Posted on 12/02/2020 7:34:40 AM PST by Wiz-Nerd
I learned from Don Boudreaux this morning that Walter Williams died either this morning or last night. For those of you who don’t know, he was a long-time economics professor at George Mason University.
I’ll have more to say later but I want to give one appreciation.
Walter liked smoking and he also hated the TSA. Some years ago, the combination of no-smoking regs on planes and intrusive groping by the TSA caused him to vow never to fly by commercial airline again. When he received offers to give speeches that were far enough away that driving was infeasible, he negotiated for a private airplane to take him there.
Yes, that was him. He also told a story about buying his wife a vacuum cleaner for her birthday.
Mark
He’s one of the people I have pegged for ‘Dinner & Cigars’ once we’re all in Heaven, together. ;)
Rush, Walter Williams, Mark Stein, Thomas Sowell & me.
FWIW, I’m just going to sit there and listen while enjoying a Swisher Sweet. ;)
I’m not holding my breath before the “local” paper, The WaPo, reports it.
Thanks for the link. I hate to criticize an otherwise balanced article, but to call Dr. Williams a “conservative” is misleading. He was most certainly a libertarian, but there is nothing in the article to suggest that he was also a conservative. Maybe he was, maybe not.
” I would trade a dozen Ginsberg’s for one Walter Williams.”
I’ll see that and raise you an entire Dim party and a few ex-Presidents.
“Has this been confirmed?”
Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote a piece on his passing. I’d call that confirmation.
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