Comments on Sowell

Thomas Sowell is one of the most brilliant minds of our time. If you've never heard that name before, you are truly missing out on a wonderful thinking. I hope one day that I might get to meet and talk with this man. Occasionally he posts "Random Thoughts" that are anything but random. Here's some of them.

Climate statistics show that, with all the "global warming" hysteria today, our temperatures are still not as high as they were back in medieval times. Those medieval folks must have been driving a lot of cars and SUVs.

Isn't global warming funny? Err.. I mean, fun? For every scientist that claims it's real and true, you can find another to refute them. But that doesn't matter to those to whom global warming is a religion. The facts absolutely destroy any concept that man has caused the earth to warm by driving SUVs -- but try making algore understand facts.

Increasing numbers of people seem to think that it is "name-calling" if you refer to someone as a liberal. There are no inherently negative connotations to the word "liberal." If it has acquired negative overtones, that is because of what liberals have done and the consequences that have followed.

That one is so true. "Liberal" used to be a good thing. It used to be based on "liberty." Classic liberalism is a wonderful philosophy. But today's liberals have morphed the word so that Democrat, Liberal, and Socialist are all synonyms.

Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen -- written in blood -- from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

Seriously. Is there ANY evidence at all that diversity is good (other than nice feelings for a few)? Anything at all. I've certainly never seen any advantage to selecting someone to do a job based on their race, country or origin, color, sex, or any other physical characteristic. When I hire someone, I would prefer to hire someone who is best able to actually DO the job, no matter their heritage.

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

Now go back and read that one again. Read any news article complaining about "civil rights." Then go back and see if you can find the equal treatment -- that will be why there's a lawsuit or complaint, nearly every time.

The next time somebody says that the government is forced to intervene in the economy to protect the poor, ask why the government is forcing taxpayers to subsidize municipal golf courses, the ballet, opera and -- the biggest subsidy of all -- surrounding affluent communities with vast amounts of expensive "open space."

This one gets me every time. When they want more money, it's always "for the poor" or "for the children." But when they're spending it, you don't see any poor or children anywhere around. Charlotte, NC is especially good at this trick.

We can only hope that the rumor that Israel is going to take out Iran's nuclear weapons facilities is true. If they do, Israel will be widely condemned by governments that are breathing a sigh of relief that they did.

Amen.

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