR!!!!!


27 posted on 06/30/2010 6:08:22 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.)
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To: jazusamo

Ping and Happy Birthday to Dr. Sowell!


28 posted on 06/30/2010 6:08:31 AM PDT by fullchroma (Bill Haslam for Governor)
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To: jazusamo

ping


29 posted on 06/30/2010 6:08:55 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 (It isn't settled because it isn't science)
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To: Borges

Happy birthday Dr. Sowell!


30 posted on 06/30/2010 6:09:47 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Borges

Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday Mr. Sowell and God willing, many many more to come!


31 posted on 06/30/2010 6:09:56 AM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Borges

Happy Birthday, Dr. Sowell!


32 posted on 06/30/2010 6:11:27 AM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (I'm a Republican and I own a cat.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Happy Birthday, Dr. Sowell,

God bless you for the work you do. Lord willing He will bless us with many more years of your clear speaking, to the point essays. Your writings are a breath of fresh air and are as necessary as sunshine and rain.


33 posted on 06/30/2010 6:11:56 AM PDT by Tomato lover (My citicizenship is not of this world)
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To: Borges

An exceptional scholar and visionary of conservatism. He shares the same birthday as my daughter....happy birthday to Rachel and Thomas :)


34 posted on 06/30/2010 6:12:46 AM PDT by oust the louse (Obama = sincere ignorance and conscientious stupity!)
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To: Borges

One of the best!!!


35 posted on 06/30/2010 6:13:51 AM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
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To: Borges
That pic must be 30 years old, or, he has super genetics!

I hope he's mentoring a host of conservative black intellectuals who can begin in ernest to pull the black community away from the marxists. I read recently that 52% of black 5th graders are functionally illiterate. That's a crime - pretty much genocide. And we can thank all those compassionate marxist state reps, union teachers and school officials for allowing this.

36 posted on 06/30/2010 6:21:51 AM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: oust the louse

I have learned more from this man than I learned throughout any other economics/philosophy education,

without ever being in his classroom.


37 posted on 06/30/2010 6:22:07 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Borges

Let’s share some of Dr. Sowell’s classic comments.

One of my favorites was that he was glad he got into Harvard BEFORE there was affirmative action!


38 posted on 06/30/2010 6:25:37 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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To: Tax-chick

Indeed!


39 posted on 06/30/2010 6:30:25 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (My respect and admiration for Cmdr. McCain are inversely proportion to my opinion of Sen. McCain.)
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To: Borges

Dr. Sowell is a *true* national treasure.


40 posted on 06/30/2010 6:31:47 AM PDT by The Duke
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